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  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,645 Views
12 Pages

1 October 2020

The process of a resonant production of an ultrarelativistic electron–positron pair in the process of gamma-quantum scattering in the X-ray field of a pulsar is theoretically studied. This process has two reaction channels. Under resonant condi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,138 Views
17 Pages

Employing Gamma-Ray-Modified Carbon Quantum Dots to Combat a Wide Range of Bacteria

  • Zoran M. Marković,
  • Aleksandra S. Mišović,
  • Danica Z. Zmejkoski,
  • Nemanja M. Zdravković,
  • Janez Kovač,
  • Danica V. Bajuk-Bogdanović,
  • Dušan D. Milivojević,
  • Marija M. Mojsin,
  • Milena J. Stevanović and
  • Biljana M. Todorović Marković
  • + 1 author

Nowadays, it is a great challenge to develop new medicines for treating various infectious diseases. The treatment of these diseases is of utmost interest to further prevent the development of multi-drug resistance in different pathogens. Carbon quan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,818 Views
10 Pages

Formation of a Colloidal CdSe and ZnSe Quantum Dots via a Gamma Radiolytic Technique

  • Aeshah Salem,
  • Elias Saion,
  • Naif Mohammed Al-Hada,
  • Abdul Halim Shaari,
  • Halimah Mohamed Kamari,
  • Nayereh Soltani and
  • Shahidan Radiman

28 September 2016

Colloidal cadmium selenide (CdSe) and zinc selenide (ZnSe) quantum dots with a hexagonal structure were synthesized by irradiating an aqueous solution containing metal precursors, poly (vinyl pyrrolidone), isopropyl alcohol, and organic solvents with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,182 Views
11 Pages

17 November 2023

Gamma-ray burst GRB221009A was of unprecedented brightness in the γ-rays and X-rays through to the far ultraviolet, allowing for identification within a host galaxy at redshift z=0.151 by multiple space and ground-based optical/near-infrared te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,947 Views
19 Pages

Biocompatible Carbon Dots/Polyurethane Composites as Potential Agents for Combating Bacterial Biofilms: N-Doped Carbon Quantum Dots/Polyurethane and Gamma Ray-Modified Graphene Quantum Dots/Polyurethane Composites

  • Zoran Marković,
  • Sladjana Dorontić,
  • Svetlana Jovanović,
  • Janez Kovač,
  • Dušan Milivojević,
  • Dragana Marinković,
  • Marija Mojsin and
  • Biljana Todorović Marković

Background: Pathogen bacteria appear and survive on various surfaces made of steel or glass. The existence of these bacteria in different forms causes significant problems in healthcare facilities and society. Therefore, the surface engineering of hi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,248 Views
18 Pages

Facile Synthesis of L-Cysteine Functionalized Graphene Quantum Dots as a Bioimaging and Photosensitive Agent

  • Mila Milenković,
  • Aleksandra Mišović,
  • Dragana Jovanović,
  • Ana Popović Bijelić,
  • Gabriele Ciasca,
  • Sabrina Romanò,
  • Aurelio Bonasera,
  • Marija Mojsin,
  • Jelena Pejić and
  • Svetlana Jovanović
  • + 1 author

22 July 2021

Nowadays, a larger number of aggressive and corrosive chemical reagents as well as toxic solvents are used to achieve structural modification and cleaning of the final products. These lead to the production of residual, waste chemicals, which are oft...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,245 Views
8 Pages

In Vacuo Dispersion-Like Spectral Lags in Gamma-Ray Bursts

  • Giovanni Amelino-Camelia,
  • Giacomo D’Amico,
  • Fabrizio Fiore,
  • Simonetta Puccetti and
  • Michele Ronco

25 March 2021

Some recent studies exposed preliminary but rather intriguing statistical evidence of in vacuo dispersion-like spectral lags for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), a linear correlation between time of observation and energy of GRB particles, which is expected...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,837 Views
27 Pages

A Method for Performing the Symmetric Anti-Difference Equations in Quantum Fractional Calculus

  • V. Rexma Sherine,
  • T. G. Gerly,
  • P. Chellamani,
  • Esmail Hassan Abdullatif Al-Sabri,
  • Rashad Ismail,
  • G. Britto Antony Xavier and
  • N. Avinash

8 December 2022

In this paper, we develop theorems on finite and infinite summation formulas by utilizing the q and (q,h) anti-difference operators, and also we extend these core theorems to q(α) and (q,h)α difference operators. Several integer order the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,625 Views
23 Pages

Gamma-Ray-Induced Structural Transformation of GQDs towards the Improvement of Their Optical Properties, Monitoring of Selected Toxic Compounds, and Photo-Induced Effects on Bacterial Strains

