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Kevin J. Coakley

This is a list of some of the past publications of K. J. Coakley

More recent publications and a mechanism to search a database containing many of the most recent publications of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can be accessed here.

W. H. Lippincott, K. J. Coakley, D. Gastler, A. Hime, E. Kearns, D. J. McKinsey, J. Nikkel, L. C. Stonehill (submitted) 
Scintillation time dependence and pulse shape discrimination in liquid argon
Physical Review C

L. Yang, C. R. Brome, J. S. Butterworth, S. N. Dzhosyuk, C. E. Mattoni, D. J. McKinsey, R. A. Michniak, J. M. Doyle, R. Golub, E. Korobkina, C. M. O'Shaughnessy, G. R. Palmquist, P. N. Seo, P. R. Huffman, K. J. Coakley, H. P. Mumm, A. K. Thompson, G. Yang, S. K. Lamoreaux (submitted) 
Development of High-Field Superconducting Ioff Magnetic Traps
Review of Scientific Instruments

K. J. Coakley, D. S. Hussey (to appear) 
Feasibility of Single-View Coded Source Neutron Transmission Tomography
Measurement Science and Technology

G. Yang, K. J. Coakley (to appear) 
Stochastic Modeling and Estimation in a Neutron Lifetime Experiment
Proceedings of MATH EVERYWHERE: Derministic and Stochastic Modeling in Biomedicine, Economics and Industry. Milano, 4-6 September 2005. Springer-Verlag.

P. N. Seo, K. J. Coakley, J. M. Doyle, F. H. Dubose, R. Golub, E. Korobkina, S. K. Lamoreaux, H. P. Mumm, C. M. O'Shaughnessy, G. R. Palmquist, A. K. Thompson, G. Yang, P. R. Huffman (to appear) 
Progress Towards a Precision Measurement of the Neutron Lifetime Using Magnetically Trapped Ultracold Neutrons
Proceedings of PANIC: Particles and Nuclei International Conference, Santa Fe, NM. Oct. 24-28 2005.

K. J. Coakley, D. S. Hussey, D. F. Vecchia (to appear) 
Statistical Learning Methods for Neutron Transmission Tomography of Fuel Cells
8th World Conference on Neutron Radiography, Gaithersburg, Oct. 16-19, 2006.

Y. Zhang, S. Glancy, M. Knill, K. J. Coakley (2008) 
Nonlocality proof without inequality
Southwest Quantum Information and Technology: Tenth Annual Meeting, Feb. 14-17 2008, Santa Fe, NM

D. S. Hussey, d. L. Jacobson, M. Arif, K. J. Coakley, D. F. Vecchia (2007) 
In Situ Fuel Cell Water Metrology at the NIST Neutron Imaging Facility
Proceedings of the Fifth International Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology Conference

K. J. Coakley, J. M. Doyle, S. N. Dzhosyuk, L. Yang, P. R. Huffman (2004) 
Chaotic Scattering and Escape Times of Marginally Trapped Ultracold Neutrons
NIST Journal of Research

D. K. Walker, K. J. Coakley, J. D. Splett (2004) 
Nonlinear Modeling of Tunnel Diode Detectors
International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Anchorage, Alaska, September 20-24, 2004, Vol. 6, pp. 3969-3972

S. N. Dzhosyuk, K. J. Coakley, J. M. Doyle, R. Golub, E. Korobkina, S. K. Lamoreaux, A. K. Thompson, G. Yang, L. Yang, P. R. Huffman (2004) 
Determination of the Neutron Mean Lifetime Using Magnetically Trapped Neutrons
NIST Journal of Research

K. J. Coakley (2007) 
Optimal Proton Trapping
 

J. S. Nico, M. S. Dewey, T. R. Gentile, H. P. Mumm, A. K. Thompson, B. M. Fisher, I. Kremsky, F. E. Wietfeldt, T. E. Chupp, E. J. Biese, K. G. Kiriluk, J. Byrne, K. J. Coakley,  (2006) 
Observation of the Radiative Decay Mode of the Free Neutron
Nature

M. D. Janezic, J. D. Splett, K. J. Coakley, R. K. Kaiser, J. H. Grosvenor (2005) 
Relative Permititivity and Loss Tangent Measurement Using the NIST 60 mm Cylindrical Cavity
NIST Special Publication 260-159

