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System overview on electromagnetic compensation for reflector antenna surface distortion
The system requirements and hardware implementation for electromagnetic compensation of antenna performance degradations due to thermal effects was investigated. Future commercial space communication antenna systems will utilize the 20/30 GHz frequency spectrum and support very narrow multiple beams (0.3 deg) over wide angle field of view (15-20 beamwidth). On the ground, portable and inexpensive very small aperture terminals (VSAT) for transmitting and receiving video, facsimile and data will be employed. These types of communication system puts a very stringent requirement on spacecraft antenna beam pointing stability (less than .01 deg), high gain (greater than 50 dB) and very lowside lobes (less than -25 dB). Thermal analysis performed on the advanced communication technology satellite (ACTS) has shown that the reflector surfaces, the mechanical supporting structures and metallic surfaces on the spacecraft body will distort due thermal effects from a varying solar flux. The antenna performance characteristics (e.g., pointing stability, gain, side lobe, etc.) will degrade due to thermal distortion in the reflector surface and supporting structures. Specifically, antenna RF radiation analysis has shown that pointing error is the most sensitive antenna performance parameter to thermal distortions. Other antenna parameters like peak gain, cross polarization level (beam isolation), and side lobe level will also degrade with thermal distortions. In order to restore pointing stability and in general antenna performance several compensation methods were proposed. In general these compensation methods can be classified as being either of mechanical or electromagnetic type. This paper will address only the later one. In this approach an adaptive phased array antenna feed is used to compensate for the antenna performance degradation. Extensive work has been devoted to demonstrate the feasibility of adaptive feed compensation on space communication antenna systems. This paper addresses the system requirements for such a system and identify candidate technologies (analog and digital) for possible hardware implementation
Top quark physics in hadron collisions
The top quark is the heaviest elementary particle observed to date. Its large
mass makes the top quark an ideal laboratory to test predictions of
perturbation theory concerning heavy quark production at hadron colliders. The
top quark is also a powerful probe for new phenomena beyond the Standard Model
of particle physics. In addition, the top quark mass is a crucial parameter for
scrutinizing the Standard Model in electroweak precision tests and for
predicting the mass of the yet unobserved Higgs boson. Ten years after the
discovery of the top quark at the Fermilab Tevatron top quark physics has
entered an era where detailed measurements of top quark properties are
undertaken. In this review article an introduction to the phenomenology of top
quark production in hadron collisions is given, the lessons learned in Tevatron
Run I are summarized, and first Run II results are discussed. A brief outlook
to the possibilities of top quark research a the Large Hadron Collider,
currently under construction at CERN, is included.Comment: 84 pages, 32 figures, accepted for publication by Reports on Progress
in Physic
An Experimental Study of Centrifugal-Pump Impellers
Experimental investigations were made on four two-dimensional impellers and on a well-designed commercial three-dimensional Francis impeller. The over-all performance of each of these impellers was measured and internal-energy loss and pressure-distribution data were also obtained for several impellers. The exit angle of the two-dimensional impellers was fixed and the inlet angle was systematically varied. However, the hydraulic characteristics of these impellers were all found to differ, the source of the variation being in the various loss distributions and hence internal flow patterns in the impellers. The two-dimensional and three-dimensional impeller-loss distributions were also different. The Francis-impeller performance agreed better with potential theory than that of the two-dimensional impellers, and it is included that the different loss distributions of the two types are responsible
An Experimental Study of Centrifugal Pump Impellers
This report summarizes about three years of experimental work on centrifugal pump impellers by the hydraulic machinery group of the Hydrodynamics
Laboratory. Some of the work discussed herein has already been reported as individual investigations by this project. This report embodies these earlier results together with more complete and recent
investigations of centrifugal pump impellers
Effect of the Volute on Performance of a Centrifugal-Pump Impeller
An experimental study of volute influence on radial
flow-impeller performance was conducted by operating a
single impeller with three different sets of volute vanes.
In each case, over-all performance was measured and an
internal-flow study within the volute was made. The results
show that at their respective design flow rates the influence
of the volutes is least and the deviation of performance
from the free-impeller operation is small. At
off-design flow rates there are major changes in the impeller
performance resulting from the presence of the
volutes. Large real fluid effects, coupled with a nonuniform
velocity pattern at the impeller exit, result in a flow
through the volute that does not resemble a potential flow.
Even so, the fluid losses through the volute are comparatively small
Microwave saturation spectroscopy of nitrogen-vacancy ensembles in diamond
Negatively-charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have
generated much recent interest for their use in sensing. The sensitivity
improves when the NV ground-state microwave transitions are narrow, but these
transitions suffer from inhomogeneous broadening, especially in high-density NV
ensembles. To better understand and remove the sources of broadening, we
demonstrate room-temperature spectral "hole burning" of the NV ground-state
transitions. We find that hole burning removes the broadening caused by
magnetic fields from C nuclei and demonstrate that it can be used for
magnetic-field-insensitive thermometry.Comment: Main text: 5 pages, 4 figures. Supplement: 6 pages, 3 figure
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