{"title":"Characterization of the DHC Crack Parameters in Zirconium Alloys","authors":"AL. NITU, V. RADU, L. STOICA, D. TOMA","doi":"10.59277/romjphys.2023.68.910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59277/romjphys.2023.68.910","url":null,"abstract":"\"Zirconium alloys are used in heavy water-cooled reactors due to their low thermal neutron capture cross-section and good mechanical and corrosion properties. At the beginning of their operation, hydrogen was identified as an embrittlement agent. The source of the embrittlement was hydride precipitates that formed as platelets. Hydrides were associated with the cracks and the process was called Delayed Hydride Cracking – DHC. This research aims to develop a reproducible procedure concerning DHC KIH parameter measurements on Zirconium claddings, by using the Pin Loading Test (PLT) technique. Experimental activities including sample preparation, adding hydrogen, testing and results are presented in detail. \"","PeriodicalId":54449,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of Physics","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135487662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"NEUTRINO PROPERTIES PROBED BY LEPTON NUMBER VIOLATING PROCESSES AT LOW AND HIGH ENERGIES","authors":"S. Stoica","doi":"10.4236/OJM.2013.33B002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4236/OJM.2013.33B002","url":null,"abstract":"Fundamental properties of the neutrinos like their absolute mass, their character (are they Dirac or Majorana particles?), their mass hierarchy, the number of neutrino flavors, etc., are still unknown. Lepton Number Violating (LNV) processes are capable to decide on these issues. Since recently, the neutrinoless double beta decay was considered the only process able to distinguish between Dirac or Majorana neutrinos and to provide information about the mass scale of the electron neutrino. Now, the increase of the integrated luminosity at the LHC experiments makes feasible the study of LNV processes at high energy, as well. In this lecture I shall give a short review on these processes at low and high energies highlighting the motivation for their search.","PeriodicalId":54449,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of Physics","volume":"123 1","pages":"665-674"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2013-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70665780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"QUASIPARTICLES, PHONONS AND BEYOND (NUCLEAR STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS IN A LARGE DOMAIN OF EXCITATION ENERGIES)","authors":"C. Stoyanov, R. June","doi":"10.1142/9789812779038_0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812779038_0047","url":null,"abstract":"The complex structure of low-lying as well as those of high-lying states is discussed within multiphonon approach. The approach is based on Quasiparticle-Phonon Model. This microscopic model goes beyond the quasiparticle random-phase approximation by treating a Hamiltonian of separable form in a microscopic multiphonon basis. It is therefore able to describe the anharmonic features of collective modes. In the case of low-lying part of excitations the model has close correspondence with the proton-neutron interacting boson model. Within the model highly-excited singleparticle states in nuclei are coupled with the excitations of a more complex character, first of all with collective phonon-like modes of the core. Although, on the level of one and two-phonon admixtures, the fully chaotic GOE regime is not reached, the eigenstates of the model carry significant degree of complexity that can be quantified with the aid of correlational invariant entropy.","PeriodicalId":54449,"journal":{"name":"Romanian Journal of Physics","volume":"58 1","pages":"1096-1107"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64036911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}