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Novel nuclear magnetic resonance techniques for studying biological molecules

Description: Over the fifty-five year history of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), considerable progress has been made in the development of techniques for studying the structure, function, and dynamics of biological molecules. The majority of this research has involved the development of multi-dimensional NMR experiments for studying molecules in solution, although in recent years a number of groups have begun to explore NMR methods for studying biological systems in the solid-state. Despite this new effor… more
Date: June 1, 2000
Creator: Laws, David D.
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Development of Trivalent Ytterbium Doped Fluorapatites for Diode-Pumped Laser Applications

Description: One of the major motivators of this work is the Mercury Project, which is a 1 kW scalable diode-pumped solid-state laser system under development at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Major goals include 100 J pulses, 10% wallplug efficiency, 10 Hz repetition rate, and a 5 times diffraction limited beam. To achieve these goals the Mercury laser incorporates ytterbium doped Sr{sub 5}(PO{sub 4}){sub 3}F (S-FAP) as the amplifier gain medium. The primary focus of this thesis is a full u… more
Date: June 21, 2000
Creator: Bayramian, A. J.
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A measurement of t{anti t} production cross section in p{anti p} collisions at {radical}s = 1.8 TeV using neural networks

Description: The authors present the results of a new measurement of the t{anti t} production cross section using e{mu} channel in p{anti p} collisions at {radical}s = 1.8 TeV. This study corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 108.3 {+-} 5.7 pb{sup {minus}1} acquired by the D0 detector during the Fermilab Tevatron Collider Run 1 (1992--1996). By using neural network techniques instead of the conventional analysis methods, the authors show that the signal acceptance can be increased by 10% (for m{sub t} … more
Date: June 16, 2000
Creator: Singh, Harpreet
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Search for single top production with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider

Description: We attempt to identify a single top signal in the muon + jets data collected using the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron at a center-of-mass energy of {radical}s = 1.8 TeV from 1992-96. The data corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 103.7 pb{sup -1}. While resolving a signal has proved impossible, we are able to place an upper limit on the production cross section for single top events using these data. The cross section for production of single top via 95% p{bar p} {yields} tb and p{ba… more
Date: June 15, 2000
Creator: McDonald, J. E.
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Water resources development in Santa Clara Valley, California: insights into the human-hydrologic relationship

Description: Groundwater irrigation is critical to food production and, in turn, to humankind's relationship with its environment. The development of groundwater in Santa Clara Valley, California during the early twentieth century is instructive because (1) responses to unsustainable resource use were largely successful; (2) the proposals for the physical management of the water, although not entirely novel, incorporated new approaches which reveal an evolving relationship between humans and the hydrologic … more
Date: June 1, 2000
Creator: Reynolds, Jesse L. & Narasimhan, T.N.
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Extraction of the width of the W boson from a measurement of the ratio of the W and Z cross sections

Description: This dissertation reports on measurements of inclusive cross sections times branching fractions into electrons for W and Z bosons produced in p{anti p} collisions at {radical}s = 1.8 TeV. From an integrated luminosity of 84.5 pb{sup {minus}1} recorded in 1994--1995 by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron {Lambda} the cross sections are measured to be {sigma}p{anti p} {r_arrow} W + X {center_dot} B(W {r_arrow} e{nu}) = 2,310 {+-} 10 (stat) {+-} 50 (Syst) {+-} 100 (lum) pb and {sigma}(p{anti … more
Date: June 15, 2000
Creator: Gomez, Gervasio
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Quantitative characterization of the protein contents of the exocrine pancreatic acinar cell by soft x-ray microscopy and advanced digital imaging methods

Description: The study of the exocrine pancreatic acinar cell has been central to the development of models of many cellular processes, especially of protein transport and secretion. Traditional methods used to examine this system have provided a wealth of qualitative information from which mechanistic models have been inferred. However they have lacked the ability to make quantitative measurements, particularly of the distribution of protein in the cell, information critical for grounding of models in term… more
Date: June 9, 2000
Creator: Loo, Billy W., Jr.
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Spin correlation in t{anti t} production from p{anti p} collisions at {radical}s = 1.8 TeV

Description: The Standard Model predicts that the lifetime of the top quark is shorter than the typical time scale at which hadronization process occurs, and the spin information at its production is preserved. Spin correlation of the t{anti t} system from p{anti p} collisions at the Tevatron is analyzed using 6 events in the dilepton channels collected using the D0 detector. Spin correlation factor of {kappa} > {minus} 0.25 at 68% CL is obtained from the data.
Date: June 15, 2000
Creator: Choi, Suyong
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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