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Record of Technical Change for CAU 5 Landfills, Nevada Test Site, Nevada (open access)

Record of Technical Change for CAU 5 Landfills, Nevada Test Site, Nevada

Record of Technical Change for Corrective Action Plan for Corrective Action Unit 5: Landfills, Nevada Test Site, Nevada (DOE/NV--986, July 2004).
Date: December 14, 2004
Creator: U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, Nevada Site Office
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Diffusive separation of noble gases and noble gas abundance patterns in sedimentary rocks (open access)

Diffusive separation of noble gases and noble gas abundance patterns in sedimentary rocks

The mechanisms responsible for noble gas concentrations, abundance patterns, and strong retentivity in sedimentary lithologies remain poorly explained. Diffusion-controlled fractionation of noble gases is modeled and examined as an explanation for the absolute and relative abundances of noble gases observed in sediments. Since the physical properties of the noble gases are strong functions of atomic mass, the individual diffusion coefficients, adsorption coefficients and atomic radii combine to impede heavy noble gas (Xe) diffusion relative to light noble gas (Ne) diffusion. Filling of lithic grains/half-spaces by diffusive processes thus produces Ne enrichments in the early and middle stages of the filling process with F(Ne) values similar to that observed in volcanic glasses. Emptying lithic grains/half-spaces produces a Xe-enriched residual in the late (but not final) stages of the process producing F(Xe) values similar to that observed in shales. 'Exotic but unexceptional' shales that exhibit both F(Ne) and F(Xe) enrichments can be produced by incomplete emptying followed by incomplete filling. This mechanism is consistent with literature reported noble gas abundance patterns but may still require a separate mechanism for strong retention. A system of labyrinths-with-constrictions and/or C-, Si-nanotubes when combined with simple adsorption can result in stronger diffusive separation and non-steady-state enrichments …
Date: June 14, 2004
Creator: Torgersen, T.; Kennedy, B.M. & van Soest, M.C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Modeling Three-Dimensional Groundwater Flow and Advective Contaminant Transport at a Heterogeneous Mountainous Site in Support of Remediation Strategy (open access)

Modeling Three-Dimensional Groundwater Flow and Advective Contaminant Transport at a Heterogeneous Mountainous Site in Support of Remediation Strategy

A calibrated groundwater flow model for a contaminated site can provide substantial information for assessing and improving hydraulic measures implemented for remediation. A three-dimensional transient groundwater flow model was developed for a contaminated mountainous site, at which interim corrective measures were initiated to limit further spreading of contaminants. This flow model accounts for complex geologic units that vary considerably in thickness, slope, and hydrogeologic properties, as well as large seasonal fluctuations of the groundwater table and flow rates. Other significant factors are local recharge from leaking underground storm drains and recharge from steep uphill areas. The zonation method was employed to account for the clustering of high and low hydraulic conductivities measured in a geologic unit. A composite model was used to represent the bulk effect of thin layers of relatively high hydraulic conductivity found within bedrock of otherwise low conductivity. The inverse simulator ITOUGH2 was used to calibrate the model for the distribution of rock properties. The model was initially calibrated using data collected between 1994 and 1996. To check the validity of the model, it was subsequently applied to predicting groundwater level fluctuation and groundwater flux between 1996 and 1998. Comparison of simulated and measured data demonstrated that …
Date: January 14, 2004
Creator: Zhou, Quanlin; Birkholzer, Jens T.; Javandel, Iraj & Jordan, Preston D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of an Inspection Platform and a Suite of Sensors for Assessing Corrosion and Mechanical Damage on Unpiggable Transmission Mains Quarterly Report (open access)

Development of an Inspection Platform and a Suite of Sensors for Assessing Corrosion and Mechanical Damage on Unpiggable Transmission Mains Quarterly Report