  • Sladjana Dorontic,
  • Aurelio Bonasera,
  • Michelangelo Scopelliti,
  • Olivera Markovic,
  • Danica Bajuk Bogdanović,
  • Gabriele Ciasca,
  • Sabrina Romanò,
  • Ivica Dimkić,
  • Milica Budimir and
  • Svetlana Jovanovic
  • + 1 author

7 August 2022

Structural modification of different carbon-based nanomaterials is often necessary to improve their morphology and optical properties, particularly the incorporation of N-atoms in graphene quantum dots (GQDs). Here, a clean, simple, one-step, and eco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,386 Views
14 Pages

2 September 2020

The resonant photoproduction of the electron-positron pairs on a nucleus near a surface of the X-ray pulsar was studied theoretically. The main feature of the processes, which are responsible for the formation of the electron-positron fluxes, is a ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,402 Views
17 Pages

Antioxidative and Photo-Induced Effects of Different Types of N-Doped Graphene Quantum Dots

  • Svetlana Jovanovic,
  • Aurelio Bonasera,
  • Sladjana Dorontic,
  • Danica Zmejkoski,
  • Dusan Milivojevic,
  • Tamara Janakiev and
  • Biljana Todorovic Markovic

20 September 2022

Due to the increasing number of bacterial infections and the development of resistivity toward antibiotics, new materials and approaches for treatments must be urgently developed. The production of new materials should be ecologically friendly consid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
919 Views
39 Pages

The resonant trident pair production process in the collision of ultrarelativistic electrons with a strong electromagnetic wave was theoretically studied. Under resonant conditions, the intermediate virtual gamma-quantum became real. As a result, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,856 Views
19 Pages

3 September 2020

The investigation scrutinizes the circulation of the large-scaled fluxes of ultrarelativistic electrons near the neutron stars. This work focuses on the effects that occur during the adjustment of the strong electromagnetic field near the X-ray pulsa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,176 Views
10 Pages

29 March 2022

The possibility of radiation of high-energy gamma quanta with energies of the order of 100 GeV by ultrarelativistic electrons on nuclei in strong X-ray fields with intensities up to ∼1027Wcm−2 was theoretically studied. It is shown that thi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
95 Citations
5,032 Views
22 Pages

2 December 2021

Often referred to as special functions or mathematical functions, the origin of many members of the remarkably vast family of higher transcendental functions can be traced back to such widespread areas as (for example) mathematical physics, analytic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,397 Views
13 Pages

6 October 2022

The observed spectral lags of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been widely used to explore possible violations of Lorentz invariance. However, these studies were generally performed by concentrating on the rough time lag of a single highest-energy photon...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,693 Views
17 Pages

27 August 2021

Radiation technology has long been proven as a simple, rapid, green and sustainable technology with macroscale applications in healthcare, industry and environment. Its merits, however, have not been fully utilized in today’s ever growing nanotechnol...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,708 Views
4 Pages

Proteogenomic Tools in the Assessment of Pharmacological Effects of Natural Compounds

  • Radu Albulescu,
  • Adrian Albulescu,
  • Georgeta Caraene,
  • Corina Bubueanu,
  • Alice Grigore,
  • Maria Petrescu and
  • Roxana-Mădălina Stoica

Proteogenomics is a recently developed omics application, adding enhancing the sensitivity of proteomics, and thus making possible the detection of proteome markers in very tiny amounts of samples. Even if the filed developed only in the last 10 year...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,563 Views
24 Pages

14 March 2025

In this work, we analyze the vanishing cycles of Feynman loop integrals by the means of the Mayer–Vietoris spectral sequence. A complete classification of possible vanishing geometries is obtained. We use this result for establishing an asympto...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,748 Views
14 Pages

Bounds on Relativistic Deformed Kinematics from the Physics of the Universe Transparency

  • José Manuel Carmona,
  • José Luis Cortés,
  • Lucía Pereira and
  • José Javier Relancio

4 August 2020

We analyze the kinematics of electron-positron production in a photon-photon interaction when one has a modification of the special relativistic kinematics as a power expansion in the inverse of a new high-energy scale. We derive the equation for the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,072 Views
10 Pages

Study of Multi-Pixel Scintillator Detector Configurations for Measuring Polarized Gamma Radiation

  • Ana Marija Kožuljević,
  • Damir Bosnar,
  • Zdenka Kuncic,
  • Mihael Makek,
  • Siddharth Parashari and
  • Petar Žugec

When a positron annihilates, two gamma photons are created with orthogonal polarizations. It is possible to use coincidence measurements where both photons undergo Compton scattering to estimate their initial relative polarization orientation. This i...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,627 Views
44 Pages

Probing Quantum Gravity with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes

  • Tomislav Terzić,
  • Daniel Kerszberg and
  • Jelena Strišković

14 September 2021

High energy photons from astrophysical sources are unique probes for some predictions of candidate theories of Quantum Gravity (QG). In particular, Imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope (IACTs) are instruments optimised for astronomical observation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,927 Views
18 Pages

