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Lifetime measurements and dipole transition rates for superdeformed states in {sup 190}Hg. (open access)

Lifetime measurements and dipole transition rates for superdeformed states in {sup 190}Hg.

The Doppler-shift attenuation method was used to measure life-times of superdeformed (SD) states for both the yrast and the first excited superdeformed band of {sup 190}Hg. Intrinsic quadruple moments Q{sub 0} were extracted. For the first time, the dipole transition rates have been extracted for the inter-band transitions which connect the excited SD band to the yrast states in the second minimum. The results support the interpretation of the excited SD band as a rotational band built on an octupole vibration.
Date: March 24, 1999
Creator: Amro, H.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
X-Ray Fluorescence Tables: Ethylenediamine Dextrotartrate (Eddt) Crystal (open access)

X-Ray Fluorescence Tables: Ethylenediamine Dextrotartrate (Eddt) Crystal

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Date: April 24, 1964
Creator: Amsbury, W. P.; Lee, W. W.; Rowan, J. H. & Walden, G. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
X-RAY FLUORESCENCE TABLES: GYPSUM CRYSTAL (open access)

X-RAY FLUORESCENCE TABLES: GYPSUM CRYSTAL

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Date: April 24, 1964
Creator: Amsbury, W. P.; Lee, W. W.; Rowan, J. H. & Walden, G. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
X-RAY FLUORESCENCE TABLES: LITHIUM FLUORIDE CRYSTAL (open access)

X-RAY FLUORESCENCE TABLES: LITHIUM FLUORIDE CRYSTAL

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Date: April 24, 1964
Creator: Amsbury, W. P.; Lee, W. W.; Rowan, J. H. & Walden, G. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
X-Ray Fluorescence Tables: Mica-48 Crystal (open access)

X-Ray Fluorescence Tables: Mica-48 Crystal

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Date: April 24, 1964
Creator: Amsbury, W. P.; Lee, W. W.; Rowan, J. H. & Walden, G. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
X-RAY FLUORESCENCE TABLES: MICA-80 CRYSTAL (open access)

X-RAY FLUORESCENCE TABLES: MICA-80 CRYSTAL

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Date: April 24, 1964
Creator: Amsbury, W. P.; Lee, W. W.; Rowan, J. H. & Walden, G. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
X-RAY FLUORESCENCE TABLES: POTASSIUM ACID PHTHALATE (KAP) CRYSTAL (open access)

X-RAY FLUORESCENCE TABLES: POTASSIUM ACID PHTHALATE (KAP) CRYSTAL

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Date: April 24, 1964
Creator: Amsbury, W. P.; Lee, W. W.; Rowan, J. H. & Walden, G. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
X-RAY FLUORESCENCE TABLES: TOPAZ CRYSTAL (open access)

X-RAY FLUORESCENCE TABLES: TOPAZ CRYSTAL

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Date: April 24, 1964
Creator: Amsbury, W. P.; Lee, W. W.; Rowan, J. H. & Walden, G. E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Second Opening of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant? Review of Salient Characteristics and Unique Operational Considerations for Remote Handled Transuranic Waste (open access)

The Second Opening of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant? Review of Salient Characteristics and Unique Operational Considerations for Remote Handled Transuranic Waste

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) intends to dispose of remote handled (RH) transuranic (TRU) waste at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) beginning in 2005. (1) Four principle regulatory agencies are involved in the process of approving the RH TRU waste activities. The DOE is responsible for operational activities. The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approves the design and use of shipping containers. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is responsible for assuring safe and environmentally effective long-term disposal of the radioactive component of the waste and operational environmental monitoring. The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) is responsible for the handling and the disposal of the non-radioactive hazardous component of the waste. The Environmental Evaluation Group (EEG) is responsible for performing independent technical oversight of all WIPP activities, and will comment on documents and practices for the various regulated RH TRU waste activities. The DOE has already obtained the necessary approvals from the NRC, and has submitted a Class 3 Modification request to the NMED. On December 16, 2002 the DOE Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO) provided the EPA with a notice of proposed change, in accordance with 40 CFR 194.4 (b) (3), to receive and dispose of remote …
Date: February 24, 2003
Creator: Anastas, G. & Walker, B. A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Seemingly Simple Task: Filling a Solenoid Volume in Vacuum with Dense Plasma (open access)