K. J. Coakley, D. S. Simons, A. M. Leifer (2005) 
Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Measurements of Isotopic Ratios: Correction for Time Varying Count Rate
The International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 240, pp. 107-120

D. J. McKinsey, K. J. Coakley (2004) 
Neutrino Detection with CLEAN
Astroparticle Physics,22, pp. 355-368

K. J. Coakley, D. J. McKinsey (2004) 
Spatial Methods for Event Reconstruction in CLEAN
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 522, pp. 504-520

H. H. Chen-Mayer, G. P. Lamaze, K. J. Coakley, S. K. Satija (2003) 
Two aspects of thin film analysis: boron profile and scattering length density profile
Nuclear Instruments in Physics Research A, 505, pp. 531-535

K. J. Coakley, Z. Chowdhuri, W. M. Snow, J. M. Richardson, M. S. Dewey (2003) 
Estimation of Neutron Mean Wavelength from Rocking Curve Data
Measurement Science and Technology 14 pp. 131-139

K. J. Coakley, C. Wang, P. D. Hale, T. S. Clement (2003) 
Adaptive characterization of jitter noise in high-speed sampled signals
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 52, 1537-1547

K. J. Coakley, J. D. Splett, M. D. Janezic, R. K. Kaiser (2003) 
Estimation of Q-factors and Resonant Frequencies
IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 51, No. 3, pp. 862-868

P. R. Huffman, K. J. Coakley, S. N. Dzhosyuk, R. Golub, E. Korobkina, S. K. Lamoreaux, C. E. Mattoni, D. J. McKinsey, A. K. Thompson, G. Yang, L. Yang, J. M. Doyle (2003) 
Progress Towards Measurement of the Neutron Lifetime Using Magnetically Trapped Ultracold Neutrons
Proceedings of ``Quark-Mixing, CKM Unitarity", Sept. 19-20 2002, Heidelberg

C. J. Horowitz, K. J. Coakley, D. J. McKinsey (2003) 
Supernova Observation via Neutrino-Nucleus Elastic Scattering in the CLEAN Detector 
Physical Review D, volume 68, number 2: 23005-1-7

R. S. Cerveny, K. J. Coakley (2002) 
A Weekly Cycle in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
Geophysical Review Letters, 29, No. 2, 10.1029/2001GLR13952, 15-1-4

K. J. Coakley, G. Yang (2002) 
Estimation of the neutron lifetime: comparison of methods which account for background
Physical Review C, 65, 6, 64612/1-17

C. Wang, K. J. Coakley, P. D. Hale, T. S. Clement (2002) 
Uncertainty of oscilloscope timebase distortion estimate
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 51, 53-58

K. J. Coakley, H. H. Chen-Mayer, G. Lamaze, D. S. Simons, P. E. Thompson (2002) 
Calibration of a Stopping Power Model for Silicon Based on Analysis of Neutron Depth Profiling and Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Measurements
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 192 4: 349-359

K. J. Coakley, M. Levenson (2001) 
Guest Editorial: Advances in quantitative image analysis
International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, 11, 4, pp. 209

K. J. Coakley, P. D. Hale (2001) 
Alignment of Noisy Signals
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 50,1, pp. 141-149

K. J. Coakley (2001) 
Neutron Lifetime Experiments Using Magnetically Trapped Neutrons: Optimal Background Correction Schemes
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 469, 3, pp. 354-366

P. R. Huffman, C. R. Brome, J. S. Butterworth, K. J. Coakley, M. S. Dewey, S. N. Dzhosyuk, D. W. Gilliam, R. Golub, G. L. Greene, K. Habicht, S. K. Lamoreaux, C. E. Mattoni, D. J. McKinsey, F. E. Wietfeldt, J. M. Doyle (2000) 
Magnetic Trapping of Ultracold Neutrons
Nature, 403, pp. 62-64

P. R. Huffman, C. R. Brome, J. S. Butterworth, K. J. Coakley, M. S. Dewey, S. N. Dzhosyuk, D. W. Gilliam, R. Golub, G. L. Greene, K. Habicht, S. K. Lamoreaux, C. E. Mattoni, D. J. McKinsey, F. E. Wietfeldt, J. M. Doyle (2000) 
Progress towards trapping of ultracold neutrons
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 440, 3, pp. 522-527

