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GLOVEBOX GLOVE CHARACTERIZATION SUMMARY (open access)

GLOVEBOX GLOVE CHARACTERIZATION SUMMARY

A task was undertaken to determine primarily the permeation behavior of various glove compounds from four manufacturers. As part of the basic characterization task, the opportunity to obtain additional mechanical and thermal properties presented itself. Consequently, a total of fifteen gloves were characterized for permeation, Thermogravimetric Analysis, Puncture Resistance, Tensile Properties and Dynamic Mechanical Analysis. Detailed reports were written for each characterization technique used. This report contains the summary of the results.
Date: May 14, 2012
Creator: Korinko, P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Uncertainties in NLO + Parton Shower Matched Simulations of Inclusive Jet and Dijet Production (open access)

Uncertainties in NLO + Parton Shower Matched Simulations of Inclusive Jet and Dijet Production

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Date: December 14, 2012
Creator: Hoeche, Stefan & Schonherr, Marek
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Local 3Qy betatron resonance correction in the 2012 RHIC 250 GeV run (open access)

Local 3Qy betatron resonance correction in the 2012 RHIC 250 GeV run

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Date: September 14, 2012
Creator: Y., Luo; Zimmer, C.; Fischer, W.; Schoefer, V. & Roser, T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Integrated genome-based studies of Shewanella ecophysiology (open access)

Integrated genome-based studies of Shewanella ecophysiology

This project was a component of the Shewanella Federation and, as such, contributed to the overall goal of applying the genomic tools to better understand eco-physiology and speciation of respiratory-versatile members of Shewanella genus. Our role at Boston University was to perform bioreactor and high throughput gene expression microarrays, and combine dynamic flux balance modeling with experimentally obtained transcriptional and gene expression datasets from different growth conditions. In the first part of project, we designed the S. oneidensis microarray probes for Affymetrix Inc. (based in California), then we identified the pathways of carbon utilization in the metal-reducing marine bacterium Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, using our newly designed high-density oligonucleotide Affymetrix microarray on Shewanella cells grown with various carbon sources. Next, using a combination of experimental and computational approaches, we built algorithm and methods to integrate the transcriptional and metabolic regulatory networks of S. oneidensis. Specifically, we combined mRNA microarray and metabolite measurements with statistical inference and dynamic flux balance analysis (dFBA) to study the transcriptional response of S. oneidensis MR-1 as it passes through exponential, stationary, and transition phases. By measuring time-dependent mRNA expression levels during batch growth of S. oneidensis MR-1 under two radically different nutrient compositions (minimal lactate and …
Date: February 14, 2012
Creator: Daniel, Segre & Qasim, Beg
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transport from the Recycler Ring to the Antiproton Source Beamlines (open access)

Transport from the Recycler Ring to the Antiproton Source Beamlines

In the post-NOvA era, the protons are directly transported from the Booster ring to the Recycler ring rather than the Main Injector. For Mu2e and g-2 project, the Debuncher ring will be modified into a Delivery ring to deliver the protons to both Mu2e and g-2 experiments. Therefore, it requires the transport of protons from the Recycler Ring to the Delivery ring. A new transfer line from the Recycler ring to the P1 beamline will be constructed to transport proton beam from the Recycler Ring to existing Antiproton Source beamlines. This new beamline provides a way to deliver 8 GeV kinetic energy protons from the Booster to the Delivery ring, via the Recycler, using existing beam transport lines, and without the need for new civil construction. This paper presents the Conceptual Design of this new beamline.
Date: May 14, 2012
Creator: Xiao, M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quantitation of Protein Turnover in the Human Adult Lens Using the 14C Bomb-Pulse (open access)

Quantitation of Protein Turnover in the Human Adult Lens Using the 14C Bomb-Pulse

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Date: November 14, 2012
Creator: Buchholz, B. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
NASA COR (open access)

NASA COR

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Date: August 14, 2012
Creator: Sandoval, P
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Natural Language for AdS/CFT Correlators (open access)

