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OTV bearing deflection investigation
The primary goal of the Bearing Deflectometer Investigation was to gain experience in the use of fiber optic displacement probe technology for bearing health monitoring in a liquid hydrogen turbo pump. The work specified in this Task Order was conducted in conjunction with Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory Contract F04611-86-C-0010. APD conducted the analysis and design coordination to provide a displacement probe design compatible with the XLR-134 liquid hydrogen turbo pump assembly (TPA). Specifications and requirements of the bearing deflectometer were established working with Mechanical Technology Instruments, Inc. (MTI). The TPA design accommodated positioning of the probe to measure outer race cyclic deflections of the pump inlet bearing. The fiber optic sensor was installed as required in the TPA and sensor output was recorded during the TPA testing. Data review indicated that no bearing deflection signature could be differentiated from the inherent system noise. Alternate sensor installations were not investigated, but might yield different results
On the Critical Behavior of the Uniform Susceptibility of a Fermi Liquid Near an Antiferromagnetic Transition with Dynamic Exponent
We compute the leading behavior of the uniform magnetic susceptibility,
, of a Fermi liquid near an antiferromagnetic transition with dynamic
exponent . Our calculation clarifies the role of triangular ``anomaly''
graphs in the theory and justifies the effective action used in previous work
\cite{Hertz}. We find that at the critical point of a two dimensional
material, with and
nonuniversal constants. For reasonable band structures we find that in a
weak coupling approximation is small and positive. Our result suggests that
the behavior observed in the quantum critical regime of underdoped high-
superconductors are difficult to explain in a theory.Comment: 12 pages, uuencoded Postscript fil
On the Bilayer Coupling in the Yttrium-Barium Family of High Temperature Superconductors
We present and solve a model for the susceptibility of two CuO2 planes
coupled by an interplane coupling J_perp and use the results to analyze a
recent "cross-relaxation" NMR experiment on Y2Ba4Cu7O15. We deduce that in this
material the product of J_perp and the maximum value of the in-plane
susceptibility chi_max varies from approximately 0.2 at T = 200 K to 0.4 at T =
120 K and that this implies the existence of a temperature dependent in-plane
spin correlation length. Using estimates of chi_max from the literature we find
5 meV < J_perp < 20 meV. We discuss the relation of the NMR results to neutron
scattering results which have been claimed to imply that in YBa2Cu3O_{6+x} the
two planes of a bilayer are perfectly anticorrelated. We also propose that the
recently observed 41 meV excitation in YBa2Cu3O7 is an exciton pulled down
below the superconducting gap by J_perp.Comment: 11 pages, 3 postscript figures (uuencoded and compressed
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