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Final Report (2010-2015) for the Topical Collaboration on Quantitative Jet and Electromagnetic Tomography (JET) of Extreme Phases of Matter in Heavy-ion Collisions

During the 5-year funding period (2010-2015), the JET Collaboration carried out a comprehensive research program with coordinated efforts involving all PI members and external associated members according to the plan and milestones outlined in the approved JET proposal. We identified important issues in the study of parton energy loss and made significant progress toward NLO calculations; advanced event-by-event hydrodynamic simulations of bulk matter evolution; developed Monte Carlo tools that combine different parton energy loss approaches, hydrodynamic models and parton recombination model for jet hadronization; and carried out the first comprehensive phenomenological study to extract the jet transport parameter.

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Authentication of Electromagnetic Interference Removal in Johnson Noise Thermometry

This report summarizes the testing performed offsite at the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant (KFP). This location is selected as a valid offsite test facility because the environment is very similar to the expected industrial nuclear power plant environment. This report will discuss the EMI discovered in the environment, the removal technique validity, and results from the measurements.

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Proton-Helium Elastic Electromagnetic Cross-Section

In the test facility of the C-ADS project, A 25-MeV proton beam is directed to hit a target consisting of 1-mm tungsten balls lubricated by 100-Pa helium gas. To estimate the power loss to the helium gas, an accurate collision cross section is computed.

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A Center for the Analyses of Electromagnetic and Hadronic Scattering

The GWU Institute for Nuclear Studies (GWINS) continued activities, and began new initiatives, within the context of a program of Hadronic Physics. The intense program of meson photoproduction measurements has resulted in an extensive set of observables that includes not only cross sections, but also polarization and double-polarization observables. Analysis of these new data contributes toward a resolution of a long-standing issue in baryon spectroscopy, namely, the “missing resonance" problem. The study of baryons containing two and three strange quarks (the Ξ and Ω states, respectively) has begun in order to solve this problem.

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Electromagnetic Pulse Excitation of Finite-Long Dissipative Conductors over a Conducting Ground Plane in the Frequency Domain.

This report details the modeling results for the response of a finite-length dissipative conductor interacting with a conducting ground to a hypothetical nuclear device with the same output energy spectrum as the Fat Man device. We use a frequency-domain method based on transmission line theory and implemented it in a code we call ATLOG - Analytic Transmission Line Over Ground. Select results are compared to ones computed using the circuit simulator Xyce. Intentionally Left Blank

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Electromagnetic Pulse Excitation of Finite-Long Dissipative Conductors over a Conducting Ground Plane in the Time Domain

This report details the modeling results for the response of a finite-length dissipative conductor interacting with a conducting ground to a hypothetical nuclear device with the same output energy spectrum as the Fat Man device. We use a time-domain method based on transmission line theory that allows accounting for time-varying air conductivities. We implemented such method in a code we call ATLOG - Analytic Transmission Line Over Ground. Results are compared the frequency-domain version of ATLOG previously developed and to the circuit simulator Xyce in some instances. Intentionally Left Blank

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ATLOG Modeling of Aerial Cable from the November 2016 HERMES Electromagnetic Pulse Experiments

This report details the comparison of ATLOG modeling results for the response of a finite-length dissipative aerial conductor interacting with a conducting ground to a measurement taken November 2016 at the High-Energy Radiation Megavolt Electron Source (HERMES) facility. We use the ATLOG time-domain method based on transmission line theory. Good agreement is observed between simulations and experiments. Intentionally Left Blank

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Theoretical & Experimental Research in Weak, Electromagnetic & Strong Interactions

