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FY 2005 Quantum Cascade Laser Alignment System Final Report (open access)

FY 2005 Quantum Cascade Laser Alignment System Final Report

The Alignment Lasers Task of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's (PNNL's) Remote Spectroscopy Project (Project PL211I) is a co-funded project between DOE NA-22 and a Classified Client. This project, which began in the second half of FY03, involved building and delivering a Quantum Cascade (QC) Laser Alignment System to be used for testing the pupil alignment of an infrared sensor by measuring the response from four pairs of diametrically opposed QC lasers. PNNL delivered the system in FY04 and provided technical assistance in FY05 culminating into a successful demonstration of the system. This project evolved from the Laser Development Task of PL211I, which is involved in developing novel laser technology to support development of advanced chemical sensors for detecting the proliferation of nuclear weapons. The laser systems are based on quantum cascade (QC) lasers, a new semiconductor source in the infrared. QC lasers can be tailored to emit light throughout the infrared region (3.5 ? 17 ?m) and have high output power and stability. Thus, these lasers provide an infrared source with superb power and spectral stability enabling them to be used for applications such as alignment and calibration in addition to chemical sensing.
Date: January 11, 2006
Creator: Myers, Tanya L.; Cannon, Bret D.; Wojcik, Michael D.; Broocks, Bryan T.; Stewart, Timothy L. & Hatchell, Brian K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FY2006 Appropriations for the Department of Transportation (open access)

FY2006 Appropriations for the Department of Transportation

None
Date: January 11, 2006
Creator: Peterman, David Randall
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
General Counsel (open access)

General Counsel

BRAC Commission - General Counsel Federal Register Notices
Date: January 11, 2006
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
General Counsel Notices Part 1 (open access)

General Counsel Notices Part 1

BRAC Commission - General Counsel Federal Register Notices
Date: January 11, 2006
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The UNT Digital Library
General Counsel part 3 (open access)

General Counsel part 3

BRAC Commission - General Counsel Federal Register Notices
Date: January 11, 2006
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Goldthwaite Eagle (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 109, No. 23, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 11, 2006 (open access)

The Goldthwaite Eagle (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 109, No. 23, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Weekly newspaper from Goldthwaite, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 11, 2006
Creator: Bridges, G. Frank & Bridges, Georgie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 274, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 11, 2006 (open access)

The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 274, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: January 11, 2006
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 580, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 11, 2006 (open access)

Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 580, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: January 11, 2006
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 581, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 11, 2006 (open access)

Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 581, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: January 11, 2006
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 582, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 11, 2006 (open access)

Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 582, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: January 11, 2006
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Group of people kayaking on a body of water, 2]

Photograph of six people in three kayaks paddling around on a body of water.
Date: January 11, 2006
Creator: Castillo, José L.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Half-life of 14O (open access)

Half-life of 14O

We have measured the half-life of 14O, a superallowed (0+\rightarrow 0+) \beta decay isotope. The 14O was produced by the12C(3He,n)14O reaction using a carbon aerogel target. A low-energy ionbeam of 14O was mass separated and implanted in a thin beryllium foil.The beta particles were counted with plastic scintillator detectors. Wefind \tau 1/2 = 70.696 +- 0.037\sigma. This result is 2.0\sigma higherthan an average value from six earlier experiments, but agrees moreclosely with the most recent previous measurment.
Date: January 11, 2006
Creator: Burke, Jason T.; Vetter, Paul A.; Freedman, Stuart J.; Fujikawa,Brian K. & Winter, Wesley T.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
IFE Final Optics and Chamber Dynamics Modeling and Experiments Final Technical Report (open access)

IFE Final Optics and Chamber Dynamics Modeling and Experiments Final Technical Report

Our OFES-sponsored research on IFE technology originally focused on studies of grazing-incidence metal mirrors (GIMM's). After the addition of GIMM research to the High Average Power Laser (HAPL) program, our OFES-sponsored research evolved to include laser propagation studies, surface material evolution in IFE wetted-wall chambers, and magnetic intervention. In 2003, the OFES IFE Technology program was terminated. We continued to expend resources on a no-cost extension in order to complete student research projects in an orderly way and to help us explore new research directions. Those explorations led to funding in the field of extreme ultraviolet lithography, which shares many issues in common with inertial fusion chambers, and the field of radiative properties of laser-produced plasma.
Date: January 11, 2006
Creator: Najmabadi, F. & Tillack, M. S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Integration and Abstracyion of EBS Models in Yucca Mountain Performance Assessment (open access)

The Integration and Abstracyion of EBS Models in Yucca Mountain Performance Assessment