This development program is a joint effort among the Northeast Gas Association (formerly New York Gas Group), Foster-Miller, Inc., and the US Department of Energy (DOE) through the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). The total cost of the project is $772,525, with the National Energy Technology Laboratory of the US Department of Energy contributing $572,525, and the Northeast Gas Association contributing $200,000. The present report summarizes the accomplishments of the project during its fourth three-month period (from July 2003 through September 2003). The efforts of the project focused during this period in completing the assessment of the tether technology, which is intended to be used as the means of communication between robot and operator, in designing the MFL sensor module, in completing the kinematic studies, and in initiating tractor design. In addition, work on the ovality sensor progressed significantly, while work on system integration was initiated focusing at this point in time on module coupling. Results to date indicate that the robotic system under design will be able to meet most of the design specifications initially specified. Earlier concerns regarding the portability of the system are shown to be a non-issue, with new more detailed analysis showing that from a …
Date: January 14, 2004
Creator: Vradis, George C. & Leary, Bill
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Continuum Mechanical and Computational Aspects of Material Behavior (open access)

Continuum Mechanical and Computational Aspects of Material Behavior

The authors develop a theory for uniaxial nematic elastomers with variable asphericity. As an application of the theory, they consider the time-independent, isochoric radial expansion of a right circular cylinder. Numerical solutions to the resulting differential equation are obtained for a range of radial expansions. For all expansions considered, there exists an isotropic core of material surrounding the cylinder axis where the asphericity vanishes and in which the polymeric chains are shaped as spherical coils. This region, corresponding to a disclination of strength + 1 along the axis, is bounded by a narrow transition layer across which the asphericity increases rapidly and attains a non-trivial positive value. The material thereby becomes anisotropic away from the disclination so that the polymeric chains are shaped as ellipsoidal coils of revolution prolate about cylinder radius. In accordance with the area of steeply changing asphericity between isotropic and anisotropic regimes, a marked drop in the free-energy density is observed. The boundary of the disclination core is associated with the location of this energy drop. For realistic choices of material parameters, this criterion yields a core on the order of 10{sup -2} {micro}m, which coincides with observations in conventional liquid-crystal melts. Also occurring at the …
Date: March 14, 2004
Creator: Fried, Eliot & Gurtin, Morton E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agricultural and Environmental Input Parameters for the Biosphere Model (open access)

Agricultural and Environmental Input Parameters for the Biosphere Model

This analysis is one of 10 technical reports that support the Environmental Radiation Model for Yucca Mountain Nevada (ERMYN) (i.e., the biosphere model). It documents development of agricultural and environmental input parameters for the biosphere model, and supports the use of the model to develop biosphere dose conversion factors (BDCFs). The biosphere model is one of a series of process models supporting the total system performance assessment (TSPA) for the repository at Yucca Mountain. The ERMYN provides the TSPA with the capability to perform dose assessments. A graphical representation of the documentation hierarchy for the ERMYN is presented in Figure 1-1. This figure shows the interrelationships between the major activities and their products (the analysis and model reports) that were planned in ''Technical Work Plan for Biosphere Modeling and Expert Support'' (BSC 2004 [DIRS 169573]). The ''Biosphere Model Report'' (BSC 2004 [DIRS 169460]) describes the ERMYN and its input parameters.
Date: September 14, 2004
Creator: Rasmuson, K. & Rautenstrauch, K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mechanical Assessment of the Waste Package Subject to Vibratory Motion (open access)

Mechanical Assessment of the Waste Package Subject to Vibratory Motion

The purpose of this document is to provide an integrated overview of the calculation reports that define the response of the waste package and its internals to vibratory ground motion. The calculation reports for waste package response to vibratory ground motion are identified in Table 1-1. Three key calculation reports describe the potential for mechanical damage to the waste package, fuel assemblies, and cladding from a seismic event. Three supporting documents have also been published to investigate sensitivity of damage to various assumptions for the calculations. While these individual reports present information on a specific aspect of waste package and cladding response, they do not describe the interrelationship between the various calculations and the relationship of this information to the seismic scenario class for Total System Performance Assessment-License Application (TSPA-LA). This report is designed to fill this gap by providing an overview of the waste package structural response calculations.
Date: October 14, 2004
Creator: Gross, M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fuel cycle methods : first-order spherical harmonics formulations capable of treating low density regions. (open access)

Fuel cycle methods : first-order spherical harmonics formulations capable of treating low density regions.