A Seemingly Simple Task: Filling a Solenoid Volume in Vacuum with Dense Plasma

Space-charge neutralization of a pulsed, high-current ion beam is required to compress and focus the beam on a target for warm dense matter physics or heavy ion fusion experiments. We described attempts to produce dense plasma in and near the final focusing solenoid through which the ion beam travels, thereby providing an opportunity for the beam to acquire the necessary charge-compensating electrons. Among the options are plasma injection from four pulsed vacuum arc sources located outside the solenoid, and using a high current (> 4 kA) pulsed vacuum arc plasma from a ring cathode near the edge of the solenoid. The plasma distribution is characterized by photographic means and by an array of movable Langmuir probes. The plasma is produced at several cathode spots distributed azimuthally on the ring cathode. Beam neutralization and compression are accomplished, though issues of density, uniformity, and pulse-to-pulse reproducibly remain to be solved.
Date: June 24, 2010
Creator: Anders, Andre; Kauffeldt, Marina; Roy, Prabir & Oks, Efim
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
High quality ZnO:Al transparent conducting oxide films synthesized by pulsed filtered cathodic arc deposition (open access)

High quality ZnO:Al transparent conducting oxide films synthesized by pulsed filtered cathodic arc deposition

Aluminum-doped zinc oxide, ZnO:Al or AZO, is a well-known n-type transparent conducting oxide with great potential in a number of applications currently dominated by indium tin oxide (ITO). In this study, the optical and electrical properties of AZO thin films deposited on glass and silicon by pulsed filtered cathodic arc deposition are systematically studied. In contrast to magnetron sputtering, this technique does not produce energetic negative ions, and therefore ion damage can be minimized. The quality of the AZO films strongly depends on the growth temperature while only marginal improvements are obtained with post-deposition annealing. The best films, grown at a temperature of about 200?C, have resistivities in the low to mid 10-4 Omega cm range with a transmittance better than 85percent in the visible part of the spectrum. It is remarkable that relatively good films of small thickness (60 nm) can be fabricated using this method.
Date: April 24, 2009
Creator: Anders, Andre; Lim, Sunnie H.N.; Yu, Kin Man; Andersson, Joakim; Rosen, Johanna; McFarland, Mike et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of a carburizing and quenching simulation tool: Numerical simulations of rings and gears (open access)

Development of a carburizing and quenching simulation tool: Numerical simulations of rings and gears

This paper describes a calculational procedure using the ABAQUS finite element code that simulates a carburizing and quench heat treat cycle for automotive gears. The procedure features a numerically efficient 2-phase constitutive model to represent transformational plasticity effects for the austenite/martensite transformation together with refined finite element meshes to capture the steep gradients in stress and composition near the gear surfaces. The procedure is illustrated on carburizing and quenching of a thick ring, and comparison of model predictions for distortion, phase distribution, and residual stress with experiment is discussed. Sensitivity of predictions to mesh refinement is studied.
Date: June 24, 1996
Creator: Anderson, C.; Goldman, P. & Rangaswamy, P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reversed field Vlasov equilibria and orbits in 2D axisymmetric 2XIIB configurations (open access)

Reversed field Vlasov equilibria and orbits in 2D axisymmetric 2XIIB configurations

The details of the ion distribution function are important in determining the volume of and degree of field reversal. To show some of these dependencies the double delta function distribution function f = delta(E - E/sub 0/)delta(P/sub c/ - P/sub co/) is used where E and P/sub c/ are the particle energy and canonical angular momentum, respectively. Electrons are ignored except for providing charge neutrality. Results of a parameter study from the 2D axisymmetric equilibrium code CYLEQ/sup 1/ will show how field reversal is related to the radius, length, rotation, total number and energy of the plasma ions. Optimal injection strategies are presented which lead to plasma distributions with good reversal. Particle orbits conforming to this distribution function are displayed.
Date: October 24, 1977
Creator: Anderson, D. V.; Rensink, M. E. & Post, R. F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anisotropic Magnetism in Field-Structured Composites (open access)

Anisotropic Magnetism in Field-Structured Composites

Magnetic field-structured-composites (FSCs) are made by structuring magnetic particle suspensions in uniaxial or biaxial (e.g. rotating) magnetic fields, while polymerizing the suspending resin. A uniaxial field produces chain-like particle structures, and a biaxial field produces sheet-like particle structures. In either case, these anisotropic structures affect the measured magnetic hysteresis loops, with the magnetic remanence and susceptibility increased significantly along the axis of the structuring field, and decreased slightly orthogonal to the structuring field, relative to the unstructured particle composite. The coercivity is essentially unaffected by structuring. We present data for FSCs of magnetically soft particles, and demonstrate that the altered magnetism can be accounted for by considering the large local fields that occur in FSCs. FSCS of magnetically hard particles show unexpectedly large anisotropies in the remanence, and this is due to the local field effects in combination with the large crystalline anisotropy of this material.
Date: June 24, 1999
Creator: Anderson, Robert A.; Martin, James E.; Odinek, Judy & Venturini, Eugene
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characterizing the Properties of Clusters of Galaxies As a Function of Luminosity and Redshift (open access)

