Simulation of the Focusing DIRC Optics with Mathematica (open access)

Simulation of the Focusing DIRC Optics with Mathematica

The Focusing DIRC is considered for the Barrel PID at a possible Super-B factory. To reduce sensitivity to background, it would be desirable to reduce a size of the present BaBar photon detector. One way to do it is to replace it with a focusing optics and use smaller photon detector pixels. We have simulated the focusing optics with simulation software based on a 3D calculation performed with the Mathematica program. The software does not use Optica package, instead, it uses its own 3D algorithm. The advantage of the presented method is that it is transparent, fast and that it uses a full backing of the Mathematica graphics, and it does not require expertise to run Geat4 MC software.
Date: February 15, 2010
Creator: Va'vra, J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Measurements of Core and Compressed Shell Temperature and Density Conditions in Thick-Wall Target Implosions at OMEGA (open access)

Measurements of Core and Compressed Shell Temperature and Density Conditions in Thick-Wall Target Implosions at OMEGA

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Date: September 15, 2010
Creator: Florido, R.; Mancini, R. C.; Nagayama, T.; Tommasini, R.; Delettrez, J. A.; Regan, S. P. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Synthesis and Characterization of Oxide Feedstock Powders for the Fuel Cycle R&D Program (open access)

Synthesis and Characterization of Oxide Feedstock Powders for the Fuel Cycle R&D Program

Nuclear fuel feedstock properties, such as physical, chemical, and isotopic characteristics, have a significant impact on the fuel fabrication process and, by extension, the in-reactor fuel performance. This has been demonstrated through studies with UO{sub 2} spanning greater than 50 years. The Fuel Cycle R&D Program with The Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy has initiated an effort to develop a better understanding of the relationships between oxide feedstock, fresh fuel properties, and in-reactor fuel performance for advanced mixed oxide compositions. Powder conditioning studies to enable the use of less than ideal powders for ceramic fuel pellet processing are ongoing at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and an understanding of methods to increase the green density and homogeneity of pressed pellets has been gained for certain powders. Furthermore, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is developing methods for the co-conversion of mixed oxides along with techniques to analyze the degree of mixing. Experience with the fabrication of fuel pellets using co-synthesized multi-constituent materials is limited. In instances where atomically mixed solid solutions of two or more species are needed, traditional ceramic processing methods have been employed. Solution-based processes may be considered viable synthesis options, including co-precipitation (AUPuC), direct precipitation, direct-conversion …
Date: September 1, 2010
Creator: Voit, Stewart L.; Vedder, Raymond James & Johnson, Jared A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Theoretical interpretation of high-energy nuclear collisions. (open access)

Theoretical interpretation of high-energy nuclear collisions.

Nuclear collisions are interpreted theoretically. The nuclear equation of state is studied in a wide energy range. Subnucleonic degrees of freedom are invoked at high energy densities and at short length-scales. Questions of dynamical collision simulations are investigated. Direct support is provided for experiment in the form of collaborative projects. The major objective of this nuclear theory program is a better understanding of the properties of strongly interacting matter on the nuclear energy scale, as manifested in high-energy heavy-ion collisions.
Date: 2010~
Creator: Fai, G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bragg Experimental SensorNet Testbed (BEST) (open access)

Bragg Experimental SensorNet Testbed (BEST)

The principal causative objectives of BEST were to consolidate the 9-1-1 and emergency response services into an Integrated Incident Management Center (I2MC) and to establish an 'Interoperability framework' based on SensorNet protocols to allow additional components to be added to the I2MC over time.
Date: January 25, 2010
Creator: Gorman, Bryan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The ArgoNeuT experiment (open access)

The ArgoNeuT experiment

ArgoNeuT is a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber neutrino experiment that recently completed its physics run in the NuMI beamline at Fermilab. Along with research and design for future LArTPCs, the experiments goals include performing a number of neutrino and anti-neutrino cross section measurements. Also, ArgoNeuT hopes to further the understanding of the nuclear physics involved in neutrino scattering by characterizing the low energy protons created in such interactions.
Date: January 1, 2010
Creator: Spitz, J. & U., /Yale
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Deployment Effects of Marine Renewable Energy Technologies: Wave Energy Scenarios (open access)

