Future directions in high energy electron-positron experimentation (open access)

Future directions in high energy electron-positron experimentation

In this report, the possibilities of studying particle physics at the TeV scale with high energy electron-positron linear colliders are discussed. A status report on the SLC and the MARK II program is given to provide some insights on the feasibility of experiments at linear colliders. The technical issues in going from SLC to the development of TeV colliders are briefly discussed. Some of the elements of the e/sup +/e/sup -/ experimental environment which differentiate it from that in hadron colliders and give examples of processes particularly well suited to attack by e/sup +/e/sup -/ annihilation are summarized. Finally, some concluding remarks are given. 8 refs., 10 figs., 2 tabs.
Date: September 1, 1988
Creator: Trilling, G.H.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ground-water monitoring compliance projects for Hanford Site Facilities: Progress report for the period April 1--June 30, 1988: Volume 1, Text (open access)

Ground-water monitoring compliance projects for Hanford Site Facilities: Progress report for the period April 1--June 30, 1988: Volume 1, Text

This is Volume 1 of a two-volume set of documents that describes the progress of 10 Hanford Site ground-water monitoring projects for the period April 1 to June 30, 1988. This volume discusses the projects; Volume 2 provides as-built diagrams, drilling logs, and geophysical logs for wells drilled during this period in the 100-N Area and near the 216-A-36B Crib.
Date: September 1, 1988
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Current drive by intense microwave pulses (open access)

Current drive by intense microwave pulses

The advent of high-peak-power pulsed microwave sources opens possibilities for novel current-drive schemes in tokamaks. Four such schemes are considered: accelerating phase-space buckets, overlap of relativistic electron-cyclotron harmonics, beat-wave generation and burnthrough of intense lower-hybrid waves. These schemes are found to offer one or more of the following advantages over their continuous-power counterparts: improved efficiency, improved access to the core plasma, and precise control of the deposition profile. 17 refs.
Date: September 14, 1988
Creator: Cohen, R. H.; Cohen, B. I.; Nevins, W. M.; Rognlien, T. D.; Bonoli, P. T. & Porkolab, M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geothermal innovative technologies catalog (open access)

Geothermal innovative technologies catalog

The technology items in this report were selected on the basis of technological readiness and applicability to current technology transfer thrusts. The items include technologies that are considered to be within 2 to 3 years of being transferred. While the catalog does not profess to be entirely complete, it does represent an initial attempt at archiving innovative geothermal technologies with ample room for additions as they occur. The catalog itself is divided into five major functional areas: Exploration; Drilling, Well Completion, and Reservoir Production; Materials and Brine Chemistry; Direct Use; and Economics. Within these major divisions are sub-categories identifying specific types of technological advances: Hardware; Software; Data Base; Process/Procedure; Test Facility; and Handbook.
Date: September 1, 1988
Creator: Kenkeremath, D. (ed.)
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The recoil proton polarization in. pi. p elastic scattering (open access)

The recoil proton polarization in. pi. p elastic scattering

The polarization of the recoil proton for ..pi../sup +/p and ..pi../sup -/p elastic scattering has been measured for various angles at 547 MeV/c and 625 MeV/c by a collaboration involving The George Washington University; the University of California, Los Angeles; and Abilene Christian University. The experiment was performed at the P/sup 3/ East experimental area of the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility. Beam intensities varied from 0.4 to 1.0 x 10/sup 7/ ..pi../sup -/'s/sec and from 3.0 to 10.0 x 10/sup 7/ ..pi../sup +/'s/sec. The beam spot size at the target was 1 cm in the horizontal direction by 2.5 cm in the vertical direction. A liquid-hydrogen target was used in a flask 5.7 cm in diameter and 10 cm high. The scattered pion and recoil proton were detected in coincidence using the Large Acceptance Spectrometer (LAS) to detect and momentum analyze the pions and the JANUS recoil proton polarimeter to detect and measure the polarization of the protons. Results from this experiment are compared with previous measurements of the polarization, with analyzing power data previously taken by this group, and to partial-wave analysis predictions. 12 refs., 53 figs., 18 tabs.
Date: September 1, 1988
Creator: Seftor, C. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
PSTAR: Primary and secondary terms analysis and renormalization: A unified approach to building energy simulations and short-term monitoring (open access)

PSTAR: Primary and secondary terms analysis and renormalization: A unified approach to building energy simulations and short-term monitoring

