An 8-Matrix Theory of the Vertex p - NN Based on the Strip Approximation (open access)

An 8-Matrix Theory of the Vertex p - NN Based on the Strip Approximation

The present study was motivated by an attempt to understand low energy [formula] scattering within the framework of the bootstrap principle and the un-Reggeized version of the strip approximation. This work attempts to generate low energy [formula] scattering in the p(1,1) and p(3,3) states assuming the potential operating in these states is generated by the exchange of low mass meson states in the crossed t-channel and low mass baryon states in the crossed u channel. In particular, the p-meson is kept in channel t; the p mass and the coupling of [formula] and [formula] appear as parameters. The parameters of the nucleon and (3,3) poles are taken as the elements to be determined by self-consistency.
Date: May 1964
Creator: Sarkissian, M. Der
System: The UNT Digital Library
9-ANGIE : a Two-Dimensional, Multigroup, Neutron-Diffusion-Theory Reactor Code for the IBM 709 or 7090 (open access)

9-ANGIE : a Two-Dimensional, Multigroup, Neutron-Diffusion-Theory Reactor Code for the IBM 709 or 7090

The 9-ANGIE, one of a series of reactor neutronic programs for an IBM 709 or 7090 data processing system, solves the time-dependent, multi-group, neutron diffusion equation for one to eighteen energy groups applied to a rectangular mesh superimposed on either an x-y or an r-z plane. It is characterized by its generalities in region description, boundary conditions, etc., without sacrificing simplicity of input preparation and ease of machine operation. The notation, the style, and the format have been held as consistent as possible with 9-ZOOM, the companion one-dimensional program.
Date: October 28, 1960
Creator: Stone, Stuart P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
9-Zoom : A One-Dimensional, Multigroup, Neutron Diffusion Theory Reactor Code for the IBM 709 [Supplement] (open access)

9-Zoom : A One-Dimensional, Multigroup, Neutron Diffusion Theory Reactor Code for the IBM 709 [Supplement]

The following document describes the usage of the LRL 9-ZOOM code, a neutron diffusion theory reactor code for the IBM 709. The code has been modified to solve configuration of a series of stacked cylindrical disks, designating a new geometry case.
Date: July 12, 1960
Creator: Stone, S. P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The 4K ANGIE Code (open access)

The 4K ANGIE Code

The ANGIE, one of a series of reactor neutronic programs for an IBM 709 or 7090 data processing system, solves the time-dependent, multi-group, neutron diffusion equation for 1 to 26 energy groups applied to a rectangular mesh superimposed on either an x-y or an r-z plane.
Date: March 5, 1962
Creator: Stone, Stuart P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accelerator Beam Pulsing System With Extremely Wide Range of Pulse Lengths and Pulse Repetition Rates (open access)

Accelerator Beam Pulsing System With Extremely Wide Range of Pulse Lengths and Pulse Repetition Rates

The following document describes the usage and results of sending pulsed beams of electrically charged particles with electrically wide range of pulse lengths and pulse repetition rates.
Date: June 28, 1960
Creator: Aaland, Kristian
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Adiabatic Motion Of Charged Particles In Electromagnetic Fields (open access)

An Adiabatic Motion Of Charged Particles In Electromagnetic Fields

The guiding center motion and the adiabatic invariants of charged particle trajectories in electromagnetic fields are treated in this review. General and specific theories of charged particle motion are also reviewed.
Date: January 1961
Creator: Northrop, Theodore G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Alpha Air Monitoring with [alpha]/[beta] Ratio Compensation for Natural Interference (open access)

Alpha Air Monitoring with [alpha]/[beta] Ratio Compensation for Natural Interference

Abstract. Results are presented of a theoretical study to calculate the [alpha]/[beta] ratio of filter-collected natural airborne radioactivity. The detection of airborne plutonium contamination by noting increases in this [alpha]/[beta] ratio is discussed. A modification of this approach which provides a more uniform response to alpha airborne contamination is described.
Date: February 5, 1962
Creator: Lindeken, C. L. & Montan, Donald N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering Experiments (open access)

Analysis of Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering Experiments