Deployment Effects of Marine Renewable Energy Technologies: Wave Energy Scenarios

Given proper care in siting, design, deployment, operation and maintenance, wave energy conversion could become one of the more environmentally benign sources of electricity generation. In order to accelerate the adoption of these emerging hydrokinetic and marine energy technologies, navigational and environmental concerns must be identified and addressed. All developing hydrokinetic projects involve a wide variety of stakeholders. One of the key issues that site developers face as they engage with this range of stakeholders is that, due to a lack of technical certainty, many of the possible conflicts (e.g., shipping and fishing) and environmental issues are not well-understood,. In September 2008, re vision consulting, LLC was selected by the Department of Energy (DoE) to apply a scenario-based assessment to the emerging hydrokinetic technology sector in order to evaluate the potential impact of these technologies on the marine environment and navigation constraints. The project’s scope of work includes the establishment of baseline scenarios for wave and tidal power conversion at potential future deployment sites. The scenarios capture variations in technical approaches and deployment scales to properly identify and characterize environmental effects and navigational effects. The goal of the project is to provide all stakeholders with an improved understanding of the …
Date: June 17, 2010
Creator: Previsic, Mirko
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
NREL's Industry Growth Forum Boosts Clean Energy Commercialization Efforts (Fact Sheet) (open access)

NREL's Industry Growth Forum Boosts Clean Energy Commercialization Efforts (Fact Sheet)

For more than a decade, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) Industry Growth Forum has been the nation's premier event for early-stage clean energy investment. The forum features presentations from the most innovative, promising, and emergent clean energy companies; provocative panels led by thought leaders; and organized networking opportunities. It is the perfect venue for growing cleantech companies to present their business to a wide range of investors.
Date: December 1, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Insect Herbivore Microbiome with High Plant Biomass-Degrading Capacity (open access)

An Insect Herbivore Microbiome with High Plant Biomass-Degrading Capacity

Herbivores can gain indirect access to recalcitrant carbon present in plant cell walls through symbiotic associations with lignocellulolytic microbes. A paradigmatic example is the leaf-cutter ant (Tribe: Attini), which uses fresh leaves to cultivate a fungus for food in specialized gardens. Using a combination of sugar composition analyses, metagenomics, and whole-genome sequencing, we reveal that the fungus garden microbiome of leaf-cutter ants is composed of a diverse community of bacteria with high plant biomass-degrading capacity. Comparison of this microbiome?s predicted carbohydrate-degrading enzyme profile with other metagenomes shows closest similarity to the bovine rumen, indicating evolutionary convergence of plant biomass degrading potential between two important herbivorous animals. Genomic and physiological characterization of two dominant bacteria in the fungus garden microbiome provides evidence of their capacity to degrade cellulose. Given the recent interest in cellulosic biofuels, understanding how large-scale and rapid plant biomass degradation occurs in a highly evolved insect herbivore is of particular relevance for bioenergy.
Date: September 23, 2010
Creator: Suen, Garret; Barry, Kerrie; Goodwin, Lynne; Scott, Jarrod; Aylward, Frank; Adams, Sandra et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
IBS for non-gaussian distributions (open access)

IBS for non-gaussian distributions

In many situations distribution can significantly deviate from Gaussian which requires accurate treatment of IBS. Our original interest in this problem was motivated by the need to have an accurate description of beam evolution due to IBS while distribution is strongly affected by the external electron cooling force. A variety of models with various degrees of approximation were developed and implemented in BETACOOL in the past to address this topic. A more complete treatment based on the friction coefficient and full 3-D diffusion tensor was introduced in BETACOOL at the end of 2007 under the name 'local IBS model'. Such a model allowed us calculation of IBS for an arbitrary beam distribution. The numerical benchmarking of this local IBS algorithm and its comparison with other models was reported before. In this paper, after briefly describing the model and its limitations, they present its comparison with available experimental data.
Date: September 27, 2010
Creator: Fedotov, A.; Sidorin, A.O. & Smirnov, A.V.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Charmed Hadron Physics at BABAR (open access)

