Allan Widom’s research while affiliated with Northeastern University and other places

... The role played in structured interfacial water CD/EZ by sonic signals (phonons) and non-ionizing EM radiation (photons) 2 emitted and absorbed by biological systems, which do not cause thermal or heating effects but do cause non-thermal biological effects on electron and proton transfer reactions, en-zymes, DNA and fluxes in the ion channels of excitable membranes, is currently ignored or neglected. Likely, among the biophysical modalities involved in the pathogenicity of SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) and in addition to the classical electrostatic modality, other modalities based sonic signaling and on ULF-EMF signaling [17] should be taken into account. The present work points at introducing the possible ULF-EMF interactions. ...

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A Biophysical Approach to SARS-CoV-2 Pathogenicity Received: 11/11/2021 Accepted: 16/11/2021 Published: 27/12/2021

... This construction inherently necessitates the use of relativistic Dirac fermions. The need for Dirac fermions in chemistry and condensed matter has previously been reported in Ref. [27]. The requirement of relativistic 4-component Dirac spinors in the description of condensed matter systems is relevant, for example, in heavy nucleon compounds, where Z 1. ...

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Appearance of odd-frequency superconductivity in a relativistic scenario

... In the field of astroparticle physics, a fundamental quantity used by high-level analyses is the energy fluence, i.e., the energy per unit area deposited on the ground in the form of radio waves [2]. The energy fluence measured in the presence of noise at the antenna position is given by: ...

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Quantifying energy fluence and its uncertainty for radio emission from particle cascades in the presence of noise

... This method turns out to be biased at low SNR values and underestimates the uncertainties (see figure 1). To avoid the introduction of a large bias, a minimum required SNR value is typically introduced to use data from a given antenna (in many works, SNR values of at least 10, when referring to the peak electric field amplitude squared divided by the noise variance, are required [5]). ...

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Quantifying energy fluence and its uncertainty for radio emission from particle cascades in the presence of noise

... More recently, Gerald Pollack and his team in Washington University came up with an idea to build a water battery model. [5] Allan Widom et al. also came up with a theory of waterbattery system [6]. ...

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Preliminary experiments on potential use of salt-water battery 4 for cheap electric storage: Work in progress

... [40][41][42]. We also show the current upper limits on the cosmogenic neutrino flux at very high-energies from Auger [43], IceCube [44] and ANITA [45]. We also show sensitivity projections from GRAND200k (10 yr) and IceCube-Gen2 radio (10 yr) [46,47]. ...

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Upper limits on the cosmic neutrino background from cosmic rays

... Quite independently, there have been studies of nuclear transmutations triggered by smart materials (such as, piezoelectrics, ferro-magnetics) under severe stress [3][4][5][6][7][8] , and of pyro-electrics undergoing changes in temperature [9,10] . The underlying electro-strong (ES) theory describing phenomena for materials under stress is based on the well known giant dipole resonances (GDR) that is briefly described in Sec. ...

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Original Research Article Generation of radio nuclides

... On the other hand, there are also quantum mechanical-free electron motion along the effective perimeter of the material. The quantum mechanical electromagnetic (EM) transition frequencies are given by (Swain et al. 2013; ν n;qm ðLÞ ¼ ð π� h mL 2 Þð2n þ 1Þ; n ¼ 0; 1; 2; 3; . . . :; ν 1 : ν 2 : ν 3 . . . ...

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Non-chemical signatures of biological materials: Radio signals from Covid19?

... The energy region where GCRs give room to extragalactic cosmic rays (EGCRs), somewhere between the second knee and the ankle, is particularly important to draw a complete description of the origin of UHECRs. In the region immediately below and around the ankle, a dominance of Galactic protons and medium-mass nuclei can be excluded based on the measured low level of anisotropy in the distribution of arrival directions [18,19]. On the other hand, a dominance of heavier nuclei, which would comply with the allowed limits, is disfavoured by the interpretation of X max measurements as mentioned above. ...

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Constraining the sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays across and above the ankle with the spectrum and composition data measured at the Pierre Auger Observatory

... To exclude events where the recorded profile may be distorted due to clouds over the Observatory, only events from known cloud-free periods are accepted. Events where no information on the cloud coverage is available from either the Lidar system installed at the FD site Coihueco (BenZvi et al. 2007) or infrared data from the GOES-12 satellite (Abreu et al. 2013) are excluded. ...

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A Search for Photons with Energies Above 2 × 10 17 eV Using Hybrid Data from the Low-Energy Extensions of the Pierre Auger Observatory