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2-MV electrostatic quadrupole injector for heavy-ion fusion (open access)

2-MV electrostatic quadrupole injector for heavy-ion fusion

High current and low emittance are principal requirements for heavy-ion injection into a linac driver for inertial fusion energy. An electrostatic quadrupole (ESQ) injector is capable of providing these high charge density and low emittance beams. We have modified the existing 2-MV Injector to reduce beam emittance and to double the pulse length. We characterize the beam delivered by the modified injector to the High Current Transport Experiment (HCX) and the effects of finite rise time of the extraction voltage pulse in the diode on the beam head. We demonstrate techniques for mitigating aberrations and reducing beam emittance growth in the injector.
Date: November 10, 2004
Creator: Bieniosek, F. M.; Celata, C. M.; Henestroza, E.; Kwan, J. W.; Prost, L. & Seidl, P. A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
1400, +/- 900V PEAK PULSE SWITCH MODE POWER SUPPLIES FOR SNS INJECTION KICKERS. (open access)

1400, +/- 900V PEAK PULSE SWITCH MODE POWER SUPPLIES FOR SNS INJECTION KICKERS.

This paper describes simulation and experimental results for a 1400A, {+-} 900V peak rated, switch mode power supply for SNS Injection Kicker Magnets. For each magnet (13 m{Omega}, 160{micro}H), the power supply must supply controlled pulses at 60 Hz repetition rate. The pulse current must rise from zero to maximum in less than 1 millisec in a controlled manner, flat top for up to 2 millisec, and should fall in a controlled manner to less than 4A within 500{micro}s. The low current performance during fall time is the biggest challenge in this power supply. The simulation results show that to meet the controlled fall of the current and the current ripple requirements, voltage loop bandwidth of at least 10 kHz and switching frequency of at least 100 kHz are required. To achieve high power high frequency switching with IGBT switches, a series connected topology with three phase shifted (O{sup o}, 60{sup o} & 120{sup o}) converters each with 40 kHz switching frequency (IGBT at 20kHz), has been achieved. In this paper, the circuit topology, relevant system specifications and experimental results that meet the requirements of the power supply are described in detail. A unique six pulse SCR rectifier circuit with …
Date: March 10, 2004
Creator: LAMBIASE,R. ENG,W. SANDBERG,J. DEWAN,S. HOLMES,R. RUST,K. ZENG,J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
2003 Electronic Spectroscopy and Dynamics - July 6-11, 2003 (open access)

2003 Electronic Spectroscopy and Dynamics - July 6-11, 2003

The Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on 2003 Electronic Spectroscopy and Dynamics - July 6-11, 2003 was held at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, July 6-11, 2003. The Conference was well-attended with 103 participants (attendees list attached). The attendees represented the spectrum of endeavor in this field coming from academia, industry, and government laboratories, both U.S. and foreign scientists, senior researchers, young investigators, and students. In designing the formal speakers program, emphasis was placed on current unpublished research and discussion of the future target areas in this field. There was a conscious effort to stimulate lively discussion about the key issues in the field today. Time for formal presentations was limited in the interest of group discussions. In order that more scientists could communicate their most recent results, poster presentation time was scheduled. Attached is a copy of the formal schedule and speaker program and the poster program. In addition to these formal interactions, ''free time'' was scheduled to allow informal discussions. Such discussions are fostering new collaborations and joint efforts in the field.
Date: September 10, 2004
Creator: Bernstein, Elliot
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
2003 Laser Diagnostic in Combustion Conference (open access)

2003 Laser Diagnostic in Combustion Conference

The GRC Laser Diagnostics in Combustion aims at bringing together scientists and engineers working in the front edge of research and development to discuss and find new ways to solve problems connected to combustion diagnostics. Laser-based techniques have proven to be very efficient tools for studying combustion processes thanks to features as non-intrusiveness in combination with high spatial and temporal resolution. Major tasks for the community are to develop and apply techniques for quantitative measurements with high precision e.g of species concentrations, temperatures, velocities and particles characteristics (size and concentration). These issues are of global interest, considering that the major part of the World's energy conversion comes from combustion sources and the influence combustion processes have on the environment and society.
Date: September 10, 2004
Creator: Allen, Mark G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
2003 Organometallic Chemistry Gordon Conference to be held July 20-25, 2003 (open access)

