O fenômeno de vibração induzida por vórtices (VIV) é um problema fundamental dentro da Mecânica dos Fluidos e um exemplo importante de interação fluido-estrutura. Esta tese investiga fenômeno de VIV quando um cilindro rígido, submetido a escoamento uniforme, está livre para oscilar na direção transversal e alinhada com a corrente incidente. A tese foi estruturada ao redor de sete perguntas relacionadas ao fenômeno de VIV: 1) O fenômeno e os resultados experimentais são repetitivos? 2) Como ocorre a transição entre ramos de resposta? 3) Qual é o papel da inércia da estrutura oscilante? 4) Qual é o papel de sua rigidez? 5) Quais são as frequências naturais mais importantes da estrutura? 6) Quais padrões de esteira se desenvolvem para VIV com dois graus de liberdade? 7) Quais são os efeitos do movimento na direção alinhada com a corrente no processo de formação e desprendimento de vórtices? O fenômeno de VIV é estudado de maneira experimental em uma base elástica pendular capaz de oscilar com o mesmo momento de inércia e frequência natural nas duas direções. Os experimentos de VIV foram realizados em canal de água recirculante e com diferentes condições de inércia e rigidez. A técnica de velocimetria por imagem de partículas foi usada e permitiu identificar diferentes padrões de esteira de vórtices. Verificou-se que o VIV é repetitivo a nível de amplitudes médias e frequências dominantes. A transição dos ramos pode ocorrer de maneira intermitente ou com histerese. Os parâmetros de inércia e rigidez da estrutura são capazes de mudar o regime de oscilação e, para algumas condições, suprimir as vibrações alinhadas com a corrente. Dentre os padrões de esteira observados, um deles não havia sido relatado na literatura e é definido nesta tese. O novo modo de emissão apresenta dois vórtices com circulação oposta e elevada intensidade emitidos por ciclo. A influência da direção alinhada com o escoamento está relacionada a dois efeitos: a velocidade relativa entre o cilindro e o fluido, responsável pelo aumento da circulação dos vórtices na esteira, e o ângulo de fase do movimento nas direções alinhada e transversal, capaz de mudar o processo de formação dos vórtices. / Vortex-induced vibration (VIV) phenomenon is a fundamental problem of Fluid Mechanics and a typical example of fluid-structure interaction. This thesis explores the VIV phenomenon for a rigid circular cylinder immersed in a uniform fluid current. The cylinder is free to oscillate in two degrees of freedom (2dof): in-line and cross flow. The thesis was structured in order to answer seven questions regarding VIV: 1) Are the phenomenon and its experimental results repetitive? 2) How do the branches transition occur? 3) What is the role played by the inertia of the oscillating structure? 4) What is the role of its stiffness? 5) Which are the most relevant natural frequencies of the structure? 6) Which are the vortex wake patterns developed in VIV 2dof? 7) What are the influences of the in-line movement to the process of vortex formation and shedding? The phenomenon is experimentally investigated using an elastic base similar to a pendulum and able to oscillate with the same moment of inertia and natural frequencies in both directions. All the experiments were conducted in a recirculating water channel facility and with several combinations of moment of inertia and stiffness of the structure. Particle image velocimetry provided visualization of different vortex wake patterns. The phenomenon is repetitive in terms of its mean amplitudes and dominant frequencies. The transitions between dfferent branches can be hysteretic or intermittent. It is shown that both the moment of inertia and the stiffness of the structure are able to change the regime of oscillations and, for some cases, suppress the in-line movement. Among the different vortex wake patterns observed, one has not been reported previously in the literature. The new wake pattern shows two large vortices with high and opposite circulations shed per cycle. The influence of the displacement in the current direction is related to two different effects: the relative velocity between the incoming flow and the structure motion, responsible for the increase in the net circulation shed in the vortex wake, and the influence of the phase angle between the displacement in the in-line and cross-flow directions, capable of changing the vortex formation process.

O Texas Helimak é uma máquina toroidal de confinamento de plasma cujas linhas de campo magnético têm forma helicoidal e no qual parâmetros do plasma (como a densidade e a temperatura) são similares aos da borda e da região externa (scrape-off-layer) de um tokamak. Nesta tese foram analisados o equilíbrio e as flutuações do plasma no Texas Helimak. São apresentadas a análise e a interpretação do controle da turbulência eletrostática e do transporte turbulento de partículas pelo potencial elétrico, bias, aplicado externamente. As alterações na turbulência e no transporte causadas pela mudança do potencial elétrico externo foram investigadas em uma região do plasma com gradientes radiais uniformes. As flutuações em descargas com bias positivo ou nulo apresentam espectros de potência de banda larga e uma PDF com uma cauda acentuada que revela a ocorrência intermitente de eventos extremos. Por outro lado, as flutuações em descargas com bias negativo possuem um espectro de potência mais estreito, uma PDF mais Gaussiana e um diagrama de recorrência com mais estruturas. Um modelo de quatro ondas acopladas foi utilizado para relacionar a largura de banda da turbulência com o tempo de interação entre as ondas do modelo. Perfis radiais do transporte turbulento de partículas na direção radial foram calculados, como função do bias, e comparados com os perfis da velocidade do fluxo de plasma e seu cisalhamento. Foi mostrado que o transporte depende do perfil radial da velocidade de fluxo do plasma. Nas descargas em que essa velocidade apresenta um ponto de máximo em seu perfil radial, o perfil do transporte possui um mínimo que foi interpretado, utilizando um modelo Hamiltoniano de ondas de deriva, como sendo resultado de uma barreira de transporte onde o cisalhamento do fluxo é nulo. Em outras descargas, máximos no perfil radial do transporte foram relacionados a ressonâncias que ocorrem onde a velocidade de fase da onda é igual à velocidade do plasma. / The Texas Helimak is a toroidal confinement of plasma device with helically magnetic field lines and which plasma parameters (like the density and temperature) are similar to the edge and the scrape-off-layer of a tokamak. This thesis analyzed the equilibrium and fluctuations in the Helimak Texas plasma. We present the analysis and interpretation of electrostatic control of turbulence and turbulent particle transport by electrical potential, bias, applied externally. Changes in transport and turbulence caused by the change of external electric potential were investigated in a region of uniform radial gradients plasma. Fluctuations in discharges with positive or zero bias have broadband power spectra and a PDF with an accentuated tail that reveals the intermittent occurrence of extreme events. Moreover, fluctuations in discharges with negative bias have narrow power spectra, a more Gaussian PDF and more structures in the recurrence diagram. A four coupled wave model was used to relate the bandwidth of turbulence with the interaction time between the waves in the model. Radial profiles of turbulent transport of particles in the radial direction were calculated as a function of bias and compared to the profiles of the plasma flow velocity and its shear. It was shown that the transport depends on the radial profile of the plasma flow velocity. In that discharges where the velocity radial profile presents a point of maximum, the transport profile has a minimum which was interpreted, using a drift wave model Hamiltonian, as a result of a shearless flow transport barrier. In other discharges, the maxima in the transport radial profiles were related with resonances that occur where the wave phase velocity is equal to the plasma velocity.

