Design of Scintillation-Neutron Detector for Time-of-Flight Expertments

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59Co Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance Studies of Superconducting and Non-superconducting Bilayer Water Intercalated Sodium Cobalt Oxides NaxCoO2.yH2O

We report 59Co nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) studies of bilayer water intercalated sodium cobalt oxides NaxCoO2.yH2O (BLH) with the superconducting transition temperatures, 2 K < T_c <= 4.6 K, as well as a magnetic BLH sample without superconductivity. We obtained a magnetic phase diagram of T_c and the magnetic ordering temperature T_M against the peak frequency nu_3 59Co NQR transition I_z = +- 5/2 +-7/2 and found a dome shape superconducting phase. The 59Co NQR spectrum of the non-superconducting BLH shows a broadening below T_M without the critical divergence of 1/T_1 and 1/T_2, suggesting an unconventional magnetic ordering. The degree of the enhancement of 1/T_1T at low temperatures increases with the increase of nu_3 though the optimal nu_3~12.30 MHz. In the NaxCoO2.yH2O system, the optimal-T_c superconductivity emerges close to the magnetic instability. T_c is suppressed near the phase boundary at nu_3~12.50 MHz, which is not a conventional magnetic quantum critical point.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure

Observation of Split Isobaric-Analog-State in 56Co through the 56Fe(p,n)56CO Reaction

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Temperature behavior of sound velocity of fluorine-doped vitreous silica thin films studied by picosecond ultrasonics

Vitreous silica (v-SiO2) shows anomalous temperature dependence of velocity, including positive temperature coefficient of velocity (TCV) and velocity minimum around 70 K. The former characteristic allows its application in acoustic-resonator devices as a temperature compensating material. In this paper, we study the temperature dependence of velocity of fluorine-doped v-SiO2 (v-SiO2-xFx) thin films using picosecond ultrasonic spectroscopy. To correct the temperature increase caused by irradiation with light pulses, we calculated the steady temperature increase in the measuring volume with a finite volume method, considering the temperature dependence of thermal conductivity, and find that temperature in the measurement region remains high even when the back surface is cryogenically cooled. Using the corrected temperature, we determine TCV of v-SiO2-xFx thin films for 0 < x < 0.264, which increases as x increases and is smaller than reported bulk values by a factor of 0.5 - 0.7. The velocity minimum is absent for the film with x = 0, but it is clearly observed at 70 K for the film with the highest fluorine concentration of x = 0.264. These temperature behaviors are attributed to the change in the Si-O-Si bond angle caused by the fluorine doping.Nagakubo A., Ogi H., Ishida H., et al. Temperature behavior of sound velocity of fluorine-doped vitreous silica thin films studied by picosecond ultrasonics. Journal of Applied Physics, 118(1), 014307 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4923353.https://doi.org/10.1063/1.492335

Observation of T=1 and T=0 Gamow-Teller States in the 54Fe(p,n)54CO Reaction

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Real-time tracking using stereo and motion: Visual perception for space robotics

The state-of-the-art in computing technology is rapidly attaining the performance necessary to implement many early vision algorithms at real-time rates. This new capability is helping to accelerate progress in vision research by improving our ability to evaluate the performance of algorithms in dynamic environments. In particular, we are becoming much more aware of the relative stability of various visual measurements in the presence of camera motion and system noise. This new processing speed is also allowing us to raise our sights toward accomplishing much higher-level processing tasks, such as figure-ground separation and active object tracking, in real-time. This paper describes a methodology for using early visual measurements to accomplish higher-level tasks; it then presents an overview of the high-speed accelerators developed at Teleos to support early visual measurements. The final section describes the successful deployment of a real-time vision system to provide visual perception for the Extravehicular Activity Helper/Retriever robotic system in tests aboard NASA's KC135 reduced gravity aircraft