Coincidence Prompt Gamma-Ray Neutron Activation Analysis (open access)

Coincidence Prompt Gamma-Ray Neutron Activation Analysis

The normal prompt gamma-ray neutron activation analysis for either bulk or small beam samples inherently has a small signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio due primarily to the neutron source being present while the sample signal is being obtained. Coincidence counting offers the possibility of greatly reducing or eliminating the noise generated by the neutron source. The present report presents our results to date on implementing the coincidence counting PGNAA approach. We conclude that coincidence PGNAA yields: (1) a larger signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio, (2) more information (and therefore better accuracy) from essentially the same experiment when sophisticated coincidence electronics are used that can yield singles and coincidences simultaneously, and (3) a reduced (one or two orders of magnitude) signal from essentially the same experiment. In future work we will concentrate on: (1) modifying the existing CEARPGS Monte Carlo code to incorporate coincidence counting, (2) obtaining coincidence schemes for 18 or 20 of the common elements in coal and cement, and (3) optimizing the design of a PGNAA coincidence system for the bulk analysis of coal.
Date: November 10, 2002
Creator: Gardner, R. P.; Mayo, C. W.; Metwally, W. A.; Zhang, W.; Guo, W. & Shehata, A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
SUPPORTING SAFE STORAGE OF PLUTONIUM-BEARING MATERIALS THROUGH SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND SURVEILLANCE (open access)

SUPPORTING SAFE STORAGE OF PLUTONIUM-BEARING MATERIALS THROUGH SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND SURVEILLANCE

Reductions in the size of the U. S. nuclear weapons arsenal resulted in the need to store large quantities of plutonium-bearing metals and oxides for prolonged periods of time. To assure that the excess plutonium from the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) sites was stored in a safe and environmentally friendly manner the plutonium-bearing materials are stabilized and packaged according to well developed criteria published as a DOE Standard. The packaged materials are stored in secure facilities and regular surveillance activities are conducted to assure continuing package integrity. The stabilization, packaging, storage and surveillance requirements were developed through extensive science and engineering activities including those related to: plutonium-environment interactions and container pressurization, corrosion and stress corrosion cracking, plutonium-container material interactions, loss of sealing capability and changes in heat transfer characteristics. This paper summarizes some of those activities and outlines ongoing science and engineering programs that assure continued safe and secure storage of the plutonium-bearing metals and oxides.
Date: November 10, 2009
Creator: Dunn, K.; Chandler, G.; Gardner, C.; Louthan, M. & Mcclard, J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Split-Function Lattice for Stochastic Cooling (open access)

A Split-Function Lattice for Stochastic Cooling

Lattice for a 3-GeV cooler ring with split functions is presented. The ring consists of two half-rings of different properties: in one half-ring, the phase-slip factor is near-zero; in the other half-ring, the phase-slip factor is large. The near-zero phase slip minimizes the 'bad mixing' between the stochastic-cooling pick-ups and kickers, while the high phase slip maximizes the 'good mixing' between the kickers and the next-turn pick-ups.
Date: September 10, 2007
Creator: Wei, J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Extensional wave attenuation and velocity in partially saturated sand in the sonic frequency range (open access)

Extensional wave attenuation and velocity in partially saturated sand in the sonic frequency range

Extensional wave attenuation and velocity measurements on a high permeability Monterey sand were performed over a range of gas saturations for imbibition and degassing conditions. These measurements were conducted using extensional wave pulse propagation and resonance over a 1-9 kHz frequency range for a hydrostatic confining pressure of 8.3 MPa. Analysis of the extensional wave data and the corresponding X-ray CT images of the gas saturation show strong attenuation resulting from the presence of the gas (Q{sub E} dropped from 300 for the dry sand to 30 for the partially-saturated sand), with larger attenuation at a given saturation resulting from heterogeneous gas distributions. The extensional wave velocities are in agreement with Gassmann theory for the test with near-homogeneous gas saturation and with a patchy saturation model for the test with heterogeneous gas saturation. These results show that partially-saturated sands under moderate confining pressure can produce strong intrinsic attenuation for extensional waves.
Date: August 10, 2001
Creator: Liu, Z.; Rector, J. W.; Nihei, K. T.; Tomutsa, L.; Myer, L. R. & Nakagawa, S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 23, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 10, 2009 (open access)

The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 114, No. 23, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 10, 2009
Creator: Smith, W. Leon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 109, No. 59, Ed. 1 Friday, December 10, 2004 (open access)

The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 109, No. 59, Ed. 1 Friday, December 10, 2004

Weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 10, 2004
Creator: Smith, W. Leon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 107, No. 29, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 10, 2002 (open access)

The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 107, No. 29, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 10, 2002

