Insulated Pressure Vessels for Vehicular Hydrogen Storage: Analysis and Performance Evaluation (open access)

Insulated Pressure Vessels for Vehicular Hydrogen Storage: Analysis and Performance Evaluation

Insulated pressure vessels are cryogenic-capable pressure vessels that can be fueled with liquid hydrogen (LH{sub 2}) or ambient-temperature compressed hydrogen (CH{sub 2}). Insulated pressure vessels offer the advantages of liquid hydrogen tanks (low weight and volume), with reduced disadvantages (fuel flexibility, lower energy requirement for hydrogen liquefaction and reduced evaporative losses). The work described here is directed at verifying that commercially available pressure vessels can be safely used to store liquid hydrogen. The use of commercially available pressure vessels significantly reduces the cost and complexity of the insulated pressure vessel development effort. This paper describes a series of tests that have been done with aluminum-lined, fiber-wrapped vessels to evaluate the damage caused by low temperature operation. All analysis and experiments to date indicate that no significant damage has resulted. Required future tests are described that will prove that no technical barriers exist to the safe use of aluminum-fiber vessels at cryogenic temperatures. Future activities also include a demonstration project in which the insulated pressure vessels will be installed and tested on two vehicles. A draft standard will also be generated for obtaining certification for insulated pressure vessels.
Date: June 26, 2001
Creator: Aceves, S. M.; Martinez-Frias, J.; Garcia-Villazana, O. & Espinosa-Loza, F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A New Dynamical Diffraction-Based Technique of the Residual Stress Measurements in Thin Films (open access)

A New Dynamical Diffraction-Based Technique of the Residual Stress Measurements in Thin Films

The recently discovered dynamical diffraction effect ''neutron camel'' was used for the residual stress measurements in a thick Si(111) crystal coated with a 2000 {angstrom} thick Ni film. The observed asymmetry of the back-face rocking curve corresponds to the bending radius of {approx} 19 km and the tension force applied to the Ni film is {approx} 90 N/m. Relative deformation of the Si crystallographic cells in the vicinity of diffractive surfaces is |{partial_derivative}u{sub z}/{partial_derivative}z| {approx} 1.6 x 10{sup -6}.
Date: July 26, 2001
Creator: Agamalian, M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
GUT implications from neutrino mass (open access)

GUT implications from neutrino mass

An overview is given of the experimental neutrino mixing results and types of neutrino models proposed, with special attention to the general features of various GUT models involving intra-family symmetries and horizontal flavor symmetries. Many of the features are then illustrated by a specific SO (10) SUSY GUT model formulated by S.M. Barr and the author which can explain all four types of solar neutrino mixing solutions by various choices of the right-handed Majorana mass matrix. The quantitative nature of the model's large mixing angle solution is used to compare the reaches of a neutrino super beam and a neutrino factory for determining the small U{sub e3} mixing matrix element.
Date: June 26, 2001
Creator: Albright, Carl H.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Imaging the separation of cathodic arc plasma and macroparticles in curved magnetic filters (open access)

Imaging the separation of cathodic arc plasma and macroparticles in curved magnetic filters

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Date: September 26, 2001
Creator: Anders, Andre
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Monitoring at the Savannah River Plant, Annual Report - 1973 (open access)

Environmental Monitoring at the Savannah River Plant, Annual Report - 1973

This report summarizes results obtained from the environmental monitoring program at the Savannah River Plant during 1973. A brief discussion of plant releases to the environment and radioactivity detected in the environment is presented in the text and tables. The appendix contains tables of results from environmental sample analyses, sensitivities of laboratory analyses, and maps of sampling locations.
Date: July 26, 2001
Creator: Ashley, C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Monitoring at the Savannah River Plant, Annual Report - 1981 (open access)

Environmental Monitoring at the Savannah River Plant, Annual Report - 1981

An environmental monitoring program has been in existence at SRP since 1951. The original preoperational surveys have evolved into an extensive environmental monitoring program in which sample types from approximately 500 locations are analyzed for radiological and/or nonradiological parameters. The results of these analyses for 1981 are presented in this report.
Date: July 26, 2001
Creator: Ashley, C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rapid thermal annealing of InAs/GaAs quantum dots under a GaAs proximity cap (open access)

Rapid thermal annealing of InAs/GaAs quantum dots under a GaAs proximity cap

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Date: September 26, 2001
Creator: Babinski, Adam; Jasinski, J.; Bozek, R.; Szepielow, A. & Baranowski, J. M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exotic Mesons, Theory and Experiment (open access)