The safety strategy for geological disposal of radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain relies on a multi-barrier system to contain the waste and isolate it from the biosphere. The multi-barrier system consists of the natural barrier provided by the geological setting and the engineered barrier system (EBS). In the case of Yucca Mountain (YM) the geologic setting is the unsaturated-zone host rock, consisting of about 600 meters of layered ash-flow volcanic tuffs above the water table, and the saturated zone beneath the water table. Both the unsaturated and saturated rocks are part of a closed hydrologic basin in a desert surface environment. The waste is to be buried about halfway between the desert surface and the water table. The primary engineered barriers at YM consist of metal components that are highly durable in an oxidizing environment. The two primary components of the engineered barrier system are highly corrosion-resistant metal waste packages, made from a nickel-chromium-molybdenum alloy, Alloy 22, and titanium drip shields that protect the waste packages from corrosive dripping water and falling rocks. Design and performance assessment of the EBS requires models that describe how the EBS and near field behave under anticipated repository-relevant conditions. These models must describe coupled …
Date: January 11, 2006
Creator: Sevougian, S. David; Jain, Vivek & Luik, Abraham Van
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Intelligence Issues for Congress (open access)

Intelligence Issues for Congress

To address the challenges facing the U.S. Intelligence Community in the 21st Century, Congressional and executive branch initiatives have sought to improve coordination among the different agencies and to encourage better analysis. In December 2004, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (P.L. 108-458) was signed, providing for a Director of National Intelligence (DNI) with substantial authorities to manage the national intelligence effort. The legislation calls for a separate Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Date: January 11, 2006
Creator: Best, Richard A., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Internal Revenue Service's Use of Private Debt Collection Agencies: Current Status and Issues for Congress (open access)

The Internal Revenue Service's Use of Private Debt Collection Agencies: Current Status and Issues for Congress

Under the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 (AJCA, P.L. 108-357), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has acquired for the second time in its history the legal authority to hire private debt collection agencies (PCAs) to assist in the collection of certain individual tax debt. The grant of authority grew out of a proposal made by the Bush Administration in its budget request for the IRS in both FY2004 and FY2005. This report focuses on IRS’s current plan for hiring PCAs to collect delinquent individual taxes and the policy issues it raises. It begins with an examination of the scope of IRS’s authority to use PCAs under the AJCA and concludes with a discussion of the main issues for Congress as it oversees IRS’s efforts to implement and manage the private tax debt collection initiative. The report will be updated to reflect significant legislative action and new developments related to the initiative
Date: January 11, 2006
Creator: Guenther, Gary
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lightning Protection Certification for High Explosives Facilities at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (open access)

Lightning Protection Certification for High Explosives Facilities at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Presented here is an innovation in lighting safety certification, and a description of its implementation for high explosives processing and storage facilities at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Lightning rods have proven useful in the protection of wooden structures; however, modern structures made of rebar, concrete, and the like, require fresh thinking. Our process involves a rigorous and unique approach to lightning safety for modern buildings, where the internal voltages and currents are quantified and the risk assessed. To follow are the main technical aspects of lightning protection for modern structures and these methods comply with the requirements of the National Fire Protection Association, the National Electrical Code, and the Department of Energy [1][2]. At the date of this release, we have certified over 70 HE processing and storage cells at our Site 300 facility.
Date: January 11, 2006
Creator: Clancy, T. J.; Brown, C. G.; Ong, M. M. & Clark, G. A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 118, No. 15, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 11, 2006 (open access)

The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 118, No. 15, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Weekly newspaper from Llano, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 11, 2006
Creator: Stephenson, Jimmy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Lower Bound on Neutrino Mass And Its Implication on the Z-Burst Scenario (open access)

A Lower Bound on Neutrino Mass And Its Implication on the Z-Burst Scenario

We show that the cascade limit on ultra high energy cosmic neutrino (UHEC/nu) flux imposes a lower bound on the neutrino mass provided that super-GZK events of ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are produced from Z-bursts. Based on the data from HiRes and AGASA, the obtained neutrino mass lower bound violates its existing cosmological upper bound. We conclude that the Z-burst cannot be the dominant source for the observed super-GZK UHECR events. This is consistent with the recent ANITA-lite data.
Date: January 11, 2006
Creator: Lai, Kwang-Chang; /Taiwan, Natl. Taiwan U.; Chen, Pisin & /KIPAC, Menlo Park
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Man planting flowers with two men standing in background]

Photograph of a man working on a small garden with flowers. There are two other men standing behind him wearing green pants and a white dress shirt holding onto a piece of paper.
Date: January 11, 2006
Creator: Castillo, José L.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Man standing in foreground with two men planting flowers in background]

Photograph of a man wearing a green hat and white dress shirt with the text "KEEP OF THE GRASS, GrassPerfect" visible. Two other men are behind him working on a garden of flowers on the ground.
Date: January 11, 2006
Creator: Castillo, José L.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mannford Eagle (Mannford, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 7, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 11, 2006 (open access)

Mannford Eagle (Mannford, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 7, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Weekly newspaper from Mannford, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 11, 2006
Creator: Farley, Tim
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Measurements of $\Lambda^+_c$ Branching Fractions of Cabibbo-Suppressed Decay Modes involving $\Lambda$ and $\Sigma^{0}$ (open access)

Measurements of $\Lambda^+_c$ Branching Fractions of Cabibbo-Suppressed Decay Modes involving $\Lambda$ and $\Sigma^{0}$

None
Date: January 11, 2006
Creator: Aubert, B.; Barate, R.; Boutigny, D.; Couderc, F.; Karyotakis, Y.; Lees, J. P. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 11, 2006 (open access)

The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Weekly newspaper from Mercedes, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 11, 2006
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History