The study of blast waves produced by intense lasers in gases is motivated by the desire to explore astrophysically relevant hydrodynamic phenomena in the laboratory. A systematic scan of laser produced blast waves was performed and the structure of blast waves was examined over a wide range of drive laser energy. Lasers with energies ranging from 10–1000 J illuminated a pin target in either xen...

We report the development of a three view electronically scanned millimeter-wave interferometer for plasma electron density profile measurement on the H-1 heliac. The system utilizes an electronically tunable backward-wave oscillator whose output is incident on a fixed blazed diffraction grating such that sweeping the source frequency effects a spatial scan of the plasma cross section. Two diag...

X-band rapid-scan EPR was implemented on a commercially available Bruker ELEXSYS E580 spectrometer. Room temperature rapid-scan and continuous-wave EPR spectra were recorded for amorphous silicon powder samples. By comparing the resulting signal intensities the feasibility of performing quantitative rapid-scan EPR is demonstrated. For different hydrogenated amorphous silicon samples, rapid-scan...

The analysis of chessboard pebbling by Andrew Odlyzko is strengthened and generalized, rst to higher dimension and then to arbitrary posets. 1 The pebbling game The pebbling game of Kontsevich is played on the grid points of the rst quadrant. One starts with a single pebble on the origin and a move consists of replacing any pebble with two pebbles, one above and one to the right of the vanishin...

T wave inversions on an electrocardiogram (EKG) can manifest from any process that result in a relative delay in regional ventricular repolarization. The differential diagnosis of right precordial T wave inversions, leads V1-V3, include myocardial ischemia, a normal athlete’s heart, arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia, and pulmonary embolism amongst others. The case discussed below is of...

Three-wave diffraction has been measured for a set of GaN, AlN, AlGaN and ZnO epitaxial layers grown on c-sapphire. A Renninger scan for the primary forbidden 0001 reflection was used. For each of the three-wave combinations, θ-scan curves were measured. The intensity and angular width of both ϕ- and θ-scan three-wave peaks were analyzed. The experimental data were used to determine properties ...

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) detects a tunnel with relatively low-frequency electromagnetic waves, which can result in poorly characterized reinforced steel bar (rebar) hyperbolas and make it challenging to recognize rebar. Thus, the rebar is located by using attenuation reflection coefficients, hyperbolic feature of reconstructed for recognition. Due differences properties other media second...