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Analytic Approach for the Pion-Proton Scattering Phase Shifts

Description: A simple method of solving for the phase shifts of the pion-proton scattering is presented. The rapid solution afforded can be utilized, as the Ashkin diagrams have been employed, to give starting values to an electronic computer or alternatively to analyze with more ease the variation of the phase shifts as a function of the input data in terms of the coefficients of the angular distributions. A new plot of a function of the total cross section versus the pion energy is introduced. The nearly … more
Date: December 7, 1955
Creator: Rarita, William, 1907-
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Research on Uranium-Base Alloys. Part I, Transformation Kinetics of Uranium-Base Alloys, Final Report, November 15, 1952 - August 31, 1955

Description: Information concerning the transformation kinetics of the gamma solid solution of uranium-base alloys is important. Accordingly, the metastability of the gamma phase was investigated for nine uranium-rich alloys of the U-Mo-Pt, U-Mo-Nb, and U-Nb systems. Samples were encapsulated in Vycor bulbs, solutions treated at 1000 decrees or 1050 degrees C, quenched to and annealed at temperatures between 600 degrees and 300 degrees C. Techniques employed to follow transformation included metallography, … more
Date: September 30, 1955
Creator: Van Thyne, R. J. & McPherson, F. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Simple Sweeping-Image Camera (Chronograph) with 10-8 Second Resolution

Description: A sweeping-image camera design of flexible application and easy construction is described. It is equally useful for bread-board, optical bench, or completely engineered construction. The heart of this camera is the optical train which consists of a collimator lens that renders the light from the image points into parallel beams, a rotating mirror to sweep these beams in an arc, and a box camera set at infinity focus to receive the reflected beams. The sweeping light beams form images which move… more
Date: 1955
Creator: Brixner, Berlyn
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Flotation Characteristics of Florida Phosphate Leached-Zone Material, Progress Report No . 7

Description: Although the results reported herein are rather encouraging and show the possibilities of utilizing flotation to increase recoveries and in some instances grades, they should not not be considered an optimum. As stated previously, time did not permit a detailed investigation of all reagents an conditions to obtain maximum grades and recoveries, but sufficient data, with enough typical samples, have been obtained to indicate a definite trend and encouragement for further studies. A comparison of… more
Date: December 20, 1955
Creator: Snow, Robert E. (Robert Ellis)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Datatron digital Computer Program for least-Squares Analysis of Variance

Description: A digital computer program for calculating least-squares solutions and making analyses of variance of sets of overdetermined linear equations is described. The entire code is reproduced with sufficient description of the program to enable anyone familiar with the Electrodata Datatron Computer to use it for similar problems.
Date: July 1955
Creator: Rollett, J. S. (John Sidney)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Method for Monochromatizating and Precise Point Focusing of X-Rays and its Application in Low Angle Diffraction Studies

Description: A principle for bending crystals with a minimum of strain so that they will focus x-rays and gamma-rays accurately to a point is explained. Detailed calculations are made of the aberrations in the foci resulting from various applications of the principle. the application of the principle in making a point focusing monochromator for low angle x-ray diffraction studies is discussed, and theoretical and experimental determinations of the reflection coefficient of the crystal are compared. A few ex… more
Date: April 1955
Creator: Berreman, Dwight Winton
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Studies on the Experimental Pathology and Biochemistry of the Pulmonary Granulomatosis of Beryllium Workers. Section II, Consolidated Progress Report. Supplement: a Review of the Physical Chemistry of Beryllium

Description: The status of research is reviewed in a study of pulmonary granulomatosis in beryllium workers. Equipment for use in dust exposure studies is described. Preliminary results are reported from studies on the tissue distribution and pathological effects of beryllium dust in rats; the physical chemistry of solutions of beryllium salts; the effects of beryllium on enzyme systems, and the effects of ascorbic acid on beryllium excretion.
Date: April 25, 1955
Creator: Schepers, G. W. H. (Gerrit Willem Hendrik), 1914-
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Angular Distribution of Fragments from the Photofission of U238