A Natural Language for AdS/CFT Correlators

We provide dramatic evidence that 'Mellin space' is the natural home for correlation functions in CFTs with weakly coupled bulk duals. In Mellin space, CFT correlators have poles corresponding to an OPE decomposition into 'left' and 'right' sub-correlators, in direct analogy with the factorization channels of scattering amplitudes. In the regime where these correlators can be computed by tree level Witten diagrams in AdS, we derive an explicit formula for the residues of Mellin amplitudes at the corresponding factorization poles, and we use the conformal Casimir to show that these amplitudes obey algebraic finite difference equations. By analyzing the recursive structure of our factorization formula we obtain simple diagrammatic rules for the construction of Mellin amplitudes corresponding to tree-level Witten diagrams in any bulk scalar theory. We prove the diagrammatic rules using our finite difference equations. Finally, we show that our factorization formula and our diagrammatic rules morph into the flat space S-Matrix of the bulk theory, reproducing the usual Feynman rules, when we take the flat space limit of AdS/CFT. Throughout we emphasize a deep analogy with the properties of flat space scattering amplitudes in momentum space, which suggests that the Mellin amplitude may provide a holographic definition of …
Date: February 14, 2012
Creator: Fitzpatrick, A. Liam; Kaplan, Jared; Penedones, Joao; Raju, Suvrat & van Rees, Balt C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Constraints on Dark Matter Annihilation in Clusters of Galaxies with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (open access)

Constraints on Dark Matter Annihilation in Clusters of Galaxies with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

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Date: December 14, 2012
Creator: Ackermann, M.; Ajello, M.; Allafort, A.; Baldini, L.; Ballet, J.; Barbiellini, G. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Application of the Principle of Maximum Conformality to the Top-Quark Forward-Backward Asymmetry at the Tevatron (open access)

Application of the Principle of Maximum Conformality to the Top-Quark Forward-Backward Asymmetry at the Tevatron

The renormalization scale uncertainty can be eliminated by the Principle of Maximum Conformality (PMC) in a systematic scheme-independent way. Applying the PMC for the t{bar t}-pair hadroproduction at the NNLO level, we have found that the total cross-sections {sigma}{sub t{bar t}} at both the Tevatron and LHC remain almost unchanged when taking very disparate initial scales {mu}{sub R}{sup init} equal to m{sub t}, 10 m{sub t}, 20 m{sub t} and {radical}s, which is consistent with renormalization group invariance. As an important new application, we apply PMC scale-setting to study the top-quark forward-backward asymmetry. We observe that the more convergent perturbative series after PMC scale-setting leads to a more accurate top-quark forward-backward asymmetry. The resulting PMC prediction on the asymmetry is also free from the initial renormalization scale-dependence. Because the NLO PMC scale has a dip behavior for the (q{bar q})-channel at small subprocess collision energies, the importance of this channel to the asymmetry is increased. We observe that the asymmetries A{sub FB}{sup t{bar t}} and A{sub FB}{sup p{bar p}} at the Tevatron will be increased by 42% in comparison to the previous estimates obtained by using conventional scale-setting; i.e. we obtain A{sub FB}{sup t{bar t}PMC} {approx_equal} 12.5% and A{sub FB}{sup …
Date: May 14, 2012
Creator: Brodsky, Stanley J. & Wu, Xing-Gang
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
High Power UV LED Industrial Curing Systems (open access)

High Power UV LED Industrial Curing Systems

UV curing is a green technology that is largely underutilized because UV radiation sources like Hg Lamps are unreliable and difficult to use. High Power UV LEDs are now efficient enough to replace Hg Lamps, and offer significantly improved performance relative to Hg Lamps. In this study, a modular, scalable high power UV LED curing system was designed and tested, performing well in industrial coating evaluations. In order to achieve mechanical form factors similar to commercial Hg Lamp systems, a new patent pending design was employed enabling high irradiance at long working distances. While high power UV LEDs are currently only available at longer UVA wavelengths, rapid progress on UVC LEDs and the development of new formulations designed specifically for use with UV LED sources will converge to drive more rapid adoption of UV curing technology. An assessment of the environmental impact of replacing Hg Lamp systems with UV LED systems was performed. Since UV curing is used in only a small portion of the industrial printing, painting and coating markets, the ease of use of UV LED systems should increase the use of UV curing technology. Even a small penetration of the significant number of industrial applications still using …
Date: May 14, 2012
Creator: Karlicek, Robert, F., Jr & Sargent, Robert
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mechanistic Studies at the Interface Between Organometallic Chemistry and Homogeneous Catalysis (open access)