La réalisation d’un ordinateur quantique est l’un des objectifs scientifiques les plus ambitieux et prometteurs de ce début de siècle.La force du calcul quantique réside dans sa capacité à se placer dans une superposition d’états et à utiliser les interférences entre eux pour dépasser la limite intrinsèque des ordinateurs classiques, qui est la description discrète des phénomènes physiques pourtant continus. Cela leur permettrait théoriquement de simplifier et de résoudre des problèmes insolubles pour les ordinateurs classiques.La première étape dans la réalisation d’un ordinateur quantique est sa brique de base : le bit-quantique, ou qubit. Il s’agit de l’analogue quantique du bit classique, qui permet de stocker l’information sous la forme de 0 ou de 1. Dans le cas quantique, l’information est formée par la superposition de ces deux états, en un nombre infini de possibilités. Si cette étape a été réalisée à de nombreuses reprises par la communauté, en utilisant des qubits de différentes natures, le couplage entre plusieurs d’entre eux reste difficile et limité en nombre. En effet, le système quantique ainsi formé a tendance à perdre sa cohérence ; ou dit autrement, à se détruire.Parmi les nombreuses possibilités de qubit existant, j’utilise le spin nucléaire. Ils ont l’avantage d’être relativement bien découplés de leur environnement, ce qui permet de les protéger des sources extérieures de décohérence et ainsi d’avoir un temps de vie supérieur aux spins électroniques.Cet avantage a un prix : il est plus difficile d’accéder à leur lecture.Pour ce faire, j’ai fabriqué un transistor moléculaire afin de connecter une molécule unique à deux centres magnétiques, le Tb2Pc3, aux électrodes de source et drain. L’aimant monomoléculaire utilisé possède deux centres magnétiques (les ions Tb3+) dont les spins électroniques J=6 sont couplés entre eux via une interaction dipolaire. De plus, chacun d’entre eux est couplé à son spin nucléaire I=3/2 via l’interaction hyperfine. On a ainsi un couple de deux qudits (d=4), ce qui porte la dimension de l’espace de Hilbert à 16, et ce à l’intérieur d’une unique molécule.Dans un premier temps, j’ai élaboré le diagramme Zeeman de la molécule, qui est sa réponse énergétique à un champ magnétique extérieur. Je détaille ensuite la fabrication des échantillons, et notamment l’utilisation de la technique d’électromigration. Je présente ensuite les mesures en transport électrique, aux très basses températures (milliKelvins) et sous champ magnétique, qui permettent de détecter le retournement du couple de spins électroniques, dont la position est dépendante de l’état du couple de spins nucléaires : c’est ainsi qu’est réalisée la lecture des états du couple de qudits.Une étude de la dynamique du système est alors réalisée par des mesures de corrélations entre la position des retournements des spins électroniques entre deux balayages consécutifs. On obtient ainsi, à la fois une meilleure visualisation des états du système, mais aussi de sa relaxation entre deux balayages en champ magnétique.Enfin, j’ai pu extraire sa température effective à l’aide d’une distribution de Maxwell-Boltzmann. De l’ordre de 300 mT, elle est cohérente avec la littérature, ainsi qu’avec celles extraites sur deux autres transistors moléculaires obtenus à d’autres moments de ma thèse.En résumé, cette thèse montre pour la première fois l’utilisation d’un transistor à molécule unique pour accéder à lecture d’un couple de qudits. Le grand nombre de molécules existantes, et le grand nombre de qubits ou qudits qui pourrait y être couplé, fait de la spintronique moléculaire une voie très prometteuse vers de possibles futurs ordinateurs quantiques moléculaires.La prochaine étape sera d’opérer la manipulation cohérente d’un tel système, notamment via l’utilisation de l’effet Stark, comme cela a déjà été réalisé à l’aide d’une molécule ne comportant qu’un centre magnétique. / The realization of a quantum computer is one of the most ambitious and promising scientific objectives of the beginning of this century.The strength of quantum computing lies in its ability to use a superposition of states and the interferences between them to overcome the intrinsic limit of classical computers, which is the discrete description of the continuous physical phenomena. This would theoretically allow them to simplify and solve impossible problems for conventional computers.The first step in the realization of a quantum computer, is its basic block: the quantum-bit, or qubit. It is the quantum analogue of the classical bit, which stores information in the form of 0 or 1. In the quantum case, information is formed by the superposition of these two states, leading to an infinity of possibilities. If this step has been done many times by the community, using qubits of different natures, the coupling between several of them remains difficult and limited in number. Indeed, the quantum systems thus formed tend to lose their coherence; or said otherwise, to destroy itself.Among the many possibilities of existing qubit, I have used the nuclear spin. They have the advantage of being relatively well decoupled from their environment, which makes it possible to protect them from external sources of decoherence, and thus to have a longer lifetime than electronic spins.This advantage has a price: it is more difficult to access their reading.To do this, I have made a molecular transistor to connect a single molecule possessing two magnetic centers, the Tb2Pc3, to the source and drain electrodes. The monomolecular magnet used has two magnetic centers (the Tb3 + ions), whose electronic spins J = 6, are coupled to each other via a dipolar interaction. In addition, each of them is coupled to its nuclear spin I = 3/2 via the hyperfine interaction. We thus have a pair of two qudits (d = 4), which brings the size of the Hilbert space to 16, and this