Experimental Determination of Contact Conductance for Some Stainless Steel Contacts (open access)

Experimental Determination of Contact Conductance for Some Stainless Steel Contacts

"Contact conductances for three semi-smooth and rough stainless steel contacts involving six steels are determined. The procedure and equipment used are fully described, and the results are given. Graphs display thermal conductance and conductivity versus pressure and temperature."
Date: July 1962
Creator: Adamantiades, Achilles
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Symbols for Instrument Flowsheets and Drawings : a Recommended System for Application to ORNL Instrument Work (open access)

Symbols for Instrument Flowsheets and Drawings : a Recommended System for Application to ORNL Instrument Work

This report supersedes ORNL CF-57-2-1, which was an extension and revision of ORNL CF-54-6-72. Details concerning a recommended system of flow-plan symbols and drawing are given. The system is designed to identify the function of all major instrument components and to show schematically the operation of the instrument relative to the particular process. The system is used for identification and designation. The system is a modification of the Instrument Society of American Recommended Practice (RP 5.1).
Date: June 19, 1962
Creator: Adams, R. K.; Davis, D. G.; Hyland, R. G. & Lieberman, B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Neutron Dosimetry in and Around Human Phantoms By Use of Nuclear Track Emulsion (open access)

Neutron Dosimetry in and Around Human Phantoms By Use of Nuclear Track Emulsion

The validity of the nuclear track emulsion technique for fast-neutron dosimetry is examined in the exposure of a human phantom to PuBe neutrons, Semiautomatic track scanning and high-speed data analysis obviate the major disadvantages of emulsion dosimetry, and allow the absolute differential proton track energy spectrum at various locations in the phantom to be obtained without a serious cost in time. From this are calculated the total absorbed local tissue dose due to proton recoils and the local thermal neutron intensity during irradiation.
Date: April 1962
Creator: Akagi, Hiroaki & Lehman, Richard L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sodium Mass Transfer: III - The Application of Liquid Ammonia as a Sodium Leaching Agent (open access)

Sodium Mass Transfer: III - The Application of Liquid Ammonia as a Sodium Leaching Agent

A technique is presented for liquid ammonia leaching of metallic sodium from corrosion coupons, filter elements, and sodium samples to reveal contaminants and impurities.
Date: April 1962
Creator: Alter, H. W. & McManus, P. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fabrication of Zirconium Alloys For Specific Zirconium Alloy Design Program (open access)

Fabrication of Zirconium Alloys For Specific Zirconium Alloy Design Program

The raw materials and fabrication procedures employed in preparing thirty two zirconium alloy compositions for evaluation as described in GEAP-3979 are reported. Considerations involved in the extension of reported laboratory procedures to larger scale production are discussed.
Date: December 5, 1962
Creator: Antony, K. C. & Jones, L. T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comfort and Support of the Cancer Patient (open access)

Comfort and Support of the Cancer Patient

This paper considers the duty of the physician to provide comfort and care for cancer patients and suggests four tenants for physicians to follow to assist with this: 1) No matter what the patient's condition, the physician shall be always available, even if only to listen and talk. 2) In spite of the ravages of cancer, the patient lives with it. 3.) The patient is an adult under guarantees of the constitution. and 4) The physician will always communicate with the patient. The paper ends with a discussion of the objectives for management of cancer patients.
Date: 1962
Creator: Archenbeau, John O. & Wildermuth, Orliss
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Trace elements reconnaissance investigations in New Mexico and adjoining states in 1951 (open access)

Trace elements reconnaissance investigations in New Mexico and adjoining states in 1951

Discussing a reconnaissance search made in New Mexico and adjacent states for uranium in coal and carbonaceous shale, chiefly of Mesozoic age, and black marine shale of Paleozoic age.
Date: October 1962
Creator: Bachman, George Odell & Read, Charles B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Computer Program to Optimize Magnets in a Beam Transport System* (open access)

