123884009
Using Skew Quadrupoles in the Arc
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Snakes and spin rotators for high energy accelerators
Abstract A modification to the continuous family of snake and spin rotators, discovered by Steffen, is discussed. A compact snake configuration is found to have the advantages of requiring a smaller total integrated dipole magnet strength and a smaller transverse displacement for circulating particles. A split snake configuration has the advantage of allowing an entire experimental insertion region to be located between the two halves of the snake. Such configurations could serve as both a snake and a 90° spin rotator for experiments requiring different helicity states. General properties of these snake configurations are discussed.
117036088
Comparison of multipole expansion and exact form of the eddy current field of the AGS Booster
Studies are made on magnetic field representation using a multipole expansion as well as the exact form to calculate the magnetic field produced by eddy currents in the vacuum chamber of the AGS Booster as well as the field produced by three turn correction coils attached to the top and bottom of the vacuum chamber. The multiple representation of the chamber field does not converge to the next field when X > 30mm and limits the particle motion. When the exact form of the chamber field is used, initial amplitudes in the horizontal plane (measured at QF) can be nearly as large as the chamber half aperture. Use of three turn correction coils to compensate the eddy current fields seems to reduce rather than increase the acceptance. 6 figs., 3 tabs.
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FIRST OBSERVATION OF A SNAKE DEPOLARIZING RESONANCE
Using a 104MeV stored polarized proton beam and a full Siberian snake, we recently found evidence for a so-called {open_quotes}snake{close_quotes} depolarizing resonance. A full Siberian snake forces the spin tune {nu}{sub s} to be a half integer. Thus, if the vertical betatron tune {nu}{sub y} is set near a quarter integer, then the {nu}{sub s}=n{plus_minus}2{nu}{sub y} second-order snake resonance can depolarize the beam. Indeed, with a full Siberian snake, we found a deep depolarization dip when {nu}{sub y} was equal to 4.756; moreover, when {nu}{sub y} was changed to 4.781, the deep dip disappeared and the polarization was preserved. {copyright} {ital 1997} {ital The American Physical Society}
120908048
Comment on “Quasiperiodic spin-orbit motion and spin tunes in storage rings”
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Design and fabrication of a multi-purpose Panofsky magnet
A fast, flexible magnet system, consisting of a Panofsky style ferrite picture-frame magnet and pulsed power supply, has been developed. Magnet specifications are: 8 cm /spl times/8 cm aperture, 23 cm length, 500 A pulsed/l60 A DC, and 1 /spl mu/s risetime. Designed for general accelerator physics studies, the magnet may be quickly converted from dipole to quadrupole or sextupole and higher multipole configurations by easily changing winding end terminations. In the quadrupole configuration a field gradient of 0.5 T/m is achieved at 500 A. This magnet has become an important tool for nonlinear beam dynamics experiments at the IUCF Cooler Ring.<<ETX>>
119318002
Quantization of integrable systems and a 2d/4d duality
We present a new duality between the F-terms of supersymmetric field theories defined in two-and four-dimensions respectively. The duality relates $ \mathcal{N} = 2 $ super-symmetric gauge theories in four dimensions, deformed by an Ω-background in one plane, to $ \mathcal{N} = \left( {2,2} \right) $ gauged linear σ-models in two dimensions. On the four dimensional side, our main example is $ \mathcal{N} = 2 $ SQCD with gauge group G = SU(L) and NF = 2 L fundamental flavours. Using ideas of Nekrasov and Shatashvili, we argue that the Coulomb branch of this theory provides a quantization of the classical Heisenberg SL(2) spin chain. Agreement with the standard quantization via the Algebraic Bethe Ansatz implies the existence of an isomorphism between the chiral ring of the 4 d theory and that of a certain two-dimensional theory. The latter can be understood as the worldvolume theory on a surface operator/vortex string probing the Higgs branch of the same 4 d theory. We check the proposed duality by explicit calculation at low orders in the instanton expansion. One striking consequence is that the Seiberg-Witten solution of the 4 d theory is captured by a one-loop computation in two dimensions. The duality also has interesting connections with the AGT conjecture, matrix models and topological string theory where it corresponds to a refined version of the geometric transition.
118516615
Emergence of supersymmetry on the surface of three-dimensional topological insulators
We propose two possible experimental realizations of a (2 + 1)-dimensional spacetime supersymmetry at a quantum critical point on the surface of three-dimensional topological insulators. The quantum critical point between the semi-metallic state with one Dirac fermion and the s-wave superconducting state on the surface is described by a supersymmetric conformal field theory within the ϵ-expansion. We predict the exact voltage dependence of the differential conductance at the supersymmetric critical point.
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LEE-WICK FIELD AS A DARK ENERGY CANDIDATE
As a possible alternative solution for the hierarchy problem in the standard model, Lee-Wick theory where a field has higher derivative kinetic operators has been paid attentions recently. Also in modern cosmology, the observations suggest that the current universe is under accelerating expansion dominated by dark energy. Furthermore, they marginally prefer the dark energy equation of state parameter ωDE to cross the phantom divide -1 at present. Lee-Wick theory has the same structure as so-called quintom model except the form of potentials and the sign of the slope of the potentials. Thus, this model can produce the stable late time phantom-dominated solution and maybe able to explain the current cosmology. However, without fine tuning of its mass we may not be able to produce the viable values of observational quantities in this model.
119218989
Holographic description of quantum field theory
Abstract We propose that general D-dimensional quantum field theories are dual to ( D + 1 ) -dimensional local quantum theories which in general include objects with spin two or higher. Using a general prescription, we construct a ( D + 1 ) -dimensional theory which is holographically dual to the D-dimensional O ( N ) vector model. From the holographic theory, the phase transition and critical properties of the model in dimensions D > 2 are described.
118835651
New physics searches with photons in CDF
A brief review of searches for physics beyond the Standard Model with photons using the CDF detector at the Tevatron is given here. These include searches for supersymmetry, extra dimensions, excited electrons and W/Z+{gamma} production, as well as anomalous photon production. Recent results from CDF Run II experiment are presented, but some results from Run I are also reviewed.