30 October 2012

There are two sets of four-by-four matrices introduced by Dirac. The first set consists of fifteen Majorana matrices derivable from his four γ matrices. These fifteen matrices can also serve as the generators of the group SL(4, r). The second set con...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,392 Views
47 Pages

19 June 2025

Lorentz invariance is such a basic principle in fundamental physics that it must be constantly tested and any proposal of its violation and breakdown of CPT symmetry that might characterize some approaches to quantum gravity should be treated with ca...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
976 Views
7 Pages

Recent Progress on Conjecture O and Its Variants: A Survey

  • Xiaobin Li,
  • Yuhui Peng,
  • Yamin Xu and
  • Bin Zhu

Conjecture O (and the Gamma Conjectures), introduced by Galkin, Golyshev, and Iritani stand as pivotal open problems in the quantum cohomology of Fano manifolds, bridging algebraic geometry, mathematical physics, and representation theory. These conj...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,847 Views
29 Pages

The article presents a theoretical study of Oleinik resonances in the process of scattering a gamma quantum by an ultrarelativistic electron in the field of a strong electromagnetic wave with intensities up to 1027Wcm−2. The resonant kinem...

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,700 Views
28 Pages

22 February 2022

The propagation of gamma-rays over cosmological distances is the subject of extensive theoretical and observational research at GeV and TeV energies. The mean free path of gamma-rays in the cosmic web is limited above 100 GeV due to the production of...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
3,557 Views
11 Pages

This contribution aims to honour Guido Barbiellini’s profound interest in the interpretation and impact of quantum mechanics by examining the implications of the so-called before–before Experiment on quantum entanglement. This experiment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,204 Views
16 Pages

Perovskite Nanocrystal-Coated Inorganic Scintillator-Based Fiber-Optic Gamma-ray Sensor with Higher Light Yields

  • Seokhyeon Jegal,
  • Siwon Song,
  • Jae Hyung Park,
  • Jinhong Kim,
  • Seunghyeon Kim,
  • Sangjun Lee,
  • Cheol Ho Pyeon,
  • Sin Kim and
  • Bongsoo Lee

4 October 2024

Radiation possesses inherent physical characteristics, such as penetrability and radionuclide energy, which enable its widespread applicability in fields such as medicine, industry, environment, security, and research. Advancements in scintillator-ba...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
59 Citations
6,799 Views
14 Pages

15 May 2021

The propagation performance of a free-space optical (FSO) communication system in an atmospheric environment is restricted and degraded due to the influence of atmospheric turbulence. In this paper, both the lognormal and Gamma–Gamma channel models a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,797 Views
14 Pages

28 November 2023

In the spacetime of a linearly accelerating Kinnersley black hole, the Lorentz-breaking theory is used to modify the dynamical equations of Dirac particles by selecting gamma matrices and aether-like field vectors in the curved spacetime of this blac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,880 Views
14 Pages

10 October 2023

The Breit–Wheeler resonant process was theoretically studied in a strong X-ray electromagnetic wave field under conditions when the energy of one of the initial high-energy gamma quanta passes into the energy of a positron or electron. These co...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,714 Views
24 Pages

Aspects of Quantum Gravity Phenomenology and Astrophysics

  • Arundhati Dasgupta and
  • José Fajardo-Montenegro

With the discovery of gravitational waves, the search for the quantum of gravity, the graviton, is imminent. We discuss the current status of the bounds on graviton mass from experiments as well as the theoretical understanding of these particles. We...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,414 Views
29 Pages

GABA Receptors Can Depolarize the Neuronal Membrane Potential via Quantum Tunneling of Chloride Ions: A Quantum Mathematical Study

  • Sager Nawafleh,
  • Abdallah Barjas Qaswal,
  • Aiman Suleiman,
  • Obada Alali,
  • Fuad Mohammed Zayed,
  • Mohammad Abu Orabi Al-Adwan and
  • Mo’ath Bani Ali

28 March 2022

GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) receptors represent the major inhibitory receptors in the nervous system and their inhibitory effects are mediated by the influx of chloride ions that tends to hyperpolarize the resting membrane potential. However, GABA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,197 Views
16 Pages

Modular and Cost-Effective Computed Tomography Design

  • André Bieberle,
  • Rainer Hoffmann,
  • Alexander Döß,
  • Eckhard Schleicher and
  • Uwe Hampel

17 April 2024

We present a modular and cost-effective gamma ray computed tomography system for multiphase flow investigations in industrial apparatuses. It mainly comprises a 137Cs isotopic source and an in-house-assembled detector arc, with a total of 16 scintill...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,177 Views
14 Pages