A Computer Program to Optimize Magnets in a Beam Transport System*

A computer program which optimizes the locations and strengths of magnets in a beam transport system has been written for the IBM 704 and 7090 computers Programs have been previously written which trace a ray through a system of magnets and determine its focusing properties When using such a program, one examines the characteristics of the emergent beam and then varies the parameters of the system manually to optimize it In the program which will now be described, the computer itself performs the examination and varies the parameters.
Date: [..1962]
Creator: Baker, W. F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hyperon Production by 3.25 Bev/c Antiprotons in Hydrogen (open access)

Hyperon Production by 3.25 Bev/c Antiprotons in Hydrogen

Preliminary results are presented on hyperon-anti-hyperon production in proton-anti-proton collisions at 3.25 Bev/c. The exposure consisted of approximately 40,000 pictures taken in the Brookhaven National Laboratory 20" liquid hydrogen bubble chamber. The anti-proton beam was extracted from the A.G.S. and electro-statically separated. An average of approximately 15 anti-protons per picture was obtained at this momentum with an estimated beam contamination of less than 10K. The beam momentum was determined from kinematical analysis of a large sample of events. The scanning and measuring of the film has been done both at Yale and at Brookhaven, as well as the analysis of the data. A combination of the data from both laboratories is presented.
Date: 1962
Creator: Baltay, C.; Fowler, E.C.; Sandweiss, J.; Sanford, J.R.; Taft, H.D.; Culwick, B.B. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Separated Beam at the AGS - Performance with Antiprotons and π⁺ Mesons (open access)

The Separated Beam at the AGS - Performance with Antiprotons and π⁺ Mesons

During 1961 and 1962, a separated beam was designed and installed at the AGS for use with the 20 inch hydrogen bubble chamber. The beam utilizes electromagnetic velocity spectrometers in two stages of separation. Since the fall of 1962, the bubble chamber has taken 600,000 pictures containing antiprotons, K± mesons, and π± mesons as beam tracks. This paper concerns the use of the separated beam for antiprotons and π⁺ mesons.
Date: 1962
Creator: Baltay, C.; Sandweiss, J.; Sanford, J.; Brown, H.; Webster, M. & Yamamoto, S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Economic Factors of MFP Thermoelectric Generators (open access)

Economic Factors of MFP Thermoelectric Generators

"Mixed Fission Products (MFP) for use as a heat source for thermoelectric generators will become increasingly available in the coming years. The Atomic Energy Commission sponsored program on solidification of nuclear wastes is now entering the hot-bench scale test phase. During this phase approximately 5000 thermal watts of two year old MFP could be produced monthly. Two different types of hot calcination pilot plants are planned for installation at the Hanford National Laboratories in the 1964 to 1966 time period. Each of these plants should be able to produce 160,000 thermal watts of two year MFP and 16,000 thermal watts of ten year MFP on a monthly basis. A full scale plant for a 15,000 Mw(e) nuclear economy is estimated to produce four to five times as much MFP as either of the pilot plants. Costs will be dependent upon AEC policy in effect at the time the plant is operating."
Date: June 1962
Creator: Barmat, N.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Time Dependence of Space Charge Beam Losses in the Cosmotron (open access)

Time Dependence of Space Charge Beam Losses in the Cosmotron

An investigation was made of Cosmotron intensity versus time through the entire time interval from the beginning of injection to the completion of r-f capture. The induction electrode signal was used for the instantaneous measurement of beam intensity. Oscilloscope displays of the signal were photographed and traced. Base lines were filled in on the tracings and the area of the pulses measured with a polar planimeter. It was found that the relation losses of beam intensity increase with injection intensity (total injected charge), and that most of the losses take place in the time interval between the end of injection and the completion of the first synchrotron oscillation
Date: January 4, 1962
Creator: Barton, M. Q. & Sacharidis, E. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of the Powder River Basin, Wyoming and Montana with Reference to Subsurface Disposal of Radioactive Wastes (open access)

Geology of the Powder River Basin, Wyoming and Montana with Reference to Subsurface Disposal of Radioactive Wastes

From introduction: This report on the geology of the Powder River Basin is one of a series of reports by the Geological Survey on sedimentary basins in the United States.
Date: February 1962
Creator: Beikman, Helen M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Titaniferous Magnetite Deposits, Los Angeles County, California (open access)