inside a single molecule.At first, I have developed the Zeeman diagram of the molecule, which is its energy response to an external magnetic field. Then, I detail the manufacture of the samples, and in particular the use of the electromigration technique. Next, I present the electrical transport measurements, at very low temperatures (milliKelvins) and under a magnetic field, which make it possible to detect the reversal of the electronic spins, which position is dependent on the state of the pair of nuclear spins: it is how the reading of the states of qudits couple is performed.A study of the dynamics of the system is then carried out by correlation measurements among the position of the reversals of the electronic spins between two consecutive scans. This gives a better visualization of the states of the system, but also its relaxation.Finally, I was able to extract its effective temperature, using a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. Of the order of 300 mT, it is consistent with the literature, as well as with those extracted on two other molecular transistors obtained at other times of my thesis.In summary, this thesis shows for the first time the use of a single-molecule transistor to access reading of a qudits couple. The large number of existing molecules, and the large number of qubits or qudits that could be coupled inside one of them, makes molecular spintronics a very promising way for possible future molecular quantum computers.The next step will be to operate the coherent manipulation of such a system, in particular via the use of the Stark effect, as it has already been done using a molecule having only a magnetic center.

In this thesis it is performed the measurement of electrons from heavy-flavor hadron decays, with the use of the ALICE detector, at LHC. Two analysis are performed. The first one consists in the measurement of the invariant cross section of electrons from open heavy-flavor (charm or beauty) hadron decays in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV, the largest center of mass energy generated by LHC up to now, in the transverse momentum interval 0.5 < pT < 4 GeV/c. The experimental cross-section is compared to the pQCD-based prediction given by FONLL, and it sits on the upper edge of the theoretical uncertainty band over the full momentum range. The ratios between this experimental result and the equivalent measurements performed at lower center of mass energy have the potential to bring constrains to the FONLL calculation. The second analysis consists in the measurement of the nuclear modification factor, RAA , of electrons from beauty-hadron decays in the 10% most central Pb-Pb collisions at sNN = 5.02 TeV, in the interval 2 < pT < 8 GeV/c. Electrons from beauty-hadron decays are extracted from the inclusive electron yield via fits to the impact parameter distribution using templates of electrons from different sources, obtained from Monte Carlo simulations. This measurement allows to probe the energy loss of beauty quarks when traversing the Quark-Gluon-Plasma (QGP), a color-deconfined medium produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. A suppression of about 40-50% is observed on the RAA for pT > 3 GeV/c and it is consistent, over the full momentum range and within experimental uncertainties, with the prediction of pQCD-based models that describe a mass-dependent energy loss of the heavy-quarks while traversing the QGP, interacting with its constituents via radiative and collisional processes. This analysis brings significant improvement of the experimental uncertainties with respect to the equivalent measurement performed with the run 1 data and consists in an important step in the study of the mass-dependence of the energy loss of heavy quarks inside the QGP at low pT . / Nessa tese é feita a medida de elétrons provenientes do decaimento de hadrons que contêm quarks pesados (charm ou beauty), com o uso dos detectores do experimento ALICE, no LHC. Duas análises são realizadas. A primeira consiste na medida da seção de choque invariante de elétrons provenientes do decaimento de hadrons que contêm quarks charm ou beauty em colisões pp a s = 13 TeV, a maior energia de centro de massa gerada pelo LHC até então, na região de momento transversal 0.5 < pT < 4 GeV/c. Esse resultado é comparado com a previsão dada pelo FONLL (calculo baseado em QCD perturbativa) e se situa no limite superior da incerteza teórica, sobre toda a faixa de momento. As razões entre este resultado experimental e medidas equivalentes realizadas em mais baixa energia podem trazer informações importantes para tornar o cálculo teórico mais preciso. A segunda análise consiste na medida do fator de modificação nuclear, RAA , de elétrons provenientes do decaimento de hadrons que contêm quarks beauty, em colisões centrais de Pb-Pb a sNN = 5.02 TeV, no intervalo 2 < pT < 8 GeV/c. Elétrons provenientes de hadrons que contêm quarks beauty são extrados do conjunto de elétrons inclusivos a partir do ajuste da distribuição do parâmetro de impacto com templates de elétrons de diferentes fontes, extrados de simulações de Monte Carlo. Essa medida permite estudar a perda de energia dos quarks beauty ao atravessarem o Plasma de Quarks e Glúons (QGP), produzido em colisões entre ons pesados em altas energias. É observada uma supressão de 40-50% no RAA medido para pT > 3 GeV/c e esta é consistente, sobre toda a faixa de p T , com a previsão de modelos baseados em pQCD, que descrevem a perda de energia dos quarks pesados via processos elásticos e inelásticos com os constituintes do QGP, de maneira dependente da massa. Este resultado possui incertezas experimentais significativamente menores com relação à medida realizada com dados do run 1 e consiste num importante passo no estudo da dependência em massa da perda de energia dos quarks pesados no QGP em baixo pT .

