Status of the ADMX and ADMX-HF experiments (open access)

Status of the ADMX and ADMX-HF experiments

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Date: April 23, 2013
Creator: Carosi, G. & van Bibber, K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tanks 18 And 19-F Structural Flowable Grout Fill Material Evaluation And Recommendations (open access)

Tanks 18 And 19-F Structural Flowable Grout Fill Material Evaluation And Recommendations

Cementitious grout will be used to close Tanks 18-F and 19-F. The functions of the grout are to: 1) physically stabilize the final landfill by filling the empty volume in the tanks with a non-compressible material; 2) provide a barrier for inadvertent intrusion into the tank; 3) reduce contaminant mobility by a) limiting the hydraulic conductivity of the closed tank and b) reducing contact between the residual waste and infiltrating water; and 4) providing an alkaline, chemically reducing environment in the closed tank to control speciation and solubility of selected radionuclides. The objective of this work was to identify a single (all-in-one) grout to stabilize and isolate the residual radionuclides in the tank, provide structural stability of the closed tank and serve as an inadvertent intruder barrier. This work was requested by V. A. Chander, High Level Waste (HLW) Tank Engineering, in HLW-TTR-2011-008. The complete task scope is provided in the Task Technical and QA Plan, SRNL-RP-2011-00587 Revision 0. The specific objectives of this task were to: 1) Identify new admixtures and dosages for formulating a zero bleed flowable tank fill material selected by HLW Tank Closure Project personnel based on earlier tank fill studies performed in 2007. The chemical …
Date: April 23, 2013
Creator: Langton, C. A. & Stefanko, D. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
There Goes the Neighborhood: Performance Degradation due to Nearby Jobs (open access)

There Goes the Neighborhood: Performance Degradation due to Nearby Jobs

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Date: April 23, 2013
Creator: Bhatele, A; Mohror, K; Langer, S H & Isaacs, K E
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Detection of the Characteristic Pion-Decay Signature in Supernova Remnants (open access)

Detection of the Characteristic Pion-Decay Signature in Supernova Remnants

Provides direct evidence that cosmic-ray protons are accelerated in SNRs.
Date: April 22, 2013
Creator: Ackermann, M.; Ajello, M.; Allafort, A.; Baldini, L.; Ballet, J.; Barbiellini, G. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of a Generalized Methodology for Soil-Structure Interaction Analysis Using Nonlinear Time-Domain TechniquesNEAMS Program, DOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE-41) (open access)

Development of a Generalized Methodology for Soil-Structure Interaction Analysis Using Nonlinear Time-Domain TechniquesNEAMS Program, DOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE-41)

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Date: April 22, 2013
Creator: Solberg, J. M.; Hossain, Q.; Blink, J. A.; Bohlen, S. R.; Mseis, G. & Greenberg, H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Feasibility Study of an e e- Ring Collider for Higgs Factory (open access)

A Feasibility Study of an e e- Ring Collider for Higgs Factory

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Date: April 22, 2013
Creator: Cai, Yunhai; Chao, Alex; Nosochkov, Yuri; Wienands, Uli & Zimmermann, Frank
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations of the Active Galaxy 4C 55.17: Steady, Hard Gamma-Ray Emission and its Implications (open access)

Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations of the Active Galaxy 4C 55.17: Steady, Hard Gamma-Ray Emission and its Implications

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Date: April 22, 2013
Creator: McConville, W.; Ostorero, L.; Moderski, R.; Stawarz, L.; Cheung, C. C.; Ajello, M. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Final Report for the University-Based Detector Research and Development for the International Linear Collider (open access)

Final Report for the University-Based Detector Research and Development for the International Linear Collider

The U.S Linear Collider Detector R&D program, supported by the DOE and NSF umbrella grants to the University of Oregon, made significant advances on many critical aspects of the ILC detector program. Progress advanced on vertex detector sensor development, silicon and TPC tracking, calorimetry on candidate technologies, and muon detection, as well as on beamline measurements of luminosity, energy, and polarization.
Date: April 22, 2013
Creator: Brau, James E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Memory-mapped Approach to Checkpointing (open access)

A Memory-mapped Approach to Checkpointing

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Date: April 22, 2013
Creator: Wong, D; Lloyd, G S & Gokhale, M B
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Micro-Anatomy Imager (open access)

Micro-Anatomy Imager

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Date: April 22, 2013
Creator: Demos, S G
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
NEXT GENERATION SOLAR COLLECTORS FOR CSP (open access)

NEXT GENERATION SOLAR COLLECTORS FOR CSP

ADVANCED REFLECTIVE FILMS AND PANELS FOR NEXT GENERATION SOLAR COLLECTORS
Date: April 22, 2013
Creator: Molnar, Attila & O'Neill, Mark
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Single-Spin Asymmetries in Semi-inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering and Drell-Yan Processes (open access)