2003 Organometallic Chemistry Gordon Conference to be held July 20-25, 2003

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Date: September 10, 2004
Creator: Bullock, R. Morris
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
21st Century Steam for Asteroid Mitigation (open access)

21st Century Steam for Asteroid Mitigation

The systematic requirements to divert an object on an earth-impacting course are developed relating the minimum velocity perturbation (both magnitude and direction) to the time available before impact. This, coupled with the accuracy to which orbits can be determined, restricts the time available for any mitigation technology to operate. Because nuclear energy densities are nearly a million times higher than those possible with chemical bonds, it is the most mass efficient means for storing delivering energy with today's technology. The question is how to most effectively apply that energy. This paper will examine the simple case of shattering the body, as well as a more controlled approach in which one or more small velocity increments divert a body. The optimal approach depends on the detailed circumstances, but in either case, already developed technology permits a successful diversion with a few years to decades of notice. The success of nuclear options on relatively short timescales permits consideration of other technologies that while not so well developed might be sufficiently improved to divert small (100 meter) bodies.
Date: March 10, 2004
Creator: Dearborn, D S
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
81891 - A New Class of Solvents for TRU Dissolution and Separation: Ionic Liquids (open access)

81891 - A New Class of Solvents for TRU Dissolution and Separation: Ionic Liquids

Through the current EMSP funding, solvent extraction technologies based on liquid-liquid partitioning of TRU to an Ionic Liquid phase containing conventional complexants has been shown to be viable. The growing understanding of the role that the different components of an ionic liquid can have on the partitioning mechanism, and on the nature of the subsequent dissolved species indicates strongly that ionic liquids are not necessarily direct replacements for volatile or otherwise hazardous organic solvents. Separations and partitioning can be exceptionally complex with competing solvent extraction, cation, anion and sacrificial ion exchange mechanisms are all important, depending on the selection of components for formation of the ionic liquid phase, and that control of these competing mechanisms can be utilized to provide new, alternative separations schemes.
Date: December 10, 2004
Creator: Rogers, Robin D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

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A photo of a classroom with several students visible, working individually at their desks. There are computers and a blackboard at the front of the classroom and locks on the side of the room. Three empty desks highlight the absence of multiple students.
Date: December 10, 2004
Creator: Castillo, José L.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Acceleration of Polarized Beams Using Multiple Strong Partial Siberian Snakes (open access)

Acceleration of Polarized Beams Using Multiple Strong Partial Siberian Snakes

Acceleration of polarized protons in the energy range of 5 to 25 GeV is particularly difficult since depolarizing spin resonances are strong enough to cause significant depolarization but full Siberian snakes cause intolerably large orbit excursions. Using a 20-30% partial Siberian snake both imperfection and intrinsic resonances can be overcome. Such a strong partial Siberian snake was designed for the Brookhaven AGS using a dual pitch helical superconducting dipole. Multiple strong partial snakes are also discussed for spin matching at beam injection and extraction.
Date: October 10, 2004
Creator: Roser, T.; Ahrens, L.; Bai, M.; Courant, E.; Glenn, J. W.; Gupta, R. C. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Across-the-Board Spending Cuts in Omnibus Appropriations Acts (open access)

Across-the-Board Spending Cuts in Omnibus Appropriations Acts

This report examines the use of across-the-board spending cuts in omnibus appropriations acts for FY2000-FY2004, assessing the budgetary context leading to the spending cut, recounting the legislative action on the spending cut provision, and reviewing the provision’s design and implementation.
Date: August 10, 2004
Creator: Keith, Robert
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adaptations of the Purge Water Management System for Long-Term Groundwater Monitoring at Savannah River Site, South Carolina (final) (open access)

Adaptations of the Purge Water Management System for Long-Term Groundwater Monitoring at Savannah River Site, South Carolina (final)