Mechanistic Studies at the Interface Between Organometallic Chemistry and Homogeneous Catalysis

Mechanistic Studies at the Interface Between Organometallic Chemistry and Homogeneous Catalysis Charles P. Casey, Principal Investigator Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 Phone 608-262-0584 FAX: 608-262-7144 Email: casey@chem.wisc.edu http://www.chem.wisc.edu/main/people/faculty/casey.html Executive Summary. Our goal was to learn the intimate mechanistic details of reactions involved in homogeneous catalysis and to use the insight we gain to develop new and improved catalysts. Our work centered on the hydrogenation of polar functional groups such as aldehydes and ketones and on hydroformylation. Specifically, we concentrated on catalysts capable of simultaneously transferring hydride from a metal center and a proton from an acidic oxygen or nitrogen center to an aldehyde or ketone. An economical iron based catalyst was developed and patented. Better understanding of fundamental organometallic reactions and catalytic processes enabled design of energy and material efficient chemical processes. Our work contributed to the development of catalysts for the selective and mild hydrogenation of ketones and aldehydes; this will provide a modern green alternative to reductions by LiAlH4 and NaBH4, which require extensive work-up procedures and produce waste streams. (C5R4OH)Ru(CO)2H Hydrogenation Catalysts. Youval Shvo described a remarkable catalytic system in which the key intermediate (C5R4OH)Ru(CO)2H (1) has an electronically coupled acidic …
Date: November 14, 2012
Creator: Casey, Charles P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of CDMS [100] and [111] Oriented Germanium Detectors (open access)

Comparison of CDMS [100] and [111] Oriented Germanium Detectors

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) utilizes large mass, 3-inch diameter x 1-inch thick target masses as particle detectors. The target is instrumented with both phonon and ionization sensors and comparison of energy in each channel provides event-by-event classification of electron and nuclear recoils. Fiducial volume is determined by the ability to obtain good phonon and ionization signal at a particular location. Due to electronic band structure in germanium, electron mass is described by an anisotropic tensor with heavy mass aligned along the symmetry axis defined by the [111] Miller index (L valley), resulting in large lateral component to the transport. The spatial distribution of electrons varies significantly for detectors which have their longitudinal axis orientations described by either the [100] or [111] Miller indices. Electric fields with large fringing component at high detector radius also affect the spatial distribution of electrons and holes. Both effects are studied in a 3 dimensional Monte Carlo and the impact on fiducial volume is discussed.
Date: September 14, 2012
Creator: Leman, S. W.; Hertel, S. A.; /MIT, MKI; Kim, P.; /SLAC; Cabrera, B. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Scattering States in AdS/CFT (open access)

Scattering States in AdS/CFT

We show that suitably regulated multi-trace primary states in large N CFTs behave like 'in' and 'out' scattering states in the flat-space limit of AdS. Their transition matrix elements approach the exact scattering amplitudes for the bulk theory, providing a natural CFT definition of the flat space S-Matrix. We study corrections resulting from the AdS curvature and particle propagation far from the center of AdS, and show that AdS simply provides an IR regulator that disappears in the flat space limit.
Date: February 14, 2012
Creator: Fitzpatrick, A.Liam; U., /Boston & Kaplan, Jared
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improving the Fermilab Booster Notching Efficiency, Beam Losses and Radiation Levels (open access)

Improving the Fermilab Booster Notching Efficiency, Beam Losses and Radiation Levels

