Measurement of the Behavior of a Plasma in a Magnetic Field by Means of Probes (open access)

Measurement of the Behavior of a Plasma in a Magnetic Field by Means of Probes

Abstract: "Probes were used to measure certain properties of the cloud of positive ions and electrons ejected from a pulsed ion source having two hydrogen-loaded electrodes. Time-of-flight measurements show: the presence of H+ ions with 50 ev directed energy; an increase of this energy with increasing pulse current in the source; a higher peak yield of ions with higher peak currents in the source; and higher yields and higher ion energies up to 110 ev have been recorded with the use of a pulsed magnetic field impressed upon the source. The neutral positive ion-electron beam from the source has been projected against an increasing magnetic field and the reflected and transmitted signals have been recorded and compared as a function of the magnetic field. Probe signals from the plasma as it encounters the magnetic field are oscillatory, suggesting that magnetohydrodynamic phenomena are presented."
Date: December 1, 1954
Creator: Bostick, W. H.; Zizzo, S. G. & Cook, Buford
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Physical Studies of Cell Division: Statistical Fluctuations; Effects Due to X-Radiation, Temperature, and Hydrostatic Pressure (open access)

Physical Studies of Cell Division: Statistical Fluctuations; Effects Due to X-Radiation, Temperature, and Hydrostatic Pressure

Thesis discussing "a technique for determining the generation times of individual yeast cells...the effect of x-radiation on the generation times of individual cells and their progeny..." and "attempts to synchronize cell division in a population of cells."
Date: December 9, 1954
Creator: Burns, Victor Will
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of Ionizing Radiation on Choline Chloride and Its Analogs (open access)

Effects of Ionizing Radiation on Choline Chloride and Its Analogs

Abstract: "Choline chloride and six analogs have been exposed in the dry, crystalline state to high-energy electron and gamma radiation. This investigation has confirmation the abnormal radiation sensitivity of choline chloride. Its G values (molecules decomposed/100 ev) were found to be: e- -radiation, 20; y-radiation, 175. These high values indicate a chain mechanism for the solid-state reaction. The G values for the choline analogs were found to range from 1 to 18 for the electron irradiations and from 1 to 32 for the gamma irradiations. Betaine hydrochloride approaches choline chloride in instability toward high-energy electrons but is far more stable in the presence of y-rays."
Date: December 1954
Creator: Lemmon, Richard M.; Parsons, Margaret A. & Chin, Doris M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Use of Thermal Electromotive Forces to Product Magnetic Field in a Controlled Thermonuclear Reactor (open access)

Use of Thermal Electromotive Forces to Product Magnetic Field in a Controlled Thermonuclear Reactor

The following report investigates the possible use of thermal emf's to produce the plasma-containing magnetic field in a thermonuclear reactor.
Date: December 27, 1954
Creator: Northrop, Theodore G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Acceleration of a Plasma by Time-Varying Magnetic Fields (open access)

Acceleration of a Plasma by Time-Varying Magnetic Fields

Abstract: An application of the magnetic mirror principle to the acceleration of a plasma is described. It is shown that an axially symmetric magnetic field which increases with time but decreases with distance along the axis can impart a net translational energy to a plasma. This effect on a plasma is contrasted with that arising from an impressed electric field, which is not effective in producing acceleration.
Date: December 6, 1954
Creator: Post, Richard F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Exact Analysis of Limited Plane Plasma in a Magnetic Field (open access)

An Exact Analysis of Limited Plane Plasma in a Magnetic Field

Introduction: "Prior analyses of a plasma in a magnetic field have been limited, as far as the writer is aware, to cases in which the relative change in field over the orbital distance and the relative change in ion concentration are both small, or in which the relations have been viewed in a purely hydrodynamical way. The first approach excludes cases which can be of considerable interests, for it fails near a plasma edge. The second loses all sight of the structure imposed by the orbital motions."
Date: December 2, 1954
Creator: Tonks, Lewi, 1897-1971
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library