Exotic Mesons, Theory and Experiment

In this talk I summarize the status of exotic mesons, including both theoretical expectations and experimental candidates. The current experimental candidates are ''spin-parity exotics'', since these are most often considered possible hybrid mesons, the theoretical discussion will be mainly concerned with hybrids. The exotic meson candidates discussed are the surprisingly light {pi}{sub 1} (1400) and {pi}{sub 1} (1600).
Date: April 26, 2001
Creator: Barnes, T.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hybrid Baryons, A Brief Review (open access)

Hybrid Baryons, A Brief Review

This contribution is a brief review of the status of hybrid baryons, which are hypothetical baryons that incorporate a gluonic excitation. We first summarize the status of hybrid mesons, since this closely related topic has seen considerable recent activity with the identification of two exotic candidates. Next we review theoretical expectations for the masses and quantum numbers of hybrid baryons, which have come from studies of the bag model, QCD sum rules and the flux tube model. Finally hybrid baryon experiment is discussed, including suggestions for experimenters at COSY.
Date: April 26, 2001
Creator: Barnes, T.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
MESON2000 Conference Summary (open access)

MESON2000 Conference Summary

This short contribution is a lite MESON2000 conference summary. As appropriate for the 600th anniversary of the Jagellonian University, it begins with a brief summary of the last 600 years of European history and its place in hadron physics. Next a ''physicist chirality'' order parameter PC is introduced. When applied to MESON2000 plenary speakers this order parameter illustrates the separation of hadron physicists into disjoint communities. The individual plenary talks in MESON2000 are next sorted according to the subconference associated with each of the 36 plenary speakers. Finally, I conclude with a previously unreported Feynman story regarding the use of models in hadron physics.
Date: April 26, 2001
Creator: Barnes, T.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
BaBar Superconducting Coil: Design, Construction and Test (open access)

BaBar Superconducting Coil: Design, Construction and Test

The BABAR Detector, located in the PEP-II B-Factory at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, includes a large 1.5 Tesla superconducting solenoid, 2.8 m bore and length 3.7 m. The two layer solenoid is wound with an aluminum stabilized conductor which is graded axially to produce a {+-} 3% field uniformity in the tracking region. This paper summarizes the 3 year design, fabrication and testing program of the superconducting solenoid. The work was carried out by an international collaboration between INFN, LLNL and SLAC. The coil was constructed by Ansaldo Energia. Critical current measurements of the superconducting strand, cable and conductor, cool-down, operation with the thermo-siphon cooling, fast and slow discharges, and magnetic forces are discussed in detail.
Date: January 26, 2001
Creator: Bell, R. A.; Berndt, M.; Burgess, W.; Craddock, W.; Dormicchi, O.; Fabbricatore, P. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Parallelizing a High Accuracy Hardware-Assisted Volume Renderer for Meshes with Arbitrary Polyhedra (open access)

Parallelizing a High Accuracy Hardware-Assisted Volume Renderer for Meshes with Arbitrary Polyhedra

This paper discusses the authors efforts to improve the performance of the high-accuracy (HIAC) volume rendering system, based on cell projection, which is used to display unstructured, scientific data sets for analysis. The parallelization of HIAC, using the pthreads and MPI API's, resulted in significant speedup, but interactive frame rates are not yet attainable for very large data sets.
Date: March 26, 2001
Creator: Bennett, J.; Cook, R.; Max, N.; May, D. & Williams, P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characterization of the Radiation Shielding Properties of US andRussian EVA Suits (open access)

Characterization of the Radiation Shielding Properties of US andRussian EVA Suits

Reported herein are results from the Eril Research, Inc.(ERI) participationin the NASA Johnson Space Center sponsored studycharacterizing the radiation shielding properties of the two types ofspace suit that astronauts are wearing during the EVA on-orbit assemblyof the International Space Station (ISS). Measurements using passivedetectors were carried out to assess the shielding properties of the USEMU Suit and the Russian Orlan-M suit during irradiations of the suitsand a tissue equivalent phantom to monoenergetic proton and electronbeams at the Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC). Duringirradiations of 6 MeV electrons and 60 MeV protons, absorbed dose as afunction of depth was measured using TLDs exposed behind swatches of thetwo suit materials and inside the two EVA helmets. Considerable reductionin electron dosewas measured behind all suit materials in exposures to 6MeV electrons. Slowing of the proton beam in the suit materials led to anincrease in dose measured in exposures to 60 MeV protons. During 232 MeVproton irradiations, measurements were made with TLDs and CR-39 PNTDs atfive organ locations inside a tissue equivalent phantom, exposed bothwith and without the two EVA suits. The EVA helmets produce a 13 to 27percent reduction in total dose and a 0 to 25 percent reduction in doseequivalent when …
Date: October 26, 2001
Creator: Benton, E. R.; Benton, E. V. & Frank, A. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
FY00 LDRD Final Report High Power IFE Driver Component Development 00-SI-009 (open access)