L’atomisation d’un jet ou d’une nappe liquide assistée par un courant gazeux rapide est couramment utilisée dans l’industrie ainsi qu’en propulsion aéronautique (turboréacteur) et spatiale (moteur-fusée cryotechnique). Plusieurs processus permettent la fragmentation de la structure cohérente liquide en gouttes. L’épluchage, qui intervient à courte distance en aval de l’injection, a été assez largement étudié (Marmottant et Villermaux 2004, Hong et al 2004) et les mécanismes sont assez bien décrits. En revanche, l’origine des instabilités large échelle – ou « flapping » - intervenant plus loin en aval, instabilités qui sont à l’origine de la production de large gouttes, reste mal comprise. Ceci est particulièrement vrai pour des jets cylindriques qui, contrairement au cas de nappes, ont fait l’objet de très peu d’études. Nous nous sommes donc attachés à comprendre l’origine du « flapping », à analyser ses liens avec les instabilités interfaciales de cisaillement, et à quantifier son impact sur la structure du jet ainsi que sur les gouttes produites. Pour cela, des expériences ont été menées en eau/air sur de larges plages de paramètres, aussi bien en termes de vitesses phasiques que des dimensions des veines gaz et liquide. Un soin particulier a été apporté au contrôle des écoulements internes.Pour l’ensemble des géométries, nous avons montré que la longueur du dard liquide est pilotée par le battement large échelle et non par le processus d’épluchage. Par ailleurs, la longueur de brisure présente une décroissance marquée avec la vitesse gaz, puis reste constante au delà d’une vitesse gaz critique. Un modèle a été proposé pour ce comportement asymptotique dans lequel la longueur de brisure est pilotée par le rapport de la vitesse liquide d’injection à une vitesse capillaire construite sur le diamètre liquide.La technique de mesure de la fréquence du battement large échelle mise en œuvre à partir d’images acquises par ombroscopie s’est avérée opérationnelle sur toute la plage de vitesses gaz considérées. Cette fréquence, qui ne varie pas spatialement, présente deux comportements : un premier où elle augmente avec la vitesse gaz, et un second où elle reste indépendante de la vitesse gaz. Ce second régime n’est pas mentionné dans la littérature. Pour le premier régime, le lien entre flapping et instabilité de cisaillement a été démontré en s’appuyant notamment sur des analyses de stabilité. Le nombre de Strouhal associé est piloté par le cisaillement côté gaz. La dépendance de la fréquence de battement à l’épaisseur de vorticité côté gaz est ainsi établie lorsque l’instabilité de cisaillement est pilotée par un mécanisme inviscide. Pour le second régime, le caractère opportuniste du flapping a été démontré l’aide d’une expérience de forçage : le flapping amplifie des structures liquides de longueur d’onde plus grande que celle associée à l’instabilité de cisaillement. Un nombre de Strouhal construit sur le diamètre liquide du jet et la vitesse du jet liquide à la distance de brisure a été proposé. Enfin, le rapport du diamètre du jet liquide à la longueur d’onde de l’instabilité de cisaillement semble pertinent pour définir la frontière entre ces deux régimes.Les tailles des gouttes produites sur l’axe de symétrie ont été mesurées à l’aide d’une sonde optique. Il apparaît que la distribution granulométrique évolue fortement avec la vitesse gaz, et qu’elle est multi-modale, ce qui traduit la présence de plusieurs mécanismes de brisure. La taille moyenne des gouttes décroit globalement comme UG-2, dans la limite de forts nombres de Weber aérodynamique. Cette taille moyenne s’avère aussi très sensible à la géométrie : elle diminue lorsque l’épaisseur gaz augmente jusqu’à atteindre une valeur plancher, et elle croît avec le diamètre liquide. / Jet or sheet atomized by a fast coaxial gas jet is currently used in industry, like aeronautical propulsion (turbofan) or spatial propulsion (cryotechnic rocket engine). Many physical processes allows liquid coherent structure fragmentation into drops. Stripping, which appears downstream near injector, has been largely studied (Marmottant et Villermaux 2004, Hong & al 2004), mecanisms has been correctly described.However, the origin of large scale - or 'flapping' instabilities - intervening further downstream, instabilities that are causing the production of large drops, remains poorly understood. This is particularly true for cylindrical jets which, unlike the case of sheets, have been the subject of very few studies. We are therefore committed to understand the origin of the "flapping", to analyze its relationship with interfacial shear instabilities, and to quantify its impact on the structure of the jet as well as on the drops produced. For this, experiments were carried out in water/air on wide set of parameters, both in terms of phasic speed than the dimensions of the gas gap and liquid diameter. Special care were made to the internal flow control.For all the geometries, we showed that the length of the liquid cone is driven by the large scale displacements and not by the stripping process. Furthermore, the length of brokenness jet presents a decline marked with the gas speed, then remains constant beyond a critical gas speed. A model was proposed for this asymptotic behavior in which the break-up length is driven by the report of the liquid injection speed to a capillary speed built on the liquid diameter.Measurement of the frequency of large scale displacement technology has been implemented from images acquired by shadowgraphy proved operational over the gas velocity range considered. This frequency, which varies not spatially, present two behaviors: a first where it increases with the speed of the gas, and a second where it remains independent of the gas speed. This second scheme is not mentioned in the literature. For the original plan, the link between flapping and shear instability has been demonstrated based on analyses of stability. The associated Strouhal number is controlled by the shear gas side. The dependence of the frequency of heartbeat to the thickness of vorticity gas side is thus established when shear instability is driven by an inviscide mechanism. For the second scheme, the opportunistic nature of the flapping has been demonstrated using forcing experience: the flapping amplifies liquid structures of wavelength greater than those associated with shear instability. A Strouhal number built on liquid jet diameter and the speed of the liquid jet at break distance has been proposed. Finally, the ratio of the diameter of the liquid jet at the wavelength of the shear instability seems relevant to define the border between these two regimes.Sizes drops produced on the symmetry axis were measured using an optical probe. It appears that granulometric distribution is evolving strongly with speed gas, and it is multi-modal, reflecting the presence of several mechanisms of brokenness. The average size of the drops decreases overall as UG - 2, in the limit of strong numbers of aerodynamic Weber. This medium size is also very sensitive to geometry: it decreases when the thickness of the gas increases until it reaches a floor value, and it grows with the liquid diameter. Finally, by forcing large amplitude lateral displacement, the average radial distribution of sizes of drops has been made much more homogeneous, and the average size of the drops on the axis has been reduced by a factor of 2. These results therefore open opportunities in terms of control of atomization.

