Status and commissioning-results of BESSY II
The new Storage Ring BESSY II in Berlin Germany is a dedicated third generation synchrotron radiation source for the VUV and soft X-ray spectral range. On April 22/sup nd/, 1998 a 1.7 GeV electron beam was stored for the first time. Despite a relatively short time for commissioning of the synchrotron radiation source, the milestones were met as scheduled. Accelerator parameters that determine the quality of the synchrotron radiation are as designed or the design goals were even exceeded. The only parameter that is still not according to design is the beam lifetime, as the baking of the vacuum system is not completed yet. The regular scientific program started according to plan in January 1999 with experiments. The front-end for 22 additional beamlines are installed and scheduled for use before the end of next year. Thus required shutdown periods will also be used to install additional hardware to improve the performance of the ring.
Longitudinal and transverse feedback kickers for the BESSY II storage ring
This paper presents an overview of the bunch-by-bunch feedback kickers designed for the BESSY II storage ring. Simulation results for the longitudinal kicker cavity and for the transverse stripline kicker are discussed.
The unfolded universe of elementary particles. A geometric explanation of the standard model structure
We propose a geometric explanation of the standard model of Glashow, Weinberg and Salam for the known elementary particles. Our model is a generic Quantum Field Theory in dimension four, obtained by developing along a Lorentz sub-manifold the lagrangian of Einstein and Dirac in dimension twelve. The main mechanism which gives birth to the standard model is a certain gauge fixing of triality, which permits to identify the multiplicity of fermions, as seen from the four dimensional world, with the eight unseen dimensions of the generating universe. In this way we get the known tables of particles, explaining the series of fermions and the gauge bosons. We suggest that the Higgs field dynamics could appear through a bosonization of the right handed neutrino and correspond to a displacement in the unseen dimensions. We also propose hypotheses for dark matter, and perhaps dark energy. Then we suggest predictions to go beyond the standard model.