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40640 November 12, 1996 Adherent Technologies, Inc. Scintillators have been used for over 90 years to detect ionizing radiation, but solid organic scintillator, commonly used in physics experimentation, suffer from errors caused by pulse pileup. To minimize this problem, this project will examine a new class of polymeric materials which also offer the po ...

40063 November 4, 1996 Amparo Corporation First-generation radioactive beam facilities, in use or under construction, cannot completely address many of the scientific opportunities envisioned until an intense production beam is employed. This project addresses a key element in filling this need, the design of high power nuclear targets. The targe ...

RECENT YEARS HAVE SEEN SIGNIFICANT ADVANCES IN LIGHT DETECTION TECHNOLOGY AND COMPUTER PROCESSING POWER. THERE ARE TWO DIMENSIONAL ARRAY DETECTORS, E.G. CCD ARRAYS, THAT ARE ENTIRELY CAPABLE OF PERFORMING AS SCIENTIFIC DETECTORS. MODERN SMALL COMPUTERS ARE CAPABLE OF HANDLING THE VAST QUANTITIES OF DATA PRODUCED ALMOST INSTANTANEOUSLY BY THESE DETECTORS. THE MISSING BUILDING BLOCK IN THE DEVELOPME ...

65017 Oil well formation damage is detrimental to the oil production rate and ultimate recovery from carbonate reservoirs that contain 3.7 billion barrels of proved domestic reserve. This project will develop an innovative well stimulation technique, based on laboratory measurements of wettability alteration coupled with artificial intelligence, to design well treatments. Phase I laborator ...

"Reflex triode bremsstrahlung sources potentially provide warm X-ray sources (20 keV to 500 keV), capable of generating high doses (~10 cal/g gold) over exposure areas of ~20 cm2. This needed capability allows experimental verification of warm X-ray inducedthermomechanical response, SGEMP, and box IEMP models for achieving component and system certification to hostile environments.In a reflex trio ...

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DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGH FIDELITY, HIGH ENERGY DENSITY WATER SHOCK SIMULATOR APPEARS FEASIBLE. MISSION RESEARCH CORPORATION (MRC), WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE NEW MEXICO ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE (NMERI), PROPOSES TO DEVELOP AN ELECTRICAL WATER SHOCK SIMULATOR WHERE AN ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE ACROSS A WELL DEFINED ELECTRODE GAP WILL PRODUCE A HOT PLASMA EXPANSION WHICH RESULTS IN A FAST RISE PRESSUR ...

Mission Research Corporation proposes the development of a unique FPGA (field programmable gate array) for applications in space and other military and civilian environments requiring the versatility of reconfigurability with retention of the configuration in an unpowered state. The FPGA will be capable of being configured once and retaining that configuration for a minimum of 10 years even with ...

WE HAVE RECENTLY SHOWN THAT SILOXANE PLASTICS ARE EXCELLENT CANDIDATES AS A BASE FOR A RADIATION HARD SCINTILLATION DETECTOR AT THE SSC. IT IS ENVISAGED THAT SCINTILLATING PLASTIC WILL BE REQUIRED IN THE FORM OF FIBERS ABOUT 1MM DIAMETER FOR CALORIMETRY AND ABOUT 200 MICRONS FOR TRACING TRAJECTORY PARTICLES. FLUORS MUST BE DISSOLVED IN THE PLASTIC SUCH THAT THE LIGHT EMISSION OF THE PLASTIC AT 290 ...

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