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The Specific Heat of Dysprosium Metal Between 0.4 and 4 K

Description: Submitted to Illinois Inst. of Tech., Chicago. A He/sup 3/ cryostat was built to measure the specific heat of rare earth metals which have a component, at low temperatures, attributable to the electrons in the incomplete 4f shell. The specific heat of dysprosium from 0.4 to 4.2 deg K was measured. Pertinent theories about specific heats are outlined. The apparatus included the cryostat, vacuum and He/sup 3/ systems, calorimeter, carbon thermometer, heater, and magnetic thermometer. The experime… more
Date: August 1, 1962
Creator: Guenther, R. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Response of Shortgrass Plains Vegetation to Chronic and Seasonally Administered Gamma Radiation

Description: In order to determine the effect of radiation on the structure of native shortgrass plains vegetation, an 8750 Ci 137Cs source was installed on the Central Plains Experimental Range near Nunn, Colorado; The experimental area was divided into 6 treatment sectors, a control, 2 sectors for chronic exposure (irradiation initiated April 1969 and continuing as of August 1971), and one each for spring, summer and late fall seasonal semi-acute (30 day), exposures which were administered during April, J… more
Date: August 1, 1971
Creator: Fraley, L. Jr.
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Search for new physics in the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment and the response of the CMS calorimeters to particles and jets

Description: A Monte Carlo study of a generic search for new resonances beyond the Standard Model (SM) in the CMS experiment is presented. The resonances are axigluon, coloron, E{sub 6} diquark, excited quark, W{prime}, Z{prime}, and the Randall-Sundrum graviton which decay to dijets. The dijet resonance cross section that the CMS can expect to discover at a 5{sigma} significance or to exclude at 95% confidence level for integrated luminosities of 100 pb{sup -1}, 1 fb{sup -1}, and 10 fb{sup -1} is evaluated… more
Date: August 1, 2008
Creator: Gumus, Kazim Ziya & Tech., /Texas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Type Ia supernova rate studies from the SDSS-II Supernova Study

Description: The author presents new measurements of the type Ia SN rate from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey. The SDSS-II Supernova Survey was carried out during the Fall months (Sept.-Nov.) of 2005-2007 and discovered {approx} 500 spectroscopically confirmed SNe Ia with densely sampled (once every {approx} 4 days), multi-color light curves. Additionally, the SDSS-II Supernova Survey has discovered several hundred SNe Ia candidates with well-measured light curves, but without spectroscopic confirmation of typ… more
Date: August 1, 2008
Creator: Dilday, Benjamin
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QCD fits to neutrino-iron structure functions at NuTeV

Description: This thesis presents a new determination of {Lambda}{sub QCD} from Next-to-Leading Order QCD fits to the Q{sup 2} dependence of neutrino-iron structure functions. This is the first measurement of {Lambda}{sub QCD} which uses a theoretical model that fully accounts for heavy quark production. Compared with previous neutrino measurements, the result has improved understanding of the largest systematic uncertainties on the muon and hadron energy scales. These improvements lead to one of the most p… more
Date: August 1, 2006
Creator: Radescu, Voica A. & U., /Pittsburgh
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Error-Induced Beam Degradation in Fermilab's Accelerators

Description: In Part I, three independent models of Fermilab's Booster synchrotron are presented. All three models are constructed to investigate and explore the effects of unavoidable machine errors on a proton beam under the influence of space-charge effects. The first is a stochastic noise model. Electric current fluctuations arising from power supplies are ubiquitous and unavoidable and are a source of instabilities in accelerators of all types. A new noise module for generating the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (… more
Date: August 1, 2007
Creator: Yoon, Phil S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Measurement of the W boson helicity in top quark decays

Description: A measurement of the fraction, f{sup +}, of right-handed W bosons produced in top quark decays is presented. This analysis is based on a sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 370 pb{sup -1}, collected by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron p{bar p} Collider at {radical}s = 1.96 TeV. The helicity angle, {theta}*, is reconstructed for each lepton. f{sup +} is determined by comparing the cos {theta}* distribution from the data with that for the expected background and signal for… more
Date: August 1, 2007
Creator: Gmyrek, Bryan David
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Search for Higgs bosons decaying into tau pairs in ppbar collisions at D0

