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Search Publications by: Kevin J. Coakley (Fed)

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Nonlinear Modeling of Tunnel Diode Detectors

September 24, 2004
Author(s)
Dave K. Walker, Kevin Coakley, Jolene Splett
We investigate the sensitivity and nonlinear properties of a tunnel diode microwave detector as functions of the input power and the load impedance presented at the detector's output. We compare the two-tone method estimate of nonlinearity with precise

Chaotic Scattering and Escape Times of Marginally Trapped Ultracold Neutrons

April 1, 2004
Author(s)
Kevin Coakley, J M. Doyle, S N. Dzhosyuk, L Yang, Paul R. Huffman
We compute classical trajectories of Ultracold neutrons (UCNs) in a superconducting Ioffe-type magnetic trap using a symplectic integration method. We find that the computed escape time for a particular set of initial conditions (momentum and position)

Adaptive Characterization of Jitter Noise in Sampled High-Speed Signals

October 1, 2003
Author(s)
Kevin J. Coakley, Chih-Ming Wang, Paul D. Hale, Tracy S. Clement
We estimate the root-mean-square (RMS) value of timing jitter noise in simulated signals similar to measured high-speed sampled signals. The simulated signals are contaminated by additive noise, timing jitter noise, and time shift errors. Before estimating

Erratum: Modeling Detector Response for Neutron Depth Profiling

August 10, 2003
Author(s)
Kevin Coakley, R. G. Downing, George P. Lamaze, H C. Hofsass, C Ronning, J Biegel
In a previous paper, we analyzed the Neutron Depth Profiling energy spectrum collected from a diamond-like carbon (DLC) sample doped with boron. Based on a numerical model for the Detector Response Function (DRF), we estimated a theoretical boron profile

Spatial Methods for Event Reconstruction in CLEAN

April 9, 2003
Author(s)
Kevin Coakley, D N. Mckinsey
In CLEAN (Cryogenic Low Energy Astrophysics with Noble gases), a proposed neutrino and dark matter detector, background discrimination is possible if one can determine the location of an event with high accuracy. Here, we develop spatial methods for event

Estimation of Q-factors and Resonant Factors

March 1, 2003
Author(s)
Kevin Coakley, Jolene Splett, Michael D. Janezic, Raian K. Kaiser
We estimate the quality factor Q and resonant frequency f 0 of a microwave cavity based on resonance curve observations on an equally-spaced frequency grid. The observed resonance curve is the squared magnitude of an observed complex scattering parameter

Estimation of Q-Factors and Resonant Frequencies

March 1, 2003
Author(s)
Kevin J. Coakley, Jolene D. Splett, Michael D. Janezic, R F. Kaiser
We estimate the quality factor Q and resonant frequency f o of a microwave cavity based on resonance curve observations on an equally-spaced frequency grid. The observed resonance curve is the squared magnitude of an observed complex scattering parameter

Estimation of Neutron Mean Wavelength From Rocking Curve Data

January 1, 2003
Author(s)
Kevin J. Coakley, Z Chowdhuri, W M. Snow, J M. Richardson, Maynard S. Dewey
At NIST, an in-beam neutron lifetime experiment is underway. In part of the experiment, a neutron detector is calibrated. The accuracy of the detector calibration depends, in part, on how accurately the mean wavelength of a neutron beam can be estimated

Calibration of a Stopping Power Model for Silicon Based on Analysis of Neutron Depth Profiling and Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Measurements

June 1, 2002
Author(s)
Kevin J. Coakley, Huaiyu H. Chen-Mayer, George P. Lamaze, David S. Simons, P E. Thompson
We measure the boron concentration versus depth profile within a silicon sample with four delta-doped planes by secondary ion mass spectrometry. In a neutron depth profiling (NDP) experiment, we illuminate the sample with a neutron beam. Nuclear reactions