Study of drift-field solar cells damaged by low-energy protons Progress report, Jun. 15 - Aug. 10, 1965

Irradiation damage of drift-field solar cells by low energy protons - calibration of irradiation apparatus and monitoring equipmen

Antiproton annihilation on light nuclei at very low energies

The recent experimental data obtained by the OBELIX group on $\bar{p}$D and $\bar{p}^4$He total annihilation cross sections are analyzed. The combined analysis of these data with existing antiprotonic atom data allows, for the first time, the imaginary parts of the S-wave scattering lengths for the two nuclei to be extracted. The obtained values are: $Im a^{sc}_0 = [- 0.62 \pm 0.02 ({stat}) \pm 0.04 ({sys})] fm$ for $\bar{p}$D and $Im a^{sc}_0 = [- 0.36\pm 0.03({stat})^{+0.19}_{-0.11}({sys})] fm$ for $\bar{p}^4$He. This analysis indicates an unexpected behaviour of the imaginary part of the $\bar{p}$-nucleus S-wave scattering length as a function of the atomic weight A: $|Im a^{sc}_0|$ ($\bar{p}$p) > $|Im a^{sc}_0|$ ($\bar{p}$D) > $|Im a^{sc}_0|$ ($\bar{p}^4$He).Comment: 13 pages, 5 figure

Hot Zero and Full Power Validation of PHISICS RELAP-5 Coupling

PHISICS is a reactor analysis toolkit developed over the last 3 years at the Idaho National Laboratory. It has been coupled with the reactor safety analysis code RELAP5-3D. PHISICS is aimed at providing an optimal trade off between needed computational resources (in the range of 10~100 computer processors) and accuracy. In fact, this range has been identified as the next 5 to 10 years average computational capability available to nuclear reactor design and optimization nuclear reactor cores. Detailed information about the individual modules of PHISICS can be found in [1]. An overview of the modules used in this study is given in the next subsection. Lately, the Idaho National Laboratory gained access plant data for the first cycle of a PWR, including Hot Zero Power (HZP) and Hot Full Power (HFP). This data provides the opportunity to validate the transport solver, the interpolation capability for mixed macro and micro cross section and the criticality search option of the PHISICS pack

On the knapsack closure of 0-1 integer linear programs

Many inequalities for Mixed-Integer Linear Programs (MILPs) or pure Integer Linear Programs (ILPs) are derived from the Gomory corner relaxation, where all the nonbinding constraints at an optimal LP vertex are relaxed. Computational results show that the corner relaxation gives a good approximation of the integer hull for problems with general-integer variables, but the approximation is less satisfactory for problems with 0-1 variables only. A possible explanation is that, for 0-1 ILPs, even the non-binding variable bound constraints xj≥0 or xj≤1 play an important role, hence their relaxation produces weaker bounds.In this note we address a relaxation for 0-1 ILPs that explicitly takes all variable bound constraints into account. More specifically, we introduce the concept of knapsack closure as a tightening of the classical Chvátal-Gomory (CG) closure. The knapsack closure is obtained as follows: for all inequalities wTx≥w0 valid for the LP relaxation, add to the original system all the valid inequalities for the knapsack polytope conv{xε{0,1}n:wTx≥w0}. A MILP model for the corresponding separation problem is also introduced. © 2010 Elsevier B.V

Avaliação de genótipos de milho no município de Brasiléia-Acre.

A cultura do milho no município de Brasiléia, assume significa tiva relevância sócio-econômica, contribuindo com 20,65% na produção global do Estado (CEPA/1988). Além de ser utilizado na alimentação humana e ração animal, o excedente da produção tem sido comercializado no mercado local, em Rio Branco e Cobija, cidade frobteiriça (Bolivia). A cultura apresenta problemas diversos: cultivares pouco produtivas, cultivo em consorcio, grandes espaçamentos entre plantas, cultivares de grande porte, índices elevados de acamamento, doenças, ocorrência de baixa produtividade. Estes problemas têm constituído em fatores limitantes a oferta de milho ao mercado, além de resultar no baixo retorno econômico da pequena produção. Com o objetivo de selecionar cultivares mais produtivas e resistentes aos principais problemas da região, a UEPAE de Rio Branco vem desenvolvendo trabalhos no Núcleo de Pesquisa -Quixadá, localizado em Brasiléia.bitstream/item/117388/1/1158.pd