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Título: europhysicsnews - 40/1 2009
Autor: European Physical Society
Editora: EDP Sciences
Edição: 2009. volume 40. número 1
Número Páginas: 32
Data publicação: 2009
Descrição: ÍNDICE

EDITORIAL
03 EPL - towards a globally competitive Letters Journal
V. Dose and M. Huber

NEWS

04 Who owns EPL?

05 Alum crystal contest: a new record

06 Plasma Physics Division: Conference Report and Annual Awards, 2008

08 ICWIP-2008

09 Ulysses Odyssey and Statistical Physics

10 Physics in Rome

HIGHLIGHTS

14 How well a chaotic quantum system can retain memory of its initial state?
Precision measurement of decay branching fractions in Ca II

15 Vacuum induced high-frequency oscillations in the charge density
Anticorrelated electrons from weak recollisions in non-sequential double ionization

16 Theory of laser heating of thick layers
High time-resolution sprite imaging

17 How does BEC mix with thermal atoms?
Leibinger Research Prize 08 to Pr. Xiaolang Sunney Xie

FEATURES

18 The critical Casimir effect: Universal fluctuation-induced forces at work
A. Gambassi, C. Hertlein: L. Helden, S. Dietrich, and C. Bechinger

23 The marathon race to a new atomic kilogram
P. Becker and A. Nicolaus

27 Revisiting the construction ofthe Egyptian pyramids
Guy Demortier

32 Physics in daily life: Over the rainbow
LJ.F. (Jo) Hermans