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This report discusses the anxieties within Congress in the wake of the Enron scandal. Moreover, the report notes that the 108th Congress is not likely to pass legislative reform as extreme as the 107th Congress, but will still confront issues of accounting reform. The report also highlights what the 108th Congress plans to reform.

The use of short laser pulses to generate high peak intensity, ultra-short x-ray pulses enables exciting new experimental capabilities, such as femtosecond pump-probe experiments used to temporally resolve material structural dynamics on atomic time scales. PLEIADES (Picosecond Laser Electron InterAction for Dynamic Evaluation of Structures) is a next generation Thomson scattering x-ray source being developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Ultra-fast picosecond x-rays (10-200 keV) are generated by colliding an energetic electron beam (20-100 MeV) with a high intensity, sub-ps, 800 nm laser pulse. The peak brightness of the source is expected to exceed 10{sup 20} photons/s/0.1% bandwidth/mm2/mrad2. Simulations of the electron beam production, transport, and final focus are presented. Electron beam measurements, including emittance and final focus spot size are also presented and compared to simulation results. Measurements of x-ray production are also reported and compared to theoretical calculations.

This report presents sampling and measurement procedures and measurement results for 60 samples from the S-1, S-2, and S-3 bore holes at the Vadose Zone Transport Field Study Leak Simulation Test Site, located at the Sisson and Lu (1984) injection site in the 200 East Area of the Hanford Site. Measured data include particle size distributions (19 points), bulk densities (and bulk density-derived porosity), water retention characteristics (16 static points), and saturated and unsaturated hydraulic conductivities. The coring and sub-sampling procedures led to partially, and occasionally completely, disturbed samples. Textural analyses showed that most of the samples could be classified as sand, some as loamy sands, and two as sandy loams. The multi-step outflow method failed for seven samples, yielding 53 samples for which hydraulic parameters were available. Van Genuchten and Brooks-Corey water retention parameters were determined using static retention points (derived from multi-step outflow time series). Inverse analyses of the multi-step outflow data yielded additional unsaturated hydraulic conductivity parameters. Unfortunately, the inverse analyses had some problems in reaching stable solutions. Therefore, we sometimes fixed saturated and residual water contents and saturated hydraulic conductivities at initial values. Even then, it was not possible to reach a solution for two samples …

Some laboratory studies (e.g., Olheoft, unpublished report 2001) have shown that the low frequency electrical properties of some soil minerals contaminated by dense non-aqueous phase liquid (DNAPL) may be sufficiently unique to make it possible to use electrical impedance tomography (EIT) to differentiate normal electrical heterogeneities of the subsurface from DNAPL contamination. The goal of this work is to determine if electrical impedance measurements of the soil and groundwater at a contaminated site can be used to detect the presence and map the distribution of DNAPL. The strategy for achieving this goal is to predict the presence and location of DNAPL from an appropriately processed data set taken at the A-014 outfall site at Savannah River Site, which is suspected of near-surface contamination, and then to compare those predictions with results of sample analysis from the same region. Complete agreement between the predictions and the sampling data will be strong (but not conclusive) evidence that DNAPL contamination alters the subsurface materials in a way that can be detected and mapped using low frequency electrical methods. A total lack of agreement will be interpreted to mean that electrical methods cannot at this time be used to locate contamination. The results will …

This report introduces the state prevailing wage laws and provides an inventory of states in which, to varying degrees, they are in effect.

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Interaction region inner triplets are among the systems which may limit the LHC performance. An option for a new higher luminosity IR is a double-bore inner triplet with separation dipoles placed in front of the first quadrupole. The radiation load on the first dipole, resulting from pp-interactions, is a key parameter to determine the feasibility of this approach. Detailed energy deposition calculations were performed with the MARS14 code for two Nb{sub 3}Sn dipole designs with no superconductor on the mid-plane. Comparison of peak power densities with those in the baseline LHC IR suggests that it may be possible to develop workable magnets for luminosities up to 10{sub 35} cm{sup -2} s{sup -1}.

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Detailed Monte Carlo simulations are performed on radiation environment in the LHC IP5 interaction region at the locations of the TOTEM Roman Pots proposed to detect particles produced at very small angles in the elastic scattering and diffraction dissociation processes at the LHC. Radiation loads on these detectors are calculated with the MARS14 code both of the pp-collision origin and beam loss related (beam-gas and tails from collimators).

Reducing the airflow and heat input rates of a furnace that is connected to a duct system in thermal contact with unconditioned spaces can significantly reduce thermal distribution efficiency. This is a straightforward theoretical calculation based on the increased residence time of the air in the duct at the lower flow rate, which results in greater conduction losses. Experimental tests in an instrumented residential-size duct system have confirmed this prediction. Results are compared with the heat-loss algorithm in ASHRAE Standid 152P. The paper concludes with a discussion of possible remedies for this loss of efficiency in existing systems and optional design strategies in new construction.

The beam power in the upgraded Booster at 8 GeV and 10 Hz will be 64 kW. Beam loss can result in high radiation loads in the ring. The purpose of a new beam halo cleaning system is to localize proton losses in specially shielded regions. Calculations show that this 2-stage collimation system will localize about 99% of beam loss in straight sections 6 and 7 and immediately downstream. Beam loss in the rest of the machine will be on average 0.1W/m. Local shielding will provide tolerable prompt and residual radiation levels in the tunnel, above the tunnel at the surface and in the sump water. Results of thorough MARS calculations are presented for a new design which includes shielding integrated with the collimators, motors and controls ensuring a high performance and facilitating maintenance. First measurements of the collimation efficiency are presented.

In studying the Recycler high level RF, it was found that at 89 kHz, the lowest frequency required by the system, some nonlinearities in magnitude and phase were discovered. The visible evidence of this was that beam injected in a barrier bucket had a definite slope at the top. Using a network analyzer, the S-parameter S{sub 21} was realized for the overall system and from mathematical modeling a second order numerator and denominator transfer function was found. The inverse of this transfer function gives their linearization transfer function. The linearization transfer function was realized in hardware by summing a high pass, band pass and low pass filter together. The resulting magnitude and phase plots, along with actual beam response will be shown.

The impedances of the Tevatron separators are revisited and are found to be negligibly small in the few hundred MHz region, except for resonances at 22.5 MHz. The later are contributions from the power cables which may drive head-tail instabilities if the bunch is long enough.

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An archaeological evaluation of proposed pipeline system improvements in northern Milam County.

If manufacturing incompatibility of a product can be evaluated at the early product design stage, the designers can modify their design to reduce the effect of potential manufacturing problems. This will result in fewer manufacturing problems, less redsign, less expensive tooling, lower cost, better quality, and shorter development time. For a given design, geometric reasoning can predict qualitatively the behaviors of a physical manufacturing process by representing and reasoning with incomplete knowledge of the physical phenomena. It integrates a design with manufacturing processes to help designers simultaneously consider design goals and manufacturing constraints during the early design stage. The geometric reasoning approach can encourage design engineers to qualitatively evaluate the compatibility of their design with manufacturing limitations and requirements.

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