The conducted research spans a wide range of topics in the theoretical, experimental and phenomenological aspects of elementary particle interactions. Theory projects involve topics in both the energy frontier and the intensity frontier. The experimental research involves energy frontier with the ATLAS Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In theoretical research, novel ideas going beyond the Standard Model with strong theoretical motivations were proposed, and their experimental tests at the LHC and forthcoming neutrino facilities were outlined. These efforts fall into the following broad categories: (i) TeV scale new physics models for LHC Run 2, including left-right symmetry and trinification symmetry, (ii) unification of elementary particles and forces, including the unification of gauge and Yukawa interactions, (iii) supersummetry and mechanisms of supersymmetry breaking, (iv) superworld without supersymmetry, (v) general models of extra dimensions, (vi) comparing signals of extra dimensions with those of supersymmetry, (vii) models with mirror quarks and mirror leptons at the TeV scale, (viii) models with singlet quarks and singlet Higgs and their implications for Higgs physics at the LHC, (ix) new models for the dark matter of the universe, (x) lepton flavor violation in Higgs decays, (xi) leptogenesis in radiative models of neutrino masses, (xii) light mediator models of non-standard neutrino interactions, (xiii) anomalous muon decay and short baseline neutrino anomalies, (xiv) baryogenesis linked to nucleon decay, and (xv) a new model for recently observed diboson resonance at the LHC and its other phenomenological implications. The experimental High Energy Physics group has been, and continues to be, a successful and productive contributor to the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. Members of the group performed search for gluinos decaying to stop and top quarks, new heavy gauge bosons decaying to top and bottom quarks, and vector-like quarks produced in pairs and decaying to light quarks. Members of the OSU group played a leading role in the detailed optimization studies for the future ATLAS Inner Tracker (ITk), which will be installed during the Phase-II upgrade, replacing the current tracking system. The proposed studies aim to enhance the ATLAS discovery potential in the high-luminosity LHC era. The group members have contributed to the calibration of algorithms for identifying boosted vector bosons and b-jets, which will help expand the ATLAS reach in many searches for new physics.

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Final Report - Few-Body Studies Using Electromagnetic Interactions

The work discussed here is an extension of work previously funded by U.S. Department of Energy Grant DE-FG02-97ER41025. Measurements of charged pion photoproduction from deuterium using the Laser Electron Gamma Source (LEGS) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory previously made by us, as members of the LEGS Collaboration, resulted in the most interesting result of two decades of work. By measuring the production of a charged pion (π + ) in coincidence with an emitted photon we observed structures in the residual two-nucleon system. These indicated the existence of rare, long-lived states not explicable by standard nuclear theory; they suggested a set of configurations not explicable in terms of a nucleon-nucleon pair. The existence of such “exotic” structures has formed the foundation for most of the work that has ensued. Several measurements at various laboratories have supported, but not proved, the existence of these exotic states. The rarity of these states made their existence undetectable in most previous measurements. Only by observing characteristic signatures of such states (i.e., decay photons), by using very specific kinematics which isolate certain reaction products, or by measuring polarization-dependent observables. During the period of this grant we pursued and made progress on the development of experiments to be performed at the High Intensity Gamma Source (HIGS) of the Tri Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL). Our understanding of photon- and electron-induced nuclear reactions depends on understanding of the basic electron and photon interaction. Recently, the issue of two-photon contributions has arisen in the context of deeply inelastic electron scattering. One way to address this is to measure asymmetries in the Bethe-Heitler ee process. We also made progress in developing the detectors required to measure these asymmetries at HIGS. During the last several years the apparent discrepancy between the size of the proton as measured using electrons and that as measured using muons has received a great deal of attention. Working with colleagues at the Jefferson Laboratory (JLAB) we showed that the apparent discrepancy was almost surely the result of mistakes in the statistical analysis of electron scattering data, that there is almost surely no discrepancy.

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A bound on electromagnetic penetration through a slot aperture with backing cavity

This report examines bounds on the penetrant power through ports of entry into a conductive cavity. We first replace the cavity by a load and consider the maximum power transfer properties of an antenna or an aperture. We consider how limitations on the load quality factor place limits on received power. For general frequency ranges we model the backing region by means of a uniformly distributed matched load along a slot aperture and adjust its value for maximum power transfer. This result is derived in closed form using a transmission line model for the aperture. This result illustrates the reduction in received power for low frequencies with finitely conducting wall materials. At high frequencies it approaches the receiving cross section of a linear array having the slot length dimension. Next we examine a slot aperture in a conducting rectangular enclosure and determine how the cavity wall losses and resulting quality factor limit the penetrant power. Detailed simulations and experimental measurements are compared with each other and with the bounding results to assess the accuracy of the bounds. These comparisons also indicate limitations on the accuracy of the models due to perturbing influences in construction, such as bolted joints.