P. R. Huffman, A. K. Thompson, C. R. Brome, J. S. Butterworth, K. J. Coakley, M. S. Dewey, S. N. Dzhosyuk, R. Golub, G. L. Greene, K. Habicht, S. K. Lamoreaux, C. E. Mattoni, D. J. McKinsey, F. E. Wietfeldt, e. al. (2000) 

Proceedings of the Conference on Fundamental Physics with Pulsed Neutron Beams, Durham, NC, June 1-2, 2000

C. R. Brome, J. S. Butterworth, K. J. Coakley, M. S. Dewey, S. N. Dzhosyuk, R. Golub, G. L. Greene, K. Habicht, P. R. Huffman, S. K. Lamoreaux, C. E. Mattoni, D. J. McKinsey, F. E. Wietfeldt, J. M. Doyle (2000) 
Magnetic Trapping of Ultracold Neutrons
Physical Review C, 63, 5, 055502/1-15

P. D. Hale, T. S. Clement, K. J. Coakley, C. Wang, D. C. DeGroot, A. P. Verdoni (2000) 
Estimating the magnitude and phase response of a 50 GHz sampling oscilloscope using the `nose-to-nose' method
55th ARFTG Conference Digest, 35-42

M. Levenson, K. J. Coakley (2000) 
Adaptive use of prior information in inverse problems: An application to Neutron Depth Profiling
Measurement Science and Technology, volume 11, number 3, pp. 279-284

K. J. Coakley (2000) 
Empirical Modeling of Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducer Data
Measurement Science and Technology, volume 11, number 3, pp. 193-200

K. J. Coakley (2000) 
The Warmest Day of Any Week Tends to Occur on the First or Last Day of That Week
The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 81, 2, pp. 273-284

T. S. Clement, P. D. Hale, K. J. Coakley, C. Wang (2000) 
Time-domain measurement of the frequency response of high-speed photoreceivers to 50 GHz
Technical Digest Symposium on Optical Fiber Measurements 2000, 121-124

P. R. Huffman, A. K. Thompson, F. E. Wietfeldt, K. J. Alvine, C. R. Brome, S. N. Dzhosyuk, C. E. Mattoni, R. A. Ichniak, D. J. McKinsey, L. Yang, J. M. Doyle, R. Golub, S. K. Lamoreaux, K. J. Coakley, G. Yang (2000) 
Magnetic trapping of ultracold neutrons: Prospects for an improved measurement of the neutron lifetime
World Scientific, p. 8

D. K. Walker, R. K. Kaiser, K. J. Coakley, D. Williams (2000) 
Lumped-Element Models for On-Wafer Calibration
Proceedings of 56th ARFTG Microwave Measurements Conference, Denver, CO, November 30- December 1, 2000.

Y. W. Cheng, R. L. Tobler, B. J. Filla, K. J. Coakley (1999) 
Constitutive behaviour modeling of steels under hot-rolling conditions
NIST Technical Note 1500-6, Materials Reliability Series, 105 pages, April, 1999

K. J. Coakley, A. V. Clark, C. S. Hehman (1999) 
Empirical modeling of electromagnetic acoustic transducer data
NISTIR 5087, 15 pages, August 1999

C. Wang, P. D. Hale, K. J. Coakley (1999) 
Least-squares estimation of time-base distortion of sampling oscilloscopes
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 48, 1324-1332

K. J. Coakley (1998) 
Statistical Planning for a Neutron Lifetime Experiment Using Magnetically Trapped Neutrons
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 406, pp. 451-463

K. J. Coakley, D. S. Simons (1998) 
Detection and Quantification of Isotopic Ratio Inhomogeneity
Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 41, pp. 209-220

M. Holland, J. Williams, K. J. Coakley, J. Cooper (1996) 
Trajectory simulation of kinetic equations for classical systems
Quantum Semiclassical Optics, 8, pp. 571-581

S. Tai, R. G. Christensen, K. J. Coakley, P. Ellerbe, T. Long, M. J. Welch (1996) 
Certification of phencyclidine in lyophilized human urine reference materials
Journal of Analytical Chemistry, 20, pp. 43-49

S. Wilson, K. J. Coakley (1996) 
Estimation of Asymmetry in Physics
Physical Review E, volume 53, number 3, pp. 2160-2168

