In this work, the coupling and evolution of two-mode ablative Rayleigh-Taylor instability (ARTI) in two-dimensional geometry are studied via numerical simulations. We focus primarily on two scenarios: Coupling and bubble competition of a long and a short wavelength mode and of two short-wavelength modes. It is found that the long-wavelength modes tend to dominate in the nonlinear phase of the long-short coupling cases. The presence of the short-wavelength mode in the long-short cases enhances the total ARTI bubble vertex velocity. However, due to the formation of enclosed bubbles, this enhancement does not increase monotonically with the initial short-wavelength amplitude. Coupling of two short-wavelength modes forms a long-wavelength component which grows faster than each individual short-wavelength mode.

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSIC↗

DOE OSTI2019

Supersymmetric models in light of improved Higgs mass calculations

We discuss the parameter spaces of supersymmetry (SUSY) scenarios taking into account the improved Higgs-mass prediction provided by FeynHiggs 2.14.1. Among other improvements, this prediction incorporates three-loop renormalization-group effects and two-loop threshold corrections, and can accommodate three separate mass scales: $m_{\tilde{q}}$ (for squarks), $m_{\tilde{g}}$(for gluinos) and $m_{\tilde{\chi }}$ (for electroweakinos). Furthermore, it contains an improved treatment of the $\overline{\mathrm {DR}}$ scalar top parameters avoiding problems with the conversion to on-shell parameters, that yields more accurate results for large SUSY-breaking scales. We first consider the CMSSM, in which the soft SUSY-breaking parameters $m_0$ and $m_{1/2}$ are universal at the GUT scale, and then sub-GUT models in which universality is imposed at some lower scale. In both cases, we consider the constraints from the Higgs-boson mass $M_h$ in the bulk of the $(m_0, m_{1/2})$ plane and also along stop coannihilation strips where sparticle masses may extend into the multi-TeV range. We then consider the minimal anomaly-mediated SUSY-breaking scenario, in which large sparticle masses are generic. In all these scenarios the substantial improvements between the calculations of $M_h$ in FeynHiggs 2.14.1 and FeynHiggs 2.10.0, which was used in an earlier study, change significantly the preferred portions of the models’ parameter spaces. Finally, we consider the pMSSM11, in which sparticle masses may be significantly smaller and we find only small changes in the preferred regions of parameter space.

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS↗

NASA NTRS2017

The Mars 2020 Lander vision system: architecture and I&T results

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Johnson, A.↗

DOE OSTI2017

Scalable fabrication of coupled NV center - photonic crystal cavity systems by self-aligned N ion implantation

Towards building large-scale integrated photonic systems for quantum information processing, spatial and spectral alignment of single quantum systems to photonic nanocavities is required. In this paper, we demonstrate spatially targeted implantation of nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers into the mode maximum of 2-d diamond photonic crystal cavities with quality factors up to 8000, achieving an average of 1.1 ± 0.2 NVs per cavity. Nearly all NV-cavity systems have significant emission intensity enhancement, reaching a cavity-fed spectrally selective intensity enhancement, F int , of up to 93. Although spatial NV-cavity overlap is nearly guaranteed within about 40 nm, spectral tuning of the NV’s zero-phonon-line (ZPL) is still necessary after fabrication. To demonstrate spectral control, we temperature tune a cavity into an NV ZPL, yielding F ZPL int ~5 at cryogenic temperatures.

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE↗

NASA NTRS2016

Designing and Building a Crew-Centric Mobile Scheduling and Planning Tool for Exploring Crew Autonomy Concepts Onboard the International Space Station

During 2015, as part of our ongoing research on crew autonomy, our team adapted and extended the plan viewing tool, Playbook, into a mobile tool for exploring crew autonomy onboard the International Space Station (ISS). This work enables crewmembers to intuitively re-plan and schedule on their own with limited input from mission control. Designed for ease of use, re-planning is composed of simple drag and drop interactions and learning the tool requires little to no training. Playbook was successfully uplinked onto ISS as a technology demonstration and completed its onboard ground and crew checkouts in August and September 2015, respectively. We will discuss and describe how Playbook was able to integrate with actual ISS operational plans and operational procedures without disrupting real mission operations. This work will also outline the design and technical constraints required to build a collaborative tool that allows multiple users to simultaneously self-schedule and synchronize during communication dropouts in the restricted networking and computing environment onboard ISS. Finally, we will explore the aspects of crew autonomy that this technology enables as well as discuss our next steps and possible extensions.

ISS↗

DOE OSTI2016

PET/MRI of Hypoxic Atherosclerosis Using 64Cu-ATSM in a Rabbit Model

Not provided.

Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging↗

NASA NTRS2016

The Mars 2020 Lander Vision System

No abstract available

Montgomery, J.↗

DOE OSTI2015

Equation of state of dense neon and krypton plasmas in the partial ionization regime

The compression behaviors of dense neon and krypton plasmas over a wide pressure-temperature range are investigated by self-consistent fluid variational theory. The ionization degree and equation of state of dense neon and krypton are calculated in the density-temperature range of 0.01–10 g/cm{sup 3} and 4–50 kK. A region of thermodynamic instability is found which is related to the plasma phase transition. The calculated shock adiabat and principal Hugoniot of liquid krypton are in good agreement with available experimental data. The predicted results of shock-compressed liquid neon are presented, which provide a guide for dynamical experiments or numerical first-principle calculations aimed at studying the compression properties of liquid neon in the partial ionization regime.

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY↗

DOE OSTI2014

Fabrication of triangular nanobeam waveguide networks in bulk diamond using single-crystal silicon hard masks

A scalable approach for integrated photonic networks in single-crystal diamond using triangular etching of bulk samples is presented. We describe designs of high quality factor (Q = 2.51 × 10{sup 6}) photonic crystal cavities with low mode volume (V{sub m} = 1.062 × (λ/n){sup 3}), which are connected via waveguides supported by suspension structures with predicted transmission loss of only 0.05 dB. We demonstrate the fabrication of these structures using transferred single-crystal silicon hard masks and angular dry etching, yielding photonic crystal cavities in the visible spectrum with measured quality factors in excess of Q = 3 × 10{sup 3}.

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSIC↗