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Chapter and Conference Paper
Performance of a Piston-Expanded Bubble Chamber
The development of the liquid hydrogen bubble chamber as a detector of high energy charged particles comes as a natural outgrowth of the work done by D. A. Glaser. Glaser’s work showed by experiment1 and theory2 ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Performance of an Air Expansion Engine
The end product of the process involving the engine under discussion is liquid nitrogen. This is obtained by cooling and liquefying air and distilling it. There are several methods of obtaining liquid air: by ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Thermal Conductivity of Braided Superconductor Systems
A program to measure the thermal conductivity of braided superconductors in several epoxy-supported coil forms has been in progress for the last two years. This presentation covers only this portion of the pro...
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Chapter
Supercritical Helium Refrigerator for Superconducting Power Transmission Cable Studies
The Brookhaven National Laboratory is engaged in the development of a superconducting ac power-transmission system. A cryoelectric test facility for evaluating the performance of flexible superconducting cable...
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A Supercritical Helium Facility for Measuring High-Voltage Breakdown
Several groups working in the field of power transmission using superconducting cables have proposed the use of flexible cables [1,2]. In these cables, the insulation between the inner and outer conductors is a d...