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Hurricane Katrina: EPA's Current and Future Environmental Protection Efforts Could Be Enhanced by Addressing Issues and Challenges Faced on the Gulf Coast

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In 2005, Hurricane Katrina's impact on the Gulf Coast included damage to the environment from chemical and hazardous materials releases. Also, the widespread demolition and renovation activities still under way in New Orleans may release asbestos fibers into the air, posing a potential additional health risk. This report, conducted at the Comptroller General's initiative, addresses (1) the Environmental… more
Date: June 25, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Property Management: Lack of Accountability and Weak Internal Controls Leave NASA Equipment Vulnerable to Loss, Theft, and Misuse

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "For years, GAO and others have reported that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) does not maintain effective control over the $35 billion of property, plant, and equipment (PP&E) and materials that it reports on its financial statements. GAO's report, the first in a planned series, addresses whether NASA's control environment and internal controls over NASA-held equipment provide re… more
Date: June 25, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Food and Drug Administration: Methodologies for Identifying and Allocating Costs of Reviewing Medical Device Applications Are Consistent with Federal Cost Accounting Standards, and Staffing Levels for Reviews Have Generally Increased in Recent Years

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the agency responsible for ensuring the safety and effectiveness of medical devices--such as catheters and artificial hearts--marketed in the United States. As part of its regulatory responsibilities, FDA reviews applications submitted by medical device companies for devices they wish to market, including devices that are new or those that include modifications t… more
Date: June 25, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Selective extraction of copper, mercury, silver and palladium ionsfrom water using hydrophobic ionic liquids.

Description: Extraction of dilute metal ions from water was performed near room temperature with a variety of ionic liquids. Distribution coefficients are reported for fourteen metal ions extracted with ionic liquids containing cations 1-octyl-4-methylpyridinium [4MOPYR]{sup +}, 1-methyl-1-octylpyrrolidinium [MOPYRRO]{sup +} or 1-methyl-1-octylpiperidinium [MOPIP]{sup +}, and anions tetrafluoroborate [BF{sub 4}]{sup +}, trifluoromethyl sulfonate [TfO]{sup +} or nonafluorobutyl sulfonate [NfO]{sup +}. Ionic … more
Date: June 25, 2007
Creator: Papaiconomou, Nicolas; Lee, Jong-Min; Salminen, Justin; VonStosch, Moritz & Prausnitz, John M.
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Design and Performance of the Matching Beamline Between the Bnl Ebis and an Rfq.

Description: A part of a new EBIS-based heavy ion preinjector, the low energy beam transport (LEBT) section between the high current EBIS and the RFQ is a challenging design, because it must serve many functions. In addition to the requirement to provide an efficient matching between the EBIS and the RFQ, this line must serve as a fast ''switchyard'', allowing singly charged ions from external sources to be transported into the EBIS trap region, and extracted, highly charged ions to be deflected to off-axis… more
Date: June 25, 2007
Creator: Alessi, J.; Beebe, E.; Brodowski, J.; Kponou, A.; Okamura, M.; Pikin, A. et al.
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Heavy ion fusion science research for high energy density physics and fusion applications

Description: During the past two years, the U.S. heavy ion fusion science program has made significant experimental and theoretical progress in simultaneous transverse and longitudinal beam compression, ion-beam-driven warm dense matter targets, high brightness beam transport, advanced theory and numerical simulations, and heavy ion target designs for fusion. First experiments combining radial and longitudinal compression of intense ion beams propagating through background plasma resulted in on-axis beam de… more
Date: June 25, 2007
Creator: Logan, B. G.; Bieniosek, F. M.; Barnard, J. J.; Cohen, R. H.; Coleman, J. E.; Davidson, R. C. et al.
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Vibration Measurements to Study the Effect of Cryogen Flow in Superconducting Quadrupole.

Description: The conceptual design of compact superconducting magnets for the International Linear Collider final focus is presently under development. A primary concern in using superconducting quadrupoles is the potential for inducing additional vibrations from cryogenic operation. We have employed a Laser Doppler Vibrometer system to measure the vibrations in a spare RHIC quadrupole magnet under cryogenic conditions. Some preliminary results of these studies were limited in resolution due to a rather lar… more
Date: June 25, 2007
Creator: He, P.; Anerella, M.; Aydin, S.; Ganetis, G.; Harrison, M.; Jain, A. et al.
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Isotopic mass-dependence of noble gas diffusion coefficients inwater

Description: Noble gas isotopes are used extensively as tracers inhydrologic and paleoclimatic studies. These applications requireknowledge of the isotopic mass (m) dependence of noble gas diffusioncoefficients in water (D), which has not been measured but is estimatedusing experimental D-values for the major isotopes along with an untestedrelationship from kinetic theory, D prop m-0.5. We applied moleculardynamics methods to determine the mass dependence of D for four noblegases at 298 K, finding that D pr… more
Date: June 25, 2007
Creator: Bourg, I.C. & Sposito, G.
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End-to-End Simulations for the Ebis Preinjector.