abstract: Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) is the most widely used method to grow large-scale single layer graphene. However, a systematic experimental study of the relationship between growth parameters and graphene film morphology, especially in the industrially preferred cold wall CVD, has not been undertaken previously. This research endeavored to address this and provide comprehensive insight into the growth physics of graphene on supported solid and liquid Cu films using cold wall CVD. A multi-chamber UHV system was customized and transformed into a cold wall CVD system to perform experiments. The versatile growth process was completely custom-automated by controlling the process parameters with LabVIEW. Graphene growth was explored on solid electrodeposited, recrystallized and thin sputter deposited Cu films as well as on liquid Cu supported on W/Mo refractory substrates under ambient pressure using Ar, H₂ and CH₄ mixtures. The results indicate that graphene grown on Cu films using cold wall CVD follows a classical two-dimensional nucleation and growth mechanism. The nucleation density decreases and average size of graphene crystallites increases with increasing dilution of the CH₄/H₂ mixture by Ar, decrease in total flow rate and decrease in CH₄:H₂ ratio at a fixed substrate temperature and chamber pressure. Thus, the resulting morphological changes correspond with those that would be expected if the precursor deposition rate was varied at a fixed substrate temperature for physical deposition using thermal evaporation. The evolution of graphene crystallite boundary morphology with decreasing effective C deposition rate indicates the effect of edge diffusion of C atoms along the crystallite boundaries, in addition to H₂ etching, on graphene crystallite shape. The roles of temperature gradient, chamber pressure and rapid thermal heating in C precursor-rich environment on graphene growth morphology on thin sputtered Cu films were explained. The growth mechanisms of graphene on substrates annealed under reducing and non-reducing environment were explained from the scaling functions of graphene island size distribution in the pre-coalescence regime. It is anticipated that applying the pre-coalescence size distribution method presented in this work to other 2D material systems may be useful for elucidating atomistic mechanisms of film growth that are otherwise difficult to obtain. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Materials Science and Engineering 2018

Mediu-se a seção de choque de ionização da camada K de átomos de Au e Bi por impacto de elétrons com energias entre os respectivos potenciais de ionização (80 e 90 keV) e 100 keV. Filmes finos de Au e Bi, evaporados em suportes de filmes finos de C, foram posicionados numa câmara de vácuo perpendicularmente ao feixe de elétrons do sistema injetor do Mícrotron da Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil. Os raios x emitidos num ângulo de 120 graus em relação à direção do feixe de elétrons foram observados com um detetor de HPGe planar, cuja eficiência total de pico foi determinada com fontes radioativas de atividades conhecidas. Para cada energia de feixe, a seção de choque experimental de produção de raios x foi determinada com base nas áreas dos picos $K\\alpha_{2,1}$ característicos, na área do espectro de bremsstrahlung próxima ao \"tip\" e na seção de choque duplamente diferencial de produção de bremsstrahlung teórica. Valores tabelados de fluorescence yield e taxa de emissão de raios x foram empregados para converter seções de choque de produção de raios x em seções de choque de ionização. Os resultados experimentais obtidos são ligeiramente maiores do que os resultados de cálculos recentes baseados na aproximação de Bohr com ondas distorcidas. No caso do Au, os poucos resultados encontrados na literatura para energias próximas ao limiar de ionização diferem entre si quase por um fator 4 a 100 keV, e a seção de choque obtida neste trabalho se encontra próxima do valor médio desses dados. Por outro lado, este experimento fornece as primeiras medições da seção de choque de ionização da camada K do Bi para energias menores que 2 MeV. / The cross sections for the ionization of the K shells of Au and Bi atoms by electrons with energies from 100 keV down to the respective thresholds (80 and 90 keV) were measured. To this end, thin films of Au and Bi, evaporated on very thin C backings, were positioned in a vacuum chamber perpendicularly to the electron beam delivered by the the microtron injector at the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. The x-rays emitted at an angle of 120 degrees relative to the beam direction were observed with a planar HPGe detector, whose full-energy peak efficiency curve had been determined using radioactive sources of known activities. For each beam energy, the experimental x-ray production cross section was determined using the area of the characteristic $K\\alpha_{2,1}$ peaks, the area of the spectrum in an energy interval close to the bremsstrahlung tip and the theoretical doubly-differential bremsstrahlung cross section. Tabulated fluorescence yields and x-ray emission rates were employed to convert x-ray production to ionization cross sections. The obtained experimental values for the K shells of the studied atoms are slightly larger than that of recent calculations carried out within the distorted-wave Born approximation. In the case of Au, the few measurements reported in the literature at energies close to the threshold differ by almost a factor of 4 at 100 keV, and our cross sections lie between those older data. On the other hand, the present experiment provides the first cross section measurements for the K shell ionization of Bi below 2 MeV.