Description: A search for neutral Higgs bosons decaying into tau pairs is presented using data in p{bar p} collisions at {radical}s = 1.96 TeV. One of the tau leptons is identified via its decay into an electron or muon and the other via its decay into a hadronic final state. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of around 1.0 fb{sup -1}, were collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider between April 2002 and February 2006. No significant excess of events above the backgro… more
Date: August 1, 2008
Creator: Owen, Mark A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Evidence for single top quark production using Bayesian neural networks

Description: We present results of a search for single top quark production in p{bar p} collisions using a dataset of approximately 1 fb{sup -1} collected with the D0 detector. This analysis considers the muon+jets and electron+jets final states and makes use of Bayesian neural networks to separate the expected signals from backgrounds. The observed excess is associated with a p-value of 0.081%, assuming the background-only hypothesis, which corresponds to an excess over background of 3.2 standard deviation… more
Date: August 1, 2007
Creator: Kau, Daekwang
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Design of a boron neutron capture enhanced fast neutron therapy assembly

Description: The use of boron neutron capture to boost tumor dose in fast neutron therapy has been investigated at several fast neutron therapy centers worldwide. This treatment is termed boron neutron capture enhanced fast neutron therapy (BNCEFNT). It is a combination of boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) and fast neutron therapy (FNT). It is believed that BNCEFNT may be useful in the treatment of some radioresistant brain tumors, such as glioblastoma multiform (GBM). A boron neutron capture enhanced fa… more
Date: August 1, 2006
Creator: Wang, Zhonglu & Tech, /Georgia
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A Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the Dilepton Decay Channel at CDF II

Description: The top quark, the most recently discovered quark, is the most massive known fundamental fermion. Precision measurements of its mass, a free parameter in the Standard Model of particle physics, can be used to constrain the mass of the Higgs Boson. In addition, deviations in the mass as measured in different channels can provide possible evidence for new physics. We describe a measurement of the top quark mass in the decay channel with two charged leptons, known as the dilepton channel, using da… more
Date: August 1, 2006
Creator: Jayatilaka, Bodhitha A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Study of the Rare Decay K(L) ---> pi0 gamma gamma at KTeV

Description: The authors study on the rare decay K{sub L} {yields} {pi}{sup 0}{gamma}{gamma}, measure a{sub V}, and branching ratio by analyzing 96, 97 and 99 data. The measurements were taken by KTeV at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. After all cuts, they have 1982 K{sub L} {yields} {pi}{sup 0}{gamma}{gamma} candidate. The background level is estimated as 30%. K{sub L} {yields} {pi}{sup 0}{gamma}{gamma} branching ratio is measured as (1.29 {+-} 0.03(stat) {+-} 0.04(sys)) x 10{sup -6}. By using D'Amb… more
Date: August 1, 2007
Creator: Wang, Jianbo
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Diagnostics of the Fermilab Tevatron using an AC dipole

Description: The Fermilab Tevatron is currently the world's highest energy colliding beam facility. Its counter-rotating proton and antiproton beams collide at 2 TeV center-of-mass. Delivery of such intense beam fluxes to experiments has required improved knowledge of the Tevatron's beam optical lattice. An oscillating dipole magnet, referred to as an AC dipole, is one of such a tool to non-destructively assess the optical properties of the synchrotron. We discusses development of an AC dipole system for th… more
Date: August 1, 2008
Creator: Miyamoto, Ryoichi
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Measurement of the Branching Ratio of the pi0 Dalitz Decay using K(L) ---> 3 pi0 Decays from KTeV

Description: The authors present a measurement of B({pi}{sup 0} {yields} e{sup +}e{sup -}{gamma})/B({pi}{sup 0} {yields} {gamma}{gamma}) using data taken in 1999 by the E832 KTeV experiment at Fermilab. The {pi}{sup 0}s were produced by K{sub L} decays in flight that are fully reconstructed. They find 63,693 K{sub L} {yields} 3{pi}{sup 0} {yields} {gamma}{gamma} {gamma}{gamma} e{sup +}e{sup -}{gamma} decays in KTeV data (an increase of a factor of {approx} 20 in event statistics over previous experiments), … more
Date: August 1, 2007
Creator: Abouzaid, Erin E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Measurement of Branching Ratios for Non-leptonic Cabibbo-suppressed Decays of the Charmed-Strange Baryon Xic+

