We present a 500-km long, 2-D P-wave velocity model across the Orphan Basin, offshore NE Newfoundland, Canada, from Flemish Cap to the Bonavista Platform, formed using refraction and wide-angle reflection data from 89 ocean-bottom seismometers. This layered model builds on a recent traveltime tomography result using additional constraints from coincident multichannel seismic reflection and grav…

Thermal death kinetics of Conogethes punctiferalis (Guene�e) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) at different life stages, heating rate, and temperature is essential for developing postharvest treatments to control pests in chestnuts. Using a heating block system (HBS), the most heat-tolerant life stage of C. punctiferalis and the effects of heating rate (0.1, 0.5, 1, 5, and 10C/min) on insect morta…

Male adult navel orangeworm, Amyelois transitella (Walker), were irradiated using a laboratory scale x-ray irradiation unit to determine the required dose for complete egg sterility of mated female moths and inherited sterility of F1 and F2 generations. Adult male A. transitella were irradiated in two separate experiments at 100�300 Gy and 50�175 Gy. Mating frequency, fecundity, and f…

We report the results of a large-scale (six orchards) and long-term (5-yr) study on seasonal population fluctuations of fruit flies (Diptera Tephritidae) in mango (2005�2009) and cashew (2007�2009) orchards in the Borgou Department, Benin. During the five consecutive years of mango fruit fly monitoring, 25 tephritid species were captured including three species of Bactrocera, 11 of C…

An experiment to search for the K− pp bound state was performed via the in-flight 3He(K−, n) reaction using 5.3 × 109 kaons at 1GeV/c at the J-PARC hadron experimental facility. In the semi-inclusive neutron missing-mass spectrum at θlab n = 0◦, no significant peak was observed in the region corresponding to K− pp binding energy larger than 80MeV, where a bump stru…

The use of enriched 48Ca is expected to improve the sensitivity of 48Ca double beta decay measurements. We have studied the enrichment of 48Ca with chemical exchange isotope separation using benzo-18-crown-6-ether resin. Chromatographic migrations of the calcium adsorption band were carried out at different migration lengths, 1 m, 20 m, and 200 m, using glass columns. Separation coefficients w…

We investigate the capability of Time Reversal Mirror (TRM) algorithm to image local acoustic sources (<3.5 km) associated with complex, sustained volcanic eruptions. Accurate source localization for volcano infrasound (low-frequency acoustic waves) is often challenging due to pronounced volcanic topography and emergent arrivals of infrasound signals. While the accuracy of the conventional app…

The Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) neutrino experiment measures neutrino oscillations by using an almost pure muon neutrino beam produced at the J-PARC accelerator facility. The T2K muon monitor was installed to measure the direction and stability of the muon beam which is produced in conjunction with the muon neutrino beam. The systematic error in the muon beam direction measurement was estimated, usi…

We have studied the contribution of high-scale SUSY to the KL → π0ν¯ν and K+ → π + ν¯ν processes by correlating with the CP-violating parameter K . Taking account of the recent LHC results for Higgs discovery and SUSY searches, we consider high-scale SUSY at the 10–50 TeV scale in the framework of non-minimal squark (slepton) flavor mixing. The Z p…

A scheme of quantum electrodynamic (QED) background-free radiative emission of a neutrino pair (RENP) is proposed in order to achieve precision determination of neutrino properties so far not accessible. The important point for the background rejection is the fact that the dispersion relation between the wave vector along the propagating direction in the wave guide (and in a photonic-crystal-ty…