RHIC AC Dipole Design and Construction (open access)

RHIC AC Dipole Design and Construction

Two ac dipoles with vertical and horizontal magnetic field have been proposed at RHIC for applications in linear and non-linear beam dynamics and spin manipulations. A magnetic field amplitude of 380 Gm is required to produce a coherent oscillation of 5 times the rms beam size at the top energy. We take the ac dipole frequency to be 1.0% of the revolution frequency away from the betatron frequency. To achieve the strong magnetic field with minimum power loss, an air-core magnet with two seven turn winding of low loss Litz wire resonating at 64 kHz is designed. The system is also designed to allow one to connect the two magnet winding in series to resonate at 37 kHz for the spin manipulation. Measurements of a half length prototype magnet are also presented.
Date: June 18, 2001
Creator: Bai, M.; Meth, M.; Pai, C.; Parker, B.; Peggs, S.; Roser, T. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
RHIC AC Dipole Design and Construction (open access)

RHIC AC Dipole Design and Construction

Two ac dipoles with vertical and horizontal magnetic field have been proposed at RHIC for applications in linear and non-linear beam dynamics and spin manipulations. A magnetic field amplitude of 380 Gm is required to produce a coherent oscillation of 5 times the rms beam size at the top energy. We take the ac dipole frequency to be 1.0% of the revolution frequency away from the betatron frequency. To achieve the strong magnetic field with minimum power loss, an air-core magnet with two seven turn winding of low loss Litz wire resonating at 64 kHz is designed. The system is also designed to allow one to connect the two magnet winding in series to resonate at 37 kHz for the spin manipulation. Measurements of a half length prototype magnet are also presented.
Date: June 18, 2001
Creator: Bai, M.; Meth, M.; Pai, C.; Parker, B.; Peggs, S.; Roser, T. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Contracting in Iraq: Issues and Options for Congress (open access)

Defense Contracting in Iraq: Issues and Options for Congress

This report examines logistical support contracts for troop support services in Iraq, primarily administered through the U.S. Army's Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP).
Date: June 18, 2008
Creator: Bailey Grasso, Valerie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Final Report - Independent Confirmatory Survey Summary and Results for the Hematite Decommissioning Project (open access)

Final Report - Independent Confirmatory Survey Summary and Results for the Hematite Decommissioning Project

The objectives of the confirmatory surveys were to provide independent contractor field data reviews and to generate independent radiological data for use by the NRC in evaluating the adequacy and accuracy of the licensee’s procedures and survey results.
Date: March 18, 2009
Creator: Bailey, E.N.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
GLOBAL OBSERVATIONS FROM PHOBOS. (open access)

GLOBAL OBSERVATIONS FROM PHOBOS.

Particle production in Au+Au collisions has been measured in the PHOBOS experiment at RHIC for a range of collision energies. Three empirical observations have emerged from this dataset which require theoretical examination. First, there is clear evidence of limiting fragmentation. Namely, particle production in central Au + Au collisions, when expressed as dN/d{eta}{prime} ({eta}{prime} {triple_bond} {eta} - y{sub beam}), becomes energy independent at high energy for a broad region of {eta}{prime} around {eta}{prime} = 0. This energy-independent region grows with energy, allowing only a limited region (if any) of longitudinal boost-invariance. Second, there is a striking similarity between particle production in e{sup +}e{sup -} and Au + Au collisions (scaled by the number of participating nucleon pairs). Both the total number of produced particles and the longitudinal distribution of produced particles are approximately the same in e{sup +}e{sup -} and in scaled Au + Au. This observation was not predicted and has not been explained. Finally, particle production has been found to scale approximately with the number of participating nucleon pairs for <N{sub part}> > 65. This scaling occurs both for the total multiplicity and for high p{sub T} particles (3 < p{sub T} < 4.5 GeV/c).
Date: July 18, 2002
Creator: Baker, M. D. & COLLABORATION, FOR THE PHOBOS
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Practical superconductor development for electrical power applications - annual report for FY 2003. (open access)

Practical superconductor development for electrical power applications - annual report for FY 2003.

Most large-scale applications of high-critical-temperature superconductors will require conductors that can carry large currents in the presence of applied magnetic fields. This report describes progress at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) in the research and development of practical superconducting components and devices. These efforts primarily focus on the use of Y-Ba-Cu-O system in second-generation conductors, but they also include investigations of Bi-Pb-Sr-Ca-Cu-O systems for use in first-generation conductors. Results are presented in the areas of processing first-generation superconductors and second-generation (2G) superconductors with several different architectures, applying Raman microscopy to the characterization of 2G conductors, studying the role of oxygen doping in the grain boundary transport of 2G conductors, and evaluating the mechanical properties of 2G conductors.
Date: October 18, 2004
Creator: Balachandran, U.; Baurceanu, R.; Clauss, H.; Dorris, S. E.; Emerson, J. E.; Erck, R. A et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of dense ceramic membranes for hydrogen separation. (open access)

Development of dense ceramic membranes for hydrogen separation.