Um dos modelos mais utilizados para a descrição de núcleos é o Modelo de Camadas em Larga Escala, que demonstrou grande acurácia na descrição detalhada de propriedades nucleares. Na região de massa A = 50 80, os orbitais 1g9/2 e 2d5/2 são fundamentais para a descrição de estados excitados com mudança de paridade e de estruturas deformadas, porém suas contribuições na descrição de estados excitados de núcleos com número de massa ímpar e núcleos duplamente ímpares perto da linha de estabilidade ainda estão por ser investigadas. Nesta tese, a importância dos orbitais 1g9/2 e 2d5/2 na formação dos estados excitados dos núcleos duplamente ímpares 64,66,68,70Ga é estudada sistematicamente, levando também em consideração a descrição dos isótopos de Zn, Ge e Ga com número de massa ímpar pelo Modelo de Camadas em Larga Escala. Propriedades dos estados excitados, como energia e vidas médias de alguns estados isoméricos, foram medidas experimentalmente para os isótopos 64,66,70Ga e para o núcleo 67Ge na Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil, e na Universidade Estadual da Florida, EUA, utilizando os espectrômetros de raios SACI-PERERE, SISMEI e FSU Clover Array e as reações de fusão-evaporação 58Ni(12C, xpynz)64Ga,67Ge, 55Mn(18O, xpynz)66,70Ga, 58Ni(11B, 2pn)66Ga e 51V(19F, p3n) 66Ga. Os resultados experimentais obtidos para estes núcleos, assim como os conhecidos na literatura para os núcleos 68Ga e de Zn, Ga e Ge com número de massa ímpar foram comparados com as previsões do Modelo de Camadas em Larga Escala utilizando cinco interações residuais: JUN45, FPG, FPG (Neutron Rich), JJ4b-SDI para a descrição de excitações para o orbital 1g9/2 e LNPS para excitações para o orbital 2d5/2. Foram identificadas 34 novas transições e 19 novos estados excitados pertencentes ao núcleo 67Ge, uma nova transição e um novo estado excitado para o núcleo 70Ga e foram confirmadas as transições e estados excitados previamente identificados em trabalhos anteriores para os núcleos 64,66Ga. As multipolaridades de algumas transições dos núcleos 64,66,70Ga e 67Ge foram determinadas utilizando a razão DCO (Correlações Direcionadas de Radiação Emitida por Estados Orientados). A meia vida medida do estado isomérico de energia igual a 1464,33 (15) keV, pertencente ao núcleo 66Ga, é igual a T1/2 = 58,1 (12) ns, enquanto que para o estado isomérico do núcleo 67Ge, de energia igual a 751,70 (6) keV, a meia vida medida foi de T1/2= 107,2 (23) ns. As interações efetivas JUN45 e FPG se mostraram mais adequadas para a descrição dos isótopos 64,66,68,70Ga, indicando que os estados de paridade negativa são formados preferencialmente pela ocupação de 1 nêutron no orbital 1g9/2. No caso dos núcleos mais ricos em nêutrons 68,70Ga, em que excitações de nêutrons provenientes da camada pf para o orbital 2d5/2 poderiam ocorrer, os resultados calculados com a interação LNPS mostraram que orbital 2d5/2 praticamente não é ocupado, apenas o orbital 1g9/2 é ocupado na camada gds. / One of the most reliable models for describing nuclei is the Large Scale Shell Model, which has been shown to reproduce with very good accuracy detailed nuclear properties. In the A=50-80 mass region, the 1g9/2 and 2d5/2 orbitals are needed to describe the parity changes of the excited states and deformed structures, but the role of these two orbitals in the excited states of odd and odd-odd-mass nuclei near the stability line has still to be investigated. In this thesis, a systematic study is performed to determine the role of the 1g9/2 and 2d5/2 orbitals in the excited states of odd-odd 64,66,68,70Ga. This has been done in the framework of a systematic study of odd-mass Zn, Ga and Ge nuclei in the mass A= 60 -70 region by means of Large Scale Shell Model calculations. Nuclear properties of 64,66,70Ga and 67Ge nuclei, such as the energy of the excited states and the lifetime of isomeric states were measured at University of São Paulo, Brazil, and at Florida State University, USA, using the SACI-PERERE, SISMEI and FSU Clover Array -ray spectrometers and the 58Ni(12C, xpynz)64Ga,67Ge, 55Mn(18O, xpynz)66,70Ga, 58Ni(11B, 2pn)66Ga and 51V(19F, p3n) 66Ga fusionevaporation reactions. The obtained experimental results for those nuclei and the known values of 68Ga and odd-mass Zn, Ga, Ge were compared with the results of the Large Scale Shell Model using five different residual interactions: JUN45, FPG, FPG (Neutron Rich), JJ4b-SDI to describe excitations to the 1g9/2 orbital and LNPS to describe the excitations to the 2d5/2 orbital. Thirty-four new transitions and 19 new excited states were identified in the 67Ge nucleus, one new transition and an excited state were found in the 70Ga nucleus, while the excited states and transitions of 64,66Ga nuclei known in previous works were confirmed. The multipolarities of some transitions of 64,66,70Ga and 67Ge nuclei were determined by using the DCO ratios (Directional Correlations of -rays from Oriented States of Nuclei). The measured value for the half-life of the 66Ga 1464.33 (15) keV isomeric state is T1/2 = 58.1 (12) ns, while the measured value for the half-life of the 67Ge 751.70 (6) keV isomeric state is T1/2= 107.2 (23) ns. The JUN45 and FPG effective interactions give a good description of the excited states of the 64,66,68,70Ga isotopes and they have shown that the negative parity excited states were preferentially formed by the excitation of only one neutron to the 1g9/2 orbital. In the case of the more neutron rich 68,70Ga nuclei, where neutron excitations from the pf shell to the 2d5/2 could occur, the calculated results using the LNPS effective interaction have shown that the 2d5/2 orbital remains practically empty and only the 1g9/2 orbital is occupied in the gds shell.

