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Absolute cross sections for electronic excitation of pyrimidine by electron impact

Regeta, Khrystyna ; Allan, Michael ; Mašín, Zdeněk ; Gorfinkiel, Jimena D.

In: The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2016, vol. 144, no. 2, p. 024302

We measured differential cross sections for electron-impact electronic excitation of pyrimidine, both as a function of electron energy up to 18 eV, and of scattering angle up to 180°. The emphasis of the present work is on recording detailed excitation functions revealing resonances in the excitation process. The differential cross sections were summed to obtain integral cross sections. These...

Université de Fribourg

Absolute dissociative electron attachment cross sections in acetylene and its deuterated analogue

May, Olivier ; Fedor, Juraj ; Allan, Michael

In: Chimia, 2010, vol. 64, no. 3, p. 173-176

An instrument for the measurement of absolute dissociative electron attachment cross sections was constructed and applied to two prototype molecules, acetylene (C₂H₂) and deuterated acetylene (C₂D₂). The isotope effect at the first dissociative electron attachment band at 3 eV was determined-the cross section for C₂D⁻/C₂D₂ is 14.4 times smaller than that for C₂H⁻/C₂H₂. The...

Université de Fribourg

Activity-dependent structural plasticity of perisynaptic astrocytic domains promotes excitatory synapse stability

Bernardinelli, Yann ; Randall, Jerome ; Janett, Elia ; Nikonenko, Irina ; König, Stéphane ; Jones, Emma Victoria ; Flores, Carmen E. ; Murai, Keith K. ; Bochet, Christian G. ; Holtmaat, Anthony ; Muller, Dominique

In: Current Biology, 2014, vol. 24, no. 15, p. 1679–1688

Excitatory synapses in the CNS are highly dynamic structures that can show activity- dependent remodeling and stabilization in response to learning and memory. Synapses are enveloped with intricate processes of astrocytes known as perisynaptic astrocytic processes (PAPs). PAPs are motile structures displaying rapid actin-dependent movements and are characterized by Ca²⁺ elevations in...