This report presents a unified method of hourly simulation of a building and analysis of performance data. The method is called Primary and Secondary Terms Analysis and Renormalization (PSTAR). In the PSTAR method, renormalized parameters are introduced for the primary terms such that the renormalized energy balance equation is best satisfied in the least squares sense, hence, the name PSTAR. PSTAR allows extraction of building characteristics from short-term tests on a small number of data channels. These can be used for long-term performance prediction (''ratings''), diagnostics, and control of heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems (HVAC), comparison of design versus actual performance, etc. By combining realistic building models, simple test procedures, and analysis involving linear equations, PSTAR provides a powerful tool for analyzing building energy as well as testing and monitoring. It forms the basis for the Short-Term Energy Monitoring (STEM) project at SERI.
Date: September 1, 1988
Creator: Subbarao, K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aerated atomization of coal-water slurry fuels (open access)

Aerated atomization of coal-water slurry fuels

In order to observe the effects of rheology on the atomization of highly viscous non-Newtonian liquids, glycerin-water solutions and cellulose-glycerin-water solutions have been atomized. In this series of tests, nozzle pressure, air-liquid ratio and liquid viscosity were altered, and the effects were observed. 14 figs.
Date: September 30, 1988
Creator: Buckner, H.N.; Sojka, P.E. & Lefebvre, A.H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A search for the decay D/sup 0/. -->. /bar K//sup 0/e/sup +/e/sup -/ (open access)

A search for the decay D/sup 0/. -->. /bar K//sup 0/e/sup +/e/sup -/

A search for the decay of the charmed neutral D-mesons D/sup 0/ ..-->.. /bar K//sup 0/e/sup +/e/sup -/ is presented, based on data collected at the /psi/(3770) resonance with the Mark III detector at SPEAR. The search does not show any evidence for the occurrence of this process, leading to an upper limit on the decay branching ratio of 1.7 /center dot/ 10/sup -3/ at the 90% confidence level. No other results on this decay channel have been reported so far. 10 refs., 1 fig.
Date: September 1988
Creator: Adler, J.; Becker, J. J.; Blaylock, G. T.; Bolton, T.; Brient, J. C.; Brown, J. S. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accident analysis of railway transportation of low-level radioactive and hazardous chemical wastes: Application of the /open quotes/Maximum Credible Accident/close quotes/ concept (open access)

Accident analysis of railway transportation of low-level radioactive and hazardous chemical wastes: Application of the /open quotes/Maximum Credible Accident/close quotes/ concept

The maximum credible accident (MCA) approach to accident analysis places an upper bound on the potential adverse effects of a proposed action by using conservative but simplifying assumptions. It is often used when data are lacking to support a more realistic scenario or when MCA calculations result in acceptable consequences. The MCA approach can also be combined with realistic scenarios to assess potential adverse effects. This report presents a guide for the preparation of transportation accident analyses based on the use of the MCA concept. Rail transportation of contaminated wastes is used as an example. The example is the analysis of the environmental impact of the potential derailment of a train transporting a large shipment of wastes. The shipment is assumed to be contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls and low-level radioactivities of uranium and technetium. The train is assumed to plunge into a river used as a source of drinking water. The conclusions from the example accident analysis are based on the calculation of the number of foreseeable premature cancer deaths the might result as a consequence of this accident. These calculations are presented, and the reference material forming the basis for all assumptions and calculations is also provided.
Date: September 1, 1988
Creator: Ricci, E. & McLean, R.B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Recent developments in blood cell labeling research (open access)

Recent developments in blood cell labeling research

A number of recent developments in research on blood cell labeling techniques are presented. The discussion relates to three specific areas: (1) a new in vitro method for red blood cell labeling with /sup 99m/Tc; (2) a method for labeling leukocytes and platelets with /sup 99m/Tc; and (3) the use of monoclonal antibody technique for platelet labeling. The advantages and the pitfalls of these techniques are examined in the light of available mechanistic information. Problems that remain to be resolved are reviewed. An assessment is made of the progress as well as prospects in blood cell labeling methodology including that using the monoclonal antibody approach. 37 refs., 4 figs.
Date: September 7, 1988
Creator: Srivastava, S. C.; Straub, R. F. & Meinken, G. E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The data collection component of the Hanford Meteorology Monitoring Program (open access)