O Texas Helimak é uma máquina toroidal de confinamento de plasma cujas linhas de campo magnético têm forma helicoidal e no qual parâmetros do plasma (como a densidade e a temperatura) são similares aos da borda e da região externa (scrape-off-layer) de um tokamak. Nesta tese foram analisados o equilíbrio e as flutuações do plasma no Texas Helimak. São apresentadas a análise e a interpretação do controle da turbulência eletrostática e do transporte turbulento de partículas pelo potencial elétrico, bias, aplicado externamente. As alterações na turbulência e no transporte causadas pela mudança do potencial elétrico externo foram investigadas em uma região do plasma com gradientes radiais uniformes. As flutuações em descargas com bias positivo ou nulo apresentam espectros de potência de banda larga e uma PDF com uma cauda acentuada que revela a ocorrência intermitente de eventos extremos. Por outro lado, as flutuações em descargas com bias negativo possuem um espectro de potência mais estreito, uma PDF mais Gaussiana e um diagrama de recorrência com mais estruturas. Um modelo de quatro ondas acopladas foi utilizado para relacionar a largura de banda da turbulência com o tempo de interação entre as ondas do modelo. Perfis radiais do transporte turbulento de partículas na direção radial foram calculados, como função do bias, e comparados com os perfis da velocidade do fluxo de plasma e seu cisalhamento. Foi mostrado que o transporte depende do perfil radial da velocidade de fluxo do plasma. Nas descargas em que essa velocidade apresenta um ponto de máximo em seu perfil radial, o perfil do transporte possui um mínimo que foi interpretado, utilizando um modelo Hamiltoniano de ondas de deriva, como sendo resultado de uma barreira de transporte onde o cisalhamento do fluxo é nulo. Em outras descargas, máximos no perfil radial do transporte foram relacionados a ressonâncias que ocorrem onde a velocidade de fase da onda é igual à velocidade do plasma. / The Texas Helimak is a toroidal confinement of plasma device with helically magnetic field lines and which plasma parameters (like the density and temperature) are similar to the edge and the scrape-off-layer of a tokamak. This thesis analyzed the equilibrium and fluctuations in the Helimak Texas plasma. We present the analysis and interpretation of electrostatic control of turbulence and turbulent particle transport by electrical potential, bias, applied externally. Changes in transport and turbulence caused by the change of external electric potential were investigated in a region of uniform radial gradients plasma. Fluctuations in discharges with positive or zero bias have broadband power spectra and a PDF with an accentuated tail that reveals the intermittent occurrence of extreme events. Moreover, fluctuations in discharges with negative bias have narrow power spectra, a more Gaussian PDF and more structures in the recurrence diagram. A four coupled wave model was used to relate the bandwidth of turbulence with the interaction time between the waves in the model. Radial profiles of turbulent transport of particles in the radial direction were calculated as a function of bias and compared to the profiles of the plasma flow velocity and its shear. It was shown that the transport depends on the radial profile of the plasma flow velocity. In that discharges where the velocity radial profile presents a point of maximum, the transport profile has a minimum which was interpreted, using a drift wave model Hamiltonian, as a result of a shearless flow transport barrier. In other discharges, the maxima in the transport radial profiles were related with resonances that occur where the wave phase velocity is equal to the plasma velocity.