FY00 LDRD Final Report High Power IFE Driver Component Development 00-SI-009

We have begun building the ''Mercury'' laser system as the first in a series of new generation diode-pumped solid-state lasers for target physics research. Mercury will integrate three key technologies: diodes, crystals, and gas cooling, within a unique laser architecture that is scalable to kilojoule and megajoule energy levels for fusion energy applications. The primary near-term performance goals include 10% electrical efficiencies at 10 Hz and 100 J with a 2-10 ns pulse length at 1.047 {micro}m wavelength. Currently, this review concentrates on the critical development and production of Yb:S-FAP crystals. After solving many defect issues that can be present in the crystals, reproducibility is the final issue that needs to be resolved. We have enlisted the help of national experts and have strongly integrated two capable commercial crystal growth companies (Litton-Airton/Synoptics and Scientific Materials) into the effort, and have solicited the advice of Robert Morris (retired from Allied Signal), a recognized international expert in high temperature oxide growth.
Date: February 26, 2001
Creator: Bibeau, C.; Schaffers, K.; Tassano, J.; Waide, P. & Bayramian, A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The incorporation of GIS in radiological transportation accident consequence assessments. (open access)

The incorporation of GIS in radiological transportation accident consequence assessments.

Potential impacts of transportation accidents must be addressed in documents prepared under the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) as amended or in other environmental-related documents when the transportation of radioactive materials is considered. Estimating the potential human health consequences from the release and dispersion of radioactive materials following such an accident involves a number of interrelated computational models and a variety of input parameters. The RISKIND radiological transportation risk computer program [1] was developed to provide these types of estimates for local scenarios. However, it is often difficult to gain a full understanding of the initial problem and consequences by looking solely at numerical input and tables of results. To permit better-informed decisions, visualization of the site-specific geographic area and the potential spread of contamination can provide greater understanding. Thus, a geographic information system (GIS) component has been integrated with RISKIND to provide visualization capabilities as well as site-specific and computational benefits.
Date: June 26, 2001
Creator: Biwer, B. M.; LePoire, D. J.; Kuiper, J. A. & Chen, S. Y.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
CP VIOLATION IN K DECAY FROM LATTICE QCD, RIKEN BNL RESEARCH CENTER, RBRC AND PARTICLE PHYSICS SEMINAR, BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY, UPTON, N.Y., JULY 26, 2001. (open access)

CP VIOLATION IN K DECAY FROM LATTICE QCD, RIKEN BNL RESEARCH CENTER, RBRC AND PARTICLE PHYSICS SEMINAR, BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY, UPTON, N.Y., JULY 26, 2001.

The entire history of the discoveries of K{sub L}{sup o} and violations of T and CP began at Brookhaven. It is most appropriate for us to hold today's special seminar on CP Violation in K decay in this laboratory. Forty-five years ago, in the same paper on parity nonconservation, it was also pointed out that there is no proof of T symmetry in the weak interaction, nor of C invariance. That paper was submitted to the Physical Review (then, also located at BNL) on June 22, 1956. A month later, Lederman and his collaborators discovered a long-lived neutral V particle (now called K{sub L}{sup o}) at the Cosmotron using the cloud chamber. This discovery was presented as a rigorous proof of C symmetry. In the same summer at Brookhaven, in collaboration with Oehme and Yang, I did the analysis on the neutral kaon system, assuming T, C and CP violations (but based on CPT symmetry). In that work, the two non-orthogonal eigen-states {psi}{sub +} and {psi}{sub -} (now K{sub S}{sup o} and K{sub L}{sup o}) were characterized by a non-orthogonality parameter {alpha} ({approx_equal} 2 Re{epsilon} in today's notation), which was shown to be small, because of unitarity. We then went …
Date: July 26, 2001
Creator: Blum, T. & Mawhinney, R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Prediction of Gas Injection Performance for Heterogeneous Reservoirs (open access)