Presented at session S-1 of the Tenth Annual International Conference on High-Energy Physics, Rochester, New York, August 25- September 1, 1960. The analysis of the latest experiments on p-p scattering at 210 Mev makes it probable that there is a unique set of phase shifts at this energy. Under reasonable assumptions about continuity of the phase shifts and the behavior of the higher partial waves, it is possible to pick a unique solution also at 310 and 95 Mev. This opens a new era in the analysis of nucleon-nucleon scattering, which should lead to a unique model for the scattering matrix up to 400 Mev. Theoretical attempts to calculate a "meson potential" from field theory have not been successful, and the semi-phenomenological potential models, although now in good qualitative agreement with experiment, are not quantitatively reliable. Instead of using these models as a basis for an energy-dependent parameterization of the scattering matrix, as was done by Breit and his collaborators, it is here argued that the Mandelstam representation offers a more reliable starting point. A formalism is developed which allows the one and two pion exchange interaction to be included exactly and gives a Lorentz-invariant description of the rest of …
Date: August 1960
Creator: Noyes, H. Pierre.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of Six-Bar Linkage Using Digital Computer (open access)

Analysis of Six-Bar Linkage Using Digital Computer

Summary. The analysis of the motion of a six-bar linkage is difficult because of the large number of variables involved and the large number of calculations that have to be made for each position of the linkage. If a digital computer is used to make the calculations required for a multi-position analysis of a mechanism, it is feasible to design by analyzing a large numbers of similar linkages and selecting the optimum configuration. In this paper expressions have been derived for the output angle as a function of the input angle and the transmission angle as a function of the input angle for any single-degree-of-freedom six-bar linkage for which the parameters are known An example showing the usefulness of a six-bar computer program as a mechanism design tool is discussed.
Date: May 20, 1960
Creator: Dunk, A. C. & Hanson, C. L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of the Moon's Surface by Nuclear Reactions (open access)

Analysis of the Moon's Surface by Nuclear Reactions

Introduction. With the imminence of non-destructive landings of small instrumented payloads on the moon, many suggestions are being put forth as to methods of analyzing its surface. It is the purpose of this report to present a body of information which, it is hoped, will be useful in examining the feasibility of an early nuclear experiment to determine the elemental constituents of the lunar surface. The reasons for considering a nuclear approach is that it may be possible to perform an analysis without complex and elaborate manipulations, sample preparation or rigid geometrical constraints. Only those experimental designs which come within the presently-available or very-near-future general boundary conditions on weights, power, vehicles, etc., are discussed. The general approach is to consider the bombardment of the lunar surface with various nuclear beams and to examine the possible nuclear reactions which are know to be dependent on the mass and charge of the irradiated material. Then, those resultant radiations are sought which can be detected with little-or-no loss or distortion of the information which they contain.
Date: April 1, 1960
Creator: Martina, E. F. & Schrader, Carlton D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Antiproton-Nucleon Cross Sections From 0.5 To 1.0 Bev (open access)

Antiproton-Nucleon Cross Sections From 0.5 To 1.0 Bev

Antiproton-production and nucleon-interaction cross sections were investigated for antiprotons in the energy range 0.5 to 1.0 Bev. The antiprotons were distinguished from other particles produced at the Bevatron by a system of scintillation- and velocity-selecting Cerenkov counters. The excitation function and momentum distribution were recorded for antiproton production in carbon and compared with statistical model expectations.
Date: December 12, 1961
Creator: Elioff, Tommy; Agnaw, Louis; Chamberlain, O. (Owen); Steiner, Herbert M.; Wiegand, Clyde (Clyde Edward), 1915-1996 & Ypsilantis, Tom
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Atomic Photoelectric Effect at High Energies (open access)

The Atomic Photoelectric Effect at High Energies

There has been a revival of interest over the last few years in the theory of the high energy photoelectric effect. this problem has been especially clarified by the work of Pratt. Others have also contributed as will be noted below. In particular these workers have shown that the formula for photoelectric absorption of hard gamma rays by the two K electrons of an atom, which is often quoted in the literature, is too large for heavy elements by a factor amounting to approximately 2 for Pb. It turns out that the error is due to a faulty procedure described in the reference (3), p. 396 for obtaining an estimate of the exact formula.
Date: April 1960
Creator: Hall, Harvey, 1904-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automatic Scanning And Measuring Of Bubble Chamber Photographs (open access)

