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Physics, Volume 3, Issue 2

2021 June - 18 articles

Cover Story: With the vaccination against COVID-19 now available, it is of high interest to explore how vaccination campaigns quantitatively influence the temporal evolution of epidemics. The authors extend the SIR model, which describes the susceptible (S), infected (I), and recovered/removed (R) compartment to account for vaccination (V), solve it analytically, identify the relevant time scales capturing the dynamics of the compartments, as well as the daily rate of new infections, and correlate the various monitored observables. They obtain inequalities between the variable rates governing the dynamics, which allows them to predict the shape of the time-dependent compartment sizes, and they obtain a threshold value for the vaccination rate, which divides the dynamical system into two qualitatively different regimes (moderate versus large number of fatalities). View this paper.
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Articles (18)

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,329 Views
10 Pages

12 June 2021

The Lagrange formalism is developed for Bateman oscillators, which includes both damped and amplified systems, and a novel method to derive the Caldirola-Kanai and null Lagrangians is presented. For the null Lagrangians, the corresponding gauge funct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
8,792 Views
41 Pages

25 May 2021

With the vaccination against Covid-19 now available, how vaccination campaigns influence the mathematical modeling of epidemics is quantitatively explored. In this paper, the standard susceptible-infectious-recovered/removed (SIR) epidemic model is e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,861 Views
7 Pages

18 May 2021

The possible ways of dynamics of a homogeneous and isotropic space described by the Friedmann–Lemaitre–Robertson–Walker metric in the framework of cubic in the Ricci scalar f(R) gravity in the absence of matter are considered. This paper points towar...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,460 Views
7 Pages

The Merger Rate of Black Holes in a Primordial Black Hole Cluster

  • Viktor D. Stasenko and
  • Alexander A. Kirillov

17 May 2021

In this paper, the merger rate of black holes in a cluster of primordial black holes (PBHs) is investigated. The clusters have characteristics close to those of typical globular star clusters. A cluster that has a wide mass spectrum ranging from 102...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
2,522 Views
5 Pages

14 May 2021

In this paper, a simple example to illustrate what is basically known from the Gauss’ times interplay between geometry and mechanics in thin shells is presented. Specifically, the eigen-mode spectrum in spontaneously curved (i.e., up-down asymmetric)...

  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,208 Views
32 Pages

13 May 2021

Recent progress in Cs2HfCl6 (CHC) crystal production achieved within the last five years is presented. Various aspects have been analyzed, including the chemical purity of raw materials, purification methods, optimization of the growth and thermal co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,828 Views
15 Pages

13 May 2021

In this paper, Lorentz boosts and Wigner rotations are considered from a (complexified) quaternionic point of view. It is demonstrated that, for a suitably defined self-adjoint complex quaternionic 4-velocity, pure Lorentz boosts can be phrased in te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,342 Views
18 Pages

10 May 2021

In this paper, an investigation of the role of nuclear saturation parameters on f-mode oscillations in neutron stars is performed within the Cowling approximation. It is found that the uncertainty in the effective nucleon mass plays a dominant role i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,009 Views
15 Pages

29 April 2021

We revisit the possibility of first order electroweak phase transition (EWPT) in one of the simplest extensions of the Standard Model scalar sector, namely the two-Higgs-doublet model (2HDM). We take into account the ensuing constraints from the elec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,659 Views
15 Pages

26 April 2021

In this paper, analytical and semi-analytical formulas are presented for the self- and mutual inductance of thin ordinary disk coils and thin Bitter disk coils. The coils lie concentrically in a plane. The ordinary coils are coils with constant curre...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,077 Views
20 Pages

26 April 2021

Amorphous chalcogenide glasses are intrinsically metastable, highly photosensitive, and therefore exhibit numerous light-induced effects upon bandgap and sub-bandgap illumination. Depending on the pulse duration of the excitation laser, ChGs exhibit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,871 Views
20 Pages

Initial Studies of Electron Beams as a Means of Modifying Collagen

  • Robert Apsimon,
  • Sadiq Setiniyaz,
  • Rebecca Seviour,
  • William Wise,
  • Tobias Junginger,
  • Maribel Juarez Hernandez and
  • Edgar Ortiz

25 April 2021

We present the initial design studies and specifications for an accelerator and conveyor system to irradiate collagen samples, modifying properties such as the putrescibility and mechanical behaviours in a paradigm shift from existing, widely used te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,920 Views
13 Pages

16 April 2021

High-multiplicity proton-proton (pp) collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energies have created a new domain of research to look for a possible formation of quark–gluon plasma in these events. In this paper, we estimate various thermal prope...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,570 Views
20 Pages

9 April 2021

In astroparticle, nuclear and subnuclear physics, low-counting experiments play an increasingly important role in the investigation of rare processes such as dark matter, double beta decay, some neutrino processes and low-background spectrometry. Ext...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,872 Views
13 Pages

25 March 2021

We report test results searching for an effect of electrostatic charge on weight. For conducting test objects of mass of order 1 kg, we found no effect on weight, for potentials ranging from 10 V to 200 kV, corresponding to charge states ranging from...

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Physics - ISSN 2624-8174