K. J. Coakley (1996) 
A Bootstrap Method for Nonlinear Filtering of EM-ML Reconstructions of PET Images
International Journal of Imaging Science and Technology, 7, 1, pp. 54-61

K. Ehara, C. R. Hagwood, K. J. Coakley (1996) 
Novel Method to Classify Aerosol Particles According to Their Mass-to-Charge Ratio
Journal of Aerosol Science, 27, 2, pp. 217-234

K. J. Coakley (1996) 
Nonequilibrium Kinetics of Neutral Atoms in a Harmonic Potential
Physica A, volume 234, number 1-2, pp. 407-426

K. Ehara, C. R. Hagwood, K. J. Coakley (1996) 
Novel Method to Classify Aerosol Particles According to Their Mass-to-Charge Ratio-Aerosol Particle Mass Analyzer
Bulletin of NRML 45, 265-282

K. J. Coakley, R. G. Downing, G. Lamaze, H. C. Hofsass, J. Biegel, C. Ronning (1995) 
Modeling Detector Response for Neutron Depth Profiling
Nuclear Instruments in Physics Research A, 366, pp. 137-144 (erratum: 515, pp. 892-893, 2003)

C. R. Hagwood, K. J. Coakley, K. Ehara (1995) 
Stochastic Modeling of a New Spectrometer
Journal of Aerosol Science and Technology, 23, pp. 611-627

K. Ehara, C. R. Hagwood, K. J. Coakley (1995) 
Motion of Charged Aerosol Particles Under Coexistence of Electrostatic and Centrifugal Forces
Journal of Aerosol Research, Japan, 10, 1

K. J. Coakley (1994) 
A resampling scheme for improving Maximum Likelihood reconstructions of Positron Emission Tomography Images
Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging VII: Image Processing, Volume 2167, pp. 271-280, 1994

K. J. Coakley,  (1993) 
The effect of splitting on estimation of emission rate profiles from neutron depth profiling spectra
Proceedings of the 1993 Joint Meetings of the American Statistical Association, San Francisco, CA, pp. 77-82, 1993

K. J. Coakley (1993) 
Evaluation and Compilation of DOE Waste Package Test Data
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Numreg/CR-4735, Volume 8, June 1993

K. J. Coakley (1993) 
Analysis of Scattering Asymmetry Statistics When Background Corrected Counts Are Negative
Review of Scientific Instruments

J. Llacer, E. Veklerov, K. J. Coakley, E. J. Hoffman, J. Nunez (1993) 
Statistical analysis of Maximum Likelihood estimator images of human brain FDG PET studies
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 12, 2, pp. 215-231

K. J. Coakley, J. J. McClelland, M. H. Kelley, R. J. Celotta (1993) 
Uncertainty intervals for polarized beam scattering asymmetry statistics
Review of Scientific Instruments, 64, 7, pp. 1888-1894

K. J. Coakley (1992) 
Spatial Statistics for Predicting Fluid Flow through a Rock Fracture
Mathematical Geology, 24, 8, pp. 905-927

M. R. Scheinfein, J. Unguris, J. L. Blue, K. J. Coakley, D. T. Pierce, R. J. Celotta, P. J. Ryan (1991) 
Micromagnetics of domain walls at surfaces
Physical Review B, 43, 4, pp. 3395-3422

K. J. Coakley (1991) 
A cross-validation procedure for stopping the EM algorithm and deconvolution of neutron depth profiling spectra
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, volume 38, number 1, pp. 9-15

K. J. Coakley (1991) 
Bootstrapping with constraints: analysis of scattering asymmetry for polarized beam studies
Proceedings of the 23rd Symposium on the Interface, Seattle, WA, April 21-24, 1991

K. J. Coakley, J. Llacer (1991) 
The use of cross-validation as a stopping rule and reconstruction of emission tomography images
Proceeding of SPIE medical imaging V: Image Physics, pp. 226-233

K. J. Coakley, J. Llacer (1991) 
An optimized Maximum Likelihood approach to Positron Emission Tomography image reconstruction
Proceedings of the IEEE 1991 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (Cat. No. 91CH3100-5): 2084, 3, November 2-9, 1991

K. J. Coakley (1987) 
Equivalent permeability of statistically simulated single fractures
Proceedings of the Conference on Geostatistical, Sensitivity and Uncertainty Methods for Ground-Water Flow and Radionuclide Transport Modeling

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