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Date: October 18, 2001
Creator: Balachandran, U.; Lee, T. H.; Wang, S.; Dorris, S. E. & Rothenberger, K. S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electronic Structure of Transition Metal Clusters, Actinide Complexes and Their Reactivities (open access)

Electronic Structure of Transition Metal Clusters, Actinide Complexes and Their Reactivities

This is a continuing DOE-BES funded project on transition metal and actinide containing species, aimed at the electronic structure and spectroscopy of transition metal and actinide containing species. While a long term connection of these species is to catalysis and environmental management of high-level nuclear wastes, the immediate relevance is directly to other DOE-BES funded experimental projects at DOE-National labs and universities. There are a number of ongoing gas-phase spectroscopic studies of these species at various places, and our computational work has been inspired by these experimental studies and we have also inspired other experimental and theoretical studies. Thus our studies have varied from spectroscopy of diatomic transition metal carbides to large complexes containing transition metals, and actinide complexes that are critical to the environment. In addition, we are continuing to make code enhancements and modernization of ALCHEMY II set of codes and its interface with relativistic configuration interaction (RCI). At present these codes can carry out multi-reference computations that included up to 60 million configurations and multiple states from each such CI expansion. ALCHEMY II codes have been modernized and converted to a variety of platforms such as Windows XP, and Linux. We have revamped the symbolic CI code …
Date: July 18, 2009
Creator: Balasubramanian, Krishnan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Legal Issues Related to Proposed Drilling for Oil and Gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) (open access)

Legal Issues Related to Proposed Drilling for Oil and Gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)

This report outlines legal issues around permit drilling for oil and gas in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), Alaska as background for congressional legislation. Updated March 18, 2023.
Date: March 18, 2003
Creator: Baldwin, Pamela
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The National Forest System Roadless Areas Initiative (open access)

The National Forest System Roadless Areas Initiative

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Date: May 18, 2001
Creator: Baldwin, Pamela
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act and Federal Water Rights (open access)

The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act and Federal Water Rights

This report examines the purposes, language, and legislative history of the act in order to analyze its effects on federal and state water rights.
Date: January 18, 2001
Creator: Baldwin, Pamela
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy Policy: Conceptual Framework and Continuing Issues (open access)

Energy Policy: Conceptual Framework and Continuing Issues

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Date: January 18, 2006
Creator: Bamberger, Robert
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Strategic Petroleum Reserve (open access)

Strategic Petroleum Reserve

This report includes information regarding strategic petroleum reserve. Background, purchases of crude oil, and drawdown capability are among topics discussed in this report.
Date: July 18, 2005
Creator: Bamberger, Robert
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: History, Perspectives, and Issues (open access)

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: History, Perspectives, and Issues

This report offers a brief history of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in the Energy Policy and Conservation Act. It discusses the establishment of a regional home heating oil reserve and addresses the question when the SPR should be used.
Date: September 18, 2008
Creator: Bamberger, Robert
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: History, Perspectives, and Issues (open access)

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: History, Perspectives, and Issues

This reports discusses the history and establishment of Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), acquisition of crude oil for the SPR. It talks about the debate over the years regarding when should the SPR be used.
Date: August 18, 2009
Creator: Bamberger, Robert
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy Policy: Setting the Stage for the Current Debate (open access)

Energy Policy: Setting the Stage for the Current Debate

The Bush Administration issued its plan for a national energy policy on May 16, 2001. The plan was controversial, characterized by some as leaner on conservation and renewables than Democratic proposals, and predisposed to trade off environmental considerations to increase supply. Comprehensive energy legislation was introduced in the Senate by both parties by late March (S. 388, S. 389, S. 596, S. 597). Bills reported by several House committees (H.R. 2436, H.R. 2460, H.R. 2511, and H.R. 2587) were combined in a single bill, H.R. 4, passed by the House, August 1, 2001. The House version of H.R. 4 would require a 5 billion gallon reduction in light-duty truck and SUV fuel consumption and would open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to leasing.
Date: November 18, 2002
Creator: Bamberger, Robert L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Measurements and Modeling of Coherent Synchrotron Radiation and its Impact on the LCLS Electron Beam (open access)

Measurements and Modeling of Coherent Synchrotron Radiation and its Impact on the LCLS Electron Beam

In order to reach the high peak current required for an x-ray free electron laser, two separate magnetic dipole chicanes are used in the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) accelerator to compress the electron bunch length in stages. In these bunch compressors, coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) can be emitted either by a short electron bunch or by any longitudinal density modulation that may be on the bunch. In this paper, we report detailed measurements of the CSR-induced energy loss and transverse emittance growth in these compressors. Good agreement is found between the experimental results and multi-particle tracking studies. We also describe direct observations of CSR at optical wavelengths and compare with analytical models based on beam microbunching.
Date: December 18, 2008
Creator: Bane, K. L. F.; Decker, F. J.; Ding, Y.; Dowell, D.; Emma, P.; Frisch, J. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lepton Flavor Violation in Tau Decays at BABAR (open access)

Lepton Flavor Violation in Tau Decays at BABAR

Searches for lepton flavor violating tau {yields} l gamma, tau {yields} lhh decays at the BABAR experiment are presented. Upper limits on the branching ratios are obtained at the level of O(10{sup -7}) at 90% confidence level.
Date: January 18, 2006
Creator: Banerjee, Swagato
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nanotechnology Based Environmentally Robust Primers (open access)

