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Report of Foreign Research Assignment for M. M. Abraham, October 1989-September 1990

Description: The traveler collaborated with M.J.M. Leask, J.M. Baker, B. Bleaney, and others at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, to Study Tetragonal rare-earth phosphates and vanadates by optical and magnetic spectroscopy. This work is related to similar studies that have been performed at ORNL by the Synthesis and Properties of Novel Materials Group in the Solid State Division.
Date: October 15, 1990
Creator: Abraham, M. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Biological Monitoring Program for East Fork Poplar Creek

Description: In May 1985, a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit was issued for the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant. As a condition of the permit, a Biologicai Monitoring and Abatement Program (BMAP) was developed to demonstrate that the effluent limitations established for the Y-12 Plant protect the classified uses of the receiving stream (East Fork Poplar Creek; EFPC), in particular, the growth and propagation of aquatic life (Lear et al. 1989). A second objective of the BMAP is to document… more
Date: October 15, 1998
Creator: Adams, S. M.; Christensen, S. W.; Greeley, M. S. Jr.; Hill, W. R.; Kszos, L. A.; McCarthy, J. F. et al.
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Recent progress in inertial confinement fusion at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory

Description: The Shiva and Argus laser systems at Livermore have been developed to study the physics of inertial confinement fusion. Both laser system designs are predicated on the use of large aperture Nd-glass disk amplifiers and high power spatial filters. During the past year we have irradiated DT filled microshell targets with and without polymer coatings. Recently new instruments have been developed to investigate implosion dynamics and to determine the maximum fuel density achieved by these imploded … more
Date: October 15, 1979
Creator: Ahlstrom, H. G. & Manes, K. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hot Electron Generation and Transport Using K(alpha) Emission

Description: We have conducted experiments on both the Vulcan and Titan laser facilities to study hot electron generation and transport in the context of fast ignition. Cu wires attached to Al cones were used to investigate the effect on coupling efficiency of plasma surround and the pre-formed plasma inside the cone. We found that with thin cones 15% of laser energy is coupled to the 40{micro}m diameter wire emulating a 40{micro}m fast ignition spot. Thick cone walls, simulating plasma in fast ignition, re… more
Date: October 15, 2009
Creator: Akli, K. U.; Stephens, R. B.; Key, M. H.; Bartal, T.; Beg, F. N.; Chawla, S. et al.
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Proton Decay Studies of the Light Lu, Tm and Ho Isotopes

Description: A double-sided Si-strip detector system has been installed and commissioned at the focal plane of the Recoil Mass Spectrometer at the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility. The system can be used for heavy charged particle emission studies with half-lives as low as a few {micro}sec. In this paper the authors present identification and study of the decay properties of the five new proton emitters: {sup 140}Ho, {sup 141m}Ho, {sup 145}Tm, {sup 150m}Lu and {sup 151m}Lu.
Date: October 15, 1998
Creator: Akovali, Y.; Batchelder, J. C.; Bingham, C. R.; Davinson, T.; Ginter, T. N.; Gross, C. J. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Contract 98, Appendix F self-assessment report for Fiscal Year 2003

Description: This report summarizes the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory internal assessment of Laboratory operational and administrative performance in key support functions for Fiscal Year (FY) 2003. The report provides documentation of ongoing performance-based management and oversight processes required by the Department of Energy (DOE) to monitor, measure, and evaluate Berkeley Lab work.
Date: October 15, 2003
Creator: Albert (Editor), Rich
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Increased oil production and reserves from improved completion techniques in the Bluebell Field, Uinta Basin, Utah. Quarterly technical progress report, July 1, 1995--September 30, 1995

Description: The objective of this project is to increase oil production and reserves in the Uinta Basin by demonstrating improved completion techniques. Low productivity of Uinta Basin wells is caused by gross production intervals of several thousand feet that contain perforated thief zones and water-bearing zones, and unperforated oil-bearing intervals. Geologic and engineering characterization and computer simulation of the Green River and Wasatch Formations in the Bluebell field will determine reservoir… more
Date: October 15, 1995
Creator: Allison, E. & Morgan, C. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Dynamic Fiber Optic Sensors Under Intense Radioactive Environments

