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Decay-Energy Systematics Of The Heavy Elements

Description: Figures 1 and 2 summarize total decay energies for the four radioactive series. The alpha-decay energy obtained by measuring the energy of the alpha particle leading to the ground state includes the energy of the recoil nucleus. The curve shown in figure 3 defines in broad outline the conditions and regions of alpha instability. A great deal more is to be learned from a more detailed examination of the region where alpha radioactivity is prominent. Of great value to the experimentalist is that … more
Date: January 17, 1961
Creator: Perlman, Isadore & Asaro, Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Electrical Limitations To Energy Resolution In Semiconductor Particle Detectors

Description: Based on the assumption that the noise contribution of a semiconductor detector is due solely to the bulk properties of the semiconductor, equations are presented which indicate the theoretical limits of noise in detector-amplifier combinations. These equations show that an optimum amplifier time constant and detector bias voltage exist for which condition the minimum noise is independent of the semiconductor resistivity. The optimum performance of a detector-amplifier system is shown to depend… more
Date: April 5, 1961
Creator: Hansen, William L. & Goulding, Frederick S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Instrumentation Of Multi-Channel Counting Experiments

Description: Recent experience in instrumentation of several nuclear-physics experiments has demonstrated the feasibility of automating the data-acquisition phases of the experiment. Electronic circuits are employed wherever the rate of data flow would be slowed by the use of human operations. Information is selected, temporarily stored, and then recorded in a form suitable for immediate entry into a computer. Experimenters thus freed from the tedious aspects of data collection can devote their time to stud… more
Date: April 4, 1961
Creator: Kirsten, Frederick A. & Mack, Dick A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Energy Response And Physical Properties Of NTA* Personnel Neutron Dosimeter Nuclear Track Film

Description: This paper reports the chemical and physical properties of the NTA film packet. It correlates with these properties the response of this packet to neutrons of various energies. In this correlation the concept of the track unit is introduced as a basic unit for reporting film-packet response.
Date: January 13, 1961
Creator: Lehman, Richard L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Antiproton-Nucleon Cross Sections From 0.5 To 1.0 Bev

Description: Antiproton-production and nucleon-interaction cross sections were investigated for antiprotons in the energy range 0.5 to 1.0 Bev. The antiprotons were distinguished from other particles produced at the Bevatron by a system of scintillation- and velocity-selecting Cerenkov counters. The excitation function and momentum distribution were recorded for antiproton production in carbon and compared with statistical model expectations.
Date: December 12, 1961
Creator: Elioff, Tommy; Agnaw, Louis; Chamberlain, O. (Owen); Steiner, Herbert M.; Wiegand, Clyde (Clyde Edward), 1915-1996 & Ypsilantis, Tom
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Reference Manual For KICK IBM Program

Description: This reference manual describes the IBM 704 program called Kick, by which complete bubble chamber events are kinematically analyzed. Kick's input data is the output from the Pang program, which uses raw track measurements to spatially reconstruct the tracks, and fits appropriate curves to them.
Date: May 1961
Creator: Rosenfeld, Arthur H., 1926-2017
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Current-Switching Circuitry

Description: This paper discusses a group of high-speed switching circuits using the basic current-switching mode of operation. The first part of the paper presents a dynamic analysis of the basic current-switching mode and the second part is the dynamic and steady-state analysis of a current-switching flip-flop.
Date: July 17, 1961
Creator: Salvador, Jack Gilbert & Pederson, D. O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Annual Report 1961

Description: This seventh Annual Report is a summary of some of the progress in scientific and engineering research and development carried on at Argonne National Laboratory during 1961. As is customary in this series, only those portions of the total program that have reached such a stage that they may be of general interest are recorded. Thus, a comparison with the Annual Reports for 1959 (ANL-6125) and for 1960 (ANL-6275) will reveal the description of a generally different set of scientific activities. … more
Date: 1961
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Catalog of North Texas State College: 1961-1962, Graduate

Description: Catalog for North Texas State College includes information about class offerings as well as general information about the school (academic calendar, list of officers and faculty, admissions and degree requirements, financial information, etc.).
Date: July 1961
Creator: North Texas State College
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Local Fields With Terminating Expansions (x)