Nanotechnology Based Environmentally Robust Primers

An initiator device structure consisting of an energetic metallic nano-laminate foil coated with a sol-gel derived energetic nano-composite has been demonstrated. The device structure consists of a precision sputter deposition synthesized nano-laminate energetic foil of non-toxic and non-hazardous metals along with a ceramic-based energetic sol-gel produced coating made up of non-toxic and non-hazardous components such as ferric oxide and aluminum metal. Both the nano-laminate and sol-gel technologies are versatile commercially viable processes that allow the ''engineering'' of properties such as mechanical sensitivity and energy output. The nano-laminate serves as the mechanically sensitive precision igniter and the energetic sol-gel functions as a low-cost, non-toxic, non-hazardous booster in the ignition train. In contrast to other energetic nanotechnologies these materials can now be safely manufactured at application required levels, are structurally robust, have reproducible and engineerable properties, and have excellent aging characteristics.
Date: March 18, 2003
Creator: Barbee, T. W., Jr.; Gash, A. E.; Satcher, J. H. Jr. & Simpson, R. L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Top results from the Tevatron (open access)

Top results from the Tevatron

This paper summarizes the latest measurements of the properties of the top quark as determined by the CDF and D0 collaborations during the first run of the Fermilab Tevatron p{bar p} collider (1992-1996). Prospects for future measurements of the top quark at the upgraded Tevatron collider are also presented.
Date: January 18, 2002
Creator: Barberis, E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Strontium and Actinides Removal from Savannah River Site Actual Waste Samples by Freshly Precipitated Manganese Oxide (open access)

Strontium and Actinides Removal from Savannah River Site Actual Waste Samples by Freshly Precipitated Manganese Oxide

The authors investigated the performance of freshly precipitated manganese oxide and monosodium titanate (MST) for the removal of strontium (Sr) and actinides from actual high-level waste. Manganese oxide precipitation occurs upon addition of a reductant such as formate (HCO2-) or peroxide (H2O2) to a waste solution containing permanganate (MnO4-). An addition of non-radioactive strontium typically precedes the MnO4- and reductant addition, which serves primarily to isotopically dilute the strontium-90 (90Sr) present in the waste. Tests utilized a Tank 37H/44F composite waste solution. Personnel significantly increased the concentration of actinides in the waste by the addition of acidic americium/curium solution (F-Canyon Tank 17.1 solution), which contained a significant quantity of plutonium (Pu), and neptunium-237 (237Np) stock solution. Initial tests examined three manganese oxide treatment options.
Date: October 18, 2002
Creator: Barnes, M.J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Crystal Level Continuum Modeling of Phase Transformations: The (alpha) <--> (epsilon) Transformation in Iron (open access)

Crystal Level Continuum Modeling of Phase Transformations: The (alpha) <--> (epsilon) Transformation in Iron

We present a crystal level model for thermo-mechanical deformation with phase transformation capabilities. The model is formulated to allow for large pressures (on the order of the elastic moduli) and makes use of a multiplicative decomposition of the deformation gradient. Elastic and thermal lattice distortions are combined into a single lattice stretch to allow the model to be used in conjunction with general equation of state relationships. Phase transformations change the mass fractions of the material constituents. The driving force for phase transformations includes terms arising from mechanical work, from the temperature dependent chemical free energy change on transformation, and from interaction energy among the constituents. Deformation results from both these phase transformations and elasto-viscoplastic deformation of the constituents themselves. Simulation results are given for the {alpha} to {epsilon} phase transformation in iron. Results include simulations of shock induced transformation in single crystals and of compression of polycrystals. Results are compared to available experimental data.
Date: October 18, 2004
Creator: Barton, N R; Benson, D J; Becker, R; Bykov, Y & Caplan, M
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Waste Tank Heels and Heel Simulants (open access)

Waste Tank Heels and Heel Simulants

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Date: May 18, 2009
Creator: Barton, W. B.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Overview of High Energy Short Pulse Technology for Advanced Radiography of Laser Fusion Experiments (open access)

An Overview of High Energy Short Pulse Technology for Advanced Radiography of Laser Fusion Experiments

The technical challenges and motivations for high-energy, short-pulse generation with NIF-class, Nd:glass laser systems are reviewed. High energy short pulse generation (multi-kilojoule, picosecond pulses) will be possible via the adaptation of chirped pulse amplification laser techniques on the NIF. Development of meter-scale, high efficiency, high-damage-threshold final optics is a key technical challenge. In addition, deployment of HEPW pulses on NIF is constrained by existing laser infrastructure and requires new, compact compressor designs and short-pulse, fiber-based, seed-laser systems. The key motivations for high energy petawatt pulses on NIF is briefly outlined and includes high-energy, x-ray radiography, proton beam radiography, proton isochoric heating and tests of the fast ignitor concept for inertial confinement fusion.
Date: June 18, 2004
Creator: Barty, C. J.; Key, M.; Britten, J.; Beach, R.; Beer, G.; Brown, C. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library