In this report we present an approach to deal with a problem encountered in different type of systems and specific configurations: the treatment of low density regions. This is the case of gas cooled reactors, voided configurations (evaluations of associated reactivity coefficients), beam region of external source driven systems, etc. The approach is to form the nodal response matrix using the first-order form of the transport equation, for then the cross section no longer appears in the denominator, as in the case of the standard formulation of the VARIANT code. Two different formulations are presented: the differential and integral ones. After applications to different difficult benchmark problems, it was concluded that the new formulations can treat low density regions.
Date: January 14, 2004
Creator: Smith, M. A.; Palmiotti, G. & Lewis, E. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FY03 DNAPL Characterization of the A-14 Outfall (open access)

FY03 DNAPL Characterization of the A-14 Outfall

Residual dense non-aqueous phase liquid (DNAPL) contamination continues to be one of the most challenging remediation and characterization problems at SRS and sites around the world. Chlorinated solvents were usually released as DNAPLs to/the subsurface where they move in an unstable fashion driven by gravitational and,capillary forces. They are often retained in small discrete blobs in fine grain materials in the vadose zone and contaminate ground water by slow continuous release through dissolution and diffusion. Locating these small sources is a difficult but crucial part of remediating a contaminated site. Several methods have been developed to locate subsurface DNAPL but nearly all are intrusive and can only identify DNAPL in close proximity to the access hole. Minimally invasive geophysical methods to locate residual DNAPL have been proposed and developed but few methods are capable of the spatial resolution required. Complex resistivity measurements sensitive to DNAPL (perchloroethylene) interactions with clay (smectite) have recently been shown to have promise in laboratory experiments. Based on these laboratory results, field tests of the complex resistivity technique were performed at the A-014 outfall.
Date: January 14, 2004
Creator: Riha, BD
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
User's guide, version 1 RESRAD-BIOTA : a tool for implementing a graded approach to biota dose evaluation. (open access)

User's guide, version 1 RESRAD-BIOTA : a tool for implementing a graded approach to biota dose evaluation.

This Interagency Steering Committee on Radiation Standards (ISCORS) Technical Report provides a User's Guide for the RESRAD-BIOTA code. The RESRAD-BIOTA code is a tool for implementing a graded approach to biota dose evaluation. The RESRAD-BIOTA code was principally sponsored and developed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), with support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), through the informal interagency Ecological Radiological Work Group (ECORAD-WG). The work group was led by DOE and coordinated under the oversight of ISCORS. The RESRAD-BIOTA code provides a complete spectrum of biota dose evaluation capabilities, from methods for general screening, to comprehensive receptor-specific dose estimation. The code was designed to be consistent with and provide a tool for implementing the DOE ''Graded Approach for Evaluating Radiation Doses to Aquatic and Terrestrial Biota'' (DOE voluntary consensus Technical Standard DOE-STD-1153-2002), and to provide advanced analysis capabilities in a manner that will support the anticipated needs of DOE and other agencies. These advanced analysis capabilities were generally developed through a consensus-based process among the participating agency representatives of the ECORAD-WG.
Date: January 14, 2004
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Investigation of the Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities (open access)

Investigation of the Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities

Some of the major difficulties encountered in the effort to achieve nuclear fusion by means of inertial confinement arise from the unstable behavior of the interface between the shell material and the nuclear fuel which develops upon implosion of the shell by direct or indirect laser drive. The fluid flows that develop (termed the Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) and the Richtmyer-Meshkov (RM) instabilities) cause the gassified shell material to mix with the nuclear fuel, causing a reduction in energy yield or no ignition altogether. The present research program addresses the Rayleigh-Taylor and the Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities with extensive laboratory and computational experiments. In the past year, three new activities have been initiated: a new shock tube experiment, involving the impulsive acceleration of a test gas-filled soap bubble, diagnosed with planar Mie scattering or planar induced fluorescence; a Rayleigh-Taylor experiment based on the use of a magnetorheological (MR) fluid to fix the initial shape of the interface between the MR fluid and water; and a series of computer calculations using the Raptor code (made available by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) to design and simulate the shock tube experiments.
Date: January 14, 2004
Creator: Bonazza, Riccardo; Anderson, Mark & Smith, Leslie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engineering Spectral Control Using Front Surface Filters for Maximum TPV Energy Conversion System Performance (open access)