Single-Spin Asymmetries in Semi-inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering and Drell-Yan Processes

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Date: April 22, 2013
Creator: Brodsky, Stanley J.; Hwang, Dae Sung; Kovchegov, Yuri V.; Schmidt, Ivan & Sievert, Matthew D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technical Letter Report Development of Flaw Size Distribution Tables Including Effects of Flaw Depth Sizing Errors for Draft 10CFR 50.61a (Alternate PTS Rule) JCN-N6398, Task 4 (open access)

Technical Letter Report Development of Flaw Size Distribution Tables Including Effects of Flaw Depth Sizing Errors for Draft 10CFR 50.61a (Alternate PTS Rule) JCN-N6398, Task 4

This document describes a new method to determine whether the flaws in a particular reactor pressure vessel are consistent with the assumptions regarding the number and sizes of flaws used in the analyses that formed the technical justification basis for the new voluntary alternative Pressurized Thermal Shock (PTS) rule (Draft 10 CFR 50.61a). The new methodology addresses concerns regarding prior methodology because ASME Code Section XI examinations do not detect all fabrication flaws, they have higher detection performance for some flaw types, and there are flaw sizing errors always present (e.g., significant oversizing of small flaws and systematic under sizing of larger flaws). The new methodology allows direct comparison of ASME Code Section XI examination results with values in the PTS draft rule Tables 2 and 3 in order to determine if the number and sizes of flaws detected by an ASME Code Section XI examination are consistent with those assumed in the probabilistic fracture mechanics calculations performed in support of the development of 10 CFR 50.61a.
Date: April 22, 2013
Creator: Simonen, Fredric A.; Gosselin, Stephen R. & Doctor, Steven R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
High-temperature-oxidation-induced ordered structure in Inconel 939 superalloy exposed to oxy-combustion environments (open access)

High-temperature-oxidation-induced ordered structure in Inconel 939 superalloy exposed to oxy-combustion environments

In the integrated oxy-fuel combustion and turbine power generation system, turbine alloys are exposed to high temperature and an atmosphere comprised of steam, CO2 and O2. While surface and internal oxidation of the alloy takes place, the microstructure in the subsurface region also changes due to oxidation that results in the loss of the strengthening precipitates. In an earlier study of the oxidation of Inconel 939 Ni-based superalloy exposed to oxy-fuel combustion environment for up to 1000 hours, a high-temperature-oxidation-induced phase transformation in the sub-surface region was noticed and a two-phase region formed at the expense of strengthening γ' phase. While one of the two phases was identified as the Ni-matrix (γ solid solution, face-center-cubic) phase, the other product phase remained unidentified. In this study, the crystal structure of the unknown phase and its orientation relationship with the parent Ni-matrix phase was investigated through electron diffraction and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. It was determined that the crystal structure of the unknown phase could be modeled as a ternary derivative of the ordered η-Ni3Ti phase (D024) structure with lattice parameters of a = 0.5092 nm and c = 0.8336 nm, α = 90º, β = 90º and γ = 120º.
Date: April 20, 2013
Creator: Zhu, Jingxi; Wise, Adam; Nuhfer, Thomas; Holcomb, Gordon R.; Jablonski, Paul D.; Sridhar, Seetharaman et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Modularity and adaptability (open access)

Modularity and adaptability

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Date: April 19, 2013
Creator: Banks, J W
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Physics from Lattice QCD (open access)

Nuclear Physics from Lattice QCD

This is the final report for this project.
Date: April 19, 2013
Creator: Orginos, Konstantinos
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
REGULATION OF CARBON SEQUESTRATION AND WATER USE IN A OZARK FOREST: PROPOSING A NEW STRATEGICALLY LOCATED AMERIFLUX TOWER SITE IN MISSOURI (open access)

REGULATION OF CARBON SEQUESTRATION AND WATER USE IN A OZARK FOREST: PROPOSING A NEW STRATEGICALLY LOCATED AMERIFLUX TOWER SITE IN MISSOURI

by June 14, 2004, the MOFLUX site was fully instrumented and data streams started to flow. A primary accomplished deliverable for the project period was the data streams of CO{sub 2} and water vapor fluxes and numerous meteorological variables (from which prepared datasets have been submitted to the AmeriFlux data archive for 2004-2006, Additionally, measurements of leaf biochemistry and physiology, biomass inventory, tree allometry, successional trends other variables were obtained.
Date: April 19, 2013
Creator: Pallardy, Stephen G
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Beam-beam observations in RHIC (open access)

Beam-beam observations in RHIC

N/A
Date: April 18, 2013
Creator: Y., Luo & Fischer, W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Data Measured on Water Collected from Fall River Springs, California (open access)