No estudo dos raios cósmicos de ultra alta energia utilizando detectores de superfície a energia da partícula primária é estimada pela distribuição lateral (LDF - Lateral Distribution Function), que descreve a amplitude do sinal das estações em função da distância ao centro do chuveiro. Entretanto, com exceção da estimativa do centro do chuveiro, não se utiliza a LDF para obter mais nenhuma informação sobre o chuveiro, talvez porque ela não possua uma parametrização que a descreva completamente, especialmente para os chuveiros com energias mais altas. As primeiras interações dos raios cósmicos com a atmosfera são determinantes para o desenvolvimento dos chuveiros atmosféricos extensos. Tais interações dependem, entre outras coisas, da composição química dos raios cósmicos. Diferenças nessas interações podem causar alterações nas flutuações da distribuição lateral. Através de simulações dos chuveiros com diferentes partículas primárias pode ser possível estimar a composição dos raios cósmicos de ultra alta energia, comparando as flutuações das distribuições laterais de eventos reais com as de eventos simulados. Uma das grandezas relevantes para a flutuação da LDF é a incerteza do sinal das estações. O framework de análise do Observatório Pierre Auger aplica uma correção parametrizada empiricamente à incerteza do sinal das estações. Neste trabalho foi apresentada uma justificativa estatística para esta correção, que está relacionada à distribuição do sinal não ser uma Poisson, mas uma composição de processos com diferentes distribuições. Para a realização deste trabalho foi gerada uma biblioteca de chuveiros produzidos por dois simuladores de chuveiros atmosféricos, AIRES e CORSIKA, sendo que o AIRES utilizou o SIBYLL como modelo de interação hadrônica enquanto o CORSIKA utilizou o EPOS. Foram produzidos chuveiros iniciados por prótons e núcleos de ferro com os dois simuladores, e suas distribuições angulares foram consideradas isotrópicas. A distribuição de energia desses eventos segue uma lei de potência e varia entre 1 e 200 EeV. Utilizando a função de Nishimura, Kamata e Greisen (NKG) como parametrização para a LDF se observa resíduos sistematicamente positivos nas estações mais distantes do centro do chuveiro, que também têm o sinal mais próximo do trigger. Uma das hipóteses levantadas em outros trabalhos para esse comportamento é que ele estaria relacionado à influência das estações silenciosas, mas este trabalho mostra que o uso dessas estações tem pouca influência na flutuação da LDF. Na verdade esse efeito é causado porque as parametrizações da LDF no Offline não consideram que os sinais das estações possuem um corte devido o trigger, isto é, que a função de densidade de probabilidade que descreve o sinal real não é a mesma que descreve o sinal que é observado. Neste trabalho é proposta uma correção para as parametrizações da LDF que é implementada no Offline. Como resultado desta correção é observada uma redução significativa dos resíduos que eram sistematicamente positivos e que, após a correção, passam a ser compatíveis com zero. Neste trabalho foram realizadas três análises independentes para comparar os eventos reais com os simulados, das quais duas não dependem diretamente do ajuste da LDF e também não são sensíveis à energia. Elas permitem uma comparação entre os sinais supondo uma relação simples entre eles. No primeiro caso supõe-se que a diferença no sinal é devido à componente muônica do chuveiro e no segundo supõe-se que os dois conjuntos de eventos comparados são bem descritos por funções NKG mas com parâmetros S1000 diferentes. A terceira análise utiliza os resíduos dos ajustes da LDF e permite observar a composição em função da energia da partícula primária. Essa última análise foi realizada utilizando a função NKG com e sem correção do efeito do trigger. As diferentes análises utilizadas para estimar a composição dos raios cósmicos apresentaram resultados consistentes entre si, apesar das limitações encontradas em algumas delas. Todos esses indicadores de composição da partícula primária obtidos pelo detector de superfície são consistentes com os resultados obtidos pelas análises de Xmax do detector de fluorescência, reforçando a tese de que a composição dos raios cósmicos é predominantemente de próton entre 1 e 10 EeV e entre próton e ferro para energias acima de aproximadamente 10 EeV. / The energy of ultra high energy cosmic rays can be estimated from the lateral distribution function (LDF) of the shower as measured by surface detectors. The LDF describes the particle density as a function of the distance from the shower center. However, with the exception of the position of the shower center, no other information is extracted from it, may because it does not have a parametrization or an analytic function that describes it completely. The first interactions of cosmic rays with the atmosphere are decisive for the development of the extensive air showers. Such interactions, among other things, depend on the chemical composition of comic rays. Differences in these interactions can cause changes in the fluctuation shape of lateral distribution. Through simulations of showers with different primary particles it may be possible to estimate the composition of ultra high energy cosmic rays comparing the fluctuation shape of the lateral distributions of real events with those from simulated ones. One of the quantities relevant to the fluctuation of the LDF signal is the uncertainty of the stations. The analysis framework of the Pierre Auger Observatory applies a correction to the signal uncertainty of the signal. The parameterization of this correction is obtained empirically. In this work a statistical justification for this correction is proposed and is related to distribution of the signal which is not Poisson, but a composition of processes with different distributions. For this work a library of showers using two simulators of air showers, AIRES and CORSIKA, was produced. The showers simulated with the AIRES used SIBYLL as a hadronic interaction model while COSIKA used EPOS. Showers initiated by protons and iron nuclei with the two simulators were produced, and their angular distribution was considered isotropic. The energy distribution of these events follows a power law and ranges from 1 to 200 EeV. Using the Nishimura, Kamata and Greisen (NKG) function as a parameterization for the LDF, one obtains residues that are systematically positive at stations further from the center of the shower. These stations have a signalclose to the trigger level. One of the hypothesis raised in other works for this behavior is that it is related to the influence of the silent stations, but this work shows that their use has little impact on the fluctuation shape of the LDF. In fact, this effect is caused because the parametrizations of LDF in the Offline ignore that the signals of the stations have a cut due to the trigger, ie, the probability density function that describes the real signal is not the same that describes the observed signal. This work proposes a correction to the parameterizations of the LDF and implements it in the Offline. As a result of this correction, the residues, which were always positive, are significantly reduced and compatible with zero. In this study three independent analysis were performed to compare real and simulated events, two of them not dependent directly of the LDF fit and also not sensitive to the primary particle energy. They allow a comparison between the signals assuming a simple relationship between them. The first case assumes that the difference in signal is due to the muonic component of the shower and the second assumes that the two compared sets of events are well described by NKG functions but with different S1000. The third analysis uses the residues of the LDF fits and is able to observe the composition of as a function of primary particle energy. This last analysis was performed using the NKG function with and without correction of the trigger effect. The different analysis used to estimate the composition of cosmic rays showed results consistent, despite the limitations found in some of them. The primary particle composition obtained from the surface detectors in this work is consistent with the results derived from the elongation rate measured by the fluorescence detectors, supporting the hypotesis that the composition of cosmic rays is predominantly proton becoming heavier for energies above 10 EeV.