Titaniferous Magnetite Deposits, Los Angeles County, California

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over titanium deposits found in Los Angeles County. Details of the geology, physical features, and history of the deposits are presented. This report includes tables, maps, and illustrations.
Date: 1962
Creator: Benson, Willmar T.; Engel, A. L. & Heinen, H. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Gallium on Plutonium Assay (open access)

The Effect of Gallium on Plutonium Assay

Several of the plutonium assay methods were reexamined as part of a continuing effort to make improvements in these frequently used analyses. This investigation included a study of the controlled-potential coulometric, amperometric, potentiometric, and photometric titration methods and their applications to assays of delta-stabilized and alpha plutonium metal.
Date: November 1962
Creator: Bergstresser, K. S. (Karl Samuel), 1909-2004 & Waterbury, Glenn R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The K"p Interaction at 2.24 Bev/c I: Effective Mass Distributions (open access)

The K"p Interaction at 2.24 Bev/c I: Effective Mass Distributions

The purpose of this note is to discuss results based on the 2 and 3 particle effective mass distributions of selected production channels from K~-p interactions at 2.24 BeV/c. The experimental distributions show clearly that the production of intermediate resonant states is still important at higher energies. We present below preliminary information concerning the resonant states: K*9 Y*9 co, and Y*9 m = 1520. Further, the effective mass distribution of the heretofore unobserved channels, AKK and EnK show a marked departure from phase space in the (KK) system at 1020 MeV and in the (En) system at 1535 MeV.
Date: 1962
Creator: Bertansa, L.; Brisson, V.; Connolly, P. L.; Hart, E. L.; Kittra, I. S.; Moneti, G. C. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
K⁻ -p Interactions at 2.24 Bev/c II: Production Properties (open access)

K⁻ -p Interactions at 2.24 Bev/c II: Production Properties

The purpose of this note is to report various properties of the production modes of K -p interactions at 2.24 Bev/c. Specifically, we present 1) preliminary estimates of the partial cross sections, 2) production angular distributions for those combinations of channels which we believe to be well identified, and 3) for channels of particular interest, we present up-down decay distributions from which hyperon polarization information is obtained. Many of the observed final states which are called "production channels" are in reality the decay products of resonant intermediate states.
Date: 1962
Creator: Bertanza, L.; Brisson, V.; Connolly, P.L.; Hart, E. L.; Mittra, I.S.; Moneti, G.C. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Vapor Pressures of Isotopic Molecules (open access)

Vapor Pressures of Isotopic Molecules

It is apparent that major progress has been made both in the experimental and theoretical study of the vapor pressures of isotopic molecules in the last five years. Vapor pressure measurements are being made in different laboratories by different methods which agree with one another within a few hundredths of one percent. The theory has advanced to the point where a large body o experimental data can be systematized and understood. Quantitative calculations have been carried out which verify the mass, temperature, and potential energy dependence aspects of the theory. An old subject has been revived by advances in modern experimental and theoretical methods and is now useful for the study of quantum effects and structural effects in liquids and solids.
Date: 1962
Creator: Bigeleisen, Jacob
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Molecular Geometry and the Vapor Pressure of Isotopic Molecules: C₂H₃D and C¹²H₂=C¹³H₂ (open access)

Molecular Geometry and the Vapor Pressure of Isotopic Molecules: C₂H₃D and C¹²H₂=C¹³H₂

The isotopic vapor pressure ratio between monodeuteroethylene and ordinary ethylene has been measured in the temperature range 120°-180°K by differential manometry. The inverse isotope effect with C₂¹²H₃D is less than one‐half the effect observed with the dideuteroethylenes. This deviation from the rule of the geometric mean gives further support to the structural theory of isotopic vapor pressure effects and confirms the importance of quantum corrections of the order of (ℏ/kT)⁴ and higher. Vapor-liquid equilibrium studies of C₂¹²H₄ and C¹²H₂=C¹³H₂ were made in a packed column under total reflux using C₂¹²H₃D as an internal monitor to calibrate the column. Whereas C₂¹²H₃D goes to the top of the column, C¹²H₂=C¹³H₂ concentrates in the boiler. Absolute values of the carbon‐13 effect were calculated from the measured relative effects and the manometric data for C₂¹²H₃D, and the vapor pressure ratios were checked by analysis of the kinetic behavior of the column. A test of the data was made in the framework of the applicable theory. The temperature dependencies of the isotope effects are predicted from the theory within the experimental error. The relative deuterium and carbon‐13 isotope effects as well as the differences between the dideuteroethylene isomers are discussed in terms of the structure …
Date: 1962
Creator: Bigeleisen, Jacob; Stern, Marvin J. & Van Hook, W. Alexander
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Future Program for the Cern PS and the Brookhaven AGS (open access)

