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Innovative techniques for the production of energetic radicals for lunar materials processing including photogeneration via concentrated solar energy
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) is investigating the use of monatomic chlorine produced in a cold plasma to recover oxygen and metallurgically significant metals from lunar materials. Development of techniques for the production of the chlorine radical (and other energetic radicals for these processes) using local planetary resources is a key step for a successful approach. It was demonstrated terrestrially that the use of UV light to energize the photogeneration of OH radicals from ozone or hydrogen peroxide in aqueous solutions can lead to rapid reaction rates for the breakdown of toxic organic compounds in water. A key question is how to use the expanded solar resource at the lunar surface to generate process-useful radicals. This project is aimed at investigating that question
Innovative techniques for the production of energetic radicals for lunar materials processing including photogeneration via concentrated solar energy
A technique for photo generation of radicals is discussed that can be used in the recovery of oxygen and metals from extraterrestrial resources. The concept behind this work was to examine methods whereby radicals can be generated and used in the processing of refractory materials. In that regard, the focus is on the use of sunlight. Sunlight provides useful energy for processing in the forms of both thermal and quantum energy. A number of experiments were conducted in the chlorination of metals with and without the aid of UV and near UV light. The results of some of those experiments are discussed
Control elements for an unmanned Martian roving vehicle
The roving vehicle simulator was operated autonomously under control of the simulated on-board computer. With the microwave radar obstacle sensor mounted and operating, it was able to avoid a student placed in its path and to return to the originally assigned direction when that path was clear. The tactile obstacle sensor was able to detect impassable obstacles while allowing the vehicle to negotiate passable obstacles
Control elements for an unmanned Martian roving vehicle
Developed Martian roving vehicle simulator for test platform of obstacle sensor for autonomous roving vehicl
The Transition from Heavy Fermion to Mixed Valence in Ce1-xYxAl3: A Quantitative Comparison with the Anderson Impurity Model
We present a neutron scattering investigation of Ce1-xYxAl3 as a function of
chemical pressure, which induces a transition from heavy-fermion behavior in
CeAl3 (TK=5 K) to a mixed-valence state at x=0.5 (TK=150 K). The crossover can
be modeled accurately on an absolute intensity scale by an increase in the k-f
hybridization, Vkf, within the Anderson impurity model. Surprisingly, the
principal effect of the increasing Vkf is not to broaden the low-energy
components of the dynamic magnetic susceptibility but to transfer spectral
weight to high energy.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Stochastic field theory for a Dirac particle propagating in gauge field disorder
Recent theoretical and numerical developments show analogies between quantum
chromodynamics (QCD) and disordered systems in condensed matter physics. We
study the spectral fluctuations of a Dirac particle propagating in a finite
four dimensional box in the presence of gauge fields. We construct a model
which combines Efetov's approach to disordered systems with the principles of
chiral symmetry and QCD. To this end, the gauge fields are replaced with a
stochastic white noise potential, the gauge field disorder. Effective
supersymmetric non-linear sigma-models are obtained. Spontaneous breaking of
supersymmetry is found. We rigorously derive the equivalent of the Thouless
energy in QCD. Connections to other low-energy effective theories, in
particular the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model and chiral perturbation theory, are
found.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figur
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