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Effects of Light Scalar Mesons in eta -> 3pi decay (open access)

Effects of Light Scalar Mesons in eta -> 3pi decay

We study the role of a possible nonet of light scalar mesons in the still interesting [eta] -> 3[p]i decay process, with the primary motivation of learning more about the scalars themselves. The framework is a conventional non-linear chiral Lagrangian of pseudoscalars and vectors extended to include the scalars. The parameters involving the scalars were previously obtained to fit the s-wave [pi][pi] and [pi] K scatterings in the region up to about 1 GeV as well as the strong decay [eta]' --> [eta][pi][pi]. At first, one might expect a large enhancement from diagrams including a light [sigma] (560). However there is an amusing cancellation mechanism which prevents this from occurring. In the simplest model there is an enhancement of about 13 per cent in the [eta] -> 3[pi] decay rate due to the scalars. In a more complicated model which includes derivative type symmetry breakers, the cancellation is modified and the scalars contribute about 30 percent of the total decay rate (although the total is not significantly changed). The vectors do not contribute much. Our model produces a reasonable estimate for the related a{sub 0}(980) - f{sub 0}(980) mixing strength, which has been a topic of current debate. Promising directions …
Date: October 1, 2002
Creator: Abdel-Rehim, Abdou; Black, Deirdre; Fariborz, Amir H. & Schechter, Joseph
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electricity: The Road Toward Restructuring (open access)

Electricity: The Road Toward Restructuring

The Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 (PUHCA) and the Federal Power Act (FPA) were enacted to eliminate unfair practices and other abuses by electricity and gas holding companies by requiring federal control and regulation of interstate public utility holding companies. Comprehensive energy legislation has passed the House and Senate. The House passed H.R. 6 on April 11, 2003. On July 31, 2003, the Senate suspended debate on S. 14, inserted the text of H.R. 4 (107th Congress) as a substitute, and passed H.R. 6. A conference agreement was reached November 17, 2003, and passed by the House the next day. H.R. 6 includes an electricity title that would, in part, repeal PUHCA, would prospectively repeal the mandatory purchase requirement under PURPA, and would create an electric reliability organization. On June 15, 2004, H.R. 4503, a comprehensive energy policy bill, passed the House.
Date: October 16, 2002
Creator: Abel, Amy & Parker, Larry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 8, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 9, 2002 (open access)

University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 8, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 9, 2002

Semiweekly newspaper from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas that includes local, national, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: October 9, 2002
Creator: Achilles, Jenny
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, October 11, 2002 (open access)

University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, October 11, 2002

Semiweekly newspaper from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas that includes local, national, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: October 11, 2002
Creator: Achilles, Jenny
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 9, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 16, 2002 (open access)

University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 9, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 16, 2002

Semiweekly newspaper from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas that includes local, national, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: October 16, 2002
Creator: Achilles, Jenny
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, October 18, 2002 (open access)

University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, October 18, 2002

Semiweekly newspaper from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas that includes local, national, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: October 18, 2002
Creator: Achilles, Jenny
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 23, 2002 (open access)

University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 23, 2002

Semiweekly newspaper from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas that includes local, national, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: October 23, 2002
Creator: Achilles, Jenny
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, October 25, 2002 (open access)

University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, October 25, 2002

Semiweekly newspaper from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas that includes local, national, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: October 25, 2002
Creator: Achilles, Jenny
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 14, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 30, 2002 (open access)

University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 14, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 30, 2002

Semiweekly newspaper from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas that includes local, national, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: October 30, 2002
Creator: Achilles, Jenny
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Global Climate Change: Selected Legal Questions About the Kyoto Protocol (open access)

Global Climate Change: Selected Legal Questions About the Kyoto Protocol

This report addresses legal issues after the United States signed the Kyoto Protocol to the UnitedNations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The protocol is not yet in effect internationally and cannot be legally binding on the U.S. unless and until the Senate gives its advice and consent.
Date: October 1, 2002
Creator: Ackerman, David M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sulfur Polymer Stabilization/Solidification (Spss) Treatability of Simulated Mixed-Waste Mercury Contaminated Sludge. (open access)

Sulfur Polymer Stabilization/Solidification (Spss) Treatability of Simulated Mixed-Waste Mercury Contaminated Sludge.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is currently seeking to validate technologies that can directly treat radioactively contaminated high mercury (Hg) subcategory wastes without removing the mercury from the waste. The Sulfur Polymer Stabilization/Solidification (SPSS) process developed at Brookhaven National Laboratory is one of several candidate technologies capable of successfully treating various Hg waste streams. To supplement previously supplied data on treatment of soils, EPA needs additional data concerning stabilization of high Hg subcategory waste sludges. To this end, a 5000 ppm sludge surrogate, containing approximately 50 wt% water, was successfully treated by pilot-scale SPSS processing. In two process runs, 85 and 95 wt% of water was recovered from the sludge during processing. At waste loadings of 30 wt% dry sludge, the treated waste form had no detectable mercury (<10 ppb) in TCLP leachates. Data gathered from the demonstration of treatment of this sludge will provide EPA with information to support revisions to current treatment requirements for high Hg subcategory wastes.
Date: October 1, 2002
Creator: Adama, J. W.; Bowerman, B. S. & Kalb, P. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Disappearance of back-to-back high p {sub T} hadron correlations in central Au+Au collisions at {radical}s{sub NN} = 200 GeV (open access)

