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Two imaging techniques are used to investigate the interaction between developed combustion from earlier injections and partially oxidized fuel (POF) ofa subsequent injection. The latter is visualized by using planar laser induced fluorescence (PLIF) of formaldehyde and poly-cyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. High speed imaging captures the natural luminescence (NL) of the prevailing combustion. Three

Changes in combustion noise, eciency, and emissions are investigated as responses to boundary conditions and injection scheduling parameters of closely-coupled multiple-pilot strategies. The eects of pilot injection separation times, mixture dilution, and injection pressure are investigated. In order to minimize combustion noise, the heat release rate (HRR) should be as linear in its buildup as po

X-ray imaging techniques have proven invaluable to study biological systems at high resolution due to the penetration power and short wavelength of this radiation. In practice, the resolution and sensitivity of current X-ray imaging techniques are not limited by the performance of optics or image-recovery methods but by radiation damage. We propose the use of Compton (inelastic) X-ray scattering f

We report on a new contrast-transfer-function (CTF) phase-retrieval method based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMMs), which allows us to exploit any compressed sensing regularization scheme reflecting the sparsity of the investigated object. The proposed iterative algorithm retrieves accurate phase maps from highly noisy single-distance projection microscopy data and is char

Multilayer Laue lenses are volume diffraction elements for the efficient focusing of X-rays. With a new manufacturing technique that we introduced, it is possible to fabricate lenses of sufficiently high numerical aperture (NA) to achieve focal spot sizes below 10 nm. The alternating layers of the materials that form the lens must span a broad range of thicknesses on the nanometer scale to achieve

The new European X-ray Free-Electron Laser is the first X-ray free-electron laser capable of delivering X-ray pulses with a megahertz inter-pulse spacing, more than four orders of magnitude higher than previously possible. However, to date, it has been unclear whether it would indeed be possible to measure high-quality diffraction data at megahertz pulse repetition rates. Here, we show that high-q

An X-ray grating interferometer (GI) suitable for clinical mammography must comply with quite strict dose, scanning time and geometry limitations, while being able to detect tumors, microcalcifications and other abnormalities. Such a design task is not straightforward, since obtaining optimal phase-contrast and dark-field signals with clinically compatible doses and geometrical constraints is rema

In X-ray grating interferometry, dark-field contrast arises due to partial extinction of the detected interference fringes. This is also called visibility reduction and is attributed to small-angle scattering from unresolved structures in the imaged object. In recent years, analytical quantitative frameworks of dark-field contrast have been developed for highly diluted monodisperse microsphere sus

X-ray scattering imaging can provide complementary information to conventional absorption based radiographic imaging about the unresolved microstructures of a sample. The scattering signal can be accessed with various methods based on coherent illumination, which span from self-imaging to speckle scanning. The directional sensitivity of the existing real space imaging methods is limited to a few d

We discuss the concepts and methodology to implement an experiment probing directly Time Reversal (T ) non-invariance, without any experimental connection to CP violation, by the exchange of in and out states. The idea relies on the B 0 B ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ B¯ 0 entanglement and decay time information available at B factories. The flavor or CP tag of the state of the still living neutral meson by the first d

We present a novel method to perform a direct T (time reversal) symmetry test in the neutral kaon system, independent of any CP and/or CPT symmetry tests. This is based on the comparison of suitable transition probabilities, where the required interchange of in ↔ out states for a given process is obtained exploiting the Einstein–Podolski–Rosen correlations of neutral kaon pairs produced at a ϕ-fac

The neutral Kaon system has both CP violation in the mass matrix and a non-vanishing lifetime difference in the width matrix. This leads to an effective Hamiltonian which is not a normal operator, with incompatible (non-commuting) masses and widths. In the Weisskopf–Wigner Approach (WWA), by diagonalizing the entire Hamiltonian, the unphysical non-orthogonal “stationary” states KL,S are obtained.

We compared three different Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) that we have designed and implemented to enable human supervision of an Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV). Special attention has been paid to provide tools for a safe navigation and giving the user a good overall understanding of the surrounding world while keeping the cognitive load at a low level. Our findings indicate that a GUI in 3D,

The informed consent process for clinical trials (CTs) is complex. Patients must be able to understand the information given to be able to make an informed decision. This thesis aimed to explore patients’ and patient representatives’ views, factual knowledge, and perceived understanding of patient information in clinical cancer trials, and to investigate how patients’ understanding may be correlat