A fast vertical 1.08-m long kicker (notcher) located in the Fermilab Booster Long-05 straight section is currently used to remove 3 out of 84 circulating bunches after injection to generate an abort gap. With the maximum magnetic field of 72.5 Gauss, it removes only 87% of the 3-bunch intensity at 400 MeV, with 75% loss on pole tips of the focusing Booster magnets, 11% on the Long-06 collimators, and 1% in the rest of the ring. We propose to improve the notching efficiency and reduce beam loss in the Booster by using three horizontal kickers in the Long-12 section. STRUCT calculations show that using horizontal notchers, one can remove up to 96% of the 3-bunch intensity at 400-700 MeV, directing 95% of it to a new beam dump at the Long-13 section. This fully decouples notching and collimation. The beam dump absorbs most of the impinging proton energy in its jaws. The latter are encapsulated into an appropriate radiation shielding that reduces impact on the machine components, personnel and environment to the tolerable levels. MARS simulations show that corresponding prompt and residual radiation levels can be reduced ten times compared to the current ones.
Date: May 14, 2012
Creator: Rakhno, I. L.; Drozhdin, A. I.; Mokhov, N. V.; Sidorov, V. I. & Tropin, I. S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of Electronics for the ATF2 Interaction Point Region Beam Position Monitor (open access)

Development of Electronics for the ATF2 Interaction Point Region Beam Position Monitor

Nanometer resolution beam position monitors have been developed to measure and control beam position stability at the interaction point region of ATF2. The position of the beam has to be measured to within a few nanometers at the interaction point. In order to achieve this performance, electronics for the low-Q IP-BPM was developed. Every component of the electronics have been simulated and checked on the bench and using the ATF2 beam. We will explain each component and define their working range. Then, we will show the performance of the electronics measured with beam signal. ATF2 is a final focus test beam line for ILC in the framework of the ATF international collaboration. The new beam line was constructed to extend the extraction line at ATF, KEK, Japan. The first goal of ATF2 is the acheiving of a 37 nm vertical beam size at focal point (IP). The second goal is to stabilize the beam at the focal point at a few nanometer level for a long period in order to ensure the high luminosity. To achieve these goals a high resolution IP-BPM is essential. In addition for feedback applications a low-Q system is desirable.
Date: August 14, 2012
Creator: Kim, Youngim; U., /Kyungpook Natl.; Heo, Ae-young; U., /Kyungpook Natl.; Kim, Eun-San; U., /Kyungpook Natl. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Soil Composition, Area 6 of the Nevada National Security Site (open access)

Soil Composition, Area 6 of the Nevada National Security Site

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Date: September 14, 2012
Creator: Knight, K B
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Institute for Scalable Application Development Software (open access)

Institute for Scalable Application Development Software

Work by the University of Wisconsin as part of the DOE SciDAC CScADS includes the following accomplishments: � Research on tool componentization, with concentration on the: � InstructionAPI and InstructionSemanticsAPI � ParseAPI � DataflowAPI � Co-organized a series of high successful workshops with Prof. John Mellor-Crummey, Rice University, on Performance Tools for Petascale Computing, held in Snowbird, Utah and Lake Tahoe, California in July or August of 2007 through 2012. � Investigated the use of multicore in numerical libraries � Dyninst porting to 32- and 64bit Power/PowerPC (including BlueGene) and 32- and 64-bit Pentium platforms. � Applying our toolkits to advanced problems in binary code parsing associated with dealing with legacy and malicious code.
Date: November 14, 2012
Creator: Miller, Barton P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Representative Smart Grid Investment Grant Project Technologies: Thermal Energy Storage (open access)

Evaluation of Representative Smart Grid Investment Grant Project Technologies: Thermal Energy Storage

This document is one of a series of reports estimating the benefits of deploying technologies similar to those implemented on the Smart Grid Investment Grant (SGIG) projects. Four technical reports cover the various types of technologies deployed in the SGIG projects, distribution automation, demand response, energy storage, and renewables integration. A fifth report in the series examines the benefits of deploying these technologies on a national level. This technical report examines the impacts of energy storage technologies deployed in the SGIG projects.
Date: February 14, 2012
Creator: Tuffner, Francis K. & Bonebrake, Christopher A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
HFC Concrete: A Low-Energy, Carbon-Dioxide-­Negative Solution for reducing Industrial Greenhouse Gas Emissions (open access)