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ATLOG Modeling of Buried Cables from the November 2016 HERMES Electromagnetic Pulse Experiments

This report compares ATLOG modeling results for the response of a finite-length dissipative buried conductor interacting with a conducting ground to a measurement taken November 2016 at the High-Energy Radiation Megavolt Electron Source (HERMES) facility. We use the ATLOG frequency-domain method based on transmission line theory. Estimates of the impedance per unit length and admittance per unit length for a cable laying in a PVC pipe embedded in a concrete block are reported. Current wave shapes from both a single conductor and composite differential mode and antenna mode arrangements are close to those observed in the experiments.

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Polarization Experiments with Electromagnetic Probes (Final Technical Report)

The grant started in 1989 and finished on 31 July, 2018. The PI (Vina Punjabi) with many Norfolk State University (NSU) undergraduate students, and several research associates have been involved in many research activity during this period. NSU is primarily a minority institution. The PI has worked with one or two students every year, most of the students involved in her research went on to graduate schools to pursue degrees in physics, applied physics or engineering. One of the most important goal of the PI’s research activity has been involving NSU physics undergraduate students in forefront nuclear and particle physics research. (List of students and research associates is given in Appendix I). Over the years the PI, students and research associates participated in many research activity, however there are two main projects where the PI has been involved as one of the project leader. (1) Investigation of the structure of the deuteron at Saturne national lab in Saclay, France and at Laboratory of High Energy (LHE), part of the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research (JINR) lab in Dubna, Russia. (2) Measurement of the ratio of electric to magnetic form factors of the proton , GEp/GMp at Jefferson Lab, to study the internal structure of the proton.

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Part 1: Detailed Electromagnetic Design of an Integrated and Compact 1.3 GHZ Superconducting Radio Frequency (SRF) Electron

There exists a need for compact, reliable, high-power electron sources for applications including those in water treatment, basic science, defense, and security. There also exists a need for compact electron-beam based light and power sources of various power levels and at different frequencies (mm-wave to gamma rays) for applications also in the fields of basic science, industry, and defense and security. Today’s examples of high-average-power electron sources are neither very compact nor highly efficient. The same may be said for many of the electron-beam based light sources operated worldwide for myriad of applications. Recent breakthroughs in superconducting (SC) materials technology, radio-frequency (RF) power systems, specialized cathodes, and RF cavity designs offer ways to overcome the above-mentioned shortcomings. In this report, all these new features are integrated in a comprehensive design into one promising concept for a compact superconducting RF (SRF) high-average power electron linear accelerator. This design is capable of 5-50 kW average electron beam power and continuous wave operation with the corresponding electron beam energy up to 10 MeV.

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In Situ Monitoring of Direct Ink Write Process Using Electromagnetic Resonant Coupling

Additive manufacturing (AM) of multi-material objects enables the design of complex 3D architectures such as printed electronics and devices. The ability to detect the composition of multi-material printed inks in real time is an emerging need for a wide range of manufacturing applications. This study demonstrates the feasibility of using an in situ sensor to locally measure the composition of inks as they are being printed to facilitate greater control over the resulting properties and functionality of printed materials. Dielectric properties of microscale embedded metal particles in a dielectric matrix are measured and characterized as a function of particle size, shape, volume percentage and frequency. Results show that particle shape has a much greater influence on impedance measurements than the particle size. Measurements are found to agree with calculations based on an anisotropic Maxwell-Garnett dielectric function model. The resulting data can be used to generate a calibration curve correlating metal loading with impedance or capacitance and thus applied as an in situ sensor for compositional measurements during extrusion-based AM.

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Design of the Cooling System of the Mu2e Electromagnetic Calorimeter at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

In this Thesis, the cooling of the electronics of the Mu2e calorimeter has been discussed. The analysed technical solutions for the cooling of the front-end boards, the waveform digitizers boards and the interface boards have been presented. The project of the crate has been showed in detail. It is placed in the outer surface of the calorimeter disk and it is a mechanical support for the boards and also part of the thermal circuit. The distributing system of the refrigerant fluid for the whole calorimeter has been analysed too. Then the manufacturing solutions of the crates and the components for the thermal path have been developed. At the end, the main experimental tests have been presented. They are going to be realized in the next months.

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