Characterizing the Properties of Clusters of Galaxies As a Function of Luminosity and Redshift

Abstract: We report the application of the new Monte Carlo method, Smoothed Particle Inference (SPI, described in a pair of companion papers), towards analysis and interpretation of X-ray observations of clusters of galaxies with the XMM-Newton satellite. Our sample consists of publicly available well-exposed observations of clusters at redshifts z > 0.069, totaling 101 objects. We determine the luminosity and temperature structure of the X-ray emitting gas, with the goal to quantify the scatter and the evolution of the L{sub X} - T relation, as well as to investigate the dependence on cluster substructure with redshift. This work is important for the establishment of the potential robustness of mass estimates from X-ray data which in turn is essential towards the use of clusters for measurements of cosmological parameters. We use the luminosity and temperature maps derived via the SPI technique to determine the presence of cooling cores, via measurements of luminosity and temperature contrast. The L{sub X}-T relation is investigated, and we confirm that L{sub X} {proportional_to} T{sup 3}. We find a weak redshift dependence ({proportional_to} (1 + z){sup {beta}{sub LT}}, {beta}{sub LT} = 0.50 {+-} 0.34), in contrast to some Chandra results. The level of dynamical activity is established …
Date: February 24, 2009
Creator: Andersson, K.; Peterson, J. R.; Madejski, G. & Goobar, A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Design and Status of the Visa II Experiment. (open access)

Design and Status of the Visa II Experiment.

VISA II is the follow-up project to the successful Visible to Infrared SASE Amplifier (VISA) experiment at the Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) in Brookhaven National Lab (BNL). This paper will report the motivation for and status of the two main experiments associated with the VISA II program. One goal of VISA II is to perform an experimental study of the physics of a chirped beam SASE FEL at the upgraded facilities of the ATF. This requires a linearization of the transport line to preserve energy chirping of the electron beam at injection. The other planned project is a strong bunch compression experiment, where the electron bunch is compressed in the chicane, and the dispersive beamline transport, allowing studies of deep saturation.
Date: March 24, 2004
Creator: Andonian, G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Glass results for the can-in-canister demonstration canister S00144 (open access)

Glass results for the can-in-canister demonstration canister S00144

During the Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) Proficiency Runs, two test canisters containing small cans of surrogate plutonium glass were filled with glass. One of the test canisters contained a rack with eight small cans and one contained a rack with twenty small cans. The canister with eight small cans was discussed in another report.1 The canister with twenty small cans was sectioned by the Savannah River Technology Center (SRTC) and samples of the glass were removed for analysis. This report is a summary of the results of the glass testing of the DWPF canister (S00144) which contained a rack with twenty small cans of surrogate plutonium glass. Significant results of the demonstration with the DWPF canister containing the twenty cans of surrogate plutonium glass are listed.
Date: July 24, 1996
Creator: Andrews, M.K. & Herman, D.T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Diesel Engine and Aftertreatment Technology Development for Tier 2 Emissions (open access)

Advanced Diesel Engine and Aftertreatment Technology Development for Tier 2 Emissions

Advanced diesel engine and aftertreatment technologies have been developed for multiple engine and vehicle platforms. Tier 2 (2007 and beyond) emissions levels have been demonstrated for a light truck vehicle over a FTP-75 test cycle on a vehicle chassis dynamometer. These low emissions levels are obtained while retaining the fuel economy advantage characteristic of diesel engines. The performance and emissions results were achieved by integrating advanced combustion strategies (CLEAN Combustion{copyright}) with prototype aftertreatment systems. CLEAN Combustion{copyright} allows partial control of exhaust species for aftertreatment integration in addition to simultaneous NOx and PM reduction. Analytical tools enabled the engine and aftertreatment sub-systems development and system integration. The experimental technology development methodology utilized a range of facilities to streamline development of the eventual solution including utilization of steady state and transient dynamometer test-beds to simulate chassis dynamometer test cycles.
Date: August 24, 2003
Creator: Aneja, Rakesh; Bolton, Brian; Oladipo, Adedejo Bukky; Pavlova-MacKinnon, Zornitza & Radwan, Amr
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Data Management Guide for FEMIS Version 1.4.6 (open access)