Charmed Hadron Physics at BABAR

We present a study of the D{sup +}{pi}{sup -}, D{sup 0}{pi}{sup +}, and D*{sup +}{pi}{sup -} systems in inclusive e{sup +}e{sup -} {yields} c{bar c} interactions in a search for new excited D meson states. We use a dataset, consisting of {approx}454 fb{sup -1}, collected at center-of-mass energies near 10.58 GeV by the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric-energy collider. We observe, for the first time, candidates for the radial excitations of the D{sup 0}, D*{sup 0}, and D*{sup +}, as well as the L = 2 excited states of the D{sup 0} and D{sup +}, where L is the orbital angular momentum of the quarks.
Date: December 16, 2010
Creator: Benitez, Jose
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Titanium-Alloy Power Capacitor: High-Power Titanate Capacitor for Power Electronics (open access)

Titanium-Alloy Power Capacitor: High-Power Titanate Capacitor for Power Electronics

ADEPT Project: There is a constant demand for better performing, more compact, lighter weight, and lower cost electronic devices. Unfortunately, the materials traditionally used to make components for electronic devices have reached their limits. Case Western is developing capacitors made of new materials that could be used to produce the next generation of compact and efficient high-powered consumer electronics and electronic vehicles. A capacitor is an important component of an electronic device. It stores an electric charge and then discharges it into an electrical circuit in the device. Case Western is creating its capacitors from titanium, an abundant material extracted from ore which can be found in the U.S. Case Western's capacitors store electric charges on the surfaces of films, which are grown on a titanium alloy electrode that is formed as a spinal column with attached branches. The new material and spine design make the capacitor smaller and lighter than traditional capacitors, and they enable the component to store 300% more energy than capacitors of the same weight made of tantalum, the current industry standard. Case Western's titanium-alloy capacitors also spontaneously self-repair, which prolongs their life.
Date: September 1, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Neutrino physics today, important issues and the future (open access)

Neutrino physics today, important issues and the future

The status and the most important issues in neutrino physics will be summarized as well as how the current, pressing questions will be addressed by future experiments. Since the discovery of neutrino flavor transitions by the SuperKamiokande experiment in 1998, which demonstrates that neutrinos change and hence their clocks tick, i.e. they are not traveling at the speed of light and hence are not massless, the field of neutrino physics has made remarkable progress in untangling the nature of the neutrino. However, there are still many important questions to answer.
Date: October 1, 2010
Creator: Parke, Stephen J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
PRIDE Surveillance Projects Data Packaging Project Information Package Specification Version 1.1 (open access)

PRIDE Surveillance Projects Data Packaging Project Information Package Specification Version 1.1

Information Package Specification version 1.1 describes an XML document format called an information package that can be used to store information in information management systems and other information archives. An information package consists of package information, the context required to understand and use that information, package metadata that describes the information, and XML signatures that protect the information. The information package described in this specification was designed to store Department of Energy (DOE) and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) information and includes the metadata required for that information: a unique package identifier, information marking that conforms to DOE and NNSA requirements, and access control metadata. It is an implementation of the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model archival information package tailored to meet NNSA information storage requirements and designed to be used in the computing environments at the Y-12 National Security Complex and at other NNSA sites.
Date: August 31, 2010
Creator: Kelleher, D. M.; Shipp, R. L. & Mason, J. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Potential nanotechnology applications for reducing freshwater consumption at coal fired power plants : an early view. (open access)

Potential nanotechnology applications for reducing freshwater consumption at coal fired power plants : an early view.