Description: We studied several {Xi}{sub c}{sup +} decay modes, most of them with a hyperon in the final state, and determined their branching ratios. The data used in this analysis come from the fixed target experiment SELEX, a multi-stage spectrometer with high acceptance for forward interactions, that took data during 1996 and 1997 at Fermilab with 600 GeV=c (mainly {Sigma}{sup -}, {pi}{sup -}) and 540 GeV/c (mainly p) beams incident on copper and carbon targets. The thesis mainly details the first obser… more
Date: August 1, 2008
Creator: Vazquez Jauregui, Eric & U., /San Luis Potosi
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Flow cytometric analysis of mitotic cycle perturbation by chemical carcinogens in cultured epithelial cells. [Effects of benzo(a)pyrene-diol-epoxide on mitotic cycle of cultural mouse liver epithelial cells]

Description: A system for kinetic analysis of mitotic cycle perturbation by various agents was developed and applied to the study of the mitotic cycle effects and dependency of the chemical carcinogen benzo(a)pyrene-diolepoxide, DE, upon a mouse lever epithelial cell line, NMuLi. The study suggests that the targets of DE action are not confined to DNA alone but may include cytoplasmic structures as well. DE was found to affect cells located in virtually every phase of the mitotic cycle, with cells that were… more
Date: August 1, 1978
Creator: Pearlman, A.L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Determination of the strong coupling constant ({alpha}{sub s}) and a test of perturbative QCD using W + jets processes in the D0 detector

Description: The D0 experiment has accumulated data for a study of inclusive W production corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 14.3 {plus_minus} 1.7 pb{sup {minus}1} during the 1992--1993 Fermilab Tevatron collider run. The total number of W {yields} e + {nu} candidates is 9770. The ratio of the number of W + 1 jet events to that of W + 0 jet events has been measured as a function of jet minimum E{sub T}. Using this ratio the strong coupling constant, {alpha}{sub s} at Q{sup 2} = M{sub W}{sup 2… more
Date: August 1, 1993
Creator: Yu, Jaehoon
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Structural studies of polypeptides: Mechanism of immunoglobin catalysis and helix propagation in hybrid sequence, disulfide containing peptides

Description: Catalytic immunoglobin fragments were studied Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy to identify amino acid residues responsible for the catalytic activity. Small, hybrid sequence peptides were analyzed for helix propagation following covalent initiation and for activity related to the protein from which the helical sequence was derived. Hydrolysis of p-nitrophenyl carbonates and esters by specific immunoglobins is thought to involve charge complementarity. The pK of the transition state analo… more
Date: August 1, 1992
Creator: Storrs, R. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Measurement of current density fluctuations and ambipolar particle flux due to magnetic fluctuations in MST

Description: Studies of magnetic fluctuation induced particle transport on Reversed Field Pinch plasmas were done on the Madison Symmetric Torus. Plasma current density and current density fluctuations were measured using a multi-coil magnetic probes. The low frequency (f<50 kHz) current density fluctuations are consistent with the global resistive tearing instabilities predicted by 3-D MHD simulations. At frequencies above 50 kHz, the magnetic fluctuations were detected to be localized with a radial correl… more
Date: August 1, 1992
Creator: Shen, Weimin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Development and application of a high speed digital data acquisition technique to study steam bubble collapse using particle image velocimetry

Description: The use of a Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) method, which uses digital cameras for data acquisition, for studying high speed fluid flows is usually limited by the digital camera`s frame acquisition rate. The velocity of the fluid under study has to be limited to insure that the tracer seeds suspended in the fluid remain in the camera`s focal plane for at least two consecutive images. However, the use of digital cameras for data acquisition is desirable to simplify and expedite the data analys… more
Date: August 1, 1992
Creator: Schmidl, W. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Zone Refining of Plutonium Metal

Description: The zone refining process was applied to Pu metal containing known amounts of impurities. Rod specimens of plutonium metal were melted into and contained in tantalum boats, each of which was passed horizontally through a three-turn, high-frequency coil in such a manner as to cause a narrow molten zone to pass through the Pu metal rod 10 times. The impurity elements Co, Cr, Fe, Ni, Np, U were found to move in the same direction as the molten zone as predicted by binary phase diagrams. The elemen… more
Date: August 1, 1994
Creator: Blau, M. S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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