Evidence for the First Excited State of

The ^{7}H system was populated in the ^{2}H(^{8}He,^{3}He)^{7}H reaction with a 26 AMeV ^{8}He beam. The ^{7}H missing mass energy spectrum, the ^{3}H energy and angular distributions in the ^{7}H decay frame were reconstructed. The ^{7}H missing mass spectrum shows a peak, which can be interpreted either as unresolved 5/2^{+} and 3/2^{+} doublet or one of these states at 6.5(5) MeV. The data also provide indications of the 1/2^{+} ground state of ^{7}H located at 1.8(5) MeV with quite a low population cross section of ∼25 µb/sr within angular range θ_{c.m.}≃(17°-27°).

Observation and Spectroscopy of New Proton-Unbound Isotopes ³°Ar and ²9Cl: An Interplay of Prompt Two-Proton and Sequential Decay.

Previously unknown isotopes (30)Ar and (29)Cl have been identified by measurement of the trajectories of their in-flight decay products (28)S+p+p and (28)S+p, respectively. The analysis of angular correlations of the fragments provided information on decay energies and the structure of the parent states. The ground states of (30)Ar and (29)Cl were found at 2.25(-0.10)(+0.15) and 1.8±0.1 MeV above the two- and one-proton thresholds, respectively. The lowest states in (30)Ar and (29)Cl point to a violation of isobaric symmetry in the structure of these unbound nuclei. The two-proton decay has been identified in a transition region between simultaneous two-proton and sequential proton emissions from the (30)Ar ground state, which is characterized by an interplay of three-body and two-body decay mechanisms. The first hint of a fine structure of the two-proton decay of (30)Ar*(2(+)) has been obtained by detecting two decay branches into the ground and first-excited states of the (28)S fragment.

Structure of 10He low-lying states uncovered by correlations.

The 0+ ground state of the 10He nucleus produced in the 3H(8He,p)10He reaction was found at about 2.1±0.2 MeV (Γ∼2 MeV) above the three-body ^{8}He+n+n breakup threshold. Angular correlations observed for ^{10}He decay products show prominent interference patterns allowing us to draw conclusions about the structure of low-energy excited states. We interpret the observed correlations as a coherent superposition of a broad 1- state having a maximum at energy 4-6 MeV and a 2+ state above 6 MeV, setting both on top of the 0+ state "tail." This anomalous level ordering indicates that the breakdown of the N=8 shell known in 12Be thus extends also to the ^{10}He system.

[Lead and children's health: results of some Russian studies in 2000-2009].

Environmental pollution by lead and its effects on human health continue to remain one of the most urgent problems of environmental hygiene. The paper gives the results of basic environmental and epidemiological studies conducted in different regions of the country, which prove elevated lead levels in the blood of examined children. The role of the influence of household factors on the elevation of blood lead levels in a child is shown, by using a town that has no large sources of lead emission as an example. Evidence is provided that a program should be elaborated to reduce a risk for human lead poisoning, which involves the introduction of methods for the biomonitoring and treatment of children having elevated blood lead levels.

[Assessment of the safety of nonachlazin during long term administration]. / K otsenke bezopasnosti nonakhlazina pri ego dlitel'nom primenenii.

Tests were set up on rats, guinea pigs and dogs to look into the cronic toxicity of nonachlazine, an effective antianginal agent, used for a space of 6 months in doses of 10 and 35 mg/kg, by far superior to the ones effectively employed clinically. The results of hematological, morphological and biochemical investigations bear evidence to a low toxicity of nonachlozine, which gives good reason to presume the drug to be safe for the use in medical practice.

[Pharmacology of phthorphenazine-depot]. / K farmakologii ftorfenazina-depo

The psychotropic activity, the content in the organs and tissues, the acute and chronic toxicity of phthorphenazine-depot - (phthorphenazine-decanoate)-2-triphthormethyl-10-/3/1-(beta-caprionyl-oxyethyl)-piperazinyl-4/-propy/phenothiazine - were studied as contrasted against phthorphenazine dehydrochloride. Phthorphenazine-depot has been found to display a prolonged action, a single injection being sufficient to depress conditioned avoidance reflexes for a period of 45-50 days. The antagonism of the drug to phenamine is manifest for 30 days after its administration. After 17 days from the instant of its introduction phthorphenamine is capable of prolonging the anesthetic action of sodium thiopental. Upon a single administration phthorphenazine-depot continues to be in evidence in the tissues of organs and in the blood over a period of 4-5 weeks. The drug is little toxic, this having been ascertained in the course of acute and chronic experiments.