Mapping the Middle East: From Bonaparte's Egypt to Chateaubriand's Palestine

This project focuses on the impact that Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt had on François-Réné de Chateaubriand's Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem. Napoleon's campaign in Egypt set forth an unprecedented imperial ideology that sought to know and thus conquer the Middle East in every facet. The scientific findings of the campaign were immortalized in a twenty-three-volume work known as La Description de l'Égypte, which recounted a narrative of French imperial domination and cultural superiority. In this project, I draw a link between the process of mapping and representations found in the Description and Chateaubriand's continuation of both the imperial narrative and the erasure of the `Other' in his Itinéraire.Master of Art

Calibration of the K600 Focal Plane Polarimeter

This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Grant NSF PHY-931478

The properties of \bar{K} in the nuclear medium

The self-energy of the K^- meson in nuclear matter is calculated in a self-consistent microscopic approach, using a \bar{K}N interaction obtained from the lowest-order meson-baryon chiral Lagrangian. The effective \bar{K}N interaction in the medium is derived by solving the coupled-channel Bethe-Salpeter equation including Pauli blocking on the nucleons, mean-field binding potentials for the baryons and the self-energy of the \pi and \bar{K} mesons. The incorporation of the self-consistent {\bar K} self-energy in the description, in addition to the Pauli blocking effects, yields a weaker attractive in-medium {\bar K}N interaction and a \Lambda(1405) which dissolves faster with increasing matter density, as a result of the {\bar K} spectral function being spread out over a wide range of energies. These effects are further magnified when the intermediate pions are dressed.Comment: 23 pages, 7 figures, ReVTe

Medium effects in K^+ nucleus interaction from consistent analysis of integral and differential cross sections

Self consistency in the analysis of transmission measurements for K^+ on several nuclei in the momentum range of 500-700 MeV/c is achieved with a "t_{eff}(rho)rho" potential and new results are derived for total cross sections. The imaginary part of the t_{eff} amplitude is found to increase linearly with the average nuclear density in excess of a threshold value. This phenomenological density dependence of the K^+ nucleus optical potential also gives rise to good agreement with recent measurements of differential cross sections for elastic scattering of 715 MeV/c K^+ by Li^6 and C.Comment: 11 pages, RevTeX, 2 Postscript figures, submitted Phys. Lett.

Eutectic Mixture of Myristyl Alcohol - Eicosane and the Thermal Reliability of this Binary System as Phase Change Material

Myristyl alcohol ( L14), eicosane and their binary mixtures as phase change materials (PCM) were investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The eutectic mixture was determined to be 65% L14- 35% eicosane with melting temperature 29.79 ºC and latent heat 225.5 J/g which makes it suitable for solar applications. A (0-360 ) cycles of heating and cooling ( to approximate one year duration ) were conducted to study the thermal reliability of the eutectic mixture . (DSC) analysis showed approximately constant melting temperature with fluctuation no more than (0.16 ºC) and the change in latent heat after 360 cycle of heating and cooling was less than ( 2.2%).

An Attempt to Study T=2 States in 16-N

This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Grant NSF PHY 87-1440

The High Resolution K600 Spectrometer

This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Grant NSF PHY 87-1440