Engineering Spectral Control Using Front Surface Filters for Maximum TPV Energy Conversion System Performance

Energy conversion efficiencies of better than 23% have been demonstrated for small scale tests of a few thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cells using front surface, tandem filters [1, 2]. The engineering challenge is to build this level of efficiency into arrays of cells that provide useful levels of energy. Variations in cell and filter performance will degrade TPV array performance. Repeated fabrication runs of several filters each provide an initial quantification of the fabrication variation for front surface, tandem filters for TPV spectral control. For three performance statistics, within-run variation was measured to be 0.7-1.4 percent, and run-to-run variation was measured to be 0.5-3.2 percent. Fabrication runs using a mask have been shown to reduce variation across interference filters from as high as 8-10 percent to less than 1.5 percent. Finally, several system design and assembly approaches are described to further reduce variation.
Date: October 14, 2004
Creator: Rahmlow, T. D., Jr.; Lazo-Wasem, J.; Gratrix, E.; Azarkevich, J.; Brown, E.; DePoy, D. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
MONOSODIUM TITANATE MULTI-STRIKE TESTING (open access)

MONOSODIUM TITANATE MULTI-STRIKE TESTING

Research over the past decade has studied the adsorption of plutonium and uranium onto monosodium titanate (MST) in alkaline solutions. Tests showed that MST would remove the targeted radionuclides from simulated alkaline waste. Testing also indicated that Pu removal kinetics and Np capacity of the MST material impacts the size of equipment and waste blending plans for the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF). Additionally, calculations suggested the baseline MST process may not achieve the desired decontamination in wastes containing elevated concentrations of Pu and Np. In this task, the authors investigated the performance of non-baseline process parameters and their effectiveness for treating waste feed in the Salt Waste Processing Facility. The work addresses a DOE request in support of technical needs expressed, in part, by the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Contractors for the Salt Waste Processing Facility. The work investigated the effect of increased MST addition (up to 1.2 g/L) and the benefit of extra filtration steps with multiple additions of MST to salt waste containing actinides and strontium. Both simulant and actual waste testing occurred. Actual waste tests used a Tank 39H composite waste solution. In addition, testing to determine desorption of actinides from residual MST occurred. The release …
Date: July 14, 2004
Creator: BARNES, MARKJ
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development Program for Natural Aging Aluminum Casting Alloys (open access)

Development Program for Natural Aging Aluminum Casting Alloys

A number of 7xx aluminum casting alloys are based on the ternary Al-Zn-Mg system. These alloys age naturally to high strength at room temperature. A high temperature solution and aging treatment is not required. Consequently, these alloys have the potential to deliver properties nearly equivalent to conventional A356-T6 (Al-Si-Mg) castings, with a significant cost saving. An energy savings is also possible. In spite of these advantages, the 7xx casting alloys are seldom used, primarily because of their reputation for poor castibility. This paper describes the results obtained in a DOE-funded research study of these alloys, which is part of the DOE-OIT ''Cast Metals Industries of the Future'' Program. Suggestions for possible commercial use are also given.
Date: May 14, 2004
Creator: Sigworth, Dr. Geoffrey K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Radiation Effects on the Sorption and Mobilization of Radionuclide during Transport through the Geosphere (open access)

Radiation Effects on the Sorption and Mobilization of Radionuclide during Transport through the Geosphere

Site restoration activities at DOE facilities and the permanent disposal of nuclear waste inevitably involve understanding the behavior of materials in a radiation field. Radionuclide decay and the associated radiation fields lead to physical and chemical changes that can degrade or enhance important material properties. Alpha-decay of the actinide elements and beta-decay of the fission products lead to atomic-scale changes in materials (radiation damage and transmutation).
Date: March 14, 2004
Creator: Wang, L.M.; Eqing, R.C. & Hayes, K.F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Stromal-epithelial interactions in aging and cancer: Senescent fibroblasts alter epithelial cell differentiation (open access)

Stromal-epithelial interactions in aging and cancer: Senescent fibroblasts alter epithelial cell differentiation

