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Characterization of recombination and control electrodes for spacecraft nickel- cadmium cells
Characterization of recombination and control electrodes for spacecraft nickel cadmium cell
Study of methane fuel for subsonic transport aircraft
The cost and performance were defined for commercial transport using liquid methane including its fuel system and the ground facility complex required for the processing and storage of methane. A cost and performance comparison was made with Jet A and hydrogen powered aircraft of the same payload and range capability. Extensive design work was done on cryogenic fuel tanks, insulation systems as well as the fuel system itself. Three candidate fuel tank locations were evaluated, i.e., fuselage tanks, wing tanks or external pylon tanks
Atomic and Molecular Opacities for Brown Dwarf and Giant Planet Atmospheres
We present a comprehensive description of the theory and practice of opacity
calculations from the infrared to the ultraviolet needed to generate models of
the atmospheres of brown dwarfs and extrasolar giant planets. Methods for using
existing line lists and spectroscopic databases in disparate formats are
presented and plots of the resulting absorptive opacities versus wavelength for
the most important molecules and atoms at representative temperature/pressure
points are provided. Electronic, ro-vibrational, bound-free, bound-bound,
free-free, and collision-induced transitions and monochromatic opacities are
derived, discussed, and analyzed. The species addressed include the alkali
metals, iron, heavy metal oxides, metal hydrides, , , , ,
, , , and representative grains. [Abridged]Comment: 28 pages of text, plus 22 figures, accepted to the Astrophysical
Journal Supplement Series, replaced with more compact emulateapj versio
Sphaleron Effects Near the Critical Temperature
We discuss one-loop radiative corrections to the sphaleron-induced baryon
number-violating transition rate near the electroweak phase transition in the
standard model. We emphasize that in the case of a first-order transition a
rearrangement of the loop expansion is required close to the transition
temperature. The corresponding expansion parameter, the effective 3-dimensional
gauge coupling approaches a finite dependent value at the critical
temperature.
The
(Higgs mass) dependence of the 1-loop radiative corrections is discussed in
the framework of the heat kernel method. Radiative corrections are small
compared to the leading sphaleron contribution as long as the Higgs mass is
small compared to the W mass. To 1-loop accuracy, there is no Higgs mass range
compatible with experimental limits where washing-out of a B+L asymmetry could
be avoided for the minimal standard model with one Higgs doublet.Comment: 17 pages, RevTeX, (4 figures in a separate uuencoded file),
HD-THEP-93-23re
The Schwinger Model on the lattice in the Microcanonical Fermionic Average approach
The Microcanonical Fermionic Average method has been used so far in the
context of lattice models with phase transitions at finite coupling. To test
its applicability to Asymptotically Free theories, we have implemented it in
QED, \it i.e.\rm the Schwinger Model. We exploit the possibility, intrinsic
to this method, of studying the whole plane at negligible computer
cost, to follow constant physics trajectories and measure the limit
of the chiral condensate. We recover the continuum result within 3 decimal
places.Comment: TeX file, 7 pages + 3 figures in Postscrip
Automated pipeline for atlas-based annotation of gene expression patterns: Application to postnatal day 7 mouse brain.
Fluctuation corrections to bubble nucleation
The fluctuation determinant which determines the preexponential factor of the
transition rate for minimal bubbles is computed for the electroweak theory with
. As the basic action we use the three-dimensional
high-temperature action including, besides temperature dependent masses, the one-loop contribution which makes the phase transition first order. The
results show that this contribution (which has then to be subtracted from the
exact result) gives the dominant contribution to the one-loop effective action.
The remaining correction is of the order of, but in general larger than the
critical bubble action and suppresses the transition rate. The results for the
Higgs field fluctuations are compared with those of an approximate heat kernel
computation of Kripfganz et al., good agreement is found for small bubbles,
strong deviations for large thin-wall bubbles.Comment: 19 pages, LaTeX, no macros, no figure
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