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Control And Data Reduction Software For Umr Neutron Spectrometer, Matthew K. Mclaughlin Apr 1991

Control And Data Reduction Software For Umr Neutron Spectrometer, Matthew K. Mclaughlin

Opportunities for Undergraduate Research Experience Program (OURE)

A double-scatter time-of flight neutron spectrometer has been obtained by the Nuclear Engineering department of the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR). As this device was an experimental prototype which was never brought to full operation, the chance to work with two of the original builders of the spectrometer at EG&G Idaho was an excellent opportunity. Part of the work being done with the detector is the development of a PC-based software package for machine control, data acquisition, and data reduction. It is this part of the project which has been supported by UMR’s Opportunities for Undergraduate Research Experience (OURE) program.


A Computer Simulation Of The Umr Reactor, H. Allen Wilkins Apr 1991

A Computer Simulation Of The Umr Reactor, H. Allen Wilkins

Opportunities for Undergraduate Research Experience Program (OURE)

The Opportunities for Undergraduate Research project entitled, "A Computer Simulation of the UMR Reactor" had two goals. To produce a reactor simulation to be used in creating an artificial intelligence based reactor simulation for the UMR Nuclear Reactor and to produce a means of teaching students the fundamentals of reactor operations.

The primary purpose was to create a program which would simulate all the situations one would encounter in actual reactor operation. With the simulator the artificial intelligence system could be thoroughly tested before use with actual reactor data.

This same simulator would be used as a teaching aid for …


Observation Of The Visible Absorption Spectrum Of H2o+, Biswajit Das, John W. Farley Jan 1991

Observation Of The Visible Absorption Spectrum Of H2o+, Biswajit Das, John W. Farley

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Research

The Ã 2 Ã1X̃ 2 B̃1 system of H2O+ has been observed, using laser absorption spectroscopy in a velocity‐modulated discharge. A total of 78 transitions between 14 794 and 15 475 cm−1 have been observed with an uncertainty (1 SD) of 0.02 cm−1, including 76 transitions in the (0,7,0)–(0,0,0) band and 2 in the (0,8,0)–(0,0,0) band. This species is important for cometary astronomy, and intriguing for molecular physics because of its prominent Renner–Teller interaction. Careful measurements were made of the relative intensities of the absorption lines, …