Cellular senescence suppresses cancer by arresting cells at risk for malignant tumorigenesis. However, senescent cells also secrete molecules that can stimulate premalignant cells to proliferate and form tumors, suggesting the senescence response is antagonistically pleiotropic. We show that premalignant mammary epithelial cells exposed to senescent human fibroblasts in mice irreversibly lose differentiated properties, become invasive and undergo full malignant transformation. Moreover, using cultured mouse or human fibroblasts and non-malignant breast epithelial cells, we show that senescent fibroblasts disrupt epithelial alveolar morphogenesis, functional differentiation, and branching morphogenesis. Further, we identify MMP-3 as the major factor responsible for the effects of senescent fibroblasts on branching morphogenesis. Our findings support the idea that senescent cells contribute to age-related pathology, including cancer, and describe a new property of senescent fibroblasts--the ability to alter epithelial differentiation--that might also explain the loss of tissue function and organization that is a hallmark of aging.
Date: July 14, 2004
Creator: Parrinello, Simona; Coppe, Jean-Philippe; Krtolica, Ana & Campisi, Judith
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Helical rays in two-dimensional resonant wave conversion (open access)

Helical rays in two-dimensional resonant wave conversion

The process of resonant wave conversion (often called linear mode conversion) has traditionally been analyzed with a spatially one-dimensional slab model, for which the rays propagate in a two-dimensional phase space. However, it has recently been shown [E.R. Tracy and A.N. Kaufman, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 130402 (2003)] that multidimensional rays have a helical structure for conversion in two or more spatial dimensions (if their dispersion matrix is generic). In that case, a one-dimensional model is inadequate; a correct analysis requires two spatial dimensions and, thus, four-dimensional phase space. In this paper we show that a cold plasma model will exhibit ray helicity in conversion regions where the density and magnetic field gradients are significantly non-parallel. For illustration, we examine a model of the poloidal plane of a deuterium-tritium tokamak plasma, and identify such a region. In this region, characterized by a six-sector topology, rays in the sector for incident and reflected magnetosonic waves exhibit significant helicity. We introduce a ''symmetric-wedge'' model, to develop a detailed analytic and numerical study of helical rays in this sector.
Date: September 14, 2004
Creator: Kaufman, Allan N.; Tracy, Eugene R. & Brizard, Alain J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coherent parasitic energy loss of the recycler beam (open access)

Coherent parasitic energy loss of the recycler beam

Parasitic energy loss of the particle beam in the Recycler Ring is discussed. The long beam confined between two barrier waves has a spectrum that falls off rapidly with frequency. Discrete summation over the revolution harmonics must be made to obtain the correct energy loss per particle per turn, because only a few lower revolution harmonics of real part of the longitudinal impedance contribute to the parasitic energy loss. The longitudinal impedances of the broadband rf cavities, the broadband resistive-wall monitors, and the resistive wall of the vacuum chamber are discussed. They are the main sources of the parasitic energy loss.
Date: July 14, 2004
Creator: Ng, King-Yuen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Impact of a Rotary Microfilter on the Savannah River Site High Level Waste System (open access)

Impact of a Rotary Microfilter on the Savannah River Site High Level Waste System

The rotary microfilter is an alternative filter technology that offers increased filter flux over conventional filtration technologies. The filter system combines centrifugation with membrane filtration. Solids are removed from the liquid at the membrane surface, and the centrifugal force acts to keep the surface clean, minimizing the formation of a filter cake. The centrifugal force minimizes solids buildup, allowing more flow through the filter membrane. The effect is the same as increasing the axial velocity of a crossflow filter without increasing system pressure requirements. Centrifugal filter systems are commercially available and have been used in radioactive service both at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) (for Low-Level Waste) and in Russia (for High-Level Waste). The technology has been tested with actual SRS High-Level Waste at the Savannah River Technology Center (SRTC) Shielded Cells. SRTC researchers tested the rotary microfilter as an alternative to the crossflow filters in the current baseline of the Salt Waste Processing Project and the Actinide Removal Project (ARP). The data show significant improvement in filter flux with the rotary microfilter over the crossflow filter. As part of the development of the rotary microfilter, the author investigated the impact of the technology on the Savannah River Site High …
Date: June 14, 2004
Creator: POIRIER, MICHAELR.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Use of Molecular Modeling to Determine the Interaction and Competition of Gases Within Coal for Carbon Dioxide Sequestration, Annual Technical Progress Report: 2003 (open access)