Data Measured on Water Collected from Fall River Springs, California

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Date: April 18, 2013
Creator: Rose, T P
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
INTERIM REPORT--INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION SURVEY OF SECTION 3, SURVEY UNITS 1, 4 AND 5 EXCAVATED SURFACES, WHITTAKER CORPORATION, REYNOLDS INDUSTRIAL PARK, TRANSFER, PENNSYLVANIA DCN: 5002-SR-04-0" (open access)

INTERIM REPORT--INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION SURVEY OF SECTION 3, SURVEY UNITS 1, 4 AND 5 EXCAVATED SURFACES, WHITTAKER CORPORATION, REYNOLDS INDUSTRIAL PARK, TRANSFER, PENNSYLVANIA DCN: 5002-SR-04-0"

At Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's request, ORAU's IEAV program conducted verification surveys on the excavated surfaces of Section 3, SUs 1, 4, and 5 at the Whittaker site on March 13 and 14, 2013. The survey activities included visual inspections, gamma radiation surface scans, gamma activity measurements, and soil sampling activities. Verification activities also included the review and assessment of the licensee�s project documentation and methodologies. Surface scans identified four areas of elevated direct gamma radiation distinguishable from background; one area within SUs 1 and 4 and two areas within SU5. One area within SU5 was remediated by removing a golf ball size piece of slag while ORAU staff was onsite. With the exception of the golf ball size piece of slag within SU5, a review of the ESL Section 3 EXS data packages for SUs 1, 4, and 5 indicated that these locations of elevated gamma radiation were also identified by the ESL gamma scans and that ESL personnel performed additional investigations and soil sampling within these areas. The investigative results indicated that the areas met the release criteria.
Date: April 18, 2013
Creator: ADAMS, WADE C
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Area Radiation Detector Revision Of Training Summary Report (open access)

Area Radiation Detector Revision Of Training Summary Report

N/A
Date: April 17, 2013
Creator: S., Musolino & McIntrye, Kathleen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of Magnetic Field on the Turbulent Wake of a Cylinder in MHD Channel Flow (open access)

Effects of Magnetic Field on the Turbulent Wake of a Cylinder in MHD Channel Flow

Results from a free-surface MHD flow experiment are presented detailing the modi cation of vortices in the wake of a circular cylinder with its axis parallel to the applied magnetic fi eld. Experiments were performed with a Reynolds number near Re ~ 104 as the interaction parameter, N = |j x#2; B| / |ρ (υ ⋅ ∇), was increased through unity. By concurrently sampling the downstream fluid velocity at sixteen cross-stream locations in the wake, it was possible to extract an ensemble of azimuthal velocity profi les as a function of radius for vortices shed by the cylinder at varying strengths of magnetic field. Results indicate a signi cant change in vortex radius and rotation as N is increased. The lack of deviations from the vortex velocity pro file at high magnetic fi elds suggests the absence of small-scale turbulent features. By sampling the wake at three locations downstream in subsequent experiments, the decay of the vortices was examined and the effective viscosity was found to decrease as N-049±0.4. This reduction in effective viscosity is due to the modi cation of the small-scale eddies by the magnetic fi eld. The slope of the energy spectrum was observed to change from …
Date: April 17, 2013
Creator: John Rhoads, Eric Edlund and Hantao Ji
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lorenz APIs and REST Services (open access)

Lorenz APIs and REST Services

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Date: April 17, 2013
Creator: Long, J W
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Miscibility Evaluation Of The Next Generation Solvent With Polymers Currently Used At DWPF, MCU, And Saltstone (open access)

Miscibility Evaluation Of The Next Generation Solvent With Polymers Currently Used At DWPF, MCU, And Saltstone

The Office of Waste Processing, within the Office of Technology Innovation and Development, funded the development of an enhanced Caustic-Side Solvent Extraction (CSSX) solvent for deployment at the Savannah River Site for removal of cesium from High Level Waste. This effort lead to the development of the Next Generation Solvent (NGS) with Tris (3,7-dimethyl octyl) guanidine (TiDG). The first deployment target for the NGS solvent is within the Modular CSSX Unit (MCU). Deployment of a new chemical within an existing facility requires verification that the new chemical components are compatible with the installed equipment. In the instance of a new organic solvent, the primary focus is on compatibility of the solvent with organic polymers used in the affected facility. This report provides the calculated data from exposing these polymers to the Next Generation Solvent. An assessment of the dimensional stability of polymers known to be used or present in the MCU, Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF), and Saltstone facilities that will be exposed to the NGS showed that TiDG could selectively affect the elastomers and some thermoplastics to varying extents, but the typical use of these polymers in a confined geometry will likely prevent the NGS from impacting component performance. …
Date: April 17, 2013
Creator: Fondeur, F. F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library