Disappearance of back-to-back high p {sub T} hadron correlations in central Au+Au collisions at {radical}s{sub NN} = 200 GeV

Azimuthal correlations for large transverse momentum charged hadrons have been measured over a wide pseudo-rapidity range and full azimuth in Au+Au and p+p collisions at = {radical}s{sub NN} = 200 GeV. The small-angle correlations observed in p+p collisions and at all centralities of Au+Au collisions are characteristic of hard-scattering processes already observed in elementary collisions. A strong back-to-back correlation exists for p+p and peripheral Au + Au. In contrast, the back-to-back correlations are reduced considerably in the most central Au+Au collisions, indicating substantial interaction as the hard-scattered partons or their fragmentation products traverse the medium.
Date: October 25, 2002
Creator: Adler, C.; Ahammed, Z.; Allgower, C.; Amonett, J.; Anderson, B. D.; Anderson, M. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Eastern Statesman (Wilburton, Okla.), Vol. 81, No. 5, Ed. 1 Monday, October 7, 2002 (open access)

The Eastern Statesman (Wilburton, Okla.), Vol. 81, No. 5, Ed. 1 Monday, October 7, 2002

Biweekly student newspaper from Eastern Oklahoma State College in Wilburton, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: October 7, 2002
Creator: Agent, Alicia
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Eastern Statesman (Wilburton, Okla.), Vol. 81, No. 6, Ed. 1 Monday, October 28, 2002 (open access)

The Eastern Statesman (Wilburton, Okla.), Vol. 81, No. 6, Ed. 1 Monday, October 28, 2002

Biweekly student newspaper from Eastern Oklahoma State College in Wilburton, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: October 28, 2002
Creator: Agent, Alicia
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
U.S.-European Union Trade Relations: Issues and Policy Challenges (open access)

U.S.-European Union Trade Relations: Issues and Policy Challenges

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Date: October 24, 2002
Creator: Ahearn, Raymond J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Final Report - DOE Center for Laser Imaging and Cancer Diagnostics (open access)

Final Report - DOE Center for Laser Imaging and Cancer Diagnostics

This Final Report summarizes the significant progress made by the researchers, students and staff of the Center for Laser Imaging and Cancer Diagnostics (CLICD) from January 1998 through May 2002. During this period, the Center supported several projects. Most projects were proposed initially, some were added subsequently as their relevance and importance to the DOE mission became evident. DOE support has been leveraged to obtain continuing funding for some projects. Leveraged funds come from various sources, including NIH, Army, NSF and the Air Force. The goal of the Center was to develop laser-based instruments for use in the detection and diagnosis of major diseases, with an emphasis on detection and diagnosis of various cancers. Each of the supported projects is a collaborative effort between physicists and laser scientists and the City College of New York and noted physicians, surgeons, pathologists, and biologists located at medical centers in the Metropolitan area. The participating institutions were: City College of New York Institute for Ultrafast Lasers and Spectroscopy, Hackensack University Medical Center, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and New York Eye and Ear Institute. Each of the projects funded by the Center is grouped into one of four research …
Date: October 31, 2002
Creator: Alfano, Robert R. & Koutcher, Jason A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Short- and Long-Term Statistical Properties of Heartbeat Time-Series in Healthy and Pathological Subjects (open access)

Short- and Long-Term Statistical Properties of Heartbeat Time-Series in Healthy and Pathological Subjects

Paper discussing short- and long-term statistical properties of heartbeat time-series in healthy and pathological subjects.
Date: October 2002
Creator: Allegrini, Paolo; Balocchi, Rita; Chillemi, Santi; Grigolini, Paolo; Palatella, Luigi & Raffaelli, G.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Members of the U.S. Congress Who Have Died of Other Than Natural Causes while in Office (open access)

Members of the U.S. Congress Who Have Died of Other Than Natural Causes while in Office

This report provides an alphabetical list of the 61 Members of Congress who have died of other than natural causes while serving in the U.S. House of Representatives or the U.S. Senate. Each entry includes party affiliation, the name of the state that the Member represented, dates of service, chamber in which the Member served, and cause of death.
Date: October 31, 2002
Creator: Amer, Mildred
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Selected Privileges and Courtesies Extended to Former Senators (open access)

Selected Privileges and Courtesies Extended to Former Senators

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Date: October 30, 2002
Creator: Amer, Mildred L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 55, Number 2, October 2002 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 55, Number 2, October 2002