The data collection component of the Hanford Meteorology Monitoring Program

An intensive program of meteorological monitoring is in place at the US Department of Energy's Hanford Site. The Hanford Meteorology Monitoring Program involves the measurement, observation, and storage of various meteorological data; continuous monitoring of regional weather conditions by a staff of professional meteorologists; and around-the-clock forecasting of weather conditions for the Hanford Site. The objective of this report is to document the data collection component of the program. In this report, each meteorological monitoring site is discussed in detail. Each site's location and instrumentation are described and photographs are presented. The methods for processing and communicating data to the Hanford Meteorology Station are also discussed. Finally, the procedures followed to maintain and calibrate these instruments are presented. 2 refs., 83 figs., 15 tabs.
Date: September 1, 1988
Creator: Glantz, C. S. & Islam, M. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optimized conical shaped charge design using the SCAP (Shaped Charge Analysis Program) code (open access)

Optimized conical shaped charge design using the SCAP (Shaped Charge Analysis Program) code

The Shaped Charge Analysis Program (SCAP) is used to analytically model and optimize the design of Conical Shaped Charges (CSC). A variety of existing CSCs are initially modeled with the SCAP code and the predicted jet tip velocities, jet penetrations, and optimum standoffs are compared to previously published experimental results. The CSCs vary in size from 0.69 inch (1.75 cm) to 9.125 inch (23.18 cm) conical liner inside diameter. Two liner materials (copper and steel) and several explosives (Octol, Comp B, PBX-9501) are included in the CSCs modeled. The target material was mild steel. A parametric study was conducted using the SCAP code to obtain the optimum design for a 3.86 inch (9.8 cm) CSC. The variables optimized in this study included the CSC apex angle, conical liner thickness, explosive height, optimum standoff, tamper/confinement thickness, and explosive width. The non-dimensionalized jet penetration to diameter ratio versus the above parameters are graphically presented. 12 refs., 10 figs., 7 tabs.
Date: September 1, 1988
Creator: Vigil, M.G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Short-Term Energy Monitoring (STEM): Application of the PSTAR method to a residence in Fredericksburg, Virginia (open access)

Short-Term Energy Monitoring (STEM): Application of the PSTAR method to a residence in Fredericksburg, Virginia

This report describes a project to assess the thermal quality of a residential building based on short-term tests during which a small number of data channels are measured. The project is called Short- Term Energy Monitoring (STEM). Analysis of the data provides extrapolation to long-term performance. The test protocol and analysis are based on a unified method for building simulations and short-term testing called Primary and Secondary Terms Analysis and Renormalization (PSTAR). In the PSTAR method, renormalized parameters are introduced for the primary terms such that the renormalized energy balance is best satisfied in the least squares sense; hence, the name PSTAR. The mathematical formulation of PSTAR is detailed in earlier reports. This report describes the short-term tests and data analysis performed using the PSTAR method on a residential building in Fredricksburg, Virginia. The results demonstrate the ability of the PSTAR method to provide a realistically complex thermal model of a building, and determine from short-term tests the statics as well as the dynamics of a building, including solar dynamics. 10 refs., 12 figs., 2 tabs.
Date: September 1, 1988
Creator: Subbarao, K.; Burch, J. D.; Hancock, C. E.; Lekov, A. & Balcomb, J. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Depolarization due to beam-beam interaction in electron-positron linear colliders (open access)

Depolarization due to beam-beam interaction in electron-positron linear colliders

We investigate two major mechanisms which induce depolarization of electron beams during beam-beam interaction in linear colliders. These are the classical spin precession under the collective field of the oncoming beam, and the spin-flip effect from beamstrahlung. Analytic formulas are derived for estimating these depolarization effects. As examples, we estimate the depolarization in the Stanford Linear Collider (SLC) and a possible future TeV linear collider (TLC). The effects are found to be negligibly small for SLC and not very large for TLC. 7 refs., 1 fig.
Date: September 1, 1988
Creator: Yokoya, Kaoru & Chen, Pisin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear facility decommissioning and site remedial actions: A selected bibliography, volume 9 (open access)

Nuclear facility decommissioning and site remedial actions: A selected bibliography, volume 9