Automatic Scanning And Measuring Of Bubble Chamber Photographs

The development of high-energy charged particle accelerators such as the Bevatron and of improved nuclear-event detection devices such as the Berkeley 72-in. hydrogen bubble chamber has greatly increased the need for high-speed data reduction of nuclear events. Full exploitation of the potential of the 72-in. bubble chamber demands a very high-speed analysis system. This paper describes an approach to such a system.
Date: June 1, 1960
Creator: Grasselli, Antonio
System: The UNT Digital Library
Avalanche Transistor Switching (open access)

Avalanche Transistor Switching

Introduction. High voltage silicon mass transistors have the ability to perform circuit functions similar to the gas thyratron tube. Upon being triggered the transistor junction breaks down, or "avalanches", and can conduct a large current for a short time. The rise time of the avalanche breakdown pulse can be short, and the delay between triggering and avalanching can be short and very consistent. This avalanche action is non-destructive if the amount of peak and average power being dissipated at the junction is limited by the circuitry.
Date: May 6, 1960
Creator: Rufer, Richard P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
BEFCYF And DBDT: IBM 704 Codes For Preparing Input For Bevatron Orbit Code (BOC) (open access)

BEFCYF And DBDT: IBM 704 Codes For Preparing Input For Bevatron Orbit Code (BOC)

Two IBM-704 codes have been written which are auxiliary to the Bevatron orbit code BOC. The first, BEFCYF, interpolates among tabulated values of the median-plane magnetic flux density of the Bevatron to produce an equivalent array of values in a form appropriate to BOC. The second, DBDT, produces azimuthal derivatives of the fields produced by BEFCYF. The internal operation of BEFCYF and DBDT is described, and instructions for their execution are given.
Date: August 30, 1960
Creator: Gardner, C. Gerald
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Bibliography of LRL (Berkeley and Livermore) Unclassified Reports on Magnetohydrodynamics and Plasma (open access)

A Bibliography of LRL (Berkeley and Livermore) Unclassified Reports on Magnetohydrodynamics and Plasma

A title list of 119 reports published between 1952 to mid 1960 is given.
Date: November 1960
Creator: Gleichman, Dorothy L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bond Energies, Valence State Energies And Resonance¹,² (open access)

Bond Energies, Valence State Energies And Resonance¹,²

Previous attempts to interpret chemical structure in terms of x-electron resonance have been recently criticized. A reinterpretation of the lengths of the C-C bonds in terms of orbital radii has not revealed any effects of x-electron resonance in the ground states of classical molecules such as 1, 3-butadiene, methyl acetylene, etc. Even in a non-classical molecule such as benzene, resonance shortening of the CC bond is only in terms of the strengths of the hybrid orbitals. If the lengths and force constants of the C-C bonds vary with hybridization, so also must their bond energies. If resonance is not important in classical molecules, the heat of atomization of a classical molecule must be given by the sum of either the energies of the bonds or the contributions of the atoms present in it. To test this theory, we have estimated the contributions of some standard carbon atoms, viz., primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary, trigonal, and diagonal carbon atoms.
Date: February 1961
Creator: Somayajulu, G. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bremsstrahlung (open access)

Bremsstrahlung

An electron can suffer a very large acceleration in passing through the Coulomb field of a nucleus, and in this interaction the radiant energy (photons) lost by the electrons is called bremsstrahlung (also, bremsstrahlung sometimes designates the interaction itself). If an electron whose total energy [formula] traverses matter of atomic number Z, the electron loses energy chiefly by bremsstrahlung. This case is considered here.
Date: February 1961
Creator: Kenney, R. W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Calculation of Explosion-Produced Craters (open access)