This report was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) Existing Plants Research Program, which has an energy-water research effort that focuses on water use at power plants. This study complements the overall research effort of the Existing Plants Research Program by evaluating water issues that could impact power plants. A growing challenge to the economic production of electricity from coal-fired power plants is the demand for freshwater, particularly in light of the projected trends for increasing demands and decreasing supplies of freshwater. Nanotechnology uses the unique chemical, physical, and biological properties that are associated with materials at the nanoscale to create and use materials, devices, and systems with new functions and properties. It is possible that nanotechnology may open the door to a variety of potentially interesting ways to reduce freshwater consumption at power plants. This report provides an overview of how applications of nanotechnology could potentially help reduce freshwater use at coal-fired power plants. It was developed by (1) identifying areas within a coal-fired power plant's operations where freshwater use occurs and could possibly be reduced, (2) conducting a literature review to identify potential applications of nanotechnology for facilitating such reductions, and …
Date: September 17, 2010
Creator: Elcock, D. (Environmental Science Division)
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Assessment of Molecular Dynamic Force Fields for Silica for Use in Simulating Laser Damage Mitigation (open access)

An Assessment of Molecular Dynamic Force Fields for Silica for Use in Simulating Laser Damage Mitigation

We compare force fields (FF's) that have been used in molecular dynamic (MD) simulations of silica in order to assess their applicability for use in simulating IR-laser damage mitigation. Although pairwise FF?s obtained by fitting quantum mechanical calculations such as the BKS and CHIK potentials have been shown to reproduce many of the properties of silica including the stability of silica polymorphs and the densification of the liquid, we show that melting temperatures and fictive temperatures are much too high. Softer empirical force fields give liquid and glass properties at experimental temperatures but may not predict all properties important to laser mitigation experiments.
Date: October 21, 2010
Creator: Soules, T F; Gilmer, G H; Matthews, M J; Stolken, J S & Feit, M D
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Li+ alumino-silicate ion source development for the Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment (NDCX) (open access)

Li+ alumino-silicate ion source development for the Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment (NDCX)

We report results on lithium alumino-silicate ion source development in preparation for warmdense-matter heating experiments on the new Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment (NDCXII). The practical limit to the current density for a lithium alumino-silicate source is determined by the maximum operating temperature that the ion source can withstand before running into problems of heat transfer, melting of the alumino-silicate material, and emission lifetime. Using small prototype emitters, at a temperature of ~;;1275 oC, a space-charge-limited Li+ beam current density of J ~;;1 mA/cm2 was obtained. The lifetime of the ion source was ~;;50 hours while pulsing at a rate of 0.033 Hz with a pulse duration of 5-6 mu s.
Date: October 1, 2010
Creator: Roy, Prabir K.; Greenway, Wayne G.; Kwan, Joe W.; Seidl, Peter A.; Waldron, William L. & Wu, James K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
New Particle-in-Cell Code for Numerical Simulation of Coherent Synchrotron Radiation (open access)

New Particle-in-Cell Code for Numerical Simulation of Coherent Synchrotron Radiation

We present a first look at the new code for self-consistent, 2D simulations of beam dynamics affected by the coherent synchrotron radiation. The code is of the particle-in-cell variety: the beam bunch is sampled by point-charge particles, which are deposited on the grid; the corresponding forces on the grid are then computed using retarded potentials according to causality, and interpolated so as to advance the particles in time. The retarded potentials are evaluated by integrating over the 2D path history of the bunch, with the charge and current density at the retarded time obtained from interpolation of the particle distributions recorded at discrete timesteps. The code is benchmarked against analytical results obtained for a rigid-line bunch. We also outline the features and applications which are currently being developed.
Date: May 1, 2010
Creator: Balsa Terzic, Rui Li
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Microstructural Studies of Uranium-7wt%Molybdenum/Aluminum-2wt%Silicon Dispersion Fuel (open access)

Microstructural Studies of Uranium-7wt%Molybdenum/Aluminum-2wt%Silicon Dispersion Fuel

Document is a thesis.
Date: November 1, 2010
Creator: Miller, Brandon D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Magnetically applied pressure-shear : a new technique for direct strength measurement at high pressure (final report for LDRD project 117856). (open access)

Magnetically applied pressure-shear : a new technique for direct strength measurement at high pressure (final report for LDRD project 117856).

