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Recycler Electron Cooling Project: Mechanical vibrations in the Pelletron and their effect on the beam

Description: The Fermilab's Recycler ring will employ an electron cooler to cool stored 8.9 GeV antiprotons [1]. The cooler is based on an electrostatic accelerator, Pelletron [2], working in an energy-recovery regime. A full-scale prototype of the cooler has been assembled and commissioned in a separate building [3]. The main goal of the experiments with the prototype was to demonstrate stable operation with a 3.5 MeV, 0.5 A DC electron beam while preserving a high beam quality in the cooling section. The … more
Date: July 1, 2005
Creator: Kazakevich, Grigory M.; Burov, A.; Boffo, C.; Joireman, P.; Saewert, G.; Schmidt, C. W. et al.
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Chemical and Radiochemical Composition of Thermally Stabilized Plutonium Oxide from the Plutonium Finishing Plant Considered as Alternate Feedstock for the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility

Description: Eighteen plutonium oxide samples originating from the Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) on the Hanford Site were analyzed to provide additional data on the suitability of PFP thermally stabilized plutonium oxides and Rocky Flats oxides as alternate feedstock to the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility (MFFF). Radiochemical and chemical analyses were performed on fusions, acid leaches, and water leaches of these 18 samples. The results from these destructive analyses were compared with nondestruc… more
Date: July 1, 2005
Creator: Tingey, Joel M. & Jones, Susan A.
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Comparison of Methods for Estimating the NOx Emission Impacts of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Projects: Shreveport, Louisiana Case Study (Revised)

Description: This is a case study comparing methods of estimating the NOx emission impacts of energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Date: July 1, 2005
Creator: Chambers, A.; Kline, D. M.; Vimmerstedt, L.; Diem, A.; Dismukes, D. & Mesyanzhinov, D.
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Secondary Network Distribution Systems Background and Issues Related to the Interconnection of Distributed Resources

Description: This document addresses the technical considerations associated with the interconnection of distributed resources (DR) with secondary network distribution systems. It provides an overview of the characteristics of distribution systems and interconnection requirements and identifies unique issues specific to network interconnections. It also identifies the network-specific interconnection issues for which test protocols should be developed. Recommended criteria and requirements for the interconn… more
Date: July 1, 2005
Creator: Behnke, M.; Erdman, W.; Horgan, S.; Dawson, D.; Feero, W.; Soudi, F. et al.
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Pacific Northwest Condiment Yellow Mustard (Sinapis alba L.) Grower Guide: 2000-2002

Description: This report is a grower guide for yellow mustard. Yellow mustard (Sinapis alba L.), synonymous with white mustard, is a spring annual crop and well adapted to hot, dry growing conditions. It has shown potential as an alternative crop in rotations with small grain cereals and has fewer limitations compared to other traditional alternative crops.
Date: July 1, 2005
Creator: Brown, J.; Davis, J. B. & Esser, A.
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Oil Crop Potential for Biodiesel Production: Summary of Three Years of Spring Mustard Research -- Methodologies, Results, and Recommendations; 2000-2003

Description: This report summarizes a project whose goal was to support R&D to develop an oil-seed crop that has the potential to reduce the feedstock cost of biodiesel to between 7 and 8 cents per pound of oil and expand supplies of biodiesel as demand for biodiesel grows. The key to this goal is that the non-oil fraction of the oil crop (the seed meal) must have a high value outside of the animal feed markets and produce oil that is not suitable for human consumption. To that end, a spring breeding pr… more
Date: July 1, 2005
Creator: Brown, J.
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Development and Validation of High-Resolution State Wind Resource Maps for the United States

Description: The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has coordinated the development and validation of high-resolution state wind resource maps for much of the United States. The majority of these maps were produced for NREL by TrueWind Solutions (now AWS Truewind [AWST]) based in Albany, New York, using its proprietary MesoMap system. AWST's system uses a version of a numerical mesoscale weather prediction model as the basis for calculating the wind resource and important wind flow characteristics.… more
Date: July 1, 2005
Creator: Elliott, D. & Schwartz, M.
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Effectiveness of Defatted Mustard Meals Used to Control Fungus Gnats: 2000-2002

Description: Our objective is to develop a pesticidal product from mustard meals that can be used to control insect pests. We have focused our efforts on fungus gnats. This report details our current progress in developing a pesticidal product that can be used to control this plant pest.
Date: July 1, 2005
Creator: McCaffrey, J. P. & Morra, M. J.
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Glucosinolate-Containing Seed Meal as a Soil Amendment to Control Plant Pests: 2000-2002

Description: Plants may produce compounds that directly or indirectly affect their biological environment. These compounds fall within a broad category of compounds called allelochemicals, and are exclusive of food that influences growth, health, or behavior of other organisms (Whittaker and Feeney 1971). One reason for interest in allelochemicals is their potential for use in alternative pest management systems. Using plant-produced allelochemicals in agricultural and horticultural practices could minimize… more
Date: July 1, 2005
Creator: Brown, J. & Morra, M. J.
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Conditions Contributing to Adverse Loading of Wind Turbines In the Nocturnal Boundary Layer: Final Report, November 15, 2003 -- December 31, 2004

Description: This report summarizes the development of a methodology to describe the characteristics of coherent turbulence in the nocturnal boundary layer that are known to induce excessive structural loads and component vibration in operating wind turbines and suggestions for applying those results in the development of techniques of real-time detection and prediction that can be used for mitigation purposes.
Date: July 1, 2005
Creator: Fritts, D. C.
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Geology of the Integrated Disposal Facility Trench

