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THIS RESEARCH WILL EXPLORE THE POSSIBILITIES AND RESULT IN THE DESIGN OF AN ACOUSTIC ENERGY GENERATOR FOR GEOPHYSICAL EXPLORATION IN INACCESSIBLE MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN. THIS EFFORT WILL DETERMINE THE MAGNITUDE OF ACOUSTIC SIGNAL REQUIRED AND WILL DEVELOP A TECHNIQUE FOR COUPLING THE SIGNAL GENERATOR TO THE EARTH. THE COUPLING TECHNIQUE WILL EXAMINE FORCES OTHER THAN GRAVITY TO ENSURE THAT THE SIGNAL ...

180 Ultra-Lightweight Carbon-Carbon Cooling Structure For Pixel and Silicon Strip Detectors-HYTEC, Inc., 110 Eastgate Dr., Suite 100, Los Alamos, NM 87544-3304; (505) 662-0080 Mr. William O. Miller, Principal Investigator Mr. William O. Miller, Business Official DOE Grant No. DE-FG03-97ER82397 Amount: $75,000 Removal of heat from the next generation of particle detection systems used in high ...

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Shale oil and natural gas, recovered mainly via hydraulic fracturing, has a significant role in meeting the U-S- energy demand in near future- Characteristics and properties of injected fluids used in hydraulic fracturing directly affect the amount of recovery- Since current injection fluid technologies result in low recovery factors, oil and gas industry is seeking new injection fluids to increas ...

COALESCING THE FRAGMENTED INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH EACH EVENT OF A HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS DETECTOR AND THEN PROCESSING IT AT THE RATES DEMANDED BY ACCELERATOR SYSTEMS ARE AMONG THE LARGEST CHALLENGES IN THE PHYSICS COMMUNITY. NEW DETECTOR SYSTEMS CONTINUE TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF MEASURED PARAMETERS AND SIMULTANEOUSLY INCREASE THE RESOLUTION OF DETECTOR COMPONENTS SO THAT THE VOLUME OF GENRATED ...

THE MAJOR LIMITING RELIABILITY COMPONENT OF CRYOGENIC SYSTEMS HAS ALWAYS BEEN SEALS. BESIDES CONTRIBUTING TO GAS CONTAMINATION AND DEBRIS PARTICLE ACCUMULATION, SEALS HAVE PHYSICALLY FAILED; AS A RESULT, SEALS HAVE BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MAJORITY OF FAILURES OCCURRING IN CRYOGENIC LIQUIFICATION AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS. A POTENTIALLY VIABLE SOLUTION IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF LONG-LIFE CRYOGENIC SEA ...

ION SOURCES BASED ON VACUUM ARC TECHNOLOGY HAVE SEVERAL IMPORTANT ADVANTAGES. THEY CAN GENERATE A WIDE VARIETY OF METAL IONS, PRODUCE HIGH CURRENT FRACTIONS OF MULTIPLY-CHARGED IONS, AND ARE EASY TO OPERATE. UNFORTUNATELY, EXISTING ARC SOURCES HAVE TECHNOLOGICAL DRAWBACKS. A STABLE DISCHARGE REQUIRES HIGH CURRENT (>200A), LIMITING THE SOURCE PULSE LENGTH AND LIFETIME. IN THIS PHASE I PROJECT, IMPR ...

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Launching radio frequency (RF) waves from the high-field side (HFS) of a tokamak has the potential to be an efficient off-axis current drive method while reducing the plasma-material interaction issues of the antenna. Researchers at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have proposed to reuse existing equipment at MIT, including CPI klystron ...