To monitor the groundwater contamination and the effectiveness of remedial actions, over a thousand monitoring wells are in active operation (i.e., require quarterly or semi-annual sampling) at SRS. Most wells are expected to continue in operation for another 20 to 40 more years. Required sample volumes can range from a less than a liter to 10 liters. To support the long-term groundwater monitoring requirements of these wells, SRS actively seeks technologies that can maximize data acquisition and minimize costs. To meet this end, SRS has implemented the Purge Water Management System (PWMS). The key attributes of this system lie in its ability to reduce or eliminate the generation of purged groundwater, which is costly in terms of the time and management.
Date: February 10, 2004
Creator: Schiefer, E
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aging and Rejuvenation with Fractional Derivatives (open access)

Aging and Rejuvenation with Fractional Derivatives

This article discusses aging rejuvenation with fractional derivatives.
Date: September 10, 2004
Creator: Aquino, Gerardo; Bologna, Mauro; Grigolini, Paolo & West, Bruce J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
AGING FACILITY CRITICALITY SAFETY CALCULATIONS (open access)

AGING FACILITY CRITICALITY SAFETY CALCULATIONS

The purpose of this design calculation is to revise and update the previous criticality calculation for the Aging Facility (documented in BSC 2004a). This design calculation will also demonstrate and ensure that the storage and aging operations to be performed in the Aging Facility meet the criticality safety design criteria in the ''Project Design Criteria Document'' (Doraswamy 2004, Section 4.9.2.2), and the functional nuclear criticality safety requirement described in the ''SNF Aging System Description Document'' (BSC [Bechtel SAIC Company] 2004f, p. 3-12). The scope of this design calculation covers the systems and processes for aging commercial spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and staging Department of Energy (DOE) SNF/High-Level Waste (HLW) prior to its placement in the final waste package (WP) (BSC 2004f, p. 1-1). Aging commercial SNF is a thermal management strategy, while staging DOE SNF/HLW will make loading of WPs more efficient (note that aging DOE SNF/HLW is not needed since these wastes are not expected to exceed the thermal limits form emplacement) (BSC 2004f, p. 1-2). The description of the changes in this revised document is as follows: (1) Include DOE SNF/HLW in addition to commercial SNF per the current ''SNF Aging System Description Document'' (BSC 2004f). (2) Update …
Date: September 10, 2004
Creator: Sanders, C.E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 10, 2004 (open access)

The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 10, 2004

Weekly newspaper from Albany, Texas that includes local, county, and state news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 10, 2004
Creator: Lucas, Melinda L.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Alternatives to Seesaw (open access)

Alternatives to Seesaw

The seesaw mechanism is attractive not only because it"explains'' small neutrino mass, but also because of its packaging with the SUSY-GUT, leptogenesis, Dark Matter, and electroweak symmetry breaking. However, this package has the flavor, CP, and gravitino problems. I discuss two alternatives to the seesaw mechanism. In one of them, the anomaly-mediated supersymmetry breaking solves these problems, while predicts naturally light Dirac neutrinos. In the other, the light Majorana neutrinos arise from supersymmetry breaking with right-handed neutrinos below TeV, and the Dark Matter and collider phenomenology are significantly different.
Date: October 10, 2004
Creator: Murayama, Hitoshi
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 105, No. 282, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 10, 2004 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 105, No. 282, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 10, 2004

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 10, 2004
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 105, No. 307, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 10, 2004 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 105, No. 307, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 10, 2004

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 10, 2004
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 34, Ed. 1 Monday, May 10, 2004 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 34, Ed. 1 Monday, May 10, 2004

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 10, 2004
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 61, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 10, 2004 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 61, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 10, 2004

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 10, 2004
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 112, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 10, 2004 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 112, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 10, 2004

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 10, 2004
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 139, Ed. 1 Friday, September 10, 2004 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 139, Ed. 1 Friday, September 10, 2004

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 10, 2004
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 164, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 10, 2004 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 164, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 10, 2004

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 10, 2004
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 185, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 10, 2004 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 185, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 10, 2004
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 210, Ed. 1 Friday, December 10, 2004 (open access)

Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 106, No. 210, Ed. 1 Friday, December 10, 2004

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 10, 2004
Creator: Andrews, Mike
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History