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: October 2002
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
CHARACTERIZATION OF CATALYTIC COMBUSTOR TURBULENCE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON VANE AND ENDWALL HEAT TRANSFER AND ENDWALL FILM COOLING (open access)

CHARACTERIZATION OF CATALYTIC COMBUSTOR TURBULENCE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON VANE AND ENDWALL HEAT TRANSFER AND ENDWALL FILM COOLING

Endwall heat transfer distributions taken in a large-scale low speed linear cascade facility are documented for mock catalytic and dry low NOx (DLN) combustion systems. Inlet turbulence levels range from about 1.0 percent for the mock Catalytic combustor condition to 14 percent for the mock dry low NOx combustor system. Stanton number contours are presented at both turbulence conditions for Reynolds numbers based on true chord length and exit conditions ranging from 500,000 to 2,000,000. Catalytic combustor endwall heat transfer shows the influence of the complex three-dimensional flow field, while the effects of individual vortex systems are less evident for the mock dry low NOx cases. Turbulence scales have been documented for both cases. Inlet boundary layers are relatively thin for the mock catalytic combustor case while inlet flow approximates a channel flow with high turbulence for the mock DLN combustor case. Inlet boundary layer parameters are presented across the inlet passage for the three Reynolds numbers and both the mock catalytic and DLN combustor inlet cases. Both midspan and 95 percent span pressure contours are included. This research provides a well-documented database taken across a range of Reynolds numbers and turbulence conditions for assessment of endwall heat transfer predictive …
Date: October 1, 2002
Creator: Ames, Forrest E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
DESIGN, FABRICATION, INSTALLATION AND TESTING OF IN-VESSEL CONTROL COILS FOR DIII-D (open access)

DESIGN, FABRICATION, INSTALLATION AND TESTING OF IN-VESSEL CONTROL COILS FOR DIII-D

OAK A271 DESIGN, FABRICATION, INSTALLATION AND TESTING OF IN-VESSEL CONTROL COILS FOR DIII-D. Since 1995, DIII-D has performed correction of magnetic field imperfections using a set of six external picture frame coils located on the vessel mid-plane. Recently, these coils have also demonstrated significant benefits when used for feedback of the resistive wall mode, an instability that limits the plasma performance at high beta. Modeling has shown that substantial performance improvements can be achieved by installing new coils inside the vessel and expanding the poloidal coverage above and below the mid-plane. Two prototype internal coils were installed in 2001 and have been tested successfully. installation of a set of twelve internal coils and magnetic sensors in the DIII-D tokamak is to be completed in December 2002. The design requirement for the new coil system was to maximize the magnetic field at the plasma edge, operate with a frequency range of dc to 1000 Hz, and fit behind the existing graphite wall tiles. The coil design adopted and installed is a water-cooled hollow copper conductor insulated with polyamide and housed inside a stainless steel tube that forms a vacuum boundary. The coil is rigidly mounted to the inside of the vacuum …
Date: October 1, 2002
Creator: Anderson, P. M.; Baxi, C. B.; Kellman, A. G.; Reis, E. E. & Robinson, J. I.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Dynamically Adaptive Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian Method for Hydrodynamics (open access)

A Dynamically Adaptive Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian Method for Hydrodynamics

A new method that combines staggered grid Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) techniques with structured local adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) has been developed for solution of the Euler equations. The novel components of the combined ALE-AMR method hinge upon the integration of traditional AMR techniques with both staggered grid Lagrangian operators as well as elliptic relaxation operators on moving, deforming mesh hierarchies. Numerical examples demonstrate the utility of the method in performing detailed three-dimensional shock-driven instability calculations.
Date: October 19, 2002
Creator: Anderson, R W; Pember, R B & Elliott, N S
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Duct Retrofit Strategy to Complement a Modulating Furnace. (open access)

Duct Retrofit Strategy to Complement a Modulating Furnace.

Some recent work (Walker 2001, Andrews 2002) has indicated that installing a modulating furnace in a conventional duct system may, in many cases, result in a significant degradation in thermal distribution efficiency. The fundamental mechanism was pointed out nearly two decades ago (Andrews and Krajewski 1985). The problem occurs in duct systems that are less-than-perfectly insulated (e.g., R-4 duct wrap) and are located outside the conditioned space. It stems from the fact that when the airflow rate is reduced, as it will be when the modulating furnace reduces its heat output rate, the supply air will have a longer residence time in the ducts and will therefore lose a greater percentage of its heat by conduction than it did at the higher airflow rate. The impact of duct leakage, on the other hand, is not expected to change very much under furnace modulation. The pressures in the duct system will be reduced when the airflow rate is reduced, thus reducing the leakage per unit time. This is balanced by the fact that the operating time will increase in order to meet the same heating load as with the conventional furnace operating at higher output and airflow rates. The balance would …
Date: October 2, 2002
Creator: Andrews, J. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library