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Neutron-image intensifier
Electronic intensifier tube with a demagnification ratio of 9-1 enhances the usefulness of neutron-radiographic techniques. A television signal can be obtained by optical coupling of a small-output phosphor-light image to a television camera
Bayesian Nonparametric Shrinkage Applied to Cepheid Star Oscillations
Bayesian nonparametric regression with dependent wavelets has dual shrinkage
properties: there is shrinkage through a dependent prior put on functional
differences, and shrinkage through the setting of most of the wavelet
coefficients to zero through Bayesian variable selection methods. The
methodology can deal with unequally spaced data and is efficient because of the
existence of fast moves in model space for the MCMC computation. The
methodology is illustrated on the problem of modeling the oscillations of
Cepheid variable stars; these are a class of pulsating variable stars with the
useful property that their periods of variability are strongly correlated with
their absolute luminosity. Once this relationship has been calibrated,
knowledge of the period gives knowledge of the luminosity. This makes these
stars useful as "standard candles" for estimating distances in the universe.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-STS384 the Statistical
Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Microscopic Determinations of Fission Barriers, (MEAN-Field and Beyond)
With a help of the selfconsistent Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) approach with
the D1S effective Gogny interaction and the Generator Coordinate Method (GCM)
we incorporate the transverse collective vibrations to the one-dimensional
model of the fission-barrier penetrability based on the traditional WKB method.
The average fission barrier corresponding to the least-energy path in the
two-dimensional potential energy landscape as function of quadrupole and
octupole degrees of freedom is modified by the influence of the transverse
collective vibrations along the nuclear path to fission. The set of transverse
vibrational states built in the fission valley corresponding to a successively
increasing nuclear elongation produces the new energy barrier which is compared
with the least-energy barrier. These collective states are given as the
eigensolutions of the GCM purely vibrational Hamiltonian. In addition, the
influence of the collective inertia on the fission properties is displayed, and
it turns out to be the decisive condition for the possible transitions between
different fission valleys.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures, presented at XIII Workshop of Nuclear Physics,
Kazimierz Dolny, 2006 (Poland
Thermal neutron image intensifier tube provides brightly visible radiographic pattern
Vacuum-type neutron image intensifier tube improves image detection in thermal neutron radiographic inspection. This system converts images to an electron image, and with electron acceleration and demagnification between the input target and output screen, produces a bright image viewed through a closed circuit television system
Hunting Local Mixmaster Dynamics in Spatially Inhomogeneous Cosmologies
Heuristic arguments and numerical simulations support the Belinskii et al
(BKL) claim that the approach to the singularity in generic gravitational
collapse is characterized by local Mixmaster dynamics (LMD). Here, one way to
identify LMD in collapsing spatially inhomogeneous cosmologies is explored. By
writing the metric of one spacetime in the standard variables of another,
signatures for LMD may be found. Such signatures for the dynamics of spatially
homogeneous Mixmaster models in the variables of U(1)-symmetric cosmologies are
reviewed. Similar constructions for U(1)-symmetric spacetimes in terms of the
dynamics of generic -symmetric spacetime are presented.Comment: 17 pages, 5 figures. Contribution to CQG Special Issue "A Spacetime
Safari: Essays in Honour of Vincent Moncrief
New camera tube improves ultrasonic inspection system
Electron multiplier, incorporated into the camera tube of an ultrasonic imaging system, improves resolution, effectively shields low level circuits, and provides a high level signal input to the television camera. It is effective for inspection of metallic materials for bonds, voids, and homogeneity
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