In the past the Denver X-Ray Conference has served as a forum for the interchange of information between people working in the extremely varied applied technologies which are based on x-ray physics. This year we hoped to continue this tradition by empha- sizing some of the technologies associated with the energy and process control industries, which have expanded recently. The development of nuclear fusion into a power source, and the operation of the nuclear fission power reactor fuel cycle are two parts of the energy industry in which x-ray technology is currently playing a major role. The principle role of x-ray technology in the effort to develop a controlled thermonuclear or fusion power reactor, is that of a diagnostic tool to study the properties of high temperature plasmas. Since this subject is relatively new to many, it was reviewed in two of the invited papers. The role of x-ray technology in the nuclear fission reactor fuel cycle is primarily that of fluorescent x-ray analysis of reactor fuel materials for the purposes of process control and nuclear safeguards during fabrication and reprocessing. One of the invited papers reviewed this topic.
This year the subject of x-ray lasers was also introduced via an invited paper. If an x-ray laser can be developed, it will probably become the center of many new technologies. The contributed papers this year covered x-ray diagnostics of plasmas, x-ray lasers, hardware and technique development for x-ray fluorescence analysis, atmospheric aerosol analysis, and materials characterization.
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Springer Science+Business Media
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98 black & white illustrations, biography
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978-0-306-38118-8 (9780306381188)
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X-Ray Emission from High-Temperature Laboratory Plasmas.- Instrumentation for X-Ray Diagnostics of Plasmas.- Determination of Actinide Elements in Nuclear Fuels by X-Ray Analysis.- Techniques of Low Energy X-Ray Spectroscopy (0.1 to 2 keV Region).- Nanosecond Time Resolved X-Ray Diagnostics of Relativistic Electron Beam Initiated Events.- Soft X-Ray Vacuum Ultraviolet Diagnostics of High Density, High Temperature Plasmas at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory.- Amplification of Soft X-Rays in a Picosecond Laser-Produced Plasma.- A Pinhole Camera for Photographing X-Rays from Laser-Produced Plasmas.- Sub-Kilovolt X-Ray Calibration of Photographic Film.- Spectral Analysis of X-Rays from Laser-Induced Plasmas.- X-Ray Diagnostics of Laser-Produced Plasmas Using CaF2(Dy) Thermoluminescent Dosimeters.- X-Ray Analysis for Electron Beam Enhancement in the Plasma Focus Device.- Subnanosecond X-Ray Measurements Using a Unitary Organic Crystal and Image Converter Streak Camera.- X-Ray Pulse Calorimetry of Laser-Produced Plasmas.- Silicon Detector System for X-Ray Pulse Calorimetry of Laser-Produced Plasmas.- The Use of Photographic and X-Ray Films for X-Ray Measurements.- Low Energy X-Ray Microradiography of Laser Fusion Targets.- Polarized Radiation for X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis.- On-Line X-Ray Measurement and Control of Silver Emulsion Coating Weight.- X-Ray Fluorescence Experiments with Polarized X-Rays.- X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis with Transmission Target Tubes.- Application of Heavy Charged Particle Induced X-Ray Emission to the Trace Element Analysis of Human Tissue and Blood Serum.- Proton Induced X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis Using a Cockcroft-Walton Accelerator.- A Computer Control for an X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis Unit.- X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis of Refractory Oxide Materials.- Quality Control through Determination of Interelement Effects in Iron-Gadolinium-Yttrium Solutions Using X-Ray Secondary Emission.- Investigation of Elemental Analysis of Water Samples by Radio-Alpha Induced X-Ray Emission Spectroscopy.- Charged Particle Induced X-Ray Analysis of Malaria Infected Blood.- Non-Linear Least Squares Analysis of Proton-Induced X-Ray Emission Data.- The Computer Calculation, from Fundamental Parameters, of Influence Coefficients for X-Ray Spectrometry.- Use of Calculated Alpha-Coefficients in Quantitative X-Ray Spectrometry.- Math Model Design for X-Ray Analysis of Iron Base Alloys.- A Multiple Regression Procedure for Elemental Analysis at Low Concentrations.- Chemical State Analyses of Sulfur, Chromium, and Tin by High Resolution X-Ray Spectrometry.- Excitation-Energy-Dependent Resonances in Soft X-Ray Appearance Potential Spectra of the Cerium 4d- and 3d-Electron Levels.- A High Intensity, Monochromatic, Spatially Coherent X-Ray Source.- Measurement of Anisotropic Compressibilities by a Single Crystal Diffractometer Method.- The Pseudo-Kossel Technique in Back Reflection as a Tool for Measuring Strains.- Anomalies in Measurement of Residual Stress by X-Ray Diffraction.- X-Ray Analysis of Ti3Al Precipitation in Ti-Al Alloys.- Crystallite Orientation Analysis from Incomplete Pole Figures.- An X-Ray Diffraction Study of Triglyceride Polymorphism.- Bone Mineral (Apatite) Assay by Photon Scattering - A Survey of Sources and Experimental Evaluation.- Semi-Quantitative Determination of Asbestiform Amphibole Mineral Concentrations in Western Lake Superior Water Samples.- Environmental Monitoring Device for X-Ray Determination of Atmospheric Chlorine, Reactive Sulfur and Sulfur Dioxide.- Energy, Aerosols and Ion-Excited X-Ray Emission.- Application of Proton Induced X-Ray Emission Analysis to the St. Louis Regional Air Pollution Study.- Proton Elastic Scattering Analysis - A Complement to Proton Induced X-Ray Emission Analysis of Aerosols.- Microprobe Analysis of Soil Erosion Aerosols.- Self Absorption Corrections for X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis of Aerosols.- Author Index.
