Development of a variable energy RFQ for cluster acceleration
An RFQ (radio-frequency quadrupole) has been designed and built as a postaccelerator for the cluster accelerator facility at the IPN (Institute de Physique Nucleaire) Lyon, France. The four-rod RFQ resonator is designed for variable energy by means of a variable frequency of the resonator between 80 and 110 MHz. The properties of the RFQ for the typical cluster mass ranges of up to 50 u are discussed and the status of the project is reported.<<ETX>>
Four-rod-λ/2-RFQ for light ion acceleration
Abstract A simple type of RFQ structure with circular rods as electrodes has been developed in Frankfurt. The improved design uses a linear arrangement of supporting stems on a massive common bar. This linear rf structure consists of a chain of λ/2-line pairs and leads to an advantageously simple but nonetheless effective RFQ structure. With this stable cheap type of RFQ resonator preaccelerator prototypes have been built for light ions. New results of electrode and structure optimization and beam measurements are presented.
Monte carlo simulation of events with Drell-Yan lepton pairs from antiproton-proton collisions
The complete knowledge of the nucleon spin structure at leading twist requires also addressing the transverse spin distribution of quarks, or transversity, which is yet unexplored because of its chiral-odd nature. Transversity can be best extracted from single-spin asymmetries in fully polarized Drell-Yan processes with antiprotons, where valence contributions are involved anyway. Alternatively, in single-polarized Drell-Yan the transversity happens convoluted with another chiral-odd function, which is likely to be responsible for the well known (and yet unexplained) violation of the Lam-Tung sum rule in the corresponding unpolarized cross section. We present Monte Carlo simulations for the unpolarized and single-polarized Drell-Yan pp{sup ({up_arrow}}{sup )}{yields}{mu}{sup +}{mu}{sup -}X at different center-of-mass energies in both configurations where the antiproton beam hits a fixed proton target or it collides on another proton beam. The goal is to estimate the minimum number of events needed to extract the above chiral-odd distributions from future measurements at the high energy storage ring (HESR) at GSI. It is important to study the feasibility of such experiments at HESR in order to demonstrate that interesting spin physics can be explored already using unpolarized antiprotons.