Description: Ilford D1 and Eastman NTC nuclear emulsions have been loaded with a solution of uranium acetate and them exposed to the X-ray beam of the Case betatron operated at 18 Mev. The developed plates have been searched wit a Zeiss type microscope. A total number of 1062 fission tracks have been measured and analyzed and the angular distribution of the fission fragments in center of mas system has been obtained.
Date: 1955
Creator: Reineke, Z. L.; Finegan, J. D. & Shankland, Robert S., 1908-
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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High-Energy Electron Scattering and the Charge Distribution of Selected Nuclei

Description: Experimental results are presented of electron scattering by Ca, V, Co, In, Sb, Hf, Ta, W, Au, Bi, Th, and U, at 183 Mev and (for some of the elements) at 153 Mev. For those nuclei for which asphericity and inelastic scattering are absent or unimportant, i.e., Ca, V, Co, In, Sb, Au, and Bi, a partial wave analysis of the Dirac equation has been performed in which the nuclei are represented by static, spherically symmetric charge distributions. Smoothed uniform charge distributions have been ass… more
Date: October 1955
Creator: Hahn, Beat & Ravenhall, D. G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Progress Report. Part I. [Isotope Encephalometry]. Part II. Progress and Plans in the Development of a Scanning Scintillation Coincidence Isotope-Encephalometer

Description: Sixty-nine cases of suspected brain lesions were studied with both routine isotope encephalometry and the graphic method of analysis. Of thirty-two space occupying lesions, 68.7% were correctly diagnosed by both means, while 18.8% were negative with the routine method but were positive with the graphic method. The overall accuracy of locating a tumor when present was 87.5%. The proposed design for a scanning scintillation coincidence isotope-encephalometer is discussed.
Date: December 1955
Creator: French, Lyle A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Effects of X-Irradiation on the Plasmas of Chickens as Revealed by Serological Analysis. Part I, Whole Plasma Comparisons. Part II, Alteration of Proteins of the Liver (a Preliminary Report). Part III, Autoantibody Formation (a Preliminary Report)

Description: Irradiation of a living animal with X-rays induces alternation in the proteins of cells in which ionization events occur. Systematic end-products such as the proteins of plasma would, by changes in quality and quantity divulge modification of their synthetic pathways, or compensatory responses of the hematopoietic systems to stresses caused by irradiation in other organs. Serological identification of proteins, a sensitive means of biochemical characterizations was chosen to reveal variations i… more
Date: 1955
Creator: Leone, Charles A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Proposal for Further Studies on Lung Hazards from Inhalation of Insoluble Radioactive Particulate Matter. Summary Report for Year of July 15, 1953 to July 14, 1954.

Description: Rats were exposed, by inhalation and intratracheal insufflation, to soluble and insoluble particles of uniform size but varying specific activity. The same number of particles was administered in each case, thus making the doses proportional to the specific activity per particle. The insoluble particles consisted of barium sulfate , while the soluble particles were sodium sulfate. Neither of these compounds is chemically toxic in the quantities used in these experiments. The radiation is due to… more
Date: 1955
Creator: Cember, Herman
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Some Effects of Irradiation on the Immunochemical and Physicochemical Identity of Serum Proteins of Rats

Description: That body proteins may be altered by irradiation to such as extent as to react as foreign elements and perhaps antagonists in their own physiological environment is postulated. The plausibility of this concept was examined. The serological activity of hemocyanin isolated from the sera of the American lobster, as measured by the quantitative, turbidimetric precipitin reaction, was found to be altered by in vitro x irradiation. Beta particles from internally deposited P32 produced chronic changes… more
Date: 1955
Creator: Dolyak, Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Grüneisen Parameter for an Einstein Solid and Under Finite Strain

