Bachelor Thesis
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Gamma measurements with the 4pi BaF2 detector for the FRANZ facility
(2008)
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Stefan Schmidt
- The current performance of a 4π barium fluoride gamma detector consisting of 41 modules is evaluated. It will be used to measure neutron capture events in different samples that are exposed to a neutron beam that is expected to contain up to 10^7 neutrons/(cm^2 sec). The capture cross-sections acquired in this experiment will be relevant to a multitude of different areas, for example to s-process studies, or accelerator-driven systems. The detector array was re-mounted after having been moved from Karlsruhe to Frankfurt and in the course of this process, the detector modules have been checked for their current detection properties. Every module consists of a BaF2 crystal, a photomultiplier tube connected to the crystal by sillicon oil and a voltage divider to drive the PMT, so each of them is already an individual gamma detector. Using Cobalt-60 and Caesium-137 test sources the energy resolution and - more importantly - the time resolution of every module has been determined; the results are presented in this work and compared to previous data taken at the time the detector was built initially in the mid-1980s.
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Program equivalences for concurrency abstractions in a concurrent lambda calculus with buffers, cells and futures
(2009)
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Martina Willig
- Various concurrency primitives had been added to functional programming languages in different ways. In Haskell such a primitive is a MVar, joins are described in JoCaml and AliceML uses futures to provide a concurrent behaviour. Despite these concurrency libraries seem to behave well, their equivalence between each other has not been proven yet. An expressive formal system is needed. In their paper "On proving the equivalence of concurrency primitives", Jan Schwinghammer, David Sabel, Joachim Niehren, and Manfred Schmidt-Schauß define a universal calculus for concurrency primitives known as the typed lambda calculus with futures. There, equivalence of processes had been proved. An encoding of simple one-place buffers had been worked out. This bachelor’s thesis is about encoding more complex concurrency abstractions in the lambda calculus with futures and proving correctness of its operational semantics. Given the new abstractions, we will discuss program equivalence between them. Finally, we present a library written in Haskell that exposes futures and our concurrency abstractions as a proof of concept.