Description: This report describes the geology of the integrated Disposal Facility (IDF) Trench. The stratigraphy consists of some of the youngest sediments of the Missoula floods (younger than 770 ka). The lithology is dominated sands with minor silts and gravels that are largely unconsolidated. The stratigraphy can be subdivided into five geologic units that can be mapped throughout the trench. Four of the units were deposited by the Missoula floods and the youngest consists of windblown sand and silt. Th… more
Date: July 1, 2005
Creator: Reidel, Steve P. & Fecht, Karl R.
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Z' generation with PYTHIA

Description: This document is intended as a guide for getting started with the Z' generation with PYTHIA[1]. Several different conventions used in literature are discussed, and the conversion among these is given. The Z' couplings to fermions are given for the sequential Z', the Z' model-lines of Ref. [2], and the popular E6 Z' models.
Date: July 1, 2005
Creator: Ciobanu, Catalin; Junk, Thomas; Veramendi, Gregory; Lee, Jedong; De Lentdecker, Gilles; McFarland, Kevin et al.
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Chemical Characterization and Release Efficiency of Defatted Mustard Meals: 2000-2002

Description: Glucosinolates, compounds that occur in agronomically important crops, may represent a viable source of allelochemic control for various soil-borne plant pests. Toxicity is not attributed to intact glucosinolates, but instead to biologically active products such as isothiocyanates (ITCs), organic cyanides, oxazolidinethiones, and ionic thiocyanate (SCN-) released upon enzymatic degradation by myrosinase (thioglucoside glucohydrolase, EC 3.2.3.1) in the presence of water.
Date: July 1, 2005
Creator: Morra, M. J.
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Meaningful statistical analysis of large computational clusters.

Description: Effective monitoring of large computational clusters demands the analysis of a vast amount of raw data from a large number of machines. The fundamental interactions of the system are not, however, well-defined, making it difficult to draw meaningful conclusions from this data, even if one were able to efficiently handle and process it. In this paper we show that computational clusters, because they are comprised of a large number of identical machines, behave in a statistically meaningful fashi… more
Date: July 1, 2005
Creator: Gentile, Ann C.; Marzouk, Youssef M.; Brandt, James M. & Pebay, Philippe Pierre
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Final test results for the Schott HCE on a LS-2 collector.

Description: Sandia National Laboratories has completed thermal performance testing on the Schott parabolic trough receiver using the LS-2 collector on the Sandia rotating platform at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility in Albuquerque, NM. This testing was funded as part of the US DOE Sun-Lab USA-Trough program. The receiver tested was a new Schott receiver, known as Heat Collector Elements (HCEs). Schott is a new manufacturer of trough HCEs. The Schott HCEs are 4m long; therefore, two were joined and … more
Date: July 1, 2005
Creator: Moss, Timothy A. & Brosseau, Douglas A.
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Test results for 320 nm and 390 nm remote sensing sources using a 150 mJ, 100 Hz repetition rate, injection-seeded diode-pumped Nd:YAG slab-laser developed by Coherent Technologies, Inc.

Description: This report describes results of tests using a laser system designed by Coherent Technologies, Inc., in conjunction with Sandia developed nonlinear optics technology. Test results are described for three different optical parametric oscillators built at Sandia. The report concludes with recommendations for future work.
Date: July 1, 2005
Creator: Armstrong, Darrell Jewell
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Umbra's system representation.

Description: This document describes the Umbra System representation. Umbra System representation, initially developed in the spring of 2003, is implemented in Incr/Tcl using concepts borrowed from Carnegie Mellon University's Architecture Description Language (ADL) called Acme. In the spring of 2004 through January 2005, System was converted to Umbra 4, extended slightly, and adopted as the underlying software system for a variety of Umbra applications that support Complex Systems Engineering (CSE) and Com… more
Date: July 1, 2005
Creator: McDonald, Michael James
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Higher-order web link analysis using multilinear algebra.

Description: Linear algebra is a powerful and proven tool in web search. Techniques, such as the PageRank algorithm of Brin and Page and the HITS algorithm of Kleinberg, score web pages based on the principal eigenvector (or singular vector) of a particular non-negative matrix that captures the hyperlink structure of the web graph. We propose and test a new methodology that uses multilinear algebra to elicit more information from a higher-order representation of the hyperlink graph. We start by labeling the… more
Date: July 1, 2005
Creator: Kenny, Joseph P.; Bader, Brett William (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM) & Kolda, Tamara Gibson
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An analysis of the survivability of sensor darts in impacts with trees.

Description: A methodology was developed for computing the probability that the sensor dart for the 'Near Real-Time Site Characterization for Assured HDBT Defeat' Grand-Challenge LDRD project will survive deployment over a forested region. The probability can be decomposed into three approximately independent probabilities that account for forest coverage, branch density and the physics of an impact between the dart and a tree branch. The probability that a dart survives an impact with a tree branch was det… more
Date: July 1, 2005
Creator: Prentice, John K. (Sci-Tac, Inc., Boulder, CO.) & Gardner, David Randall
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Performance Demonstration Program Management Plan

Description: To demonstrate compliance with the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) waste characterization program, each testing and analytical facility performing waste characterization activities participates in the Performance Demonstration Program (PDP). The PDP serves as a quality control check against expected results and provides information about the quality of data generated in the characterization of waste destined for WIPP. Single blind audit samples are prepared and distributed by an independent … more
Date: July 1, 2005
Creator: Office, Carlsbad Field
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Correlation and image compression for limited-bandwidth CCD.

Description: As radars move to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with limited-bandwidth data downlinks, the amount of data stored and transmitted with each image becomes more significant. This document gives the results of a study to determine the effect of lossy compression in the image magnitude and phase on Coherent Change Detection (CCD). We examine 44 lossy compression types, plus lossless zlib compression, and test each compression method with over 600 CCD image pairs. We also derive theoretical predictions fo… more
Date: July 1, 2005
Creator: Thompson, Douglas G.
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