Description: A liquid mercury target will be used as the neutron source for the proposed Spallation Neutron Source facility. This target is subjected to bombardment by short-pulse, high-energy proton beams. The intense thermal loads caused by interaction of the pulsed proton beam with the mercury create an enormous rate of temperature rise ({approximately}10{sup 7} K/s) during a very brief beam pulse ({approximately } 0.5 {micro}s). The resulting pressure waves in the mercury will interact with the walls of… more
Date: October 15, 1998
Creator: Allison, S. W.; Earl, D. D.; Haines, J. R. & Tsai, C. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Indirect-Drive Noncryogenic Double-Shell Ignition Targets for the National Ignition Facility: Design and Analysis

Description: The central goal of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) is demonstration of controlled thermonuclear ignition. The mainline ignition target is a low-Z, single-shell cryogenic capsule designed to have weakly nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor growth of surface perturbations. Double-shell targets are an alternative design concept that avoids the complexity of cryogenic preparation but has greater physics uncertainties associated with performance-degrading mix. A typical double-shell design involves a hig… more
Date: October 15, 2001
Creator: Amendt, P.; Colvin, J.; Tipton, R. E.; Hinkel, D.; Edwards, M. J.; Landen, O. L. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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GAMMA-RAY AND FAST NEUTRON ANNULAR STREAMING EVALUATION THROUGH SODIUM REACTOR EXPERIMENT (SRE)-MARK II CONTROL AND SAFETY ROD ASSEMBLIES

Description: An experimental program was initiated io determine the extent of fast neutron and gamma ray streaming through the SRL Mark II control and safety rods and to evaluate the adequacy of the shielding provided in these control and safety rods. The methods and procedures used to evaluate these problems are routine and proven for determining gamma-ray and fast neutron dosages using radiation sensitive films and gold foils. The final experimental results indicated that no excessive streaming of either … more
Date: October 15, 1959
Creator: Anderson, F. D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[Dynamic enhanced recovery technologies]. Quarterly technical report, August 1992--October 1993

Description: This paper has presented the investigation of the mechanism of geopressure occurrence, the transition of elastic properties from the hydrostatic pressured formation to the geopressured formation, and finally, a novel seismic amplitude analysis technique to map the top-of-geopresure surface. The successful application of our new technique to the Pleistocene, offshore Louisiana, Gulf of Mexico has again demonstrated that seismic attributes analyses are of importantance in the hydrocarbon explorat… more
Date: October 15, 1993
Creator: Anderson, R. N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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VELOCITY BUNCHING OF HIGH-BRIGHTNESS ELECTRON BEAMS

Description: Velocity bunching has been recently proposed as a tool for compressing electron beam pulses in modern high brightness photoinjector sources. This tool is familiar from earlier schemes implemented for bunching dc electron sources, but presents peculiar challenges when applied to high current, low emittance beams from photoinjectors. The main difficulty foreseen is control of emittance oscillations in the beam in this scheme, which can be naturally considered as an extension of the emittance comp… more
Date: October 15, 2004
Creator: Anderson, S. G.; Musumeci, P.; Rosenzweig, J. B.; Brown, W. J.; England, R. J.; Ferrario, M. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Predictions for nuclear properties along the r-process path

Description: The uniformity of different nuclear regions as a function of the number of valence protons and neutrons (counted from the nearest closed shell) has been exploited for the parameterization of calculations for nuclei far from stability within the IBA model. Predictions are given for low lying levels, E2 transition rates, and binding energies for nuclei in the r-process path in the A = 150 and A = 190 mass regions. 6 refs., 6 figs.
Date: October 15, 1987
Creator: Aprahamian, A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Ultrasonic Velocities in Unconsolidated Sand/Clay Mixtures at Low Pressures

Description: Effective seismic interrogation of the near subsurface requires that measured parameters, such as compressional and shear velocities and attenuation, be related to important soil properties. Porosity, composition (clay content), fluid content and type are of particular interest. The ultrasonic (100-500 kHz) pulse transmission technique was used to collect data for highly attenuating materials appropriate to the vadose zone. Up to several meters of overburden were simulated by applying low uniax… more
Date: October 15, 1999
Creator: Aracne-Ruddle, C. M.; Bonner, B. P.; Trombino, C. N.; Hardy, E. D.; Berge, P. A.; Boro, C. O. et al.
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Picosecond x-ray measurements from 100 eV to 30 keV