Simulation and Synthesis of Cobalt (Co) Nanoparticles by Gamma Radiation Technique

  • Elham Gharibshahi,
  • Shahidan Radiman,
  • Ahmadreza Ashraf,
  • Elias Saion,
  • Leila Gharibshahi and
  • Sina Ashraf

6 July 2023

Cobalt nanoparticles were synthesized using the gamma radiolytic technique, and the particle size was found to be reduced from 12±1 to 7±1 nm by increasing the dose from 10 to 60 kGy. The UV-visible absorption spectra were measured and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,871 Views
22 Pages

A new formalism involving spinors in theories of spacetime and vacuum is presented. It is based on a superalgebraic formulation of the theory of algebraic spinors. New algebraic structures playing role of Dirac matrices are constructed on the basis o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,611 Views
20 Pages

SERS Investigation on Oligopeptides Used as Biomimetic Coatings for Medical Devices

  • Michele Di Foggia,
  • Vitaliano Tugnoli,
  • Stefano Ottani,
  • Monica Dettin,
  • Annj Zamuner,
  • Santiago Sanchez-Cortes,
  • Daniele Cesini and
  • Armida Torreggiani

29 June 2021

The surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectra of three amphiphilic oligopeptides derived from EAK16 (AEAEAKAK)2 were examined to study systematic amino acid substitution effects on the corresponding interaction with Ag colloidal nanoparticles....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,194 Views
9 Pages

Computation of the Deuteron Mass and Force Unification via the Rotating Lepton Model

  • Constantinos G. Vayenas,
  • Dimitrios Grigoriou,
  • Dionysios Tsousis,
  • Konstantinos Parisis and
  • Elias C. Aifantis

20 November 2022

The rotating lepton model (RLM), which is a 2D Bohr-type model of three gravitating rotating neutrinos, combining Newton’s gravitational law, special relativity, and the de Broglie equation of quantum mechanics, and which has already been used...

  • Article
  • Open Access
373 Views
13 Pages

1 January 2026

The purpose of this research is to examine how the electro-optical behavior of platinum (Pt) nanoparticles prepared via the gamma radiolysis process is related to both the radiation dose and to the Pt precursor concentration. The Pt precursor used in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
141 Citations
14,242 Views
17 Pages

11 April 2013

Size-controlled and monodispersed silver nanoparticles were synthesized from an aqueous solution containing silver nitrate as a metal precursor, polyvinyl alcohol as a capping agent, isopropyl alcohol as hydrogen and hydroxyl radical scavengers, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,199 Views
15 Pages

A Concept of Assessment of LIV Tests with THESEUS Using the Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Fermi/GBM

  • Anastasia Tsvetkova,
  • Luciano Burderi,
  • Alessandro Riggio,
  • Andrea Sanna and
  • Tiziana Di Salvo

According to Einstein’s special relativity theory, the speed of light in a vacuum is constant for all observers. However, quantum gravity effects could introduce its dispersion depending on the energy of photons. The investigation of the spectr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
64 Citations
15,482 Views
21 Pages

14 October 2008

Due to quantum fluctuations, spacetime is foamy on small scales. The degree of foaminess is found to be consistent with holography, a principle prefigured in the physics of black hole entropy. It has bearing on the ultimate accuracies of clocks and m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,637 Views
9 Pages

24 April 2022

Lorentz violation (LV) induced by Quantum Gravity has been tested at much lower energies than the Planck scale with more and more observational evidence. In recent studies, the time of flight difference between the TeV neutrino and MeV photon from Ga...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
8,440 Views
19 Pages

Irradiation Facilities of the Takasaki Advanced Radiation Research Institute

  • Satoshi Kurashima,
  • Takahiro Satoh,
  • Yuichi Saitoh and
  • Watalu Yokota

The ion beam facility at the Takasaki Advanced Radiation Research Institute, the National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology, consists of a cyclotron and three electrostatic accelerators, and they are dedicated to studies...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,133 Views
11 Pages

28 February 2020

Gamma-valerolactone (GVL) was found to be an effective, sustainable alternative in the lignocellulose defragmentation for carbohydrate isolation and, more specifically, for lignin dissolution. In this study, it was adapted as a green pretreatment rea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,804 Views
14 Pages

Optically pumped magnetometer OPM-MEG has the potential to replace the traditional low-temperature superconducting quantum interference device SQUID-MEG. Coherence analysis can be used to evaluate the functional connectivity and reflect the informati...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,713 Views
15 Pages

Testing Quantum Gravity in the Multi-Messenger Astronomy Era

  • Aleksandra Piórkowska-Kurpas and
  • Marek Biesiada

Quantum gravity (QG) remains elusive despite almost century-long efforts to combine general relativity and quantum mechanics. All the approaches triggered and powered by purely theoretical considerations eventually failed with a prevailing feeling of...

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