Use of Molecular Modeling to Determine the Interaction and Competition of Gases Within Coal for Carbon Dioxide Sequestration, Annual Technical Progress Report: 2003

We have utilized computational molecular modeling to generate a state-of-the-art large scale structural representation of a bituminous coal of lower bituminous rank. This structure(s) has been used to investigate the molecular forces between the bituminous coal structure (or idealized pores) and the molecular species CH{sub 4} and CO{sub 2}. We have created a new force field for these simulations and are currently carrying out molecular dynamics simulations. An initial step performed is to help define the issues with sequestration utilizing the molecular modeling approach. Once defined advanced molecular modeling techniques can be utilized in investigating sorbent and host behavior.
Date: May 14, 2004
Creator: Evanseck, Jeffrey D.; Madura, Jeffry D. & Mathews, Jonathan P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Regulation of Terpene Metabolism (open access)

Regulation of Terpene Metabolism

OAK-B135 Research over the last four years has progressed fairly closely along the lines initially proposed, with progress-driven expansion of Objectives 1, 2 and 3. Recent advances have developed from three research thrusts: 1. Random sequencing of an enriched peppermint oil gland cDNA library has given access to a large number of potential pathway and regulatory genes for test of function; 2. The availability of new DNA probes and antibodies has permitted investigation of developmental regulation and organization of terpenoid metabolism; and 3. The development of a transformation system for peppermint by colleagues at Purdue University has allowed direct transgenic testing of gene function and added a biotechnological component to the project. The current status of each of the original research objectives is outlined below.
Date: March 14, 2004
Creator: Croteau, Rodney
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Top physics: search for anomalous kinematics in t anti-t dilepton events at cdf ii (open access)

Top physics: search for anomalous kinematics in t anti-t dilepton events at cdf ii

We report on a search for anomalous kinematics of t{bar t} dilepton events in p{bar p} collisions at {radical}s = 1.96 TeV using 193 pb{sup -1} of data collected with the CDF II detector. We developed a new a priori technique designed to isolate the subset in a data sample revealing the largest deviation from standard model (SM) expectations and to quantify the significance of this departure. In the four-variable space considered, no particular subset shows a significant discrepancy and we find that the probability of obtaining a data sample less consistent with the SM than what is observed is 1.0-4.5%.
Date: December 14, 2004
Creator: Acosta, D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced diffusion studies with isotopically controlled materials (open access)

Advanced diffusion studies with isotopically controlled materials

The use of enriched stable isotopes combined with modern epitaxial deposition and depth profiling techniques enables the preparation of material heterostructures, highly appropriate for self- and foreign-atom diffusion experiments. Over the past decade we have performed diffusion studies with isotopically enriched elemental and compound semiconductors. In the present paper we highlight our recent results and demonstrate that the use of isotopically enriched materials ushered in a new era in the study of diffusion in solids which yields greater insight into the properties of native defects and their roles in diffusion. Our approach of studying atomic diffusion is not limited to semiconductors and can be applied also to other material systems. Current areas of our research concern the diffusion in the silicon-germanium alloys and glassy materials such as silicon dioxide and ion conducting silicate glasses.
Date: November 14, 2004
Creator: Bracht, Hartmut A.; Silvestri, Hughes H. & Haller, Eugene E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Top physics: measurement of the tt-bar production cross section in pp-bar collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96 tev using dilepton event (open access)

Top physics: measurement of the tt-bar production cross section in pp-bar collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96 tev using dilepton event

We report a measurement of the t{bar t} production cross section using dilepton events with jets and missing transverse energy in p{bar p} collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. Using a 197 {+-} 12 pb{sup -1} data sample recorded by the upgraded Collider Detector at Fermilab, we use two complementary techniques to select candidate events. We compare the number of observed events and selected kinematical distributions with the predictions of the standard model and find good agreement. The combined result of the two techniques yields a t{bar t} production cross section of 7.0{sub -2.1}{sup +2.4}(stat){sub -1.1}{sup _1.6}(syst) {+-} 0.4(lum) pb.
Date: October 14, 2004
Creator: Acosta, D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library