HFC Concrete: A Low-Energy, Carbon-Dioxide-­Negative Solution for reducing Industrial Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Solidia/CCSM received funding for further research and development of its Low Temperature Solidification Process (LTS), which is used to create hydrate-free concrete (HFC). LTS/HFC is a technology/materials platform that offers wide applicability in the built infrastructure. Most importantly, it provides a means of making concrete without Portland cement. Cement and concrete production is a major consumer of energy and source of industrial greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The primary goal of this project was to develop and commercialize a novel material, HFC, which by replacing traditional concrete and cement, reduces both energy use and GHG emissions in the built infrastructure. Traditional concrete uses Portland Cement (PC) as a binder. PC production involves calcination of limestone at {approx}1450 C, which releases significant amounts of CO{sub 2} gas to the atmosphere and consumes a large amount of energy due to the high temperature required. In contrast, HFC is a carbonate-based hydrate-free concrete (HFC) that consumes CO{sub 2} gas in its production. HFC is made by reaction of silicate minerals with CO{sub 2} at temperatures below 100 C, more than an order-of-magnitude below the temperature required to make PC. Because of this significant difference in temperature, it is estimated that we will be able …
Date: May 14, 2012
Creator: McCandlish, Larry & Riman, Richard
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
SuperB Progress Report: Detector (open access)

SuperB Progress Report: Detector

This report describes the present status of the detector design for SuperB. It is one of four separate progress reports that, taken collectively, describe progress made on the SuperB Project since the publication of the SuperB Conceptual Design Report in 2007 and the Proceedings of SuperB Workshop VI in Valencia in 2008.
Date: February 14, 2012
Creator: Grauges, E.; /Barcelona U., ECM; Donvito, G.; Spinoso, V.; /INFN, Bari /Bari U.; Manghisoni, M. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
REVISED GUIDELINES FOR USING CELLULOSE DEGRADATION PRODUCT-IMPACTED KD VALUES FOR PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENTS AND COMPOSITE ANALYSES (open access)

REVISED GUIDELINES FOR USING CELLULOSE DEGRADATION PRODUCT-IMPACTED KD VALUES FOR PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENTS AND COMPOSITE ANALYSES

Cellulosic materials include wood, paper, rags, and cardboard products. These materials are co-disposed with radiological waste at the Savannah River Site's (SRS) E-Area Low-Level Waste Facility (ELLWF). Cellulosic materials readily degrade in the environment to form cellulose degradation products (CDP) that will partition to the sediment or remain mobile in the groundwater. Savannah River National Lab (SRNL) has conducted studies to estimate the impact of CDP on radionuclide sorption to SRS sediments (Kd values). It was found that CDP impact on radionuclide sorption varies with radionuclide and CDP concentration. Furthermore, it was found that the amount of carbon (C) in the system could increase or decrease Kd values with respect to the base case of when no CDP was added. Throughout the expected pH range of the ELLWF, a low concentration of CDP in the system would increase Kd values (because C would sorb to the sediment and provide more exchange sites for radionuclides to sorb), whereas greater concentrations of CDP ({ge}20 mg/L C) would decrease Kd values (because C would remain in solution and complex the radionuclide and not permit the radionuclide to sorb to the sediment). A review of >230 dissolved organic carbon (DOC) groundwater concentrations in the …
Date: May 14, 2012
Creator: Kaplan, D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Higher Order Modes HOM___s in Coupled Cavities of the Flash Module ACC39 (open access)

Higher Order Modes HOM___s in Coupled Cavities of the Flash Module ACC39

We analyse the higher order modes (HOM's) in the 3.9GHz bunch shaping cavities installed in the FLASH facility at DESY. A suite of finite element computer codes (including HFSS and ACE3P) and globalised scattering matrix calculations (GSM) are used to investigate the modes in these cavities. This study is primarily focused on the dipole component of the multiband expansion of the wakefield, with the emphasis being on the development of a HOM-based BPM system for ACC39. Coupled inter-cavity modes are simulated together with a limited band of trapped modes.
Date: September 14, 2012
Creator: Shinton, I. R. R.; Jones, R. M.; Li, Z. & Zhang, P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Observation of Supernova Remnant IC 443 with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (open access)

Observation of Supernova Remnant IC 443 with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

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Date: December 14, 2012
Creator: Abdo, A. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library