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Doppler broadening
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TL;DR: In this paper, a new compact system has been developed to produce monoenergetic positrons of variable energy, which can be used to investigate defects and defect structures close to the surface in metals and alloys.
Abstract: A new compact system has been developed to produce monoenergetic positrons of variable energy. The energy range available at present is between 150 eV and 28 keV, so that depth profiles can be measured. This positron beam is being used to investigate defects and defect structures close to the surface in metals and alloys. The technique of Doppler broadening of the annihilation radiation is applied for these measurements.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the shifts and widths of the rovibrational lines of the fundamental band of CO highly diluted in He and Ar at 296 K were measured and compared with close coupled calculations carried out with the best known interaction potentials.
Abstract: We present measurements of the shifts and widths of the rovibrational lines of the fundamental band of CO highly diluted in He and Ar at 296 K. The shifts are decomposed into parts odd and even in the line number, m. These are then compared with close coupled calculations carried out with the best known interaction potentials. There is general agreement between the calculated and measured values of the broadening and shifting. Furthermore, the results illustrate that the decomposition of the shifts into parts, odd and even in m, is a powerful tool for separating out the relative contributions of the isotropic and anisotropic part of the interaction to the shifts and which part needs to be corrected if there is a discrepancy. Thus, shift measurements can be added to the list of experiments that may be used to determine reliable interaction potentials. The results also show, given a potential, that close coupled calculations are accurate and could be used to confirm or establish empirical models of the temperature dependence of the broadening or shifting, etc. Such modeling is important at atmospheric physics.
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TL;DR: In this article, a sans air motion (SAM) model was introduced to estimate the Rayleigh scattering portion of the Doppler velocity spectrum to estimate ambient vertical air motion, the spectral broadening, and the raindrop size distribution.
Abstract: [1] The raindrop size distribution is a fundamental quantity used to describe the characteristics of rain. Vertically pointing Doppler radar profilers are well suited to retrieve the raindrop size distributions because of their operating frequency and data collection methodology. Doppler radar profilers operating at UHF are sensitive to both Bragg scattering from the radio refractive index of turbulence and Rayleigh scattering from distributed targets. During light precipitation, both scattering processes are resolved in the Doppler velocity spectra. During moderate to heavy precipitation the ambient air motion is not resolved in the Doppler velocity spectra. The sans air motion (SAM) model is introduced in this study and uses only the Rayleigh scattering portion of the Doppler velocity spectrum to estimate the ambient vertical air motion, the spectral broadening, and the raindrop size distribution. The SAM model was applied to 915 MHz profiler observations in central Florida. There was good agreement between the SAM-model-retrieved rain rate and mass-weighted mean diameter at an altitude of 300 m with simultaneous surface disdrometer observations. The SAM model was applied to the profile of Doppler velocity spectra to yield estimates of rain rate, mass weighted mean diameter, and ambient vertical air motion from 300 m to just under the melting level at 4 km.
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TL;DR: Two-dimensional linear and second- order Creamer [Creamer (2)] nonlinear sea-surface models are combined with the second-order small-slope approximation method to comparatively study the electromagnetic scattering and the Doppler spectral characteristics from sea surfaces.
Abstract: Two-dimensional linear and second-order Creamer [Creamer (2)] nonlinear sea-surface models are combined with the second-order small-slope approximation method to comparatively study the electromagnetic scattering and the Doppler spectral characteristics from sea surfaces. Due to nonlinear hydrodynamics, the bistatic normalized radar cross section (NRCS) calculated from Creamer (2) surfaces is slightly larger than its linear surface counterpart for scattering angles departing from the specular direction, and the Creamer (2) surface backscattering coefficient increases as well for wind direction angles around upwind and downwind, whereas, for the crosswind direction, it is interesting to note that the observations are contrary. However, as was pointed out by Toporkov in a 1-D surface case, the effect of the nonlinear surface model on the average NRCS is minute. In particular, the Doppler spectra of the backscattered echoes are compared for the linear and Creamer (2) surfaces at various incident angles. It is seen, as expected, that the Doppler shifts and spectral widths of 2-D Creamer (2) surfaces exhibit different features compared with those of the linear surfaces, agreeing with the 1-D cases. However, for larger incident angles, the Doppler spectral broadening for Creamer (2) surfaces is not as severe as was reported in previous 1-D studies that used full Creamer model. The reason for this discrepancy appears to be the reduced nature of the Creamer (2) approximation. Moreover, studies of the Doppler characteristics for different wind directions demonstrate that nonlinear effects become weaker as the wind direction varies from upwind to crosswind.
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TL;DR: In the turbulent heating experiment of the high-field tokamak TRIAM-1, the bulk ion heating shown by the neutral energy analyzer measurement is confirmed by the Doppler broadening measurement of visible lines.
Abstract: In the turbulent heating experiment of the high-field tokamak TRIAM-1, the bulk ion heating shown by the neutral energy analyzer measurement is confirmed by the Doppler broadening measurement of visible lines. The increasing rate and decay time of the Doppler ion temperature are almost the same as those derived from the neutral energy analyzer measurement. From both methods of ion temperature measurements, it is shown that the ion temperature has a parabolic profile within 50 µs after the application of the heating pulse.
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