Description: The Grüneisen constant, as evaluated from the equation of state, is obtained for an Einstein solid. the presence of a state of finite hydrostatic pressure is taken into account explicitly by means of Murnaghan's theory of finite strain, to obtain the Grüneisen parameter's on the Debye and Einstein models. Results are identical in the two cases with the corresponding values obtained without use of the formal theory of finite strain.
Date: September 26, 1955
Creator: Gilvarry, J. J. (John James), 1917-
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation on Chloroplast Reactions and Plant Metabolism

Description: This technical report represents a brief survey of work by this project on the effects of ultraviolet radiation (UV) on certain of the photochemical and metabolic properties of rhubarb chard and sugar beet (Beta vulgaris). These plants were selected for this work because for some years they have been used as sources of chloroplasts for Hill reaction studies in this laboratory. Some of this work has appeared as a brief paper.
Date: June 15, 1955
Creator: Anderson, Donald R.; Spikes, John D. & Mayne, Berger C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Effect of Crystallite Size on the Bulk Density and Strength Properties of Uranium Dioxide Specimens

Description: Fused uranium dioxide was separated into fractions of varying particle size by air separation. Specimens of the nominal size of 1/8 by 1/4 by 1½ in. were formed by hydrostatic pressing, firing, and lapping. Specimens prepared from the 0 to 5 μ fraction were the strongest and most dense. The room-temperature density was about 92% of theoretical and the room-temperature flexural strength was about 12,000 1b. per sq. in. When tested at 1000°C., the strength was about 18,000 1b. per sq. in. The fle… more
Date: June 1, 1955
Creator: Burdick, Milton D. & Parker, H. S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Intermediary Metabolism of the Photosynthetic Bacteria. Final Report

Description: The primary purpose of these researches was to clarify the various functions of organic substrates in bacterial photosynthesis. The following aspects were investigated; (1) metabolic pathways under photosynthetic and oxidative conditions, (2) energy transfers occurring during the metabolism in cell free extracts, and (3) the relationship between photosynthetic rate and light intensity for selected organic substrates. The results of these investigations were summarized in a paper entitled "The A… more
Date: November 1, 1955
Creator: Siegel, Jack M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Progress Report No. 37 for the Period June 1, 1955 through August 31, 1955

Description: This is the thirty-seventh progress report of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Progress during the period of June 1, 1955 through August 31, 1955 is reported on: (1) Chemistry of the fission elements group, (2) Nuclear chemistry (inorganic) group, (3) Nuclear chemistry (organic) group, (4) Cosmic ray group, (5) Elementary particle scattering group, (6) neutron physics group, (7) ONR generator group, (8) Radioactivity group, (9) Cyclotron group, (1… more
Date: August 31, 1955
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The Equation of State of Water on the Thomas-Fermi Model

Description: Two methods are described for extending the Thomas-Fermi model of a compressed atom to molecules or mixtures of the type Z Zn. The methods are applied to H2O at zero temperature to determine pressure and internal energy as functions of the density, the position of the protons relative to the oxygen nucleus, and the electrostatic potential distribution within the molecule.
Date: October 24, 1955
Creator: Latter, A. & Latter, R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Cloud Chamber Study of the Secondary Particles from Locally Produced Penetrating Showers

Description: The present experiment was undertaken as an attempt to throw more light on the decay processes that had been observed prior to the summer of 1952, as well as to investigate any new decay processes that might manifest themselves. The source of high energy primary particles was to be the cosmic ray beam, so a detector of locally produced high energy penetration showers was used. In order to be able to detect effectively low energy photons and low energy secondaries from particles reaching the end… more
Date: September 1955
Creator: Harmon, Norman Frederick
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Measurement of Respiratory C14O2 Activities

Description: We describe in this technical report a reasonably simple, easily constructed, system that allows the collection of time-course information regarding respiratory C14O2 with little special effort on the part of the investigator. The method described is centered around a small metabolism cage for the animal and a novel technique for counting C14O2. In essence, an air steam containing C14O2 is brought part the window of a think end window G.M. tube contained in a lead shield. activity detected by t… more
Date: 1955
Creator: Bruggen, J. T. van, 1913-1989 & Hutchens, Tyra T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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