The 604 abstracted references on nuclear facility decommissioning, uranium mill tailings management, and site remedial actions constitute the ninth in a series of reports prepared annually for the US Department of Energy's Remedial Action Programs. Foreign and domestic literature of all types--technical reports, progress reports, journal articles, symposia proceedings, theses, books, patents, legislation, and research project descriptions--has been included. The bibliography contains scientific, technical, economic, regulatory, and legal information pertinent to the US Department of Energy's remedial action programs. Major sections are (1) Surplus Facilities Management Program, (2) Nuclear Facilities Decommissioning, (3) Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program, (4) Facilities Contaminated with Naturally Occurring Radionuclides, (5) Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Program, (6) Uranium Mill Tailings Management, (7) Technical Measurements Center, and (8) General Remedial Action Program Studies. Subsections for sections 1, 2, 5, and 6 include: Design, Planning, and Regulations; Environmental Studies and Site Surveys; Health, Safety, and Biomedical Studies; Decontamination Studies; Dismantlement and Demolition; Site Stabilization and Reclamation; Waste Disposal; Remedial Action Experience; and General Studies. Within these categories, references are arranged alphabetically by first author. Those references having no individual author are listed by corporate affiliation or by publication description. Indexes are provided for author, corporate affiliation, …
Date: September 1, 1988
Creator: Owen, P. T.; Knox, N. P.; Michelson, D. C. & Turmer, G. S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear fission and transuranium elements: Fifty years ago (open access)

Nuclear fission and transuranium elements: Fifty years ago

This paper reviews some historical aspects of the knowledge and discovery of transuranium elements. This fission of plutonium is discussed also. 12 refs., 6 figs.
Date: September 1, 1988
Creator: Seaborg, G. T.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Model-based expert systems for linac computer controls (open access)

Model-based expert systems for linac computer controls

The use of machine modeling and beam simulation programs for the control of accelerator operation has become standard practice. The success of a model-based control operation depends on how the parameter to be controlled is measured, how the measured data is analyzed, how the result of the analysis is interpreted, and how a solution is implemented. There is considerable interest in applying expert systems technology that can automate all of these processes. The design of an expert system to control the beam trajectory in linear accelerators will be discussed as an illustration of this approach. 4 figs., 1 tab.
Date: September 1, 1988
Creator: Lee, M. J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The development and characterization of neutron-damaged GaAs x-ray detectors (open access)

The development and characterization of neutron-damaged GaAs x-ray detectors

Photoconductive x-ray detectors are becoming an important x-ray diagnostic as a result of their small size, fast response time, and high sensitivity. We are developing a discrete array of neutron- damaged GaAs detectors to be used in an imaging x-ray spectrometer, and we describe herein the techniques we use to fabricate and characterize them for an upcoming experiment. Using a 225-ps x-ray pulse from a laser-produced plasma, we measured the sensitivity and time response of the detectors to be 7.1 mA/W and on the order of 150 ps FWHM, respectively. The carrier mobility is 741 cm/sup 2//V/center dot/s at a bias of 2 /times/ 10/sup 4/V/cm. 6 figs.
Date: September 9, 1988
Creator: Springer, P. T.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coupled sulfur isotopic and chemical mass transfer modeling: Approach and application to dynamic hydrothermal processes (open access)

Coupled sulfur isotopic and chemical mass transfer modeling: Approach and application to dynamic hydrothermal processes

A computational modeling code (EQPSreverse arrowS) has been developed to examine sulfur isotopic distribution pathways coupled with calculations of chemical mass transfer pathways. A post processor approach to EQ6 calculations was chosen so that a variety of isotopic pathways could be examined for each reaction pathway. Two types of major bounding conditions were implemented: (1) equilibrium isotopic exchange between sulfate and sulfide species or exchange only accompanying chemical reduction and oxidation events, and (2) existence or lack of isotopic exchange between solution species and precipitated minerals, parallel to the open and closed chemical system formulations of chemical mass transfer modeling codes. All of the chemical data necessary to explicitly calculate isotopic distribution pathways is generated by most mass transfer modeling codes and can be input to the EQPS code. Routines are built in to directly handle EQ6 tabular files. Chemical reaction models of seafloor hydrothermal vent processes and accompanying sulfur isotopic distribution pathways illustrate the capabilities of coupling EQPSreverse arrowS with EQ6 calculations, including the extent of differences that can exist due to the isotopic bounding condition assumptions described above. 11 refs., 2 figs.
Date: September 21, 1988
Creator: Janecky, D.R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Survey preliminary report, Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (open access)

Environmental Survey preliminary report, Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

