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Low-Lying Neutron-Hole Transitions in the 207-Pb(p,p') Reaction at 135 MeV
This work was supported by National Science Foundation Grant PHY 75-00289 and Indiana Universit
Transitions to Proton States in the 90-Zr(p,p') Reaction at 160 MeV
This work was supported by National Science Foundation Grant PHY 76-84033 and Indiana Universit
Spin-Orbit Effects on the Shapes of Cross Sections in the 90-Zr(p,p') Reaction at 160 MeV
This work was supported by National Science Foundation Grants PHY 76-84033A01, PHY 78-22774, and Indiana Universit
Excitation of Neutron, Proton and Neutron-Hole States in the (p,p') Reaction at 160 MeV and 96 MeV
This work was supported by National Science Foundation Grant PHY 76-84033 and Indiana Universit
Core Polarization Amplitudes for Single-Neutron-Hole Transitions Excited in the 207-Pb(p,p') Reaction at 135 MeV and 61 MeV
This work was supported by National Science Foundation Grants PHY 76-84033A01, PHY 78-22774, and Indiana Universit
Low-Lying Transitions in the 207-Pb(p,p') Reaction at 135 MeV and a Test of the DWIA
This work was supported by National Science Foundation Grant PHY 76-84033 and Indiana Universit
Studies of the Heavy Transitional Nuclei using the (p,p') Reactions at 135 MeV
This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Grant NSF PHY 87-1440
Globally Anisotropic High Porosity Silica Aerogels
We discuss two methods by which high porosity silica aerogels can be
engineered to exhibit global anisotropy. First, anisotropy can be introduced
with axial strain. In addition, intrinsic anisotropy can result during growth
and drying stages and, suitably controlled, it can be correlated with
preferential radial shrinkage in cylindrical samples. We have performed small
angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) to characterize these two types of anisotropy. We
show that global anisotropy originating from either strain or shrinkage leads
to optical birefringence and that optical cross-polarization studies are a
useful characterization of the uniformity of the imposed global anisotropy.Comment: 18 pages, 14 figures, submitted to Journal of Non-Crystalline Solid
Spin-Orbit Effects in the Excitation of Proton and Neutron States in the (p,p') Reaction at 160 MeV, 120 MeV, and 95 MeV
Supported by the National Science Foundation and Indiana Universit
Pulse Shape Discrimination Techniques in Scintillating CsI(Tl) Crystals
There are recent interests with CsI(Tl) scintillating crystals for Dark
Matter experiments. The key merit is the capability to differentiate nuclear
recoil (nr) signatures from the background -events due to
ambient radioactivity on the basis of their different pulse shapes. One of the
major experimental challenges is to perform such pulse shape analysis in the
statistics-limited domain where the light output is close to the detection
threshold. Using data derived from measurements with low energy 's and
nuclear recoils due to neutron elastic scatterings, it was verified that the
pulse shapes between -events are different. Several methods of
pulse shape discrimination are studied, and their relative merits are compared.
Full digitization of the pulse shapes is crucial to achieve good
discrimination. Advanced software techniques with mean time, neural network and
likelihood ratios give rise to satisfactory performance, and are superior to
the conventional Double Charge method commonly applied at higher energies.
Pulse shape discrimination becomes effective starting at a light yield of about
20 photo-electrons. This corresponds to a detection threshold of about 5 keV
electron-equivalence energy, or 4050 keV recoil kinetic energy, in realistic
experiments.Comment: 20 pages, 7 figure
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