Prediction of Gas Injection Performance for Heterogeneous Reservoirs

This report was an integrated study of the physics and chemistry affecting gas injection, from the pore scale to the field scale, and involved theoretical analysis, laboratory experiments and numerical simulation. Specifically, advances were made on streamline-based simulation, analytical solutions to 1D compositional displacements, and modeling and experimental measures of three-phase flow.
Date: March 26, 2001
Creator: Blunt, M.J. & Orr, F.M. Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Degradation of multibunch luminosity in a linear collider due to cumulative beam breakup (open access)

Degradation of multibunch luminosity in a linear collider due to cumulative beam breakup

Beam-excited transverse wakes in accelerating radiofrequency structures will influence the transverse offsets of each bunch in a multibunch train, causing the projected emittance of the bunch train to grow. An analytic theory of this phenomenon that includes the mitigating influence of a correlated energy spread across the bunch train was recently devised and applied to electron-positron linear colliders. We use the results of this theory to estimate analytically the associated degradation of multibunch luminosity in terms of top-level parameters for the two beams, the two accelerators, and the final-focus system. Then we compare the estimates with results from GUINEA-PIG, a code that includes the detailed physics of beam-beam interactions.
Date: June 26, 2001
Creator: Bohn, Courtlandt L.; Syphers, Michael J. & Schulte, Daniel
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy of ceramic interfaces. Technical report to the Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences (open access)

Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy of ceramic interfaces. Technical report to the Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences

This document reports advances made on the Penn DOE project focused on using scanning probe measurements at individual interfaces to relate nanometer scale property variation to behavior in ceramic systems. The report body summarizes annual technical accomplishments. (The details are provided in papers referenced in the appendix.) Related collaborative interactions are described, after which the project productivity is reported in terms of human resource development and publications.
Date: March 26, 2001
Creator: Bonnell, Dawn A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speckle Reduction for LIDAR Using Optical Phase Conjugation (open access)

Speckle Reduction for LIDAR Using Optical Phase Conjugation

Remote detection of chemicals using LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) utilizing DIAL (Differential Absorption LIDAR) is now a standard detection technique for both military and civilian activities. We have developed a novel nonlinear optical phase conjugation system that can reduce the effects of speckle noise and atmospheric turbulence on DIAL remote detection systems. We have shown numerically and experimentally that it is possible to increase the signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio for LIDAR systems under certain conditions using optical phase conjugation. This increase in S/N can result in more accurate detection of chemical effluents while simultaneously reducing the time necessary to acquire this information.
Date: February 26, 2001
Creator: Bowers, M. W.; Kecy, C.; Little, L.; Cooke, J.; Benterou, J.; Boyd, R. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
What's New on the Web? Clean Cities Alternative Fuel Information Series Fact Sheet (open access)

What's New on the Web? Clean Cities Alternative Fuel Information Series Fact Sheet

This fact sheet describes what was newly added to the AFDC and Clean Cities (and other DOE) Web sites.
Date: April 26, 2001
Creator: Brodt-Giles, D.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Recent Results from EBIT-II Using a Spare Astro-E Microcalorimeter (open access)

Recent Results from EBIT-II Using a Spare Astro-E Microcalorimeter

A spare NASA/GSFC Astro-E microcalorimeter has been installed, tested, and run successfully on EBIT-II at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. A brief overview of results including measurements by the microcalorimeter of absolute excitation cross sections, time dependent spectra, and spectra as a function of Maxwellian temperature are discussed.
Date: June 26, 2001
Creator: Brown, G V; Behar, E; Beiersdorfer, P; Boyce, K R; Chen, H; Gendreau, K C et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Natural Convection and Boiling for Cooling SRP Reactors During Loss of Circulation Conditions (open access)

Natural Convection and Boiling for Cooling SRP Reactors During Loss of Circulation Conditions

This study investigated natural convection and boiling as a means of cooling SRP reactors in the event of a loss of circulation accident. These studies show that single phase natural convection cooling of SRP reactors in shutdown conditions with the present piping geometry is probably not feasible.
Date: June 26, 2001
Creator: Buckner, M. R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Space-charge compensation in proton boosters (open access)

Space-charge compensation in proton boosters

Recently, it was proposed to use negatively charged electron beams for compensation of beam-beam effects due to protons in the Tevatron collider. We show that a similar compensation is possible in space-charge dominated low energy proton beams. The idea has a potential of several-fold increase of the FNAL Booster beam brightness. Best results will be obtained using three electron lenses around the machine circumference, using co-moving electron beam with time structure and profile approximately to the proton beam. This technique, if feasible, will be more cost effective than the straightforward alternative increasing the energy of the injection linac.
Date: June 26, 2001
Creator: Burov, Alexey; Foster, William & Shiltsev, Vladimir
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library