Description: The EBIS Project at Brookhaven National Laboratory is in the second year of a four-year project. It will replace the Tandem Van de Graaff accelerators with an Electron Beam Ion Source, an RFQ, and one IH Linac cavity, as the heavy ion preinjector for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), and for the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL). The preinjector will provide all ions species, He to U, (Q/m >0.16) at 2 MeV/amu at a repetition rate of 5 Hz, pulse length of 10-40 {micro}s, and in… more
Date: June 25, 2007
Creator: Raparia, D.; Alessi, J.; Kponou, A.; Pikin, A.; Ritter, J.; Minaev, S. et al.
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Optical Faraday Cup for Heavy Ion Beams

Description: We have been using alumina scintillators for imaging beams in heavy-ion beam fusion experiments in 2 to 4 transverse dimensions [1]. The scintillator has a limited lifetime under bombardment by the heavy ion beams. As a possible replacement for the scintillator, we are studying the technique of imaging the beam on a gas cloud. A gas cloud for imaging the beam may be created on a solid hole plate placed in the path of the beam, or by a localized gas jet. It is possible to image the beam using ce… more
Date: June 25, 2007
Creator: Bieniosek, Frank; Bieniosek, F. M.; Eylon, S.; Roy, P. K. & Yu, S. S.
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Plasma Lens for Us Based Super Neutrino Beam at Either Fnal or Bnl.

Description: The plasma lens concept is examined as an alternative to focusing horns and solenoids for a neutrino beam facility. The concept is based on a combined high-current lens/target configuration. Current is fed at an electrode located downstream from the beginning of the target where pion capturing is needed. The current is carried by plasma outside the target. A second plasma lens section, with an additional current feed, follows the target. The plasma is immersed in a relatively small solenoidal m… more
Date: June 25, 2007
Creator: Hershcovitch, A.; Weng, W.; Diwan, M.; Gallardo, J.; Kirk, H.; Johnson, B. et al.
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Numerical Study of Coulomb Scattering Effects on Electron Beamfrom a Nano-Tip

Description: Nano-tips with high acceleration gradient around the emission surface have been proposed to generate high brightness beams. However, due to the small size of the tip, the charge density near the tip is very high even for a small number of electrons. The stochastic Coulomb scattering near the tip can degrade the beam quality and cause extra emittance growth and energy spread. In the paper, we present a numerical study of these effects using a direct relativistic N-body model. We found that emitt… more
Date: June 25, 2007
Creator: Qiang, Ji; Corlett, John N.; Lidia, Steven M.; Padmore, HowardA.; Wan, Weishi; Zholent, Andrew A. et al.
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Performance of capillary discharge guided laser plasma wakefieldaccelerator

Description: A GeV-class laser-driven plasma-based wakefield acceleratorhas been realized at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).The device consists of the 40TW high repetition rate Ti:sapphire LOASISlaser system at LBNL and a gas-filled capillary discharge waveguidedeveloped at Oxford University. The operation of the capillary dischargeguided laser plasma wakefield accelerator with a capillaryof 225 mu mdiameter and 33 mm in length was analyzed in detail. The input intensitydependence suggests… more
Date: June 25, 2007
Creator: Nakamura, Kei; Esarey, Eric; Geddes, Cameron G. R.; Gonsalves, Anthony J.; Leemans, Wim P.; Panasenko, Dmitriy et al.
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Physicochemical properties and toxicities of hydrophobicpiperidinium and pyrrolidinium ionic liquids

Description: Some properties are reported for hydrophobic ionic liquids (IL) containing 1-methyl-1-propyl pyrrolidinium [MPPyrro]{sup +}, 1-methyl-1-butyl pyrrolidinium [MBPyrro]{sup +}, 1-methyl-1-propyl piperidinium [MPPip]{sup +}, 1-methyl-1-butyl piperidinium [MBPip]{sup +}, 1-methyl-1-octylpyrrolidinium [MOPyrro]{sup +} and 1-methyl-1-octylpiperidinium [MOPip]{sup +} cations. These liquids provide new alternatives to pyridinium and imidazolium ILs. High thermal stability of an ionic liquid increases sa… more
Date: June 25, 2007
Creator: Salminen, Justin; Papaiconomou, Nicolas; Kumar, R. Anand; Lee,Jong-Min; Kerr, John; Newman, John et al.
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TOWARDS 100% POLARIZATION IN THE OPTICALLY-PUMPED POLARIZED ION SOURCE.

Description: The depolarization factors in the multi-step spin-transfer polarization technique and basic limitations on maximum polarization in the OPPIS (Optically-Pumped Polarized H{sup -} Ion Source) are discussed. Detailed studies of polarization losses in the RHIC OPPIS and the source parameters optimization resulted in the OPPIS polarization increase to 86-90%. This contributed to increasing polarization in the AGS and RHIC to 65-70%.
Date: June 25, 2007
Creator: ZELENSKI,A.; ALESSI, J.; KOKHANOVSKI, S.; KPONOU, A.; RITTER, B.J. & ZUBETS, V.
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Thermal Emittance Measurement Design for Diamond Secondary Emission

