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Focused technology: Nuclear propulsion
Five viewgraphs are presented that outline the objectives and elements of the Nuclear Propulsion Program, mission considerations, propulsion technologies, and the logic flow path for nuclear propulsion development
Focused technology: Nuclear propulsion
The topics presented are covered in viewgraph form and include: nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP), which challenges (1) high temperature fuel and materials, (2) hot hydrogen environment, (3) test facilities, (4) safety, (5) environmental impact compliance, and (6) concept development, and nuclear electric propulsion (NEP), which challenges (1) long operational lifetime, (2) high temperature reactors, turbines, and radiators, (3) high fuel burn-up reactor fuels, and designs, (4) efficient, high temperature power conditioning, (5) high efficiency, and long life thrusters, (6) safety, (7) environmental impact compliance, and (8) concept development
Electromagnetic Gauge Invariance of the Cloudy Bag Model
We examine the question of the gauge invariance of electromagnetic form
factors calculated within the cloudy bag model. One of the assumptions of the
model is that electromagnetic form factors are most accurately evaluated in the
Breit frame. This feature is used to show that gauge invariance is respected in
this frame.Comment: 8 pages, RevTex, 1 figure, to be published in Phys. Rev.
Eurozone sovereign debt restructuring : promising legal prospects?
The Eurozone debt crisis has stimulated lively debate on mechanisms for sovereign
debt restructuring. The immediate threat of exit and the breakup of the currency union
may have abated; but the problem of dealing with significant debt overhang
remains. After considering two broad approaches - institutional versus contractual â
we look at a hybrid solution that combines the best of both. In addition to debt
contracts with Collective Action Clauses, this includes a key amendment to the Treaty
establishing the European Stability Mechanism, together with innovative state-
contingent contracts and a Special Purpose Vehicle to market them
Sovereign debt restructuring : the Judge, the vultures and creditor rights
What role did the US courts play in the Argentine debt swap of 2005? What implications does this have for the future of creditor rights in sovereign bond markets? The judge in the Argentine case has, it appears, deftly exploited creditor heterogeneity â between holdouts seeking capital gains and institutional investors wanting a settlement â to promote a swap with a supermajority of creditors. Our analysis of Argentine debt litigation reveals a âjudge-mediatedâ sovereign debt restructuring, which resolves the key issues of Transition and Aggregation - two of the tasks envisaged for the IMFâs still-born Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism. For the future, we discuss how judge-mediated sovereign debt restructuring (together with creditor committees) could complement the alternative promoted by the US Treasury, namely collective action clauses in sovereign bond contractsSovereign debt crises ; debt restructuring ; holdout creditors ; collective action clauses
Flux-correlation approach to characterizing reaction pathways in quantum systems: a study of condensed-phase proton-coupled electron transfer
We introduce a simple method for characterizing reactive pathways in quantum systems. Flux auto-correlation
and cross-correlation functions are employed to develop a quantitative measure of dynamical coupling in
quantum transition events, such as reactive tunnelling and resonant energy transfer. We utilize the method to
study condensed-phase proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) reactions and to determine the relative
importance of competing concerted and sequential reaction pathways. Results presented here include numerically
exact quantum dynamics simulations for model condensed-phase PCET reactions. This work demonstrates the
applicability of the new method for the analysis of both approximate and exact quantum dynamics simulations
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