This report presents the preliminary findings from the first phase of the Environmental Survey of the US Department of Energy (DOE) Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center (PETC) conducted December 7--11, 1987. The Survey is being conducted by an interdisciplinary team of environmental specialists, led and managed by the Office of Environment, Safety and Health's Office of Environmental Audit. Individual team specialists are outside experts being supplied by a private contractor. The objective of the Survey is to identify environmental problems and areas of environmental risk associated with PETC. The Survey covers all environmental media and all areas of environmental regulation. It is being performed in accordance with the DOE Environmental Survey Manual. This phase of the Survey involves the review of existing site environmental data, observations of the operations carried on at PETC, and interviews with site personnel. The Survey team developed a Sampling and Analysis (S A) Plan to assist in further assessing certain environmental problems identified during its on-site Survey activities at PETC. The S A Plan will be executed by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). When completed, the Plan's results will be incorporated into the PETC Survey findings for inclusion into the Environmental Survey Summary Report. 64 …
Date: September 1, 1988
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Topics in b-physics (open access)

Topics in b-physics

We discuss a few issues in the burgeoning field of physics of hadrons containing the b-quark. These include: A simple parameterization of the Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix featuring a triangle in the complex plane, a review of B/sub s/ and B/sub d/ mixing with special attention given to width-mixing and the CP-violating same-sign dilepton asymmetry, a discussion of the CP-violating decay B/sub d/ ..-->.. /psi/..pi../sup +/..pi../sup /minus//, and a discussion of Cp-violating rate asymmetries in the two-body decays ..lambda../sub b/ ..-->.. p..pi../sup /minus// and ..lambda../sub b/ ..-->.. pK/sup /minus//. The concluding discussion concerns generalizations beyond these specific topics. 22 refs., 6 figs.
Date: September 1, 1988
Creator: Bjorken, J. D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The influence of selected containment structures on debris dispersal and transport following high pressure melt ejection from the reactor vessel (open access)

The influence of selected containment structures on debris dispersal and transport following high pressure melt ejection from the reactor vessel

High pressure expulsion of molten core debris from the reactor pressure vessel may result in dispersal of the debris from the reactor cavity. In most plants, the cavity exits into the containment such that the debris impinges on structures. Retention of the debris on the structures may affect the further transport of the debris throughout the containment. Two tests were done with scaled structural shapes placed at the exit of 1:10 linear scale models of the Zion cavity. The results show that the debris does not adhere significantly to structures. The lack of retention is attributed to splashing from the surface and reentrainment in the gas flowing over the surface. These processes are shown to be applicable to reactor scale. A third experiment was done to simulate the annular gap between the reactor vessel and cavity wall. Debris collection showed that the fraction of debris exiting through the gap was greater than the gap-to-total flow area ratio. Film records indicate that dispersal was primarily by entrainment of the molten debris in the cavity. 29 refs., 36 figs., 11 tabs.
Date: September 1, 1988
Creator: Pilch, M.; Tarbell, W.W. & Brockmann, J.E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Distribution of induced activity in tungsten targets (open access)

Distribution of induced activity in tungsten targets

Estimates are made of the induced activity created during high-energy electron showers in tungsten, using the EGS4 code. Photon track lengths, neutron yields and spatial profiles of the induced activity are presented. 8 refs., 9 figs., 1 tab.
Date: September 1, 1988
Creator: Donahue, R. J. & Nelson, W. R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Progress toward high-gain laser fusion (open access)

Progress toward high-gain laser fusion

A 1985-1986 Review of the US inertial confinement fusion program by the National Academy of Sciences concluded that five more years might be required to obtain enough data to determine the future course of the program. Since then, data from the Nova laser and from the Halite/Centurion program have resolved most of the outstanding problems identified by the NAS review. In particular, we now believe that we can produce a sufficiently uniform target; that we can keep the energy content in hot electrons and high-energy photons low enough (/approximately/1--10% of drive energy, depending on target design) and achieve enough pulse-shaping accuracy (/approximately/10%, with a dynamic range of 100:1) to keep the fuel on a near-Fermi-degenerate adiabat; that we can produce an /approximately/100-Mbar pressure pulse of sufficient uniformity (/approximately/1%), and can we control hydrodynamic instabilities so that the mix of the pusher into the hot spot is low enough to permit marginal ignition. These results are sufficiently encouraging that the US Department of Energy is planning to complete a 10-MJ laboratory microfusion facility to demonstrate high-gain ICF in the laboratory within a decade. 22 refs., 1 fig.
Date: September 28, 1988
Creator: Storm, E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library