2491688
Modeling skew quadruple effects on the UMER beam
This is a numerical and experimental study of the effects of skew quadrupoles on the beam used in University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER). As this beam is space- charge dominated, we expect new phenomena to be present compared to the emittance-dominated case. In our studies we find that skew quadrupoles can severely affect the halo of the beam and cause emittance growth, even in the first turn of the beam. For our simulations we use the WARP particle-in-cell code and we compare the results with the experimental study of skew quadrupole effects.
37433006
Measurement and simulation of source-generated halos in the University Of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER)
One of the areas of fundamental beam physics that have served as the rationale for recent research on UMER is the study of the generation and evolution of beam halos. Recent experiments and simulations have identified imperfections in the source geometry, particularly in the region near the emitter edge, as a significant potential source of halo particles. The edge-generated halo particles, both in the experiments and the simulations are found to pass through the center of the beam a short distance downstream of the anode plane. Understanding the detailed evolution of these particle orbits is therefore important to designing any aperture to remove the beam halo.
23902126
The University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER) enters a new regime of high-tune-shift rings
Beams with a high phase space density are useful for many modern applications such as free electron lasers, pulsed neutron sources, high-energy-density physics, and high-luminosity colliders. Production of such beams requires understanding the complex space charge dynamics at the low-energy end of the accelerator. The University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER) has been designed and built with the purpose of investigating space charge effects using scaled low-energy electron experiments. We have recently circulated the highest- space-charge beam in a ring to date, achieving a breakthrough both in the number of turns and in the amount of current propagated. We have propagated a beam with an integer tune shift for over 100 turns, and other, even higher-current beams, for 5-50 turns albeit with some beam loss. One beam had a tune shift at injection of 5.0, which is several factors higher than anything propagated in the past. We report here as well on other interesting aspects of the UMER work.
109430895
Rotational Mismatches and Emittance Growth for the UMER Beam
This is a numerical study of the effects of a rotational mismatch of a beam at injection. A closely related type of mismatch is the presence of a skew quadrupole at some place in the transporting channel. In both cases, the initial mismatch implies that the emittance of the beam will increase as the beam is transported through an alternating focusing channel. In our simulations, we used the WARP computer code to simulate the University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER) beam and we have indeed seen a substantial emittance growth (by a factor of 2–3) for mismatches of 10 degrees.
121775512
One-loop corrections to three-vector-boson vertices in the standard model
Abstract We study the one-loop corrections to the three-boson vertices γW + W − and ZW + W − , and we present expressions for the dipole Δκ V and quadrupole ΔQ V form factors as a function of Q 2 , m top and m Higgs , where Q μ is half of the four-momentum carried by the neutral bosons. We also discuss the relevance of our results to future experiments, where reactions of the type ƒ R ƒ R → W + W − at high Q 2 will be analysed and we show that (I) it might be possible, given a good experimental sensitivity, to extract valuable informations for the mass of the top quark and (II) that any measured value of Δκ V above 10 −2 will be a signal of new physics.
9566081
Event Generators for WW Physics
The report summarizes the results of the activities of the Working Group on Event Generators for WW Physics at CERN during 1995.
18572167
Cross sections for multi-particle final states at a linear collider
Abstract.In this paper total cross sections for signals and backgrounds of top- and Higgs-production channels in e + e- collisions at a future linear collider are presented. All channels considered are characterized by the emergence of six-particle final states. The calculation takes into account the full set of tree-level amplitudes in each process. Two multi-purpose parton level generators, HELAC/PHEGAS and AMEGIC + + , are used, and their results are found to be in perfect agreement.
17241912
Multi-particle processes in QCD without Feynman diagrams
Abstract A way to efficiently compute helicity amplitudes for arbitrary tree-level scattering processes in QCD is presented. The scattering amplitude is evaluated recursively through a set of Dyson–Schwinger equations. The computational cost of this algorithm grows asymptotically as 3 n , where n is the number of particles involved in the process, compared to n ! in the traditional Feynman graphs approach. Unitary gauge is used and mass effects are available as well. Additionally, the color and helicity structures are appropriately transformed so the usual summation is replaced by the Monte Carlo techniques.
5166537
NLO QCD corrections to tri-boson production
We present a calculation of the NLO QCD corrections for the production of three vector bosons at the LHC, namely ZZZ, W+W−Z, W+ZZ, and W+W−W+ production. The virtual corrections are computed using the recently proposed method of reduction at the integrand level (OPP reduction). Concerning the contributions coming from real emission we used the dipole subtraction to treat the soft and collinear divergences. We find that the QCD corrections for these electroweak processes are in the range between 70 and 100 percent. As such they have to be considered in experimental studies of triple vector boson production at the LHC.