A new experimental technique to measure material shear strength at high pressures has been developed for use on magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) drive pulsed power platforms. By applying an external static magnetic field to the sample region, the MHD drive directly induces a shear stress wave in addition to the usual longitudinal stress wave. Strength is probed by passing this shear wave through a sample material where the transmissible shear stress is limited to the sample strength. The magnitude of the transmitted shear wave is measured via a transverse VISAR system from which the sample strength is determined.
Date: September 1, 2010
Creator: Lamppa, Derek C.; Haill, Thomas A.; Alexander, C. Scott & Asay, James Russell
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
REVISED INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION SURVEY OF A AND B RADIOACTIVE WASTE TRANSFER LINES TRENCH BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY (open access)

REVISED INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION SURVEY OF A AND B RADIOACTIVE WASTE TRANSFER LINES TRENCH BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY

REVISED INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION SURVEY OF THE A AND B RADIOACTIVE WASTE TRANSFER LINES TRENCH, BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY 5062-SR-01-1
Date: February 10, 2010
Creator: Weaver, P. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advanced Test Reactor Core Modeling Update Project Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2010 (open access)

Advanced Test Reactor Core Modeling Update Project Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2010

Legacy computational reactor physics software tools and protocols currently used for support of Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) core fuel management and safety assurance and, to some extent, experiment management are obsolete, inconsistent with the state of modern nuclear engineering practice, and are becoming increasingly difficult to properly verify and validate (V&V). Furthermore, the legacy staff knowledge required for application of these tools and protocols from the 1960s and 1970s is rapidly being lost due to staff turnover and retirements. In 2009 the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) initiated a focused effort to address this situation through the introduction of modern high-fidelity computational software and protocols, with appropriate V&V, within the next 3-4 years via the ATR Core Modeling and Simulation and V&V Update (or “Core Modeling Update”) Project. This aggressive computational and experimental campaign will have a broad strategic impact on the operation of the ATR, both in terms of improved computational efficiency and accuracy for support of ongoing DOE programs as well as in terms of national and international recognition of the ATR National Scientific User Facility (NSUF).
Date: September 1, 2010
Creator: Aryaeinejad, Rahmat; Crawford, Douglas S.; DeHart, Mark D.; Griffith, George W.; Lucas, D. Scott; Nielsen, Joseph W. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Commercial and Cost Effective Production of Two-Dimensional Read-Out Boards for Sub-Atomic Particle Detectors (open access)

Commercial and Cost Effective Production of Two-Dimensional Read-Out Boards for Sub-Atomic Particle Detectors

We report results from research aimed at developing and demonstrating production of 2-D readout structures for GEM (Gas Electron Multiplier) charged particle tracking chambers at Tech-Etch. Readout boards of two types, bi-planar and single plane, were fabricated and evaluated. The results show that Tech-Etch can produce suitable boards of either type however the single plane board has a number of advantages both in production and use that will likely make it the preferred choice for GEM tracking chambers.
Date: October 22, 2010
Creator: Crary, David & Majka, Richard
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
BEAM CONTAINMENT SYSTEM FOR NSLS-II (open access)

BEAM CONTAINMENT SYSTEM FOR NSLS-II

The shielding design for the NSLS-II will provide adequate protection for the full injected beam loss in two periods of the ring around the injection point, but the remainder of the ring is shielded for lower losses of {le} 10% full beam. This will require a system to insure that beam losses don't exceed these levels for a period of time that could cause excessive radiation levels outside the shield walls. This beam containment system will measure, provide a level of control and alarm indication of the beam power losses along the beam path from the source (e-gun, linac) thru the injection system and the storage ring. This system will consist of collimators that will provide limits to (and potentially to measure) the beam miss-steering and control the loss points of the charge and monitors that will measure the average beam current losses along the beam path and alarm when this beam power loss exceeds the level set by the shielding specifications. This will require some new ideas in beam loss detection capability and collimation. The initial planning and R&D program will be presented.
Date: May 23, 2010
Creator: Kramer, S. L.; Casey, W. & Job, P. K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library