Data Management Guide for FEMIS Version 1.4.6

This FEMIS Data Management Guide provides the information needed to manage the data used to support the administrative, user-environment, database management, and operational capabilities of FEMIS.
Date: June 24, 1999
Creator: Angel, Linda K.; Bower, John C.; Burnett, Robert A.; Downing, Timothy R.; Fangman, Patricia M.; Hoza, Mark et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Magnesis specifications and estimated quantity of magnesia in the 234-5 Building Crucible Shop (open access)

Magnesis specifications and estimated quantity of magnesia in the 234-5 Building Crucible Shop

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Date: May 24, 1951
Creator: Anicetti, R. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
CO-FIRING COAL: FEEDLOT AND LITTER BIOMASS FUELS (open access)

CO-FIRING COAL: FEEDLOT AND LITTER BIOMASS FUELS

The following are proposed activities for quarter 1 (6/15/00-9/14/00): (1) Finalize the allocation of funds within TAMU to co-principal investigators and the final task lists; (2) Acquire 3 D computer code for coal combustion and modify for cofiring Coal:Feedlot biomass and Coal:Litter biomass fuels; (3) Develop a simple one dimensional model for fixed bed gasifier cofired with coal:biomass fuels; and (4) Prepare the boiler burner for reburn tests with feedlot biomass fuels. The following were achieved During Quarter 5 (6/15/00-9/14/00): (1) Funds are being allocated to co-principal investigators; task list from Prof. Mukhtar has been received (Appendix A); (2) Order has been placed to acquire Pulverized Coal gasification and Combustion 3 D (PCGC-3) computer code for coal combustion and modify for cofiring Coal: Feedlot biomass and Coal: Litter biomass fuels. Reason for selecting this code is the availability of source code for modification to include biomass fuels; (3) A simplified one-dimensional model has been developed; however convergence had not yet been achieved; and (4) The length of the boiler burner has been increased to increase the residence time. A premixed propane burner has been installed to simulate coal combustion gases. First coal, as a reburn fuel will be used to …
Date: October 24, 2000
Creator: Annamalai, Dr. Kalyan; Sweeten, Dr. John & Mukhtar, Dr. Sayeed
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of an analysis capability for the National Transportation System (open access)

Development of an analysis capability for the National Transportation System

The purpose of this report is to examine the Department of Transportation`s (DOT) National Transportation System (NTS) initiative, to document what has been learned, and to outline a National Transportation Network Analysis Capability (NTNAC) based on a ``TRANSIMS-like`` approach. This study was conducted over a two month period at the end of FY1997. The scope of the effort was carefully defined to accommodate the short time horizon and to provide focus to a very large analytical problem. The objectives were to: (1) define the NTS and the NTS problem; (2) identify problem characteristics; (3) describe an analytical solution based on the TRANSIMS approach; (4) identify data requirements and availability; (5) develop criteria for a scenario to be used in a prototype demonstration; and (6) select a scenario for the prototype demonstration.
Date: October 24, 1997
Creator: Anson, D. & Nelson, R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Some Results for the Chromatic Correction of the Antisymmetric RHIC Lattice (open access)

Some Results for the Chromatic Correction of the Antisymmetric RHIC Lattice

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Date: February 24, 1986
Creator: Antillon, Armando
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
TRANSPORTATION CASK RECEIPT AND RETURN FACILITY WORKER DOSE ASSESSMENT (open access)

TRANSPORTATION CASK RECEIPT AND RETURN FACILITY WORKER DOSE ASSESSMENT

The purpose of this design calculation is to estimate radiation doses received by personnel working in the Transportation Cask Receipt and Return Facility (TCRRF) of the repository including the personnel at the security gate and cask staging areas. This calculation is required to support the preclosure safety analysis (PCSA) to ensure that the predicted doses are within the regulatory limits prescribed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The Cask Receipt and Return Facility receives NRC licensed transportation casks loaded with spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW). The TCRRF operation starts with the receipt, inspection, and survey of the casks at the security gate and the staging areas, and proceeds to the process facilities. The transportation casks arrive at the site via rail cars or trucks under the guidance of the national transportation system. This calculation was developed by the Environmental and Nuclear Engineering organization and is intended solely for the use of Design and Engineering in work regarding facility design. Environmental and Nuclear Engineering personnel should be consulted before using this calculation for purposes other than those stated herein or for use by individuals other than authorized personnel in the Environmental and Nuclear Engineering organization.
Date: February 24, 2005
Creator: Arakali, V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library