Description: Thermal emittance is a very important characteristic of cathodes. A carefully designed method of measuring the thermal emittance of secondary emission from diamond is presented. Comparison of possible schemes is carried out by simulation, and the most accessible and accurate method and values are chosen. Systematic errors can be controlled and maintained at small values, and are carefully evaluated. Aberration and limitations of all equipment are taken into account.
Date: June 25, 2007
Creator: Wu, Q.; Ben-Zvi, Ilan; Burrill, A.; Chang, X.; Kayran, D.; Rao, T. et al.
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ICD Complex Operations and Maintenance Plan

Description: This Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Plan describes how the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) conducts operations, winterization, and startup of the Idaho CERCLA Disposal Facility (ICDF) Complex. The ICDF Complex is the centralized INL facility responsible for the receipt, storage, treatment (as necessary), and disposal of INL Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) remediation waste.
Date: June 25, 2007
Creator: Gibson, P. L.
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SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNET NEEDS FOR THE ILC.

Description: The ILC Reference Design Report was completed early in February 2007. The Magnet Systems Group was formed to translate magnetic field requirements into magnet designs and cost estimates for the Reference Design. As presently configured, the lLC will have more than 13,000 magnetic elements of which more than 2300 will be based on superconducting technology. This paper will describe the major superconducting magnet needs for the ILC as presently determined by the Area Systems Groups, responsible … more
Date: June 25, 2007
Creator: PARKER, B.; TOMPKINS, J. C.; KASHIKHIN, V. I.; PALMER, M. A. & CLARKE, J. A.
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Colliding pulse injection experiments in non-collinear geometryfor controlled laser plasma wakefield acceleration of electrons

Description: An optical injection scheme for a laser-plasma basedaccelerator which employs a non-collinear counter-propagating laser beamto push background electrons in the focusing and acceleration phase viaponderomotive beat with the trailing part of the wakefield driver pulseis discussed. Preliminary experiments were performed using a drive beamof a_0 = 2.6 and colliding beam of a_1 = 0.8 both focused on the middleof a 200 mu m slit jet backed with 20 bar, which provided ~; 260 mu mlong gas plume. The en… more
Date: June 25, 2007
Creator: Toth, Carl B.; Esarey, Eric H.; Geddes, Cameron G.R.; Leemans,Wim P.; Nakamura, Kei; Panasenko, Dmitriy et al.
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THE SUPERCONDUCTION MAGNETS OF THE ILC BEAM DELIVERY SYSTEM.

Description: The ILC Reference Design Report was completed early in February 2007. The Magnet Systems Group was formed to translate magnetic field requirements into magnet designs and cost estimates for the Reference Design. As presently configured, the ILC will have more than 13,000 magnetic elements of which more than 2300 will be based on superconducting technology. This paper will describe the major superconducting magnet needs for the ILC as presently determined by the Area Systems Groups, responsible … more
Date: June 25, 2007
Creator: PARKER,B.; ANEREELA, M.; ESCALLIE, J.; HE, P.; JAIN, A.; MARONE, A. et al.
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Insertion Devices R and Ds for NSLS-II

Description: NSLS-II is a medium energy storage ring of 3GeV electron beam energy with sub-nm.rad horizontal emittance and top-off capability at 500mA. Damping wigglers will be used not only to reduce the beam emittance but also for broadband sources for users. Cryo-Permanent Magnet Undulators (CPMUs) are considered for hard X-ray linear device, and permanent magnet based Elliptically Polarized Undulators (EPUs) are for polarization control. Rigorous R&D plans have been established to pursue the perform… more
Date: June 25, 2007
Creator: Tanabe, T.; Harder, D. A.; Rakowsky, G.; Shaftan, T. & Skaritka, J.
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Error Estimates Derived from the Data for Least-Squares Spline Fitting

Description: The use of least-squares fitting by cubic splines for the purpose of noise reduction in measured data is studied. Splines with variable mesh size are considered. The error, the difference between the input signal and its estimate, is divided into two sources: the R-error, which depends only on the noise and increases with decreasing mesh size, and the Ferror, which depends only on the signal and decreases with decreasing mesh size. The estimation of both errors as a function of time is demonstr… more
Date: June 25, 2007
Creator: Blair, Jerome
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High Performance Ebis for Rhic.

Description: An Electron Beam Ion Source (EBIS), capable of producing high charge states and high beam currents of any heavy ion species in short pulses, is ideally suited for injection into a synchrotron. An EBIS-based, high current, heavy ion preinjector is now being built at Brookhaven to provide increased capabilities for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), and the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL). Benefits of the new preinjector include the ability to produce ions of any species, fast swi… more
Date: June 25, 2007
Creator: Alessi, J.; Beebe, E.; Gould, O.; Kponou, A.; Lockey, R.; Pikin, A. et al.
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A Survey of Hadron Therapy Accelerator Technologies.

Description: Hadron therapy has entered a new age [1]. The number of facilities grows steadily, and 'consumer' interest is high. Some groups are working on new accelerator technology, while others optimize existing designs by reducing capital and operating costs, and improving performance. This paper surveys the current requirements and directions in accelerator technology for hadron therapy.
Date: June 25, 2007
Creator: Peggs, S.; Satogata, T. & Flanz, J.
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