Calculation of Explosion-Produced Craters

In this study, a physical-numerical model is used to investigate processes important for cratering, or excavation, physics for high-explosive sources in desert alluvium. High explosives do not vaporize much of the geological environment surrounding the initial cavity containing the explosive. Thus, a relatively simple, and in some cases a well-known, equation of state exists for the high-explosive cavity gas for pressure greater than 1 atmosphere. However, nuclear explosives are known to vaporize a great deal of surrounding geological environment during the early part of cavity life history. This vaporized material is believed to condense late in the life history of the cavity, and prior to vent of the cavity gas to the atmosphere, such that the latent heat of condensation plays an important role in nuclear excavation. So far, no numerical-physical models of the response of a geologic environment to a nuclear explosive includes the effect of condensation on the hydrodynamics of late times. Thus, the calculation of the cavity pressure at late times including the effect of condensation is one of the current unsolved problems in the calculation of a crater formed by nuclear explosives. This study, then, develops a predictive, numerical-physical model for H.E. sources of the cavity …
Date: April 24, 1964
Creator: Knox, Joseph B. & Terhune, R. W. (Robert William)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Calculation Of The Shock Wave From An Underground Nuclear Explosion In Granite (open access)

Calculation Of The Shock Wave From An Underground Nuclear Explosion In Granite

In any underground nuclear explosion, the shock front that propagates from the shot point carries with it energy from the explosion, and distributes this energy by doing work on the surrounding material. In the process, the material undergoes changes in both its physical and mechanical states. If enough energy is deposited in the material, it will vaporize or melt thus changing its physical state, or cause it to crush or crack. During the past few years, special computer codes have been developed for predicting the close-in phenomena of underground nuclear explosions using the laws of physics, and the knowledge of the properties of the materials in which the detonations occur. As a consequence, a better understanding of experimental observations and measurements has evolved.
Date: April 24, 1964
Creator: Butkovich, Theodore R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Calibration Of Bridgman Anvils, A Pressure Scale To 125 Kbars (open access)

Calibration Of Bridgman Anvils, A Pressure Scale To 125 Kbars

It is shown that a radial pressure gradient exists in the silver chloride when it is used as the pressure transmitting medium in Bridgman anvils. The gradient can be obviated by the use of circular sections of wire. The center of curvature of the wire hoop is made coincident with the anvil center. When the inner and outer diameters of the pyrophyllite retaining ring are 1/2 and 7/16" respectively, the pressure, P, is P = (0.725 + 0.468R) L where R is the fractional displacement from the center, and L is the average pressure as determined from the total load and area of the anvil face. The above appears to be valid to 125 Kbars. The Bismuth 6-8 transition is found to accur at 88+3 Kbars.
Date: August 1961
Creator: Montgomery, Peter W.; Stromberg, Harold; Lura, George H. & Jura, George
System: The UNT Digital Library
Carrier-Free Separation Of Hafnium From Rare-Earth Oxides (open access)

Carrier-Free Separation Of Hafnium From Rare-Earth Oxides

A carrier-free separation of hafnium from several hundred milligrams of rare earth oxides by anion exchange from saturated HC1 solution is given. The procedure is completed in 4-8 hours and is suitable for remote control work.
Date: May 1961
Creator: Tocher, Mab I. & Hollander, Jack M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characteristics Of Radioactivity Produced By Nuclear Explosives (open access)

Characteristics Of Radioactivity Produced By Nuclear Explosives

The production of energy by nuclear reactions results in the production of radioactive nuclei. Therefore, in considering the possible utilization of nuclear explosives for peaceful purposes it is necessary to be able to predict the expected activities, their amounts, and dispositions. The amounts and kinds of radioactivities produced by detonation of a nuclear explosive are dependent upon the specific design of the explosive. The behavior and ultimate fate of the activities produced by the explosion depend on the composition of the medium in which the detonation occurs, the nature of the detonation, and the chemical species involved.
Date: April 24, 1964
Creator: Miskel, John A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chemical Reactions In Crossed Molecular Beams (open access)

Chemical Reactions In Crossed Molecular Beams

Even in its present primitive stage the molecular beam method promises to open up many opportunities for detailed studies of reactive collisions. The early results described here have revealed several features inaccessible to the traditional methods of kinetics. We hope this program of beam studies will ultimately provide the basis for constructing a theory of the molecular mechanics of reactions. By borrowing what are now everyday techniques in nuclear physics (modulation of the beams; mass analysis and counting of detected ions) it appears possible to gain from four to six orders of magnitude.
Date: July 1961
Creator: Herschbach, Dudley R.
System: The UNT Digital Library