Description: Picosecond x-ray measurements relevant to the Livermore Laser Fusion Program are reviewed. Resolved to 15 picoseconds, streak camera detection capabilities extend from 100 eV to higher than 30 keV, with synchronous capabilities in the visible, near infrared, and ultraviolet. Capabilities include automated data retrieval using charge coupled devices (CCD's), absolute x-ray intensity levels, novel cathodes, x-ray mirror/reflector combinations, and a variety of x-ray imaging devices.
Date: October 15, 1980
Creator: Attwood, D.T.; Kauffman, R.L. & Stradling, G.L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Analysis of the growth of strike-slip faults using effective medium theory

Description: Increases in the dimensions of strike-slip faults including fault length, thickness of fault rock and the surrounding damage zone collectively provide quantitative definition of fault growth and are commonly measured in terms of the maximum fault slip. The field observations indicate that a common mechanism for fault growth in the brittle upper crust is fault lengthening by linkage and coalescence of neighboring fault segments or strands, and fault rock-zone widening into highly fractured inner… more
Date: October 15, 2009
Creator: Aydin, A. & Berryman, J.G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The MINOS long-baseline experiment at Fermilab.

Description: The MINOS long-baseline experiment will search for neutrino oscillations by measuring an intense {nu}{sub {mu}} beam at the end of a 730 km flight path. The 10,000 ton MINOS far detector will utilize magnetized steel plates interleaved with track chambers to reconstruct event topologies and to measure the energies of the muons, hadrons and electromagnetic showers produced by neutrino interactions. The experiment is designed to detect {nu}{sub {mu}} {r_arrow} {nu}{sub {tau}} and {nu}{sub {mu}} {… more
Date: October 15, 1997
Creator: Ayres, D. S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Report: Photo-Directed Molecular Assembly of Multifunctional Inorganic Materials

Description: This final report details results, conclusions, and opportunities for future effort derived from the study. The work involved combining the molecular engineering of photoactive Ti-alkoxide systems and the optical excitation of hydrolysis and condensation reactions to influence the development of the metal-oxygen-metal network at the onset of material formation. Selective excitation of the heteroleptic alkoxides, coupled with control of alkoxide local chemical environment, enabled network con… more
Date: October 15, 2010
Creator: B.G. Potter, Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hydrogen Production and Delivery Research

Description: In response to DOE's Solicitation for Grant Applications DE-PS36-03GO93007, 'Hydrogen Production and Delivery Research', SRI International (SRI) proposed to conduct work under Technical Topic Area 5, Advanced Electrolysis Systems; Sub-Topic 5B, High-Temperature Steam Electrolysis. We proposed to develop a prototype of a modular industrial system for low-cost generation of H{sub 2} (<$2/kg) by steam electrolysis with anodic depolarization by CO. Water will be decomposed electrochemically into… more
Date: October 15, 2007
Creator: Balachov, Iouri
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Risk Reduction With a Fuzzy Expert Exploration Tool

Description: Incomplete or sparse information on types of data such as geologic or formation characteristics introduces a high level of risk for oil exploration and development projects. ''Expert'' systems developed and used in several disciplines and industries have demonstrated beneficial results. A state-of-the-art exploration ''expert'' tool, relying on a computerized database and computer maps generated by neural networks, is being developed through the use of ''fuzzy'' logic, a relatively new mathemat… more
Date: October 15, 2003
Creator: Balch, Robert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Low-(18)O Silicic Magmas: Why Are They So Rare?

Description: LOW-180 silicic magmas are reported from only a small number of localities (e.g., Yellowstone and Iceland), yet petrologic evidence points to upper crustal assimilation coupled with fractional crystallization (AFC) during magma genesis for nearly all silicic magmas. The rarity of 10W-l `O magmas in intracontinental caldera settings is remarkable given the evidence of intense 10W-l*O meteoric hydrothermal alteration in the subvolcanic remnants of larger caldera systems. In the Platoro caldera co… more
Date: October 15, 1998
Creator: Balsley, Steven D. & Gregory, Robert T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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