Description: "The quantum theory problem of constructing explicitly a local Lorentz invariant model field theory which has an asymptotic particle interpretation and gives rise to an S matrix different from unity is discussed. It is proved that if a local covariant field H(x) has a complete current, the S matrix associated with this field is identically equal to unity. Results show that in order to get an interaction, the current is not allowed to have a terminating expansion in terms of a free field. The ab… more
Date: June 2, 1961
Creator: Bardakci, K. & Sudarshan, E C.G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Remark on the Radiative Muon Decay in the Theory With an Intermediate Vector Meson

Description: "The problem of explaining the lack of radiative muon decay in an intermediate charged vector meson theory is discussed. A possible way of introducing the charged vector meson to the theory of weak interactions is outlined in which renormalization is retained. However, if this way is used, the anomalous magnetic moment is calculated to be large, which is in contradiction with expectation."
Date: May 16, 1961
Creator: Bialynicka-Birula, Z
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Investigations of Radioactive Fuel-Bearing Glasses

Description: "A series of glass compositions containing uranium oxide was investigated to determine fiberizability and physical properties of resultant fibers. The basic properties to be determined were the maximum U/sub 3/O/sub 8/ content in a fiberizable glass and the maximum service temperature of the fibers. Glasses containing 60 wt% U/sub 3/O/sib 8/ were fiberizable; the fibers had strengths of 100,000 psi at 1600 deg F. Fiber-forming equipment was installed at Moun Laboratory to produce glass fibers c… more
Date: July 31, 1961
Creator: Lockwood, P. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fluoroscopic Crystal Investigation

Description: "An investigation was carried out on the possibility of increasing the light output of single crystals by applying an electric field throughout the crystal lattice. Pulses of frequency 2.5 x 10/sup 5/ cps were used with a voltage gradient of 10/sup 4/ volts/cm, and gamma radiation from Cs/sup 1//sup 3// sup 7/ and Co/sup 6//sup 0/ was used to excite the crystals. Tests were run on many types of scintillators. The visible light output was found to be increased by electric pulses for many of the … more
Date: 1961
Creator: Franklin, William A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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PM-3A Nuclear Power Plant Secondary Shield Design

Description: "The design, analysis, and selection of system components for functions related to secondary shielding and associated auxiliary systems for the Antarctic PM-3A Nuclear Power Plant are described. Backfill material characteristics, shielding and activation analyses, heat transfer analysis, backfill cooling system, water exclusion and removal system, and instrumentation and control are discussed."
Date: September 1961
Creator: Siler, W C
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Development of a Gas Injector System for Homogeneously Labeling Gas Storage Reservoirs

Description: "The laboratory experiments and field testing which were carried out in the development of a homogeneous gas labeling device are described. Detailed drawings of the injector and its most critical components are included. Recommendations are made for a production model of the device along with estimated costs of construction."
Date: May 1, 1961
Creator: Sewell, Curtis & Schulz, Isidor
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Development of Techniques for Power Production From Mixed Fission Products

Description: "An investigation was made into the various processes for the fixation of mixed fission products as solids in order to determine the extent they could be utilized as heat sources for thermoelectric generators. Generators of up to ten watts can be designed and built with state-of-art'' thermoelectric materials and mixed fission products soon to be available from the ldaho Falls calcination pilot plant. Mixed fission products from other processes and plants to be on stream'' in this decade will b… more
Date: February 18, 1961
Creator: Eaton, D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Influence of Isotopic Composition on the Maximum in the Cosmic Ray Energy Spectra

Description: "The previously found maximum in the cosmic radiation energy spectrum is discussed, and the possibility that it arises in part from a misinterpretation of the data due to oversimplifying assumptions about the composition of the beam is examined. The importance that lack of recognition of isotopic composition may have is pointed out, and it is clear that this importance is strongly dependent on the measurements made and on the cut-off rigidity."
Date: May 8, 1961
Creator: Appa Rao, M.V.K. &
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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