Basic criticality relations for gas core design (open access)

Basic criticality relations for gas core design

Minimum critical fissile concentrations are calculated for U-233, U-235, Pu-239, and Am-242m mixed homogeneously with hydrogen at temperatures to 15,000K. Minimum critical masses of the same mixtures in a 1000 liter sphere are also calculated. It is shown that propellent efficiencies of a gas core fizzler engine using Am-242m as fuel would exceed those in a solid core engine as small as 1000L operating at 100 atmospheres pressure. The same would be true for Pu-239 and possibly U-233 at pressures of 1000 atm. or at larger volumes.
Date: May 22, 1992
Creator: Tanner, J. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Choice and meaning in the quantum universe (open access)

Choice and meaning in the quantum universe

This report discusses whether the events that occur in the universe evolve deterministicly or randomly or both. (LSP).
Date: May 22, 1992
Creator: Stapp, Henry P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Choice and meaning in the quantum universe (open access)

Choice and meaning in the quantum universe

This report discusses whether the events that occur in the universe evolve deterministicly or randomly or both. (LSP).
Date: May 22, 1992
Creator: Stapp, H. P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Charm physics at Fermilab E791 (open access)

Charm physics at Fermilab E791

Experiment 791 at Fermilab`s Tagged Photon Laboratory has just accumulated a high statistics charm sample by recording 20 billion events on 24000 8mm tapes. A 500 GeV/c {pi}{sup {minus}} beam was used with a fixed target and a magnetic spectrometer which now includes 23 silicon microstrip planes for vertex reconstruction. A new data acquisition system read out 9000 events/sec during the part of the Tevatron cycle that delivered beam. Digitization and readout took 50 {mu}S per event. Data was buffered in eight large FIFO memories to allow continuous event building and continuous tape writing to a wall of 42 Exabytes at 9.6 MB/sec. The 50 terabytes of data buffered to tape is now being filtered on RISC CPUs. Preliminary results show D{sup 0} {yields} K{sup {minus}}{pi}{sup +} and D{sup +} {yields} K{sup {minus}}{pi}{pi}{sup +} decays. Rarer decays will be pursued.
Date: May 26, 1992
Creator: Amato, S.; Anjos, J. C.; Bediaga, I.; Costa, I.; de Mello Neto, J. R. T.; de Miranda, J. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Charm physics at Fermilab E791 (open access)

Charm physics at Fermilab E791

Experiment 791 at Fermilab's Tagged Photon Laboratory has just accumulated a high statistics charm sample by recording 20 billion events on 24000 8mm tapes. A 500 GeV/c [pi][sup [minus]] beam was used with a fixed target and a magnetic spectrometer which now includes 23 silicon microstrip planes for vertex reconstruction. A new data acquisition system read out 9000 events/sec during the part of the Tevatron cycle that delivered beam. Digitization and readout took 50 [mu]S per event. Data was buffered in eight large FIFO memories to allow continuous event building and continuous tape writing to a wall of 42 Exabytes at 9.6 MB/sec. The 50 terabytes of data buffered to tape is now being filtered on RISC CPUs. Preliminary results show D[sup 0] [yields] K[sup [minus]][pi][sup +] and D[sup +] [yields] K[sup [minus]][pi][pi][sup +] decays. Rarer decays will be pursued.
Date: May 26, 1992
Creator: Amato, S.; Anjos, J. C.; Bediaga, I.; Costa, I.; de Mello Neto, J. R. T.; de Miranda, J. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library