University of Mons

About: University of Mons is a education organization based out in Mons, Belgium. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Large Hadron Collider & Standard Model. The organization has 3073 authors who have published 9465 publications receiving 294776 citations.

Photoinduced Electron-Transfer Processes along Molecular Wires Based on Phenylenevinylene Oligomers: A Quantum-Chemical Insight

Abstract: Quantum-chemical techniques are applied to model the mechanisms of photoinduced charge transfer from a π-electron donating group (tetracene, D) to a π-electron-acceptor moiety (pyromellitimide, A) separated by a bridge of increasing size (p-phenylenevinylene oligomers, B). Correlated Hartree−Fock semiempirical approaches are exploited to calculate the four main parameters controlling the transfer rate (kRP) in the framework of Marcus−Jortner−Levich's formalism: (i) the electronic coupling between the initial and final states; (ii) and (iii) the internal and external reorganization energy terms; and (iv) the variation of the free Gibbs energy. The charge transfer is shown to proceed in these compounds through two competing mechanisms, coherent (superexchange) versus incoherent (bridge-mediated) pathways. While superexchange is the dominant mechanism for short bridges, incoherent transfer through hopping along the phenylene vinylene segment takes over in longer chains (for ca. three phenylenevinylene repea...

Higher spin interactions in four-dimensions: Vasiliev versus Fronsdal

Abstract: We consider four-dimensional Higher-Spin Theory at the first nontrivial order corresponding to the cubic action. All Higher-Spin interaction vertices are explicitly obtained from Vasiliev’s equations. In particular, we obtain the vertices that are not determined solely by the Higher-Spin algebra structure constants. The dictionary between the Fronsdal fields and Higher-Spin connections is found and the corrections to the Fronsdal equations are derived. These corrections turn out to involve derivatives of arbitrary order. We observe that the vertices not determined by the Higher-Spin algebra produce naked infinities, when decomposed into the minimal derivative vertices and improvements. Therefore, standard methods can only be used to check a rather limited number of correlation functions within the HS AdS/CFT duality. A possible resolution of the puzzle is discussed. 1 ar X iv :1 50 8. 04 13 9v 1 [ he pth ] 1 7 A ug 2 01 5

Search for prompt neutrino emission from gamma-ray bursts with icecube

Abstract: We present constraints derived from a search of four years of IceCube data for a prompt neutrino flux from gammaray bursts (GRBs). A single low-significance neutrino, compatible with the atmospheric neutrino background, was found in coincidence with one of the 506 observed bursts. Although GRBs have been proposed as candidate sources for ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, our limits on the neutrino flux disfavor much of the parameter space for the latest models. We also find that no more than similar to 1% of the recently observed astrophysical neutrino flux consists of prompt emission from GRBs that are potentially observable by existing satellites.

Experimental Evidence of Several Time Scales in Drop Spreading

Abstract: We studied the dynamics of spontaneously spreading drops of viscous liquids over several decades of time. We show that there exist at least two different time scale behaviors which are compatible with the recently proposed combined theory of spreading dynamics.