Semi-weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 10, 2002
Creator: Smith, W. Leon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, February 10, 2006 (open access)

The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, February 10, 2006

Weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 10, 2006
Creator: Smith, W. Leon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, June 10, 2005 (open access)

The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, June 10, 2005

Weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 10, 2005
Creator: Smith, W. Leon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 108, No. 82, Ed. 1 Friday, October 10, 2003 (open access)

The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 108, No. 82, Ed. 1 Friday, October 10, 2003

Semi-weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 10, 2003
Creator: Smith, W. Leon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 10, 2001 (open access)

The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 10, 2001

Semi-weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 10, 2001
Creator: Smith, W. Leon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 108, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, January 10, 2003 (open access)

The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 108, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, January 10, 2003

Semi-weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 10, 2003
Creator: Smith, W. Leon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Novel High Transverse Momentum Phenomena in Hadronic and Nuclear Collisions (open access)

Novel High Transverse Momentum Phenomena in Hadronic and Nuclear Collisions

I discuss a number of novel phenomenological features of QCD in high transverse momentum reactions. The presence of direct higher-twist processes, where a proton is produced directly in the hard subprocess, can explain the 'baryon anomaly' - the large proton-to-pion ratio seen at RHIC in high centrality heavy ion collisions. Direct hadronic processes can also account for the deviation from leading-twist PQCD scaling at fixed x{sub T} = 2 p{sub T}/{radical}s. I suggest that the 'ridge' --the same-side long-range rapidity correlation observed at RHIC in high centrality heavy ion collisions is due to the imprint of semihard DGLAP gluon radiation from initial-state partons which have transverse momenta biased toward the trigger. A model for early thermalization of the quark-gluon medium is also outlined. Rescattering interactions from gluon-exchange, normally neglected in the parton model, have a profound effect in QCD hard-scattering reactions, leading to leading-twist single-spin asymmetries, diffractive deep inelastic scattering, diffractive hard hadronic reactions, the breakdown of the Lam-Tung relation in Drell-Yan reactions, nuclear shadowing--all leading-twist dynamics not incorporated in the light-front wavefunctions of the target computed in isolation. Anti shadowing is shown to be quark flavor specific and thus different in charged and neutral deep inelastic lepton-nucleus scattering. I …
Date: April 10, 2009
Creator: Brodsky, Stanley J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Goldthwaite Eagle (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 26, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 10, 2007 (open access)

The Goldthwaite Eagle (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 26, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Weekly newspaper from Goldthwaite, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 10, 2007
Creator: Bridges, Steven W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 50, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 10, 2008 (open access)

The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 50, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 10, 2008
Creator: Smith, W. Leon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 10, 2007 (open access)

The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 10, 2007
Creator: Smith, W. Leon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 41, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 10, 2007 (open access)

The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 41, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 10, 2007
Creator: Smith, W. Leon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, March 10, 2006 (open access)

The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, March 10, 2006

Weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 10, 2006
Creator: Smith, W. Leon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 109, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, September 10, 2004 (open access)

The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 109, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, September 10, 2004

Weekly newspaper from Clifton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 10, 2004
Creator: Smith, W. Leon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
National Ignition Facility Target Design and Fabrication (open access)

National Ignition Facility Target Design and Fabrication

The current capsule target design for the first ignition experiments at the NIF Facility beginning in 2009 will be a copper-doped beryllium capsule, roughly 2 mm in diameter with 160-{micro}m walls. The capsule will have a 75-{micro}m layer of solid DT on the inside surface, and the capsule will driven with x-rays generated from a gold/uranium cocktail hohlraum. The design specifications are extremely rigorous, particularly with respect to interfaces, which must be very smooth to inhibit Rayleigh-Taylor instability growth. This paper outlines the current design, and focuses on the challenges and advances in capsule fabrication and characterization; hohlraum fabrication, and D-T layering and characterization.
Date: December 10, 2007
Creator: Cook, R. C.; Kozioziemski, B. J.; Nikroo, A.; Wilkens, H. L.; Bhandarkar, S.; Forsman, A. C. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 84, No. 205, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 10, 2000 (open access)

Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 84, No. 205, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 10, 2000

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 10, 2000
Creator: Quinnelly, Lorrie J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 86, No. 204, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 10, 2001 (open access)

Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 86, No. 204, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 10, 2001

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 10, 2001
Creator: Quinnelly, Lorrie J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 85, No. 359, Ed. 1 Friday, November 10, 2000 (open access)

Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 85, No. 359, Ed. 1 Friday, November 10, 2000

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 10, 2000
Creator: Quinnelly, Lorrie J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 87, No. 152, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 10, 2002 (open access)

Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 87, No. 152, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 10, 2002

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 10, 2002
Creator: Quinnelly, Lorrie J.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History