Future Program for the Cern PS and the Brookhaven AGS

The alternating-gradient proton synchrotrons at CERN and Brookhaven are very similar in size, design and in their experimental use. For this reason, collaboration between the groups at CERN and Brookhaven has been close throughout the history of these two machines. For the most part this has taken the form of exchanges of visits of individual machine designers and of high-energy physicists. By 1962, however, it appeared that the reciprocal flow of information was not adequate and a more formal meeting was arranged. This meeting took place at Brookhaven during the week of September 10, 1962. CERN sent a representative group of machine physicists and high-energy physicists. The meeting was attended also by observers from several American high-energy installations. The discussion covered a wide range of topics, from operating characteristics of the machines themselves to future trends in design of experimental equipment. Plans for beam ejection were presented, techniques were described for better use of secondary beams from internal targets, progress was summarized on dc and rf particle separators. and future trends in neutrino experimentation were predicted.
Date: 1962-09-10/1962-09-14
Creator: Blewett, J. P.; Bittner, J. W.; Brown, H. N. & Maschke, A. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Minutes of the Conference of Linear Accelerators for High Energies (open access)

Minutes of the Conference of Linear Accelerators for High Energies

During the past year notable progress was made in several laboratories on design for linear accelerators in the energy range up to and above 1 Bev. Interest in linacs for this energy centers on two possible applications: first, as injectors for 300 to 1000 Bev synchrotrons, and second, as sources of intense meson beams. To review this progress, a conference jointly sponsored by the Brookhaven National Laboratory and Yale University was held at Brookhaven during the week of August 20, 1962.
Date: 1962-08-20/1962-08-24
Creator: Blewett, J. P.; van Steenbergen, A.; Knowles, H. B.; Ohnuma, S. & Sinclair, C. K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Leakage Neutron Spectrum of  U²³³ Critical Assembly (open access)

Leakage Neutron Spectrum of U²³³ Critical Assembly

Abstract: "The leakage neutron spectrum of a U²³³ spherical critical assembly (Jezebel) has been measured using nuclear emulsions as radiator and detector. The spectrum obtained is compared with similar measurements on the U-235 and Pu-239 analogues of Jezebel U²³³; it is found to agree closely with that of the Pu-239 assembly and to be harder than that of the U-235 assembly. All three spectra are compared with theoretical spectra obtained from a numerical approximation to the neutron transport equation."
Date: September 1962
Creator: Bobisud, Larry E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Natural Gamma Aeroradioactivity of Parts of the Los Angeles Region, California

Map with graded color shading to show levels of naturally-occurring gamma aeroradioactivity within the Los Angeles region in California. Details about the survey and map creation are printed at right. Scale 1:250,000.
Date: 1962
Creator: Books, Kenneth G.
Object Type: Map
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of OH- Motions in Brucite and Micas (open access)

A Comparison of OH- Motions in Brucite and Micas

Despite similar atomic arrangement, Brucite (Mg(OH)2) and phlogopite (KMg3(OH)2(Al,Si3)O10) present striking difference in their infrared spectra. A single absorption band is observed in phlogopite whence brucite possesses a total of 15 bands on both sides of the fundamental. A comparison of the hydroxides with micas provides supporting evidence that the complexity of the hydroxide spectra is due to interactions between neighboring hydroxyl groups. Each mineral contains a layer of magnesium ions possessing trigonal symmetry. Both minerals contain hydroxyl ion is located in such a way that it is in contract with three magnesium ions.
Date: December 7, 1962
Creator: Boutin, Henri & Bassett, William
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library