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First Data from the Linear Collider Alignment and Survey Project (LiCAS)
The LiCAS project has developed a prototype robotic survey system for rapid and highly accurate surveying of long linear accelerator tunnel networks. It is aimed at the International Linear Collider (ILC). This Rapid Tunnel Reference Surveyor (RTRS) is an R&D instrument for evaluating the performance of the RTRS concept and its survey technology. The prototype has been commissioned in a test tunnel at DESY with initial calibrations and measurements ongoing. We will report recent results where they improve over previously reported work. This report was presented in the EPAC Conference under the reference TUPC118
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CONTROL OF THE GEOMETRICAL CONFORMITY OF THE LHC INSTALLATION WITH A SINGLE LASER SOURCE
A large and complex accelerator like LHC machine needs to integrate several thousand different components in a relatively limited space. During the installation, those components are installed in successive phases, always aiming to leave the necessary space available for the equipment which will follow. To help ensure the correct conditions for the installation, the survey team uses a laser scanner to measure specific areas and provides this data, merged together in a known reference system, to the integration team who compare the results with the 3D CAD models. This paper describes the tools and software used to rebuild underground zones in the CATIA environment, to check interferences or geometrical non conformities, as well as the procedures defined to solve the identified problems.
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Simulation of LiCAS Error Propagation
Linear Collider Alignment and Survey (LiCAS) R&D group is proposing a novel automated metrology instrument dedicated to align and monitor the mechanical stability of a future linear high energy e + e collider. LiCAS uses Laser Straightness Monitors (LSM) and Frequency Scanning Interferometry (FSI) [2, 3] for straightness and absolute distance measurements, respectively. This paper presents detailed simulations of a LiCAS system operating inside a Rapid Tunnel Reference Surveyor (RTRS train). With the proposed design it is feasible to achieve the required vertical accuracy of the order of O(200)µm over 600m tunnel sections meeting the specification for the TESLA collider [4]. 1 Principle of the LICAS-RTRS train operation In figure 1 the schematic view of the LiCAS train operating in the accelerator tunnel is presented. The train is composed of 6 cars, the distance between the centres of neighbouring cars is � 4.5m. Each car is equipped with 4 CCD cameras and two beam splitters (BS) constituting the straightness monitor. The straightness monitor measures the transverse translation (Tx,Ty) and transverse rotation (Rx,Ry) with respect to a z axis defined by the laser beam passing through all cars in a vacuum pipe. The laser beam is reflected back using the retro-reflector (RR) located in the last car, illuminating the upper CCD cameras of the straightness monitors. 6 FSI lines placed in the same vacuum pipe between each pair of cars are responsible for the distance measurement along the z axis (Tz). In addition a clinometer located on each car provides a measurement of rotation around the z axis (Rz). When the train stops in front of the wall markers it firstly measures the relative position and rotation of all cars with respect to the first car. This defines the local reference frame of the train in which the location of the wall mounted reference markers are measured next. This procedure is repeated for each train stop. Each marker is measured up to 6 times. Finally the coordinates of each marker, expressed in the local train frames are transformed to the frame of the first train (the global frame) by fitting them to each other under the constraint that wall markers have not moved during the entire measurement. 2 Opto-geometrical model of the LICAS-RTRS train In order to study the expected precision on the position reconstruction of the tunnel reference markers a simulation of the LiCAS survey train was performed. To describe the sensing parts of the train the Simulgeo [5] package was used which allows for modelling
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The LiCAS-RTRS - A Rapid and Cost Efficient Survey System for the ILC
A vertically stored can dispenser having the capability to retain multiple size food cans and provide easy access to the various size can channels. The dispenser can be attached to a lazy susan rotary base or attached to a slide-out cabinet dispenser device. The multiple size can channels can be interchanged.
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The versatile link, a common project for super-LHC
A common project to develop a bi-directional, radiation tolerant, high speed (4.8 Gb/s) optical link for future high energy physics experiments is described. Due to be completed in 2012, it targets the upgrade programs of detectors installed at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The development of radiation and magnetic field tolerant opto-electronic devices, fibre and connectors is described. Both Single-Mode and Multi-Mode versions of the system operating respectively at 850 nm and 1310 nm wavelength are proposed. First results at component and system level are presented, based mostly on commercially available devices.
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Tevatron bunch length studies at CDF
A luminous interaction region can be described by the distribution in (x, y, z) over which p{bar p} interactions are observed in a detector. The spatial size of this distribution can be written in terms of expressions that involve only combinations of the proton and anti-proton bunch sizes. Hence, it is not possible to determine the sizes of the proton and anti-proton bunches independently by fitting the distribution of (x, y, z) from the recorded events. If, in addition to the coordinates (x, y, z) at which p{bar p} interactions occur, the times at which the interactions took place are also measured, then it becomes possible to measure the lengths of the proton and anti-proton bunches separately. This sensitivity is due to a correlation between z and t that arises from the fact that the proton and anti-proton bunches travel in opposite directions. The derivation presented in section 2 quantifies this correlation, resulting in an expression for the probability density as a function of z and t for p{bar p} interactions. By fitting the distributions observed at CDF using this model, we measure the lengths of the proton and anti-proton bunches at times throughout several Tevatron stores. From this analysismore » the evolution of the bunch lengths can be studied. We attempt to correlate these with other measures of the bunch length obtained using different experimental techniques.« less
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New Measurements of Upsilon Spin Alignment at the Tevatron
We describe a new analysis of {Upsilon}(nS) {yields} {mu}{sup +}{mu}{sup -} decays collected in p{bar p} collisions with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. This analysis measures the angular distributions of the final state muons in the {Upsilon} rest frame, providing new information about {Upsilon} production polarization. We find the angular distributions to be nearly isotropic up to {Upsilon} p{sub T} of 40 GeV/c, consistent with previous measurements by CDF, but inconsistent with results obtained by the D0 experiment. The results are compared with recent NLO calculations based on color-singlet matrix elements and non-relativistic QCD with color-octet matrix elements.
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A vector and tensor polarimeter for high-energy deuterons
Abstract The characteristics of a polarimeter to measure the tensor polarization of deuterons with energy of a few GeV have been studied by Monte Carlo simulations. The analyzing reaction is forward elastic dp scattering. The results of the simulation have been verified with a prototype hydrogen cell and a recoil proton detector using drift tubes inserted in the polarimeter POMME. The test used a vector and tensor polarized deuteron beam of 1.6 GeV kinetic energy at the accelerator Saturne. The feasability of a vector and tensor deuteron high-energy polarimeter based on deuteron–proton elastic scattering reaction has been studied. We present here the prediction of a Monte Carlo simulation and the first results of a test made with a prototype, at the Saturne National Laboratory.
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Observation of short-lived particles produced in high energy neutrino interactions
Abstract Examination of a sample of 89 high-energy, neutrino-induced dilepton events produced in the Fermilab 15 ft bubble chamber has resulted in the direct observation of the production and visible semi-leptonic decay of short-lived particles. One charged decay, two neutral decays, and one decay candidate of undetermined charge are found. Assuming these events and the remaining dilepton signal result from D meson decays, we obtain τ D + = 2.5 −1.5 +3.5 × 10 −13 s and τ D 0 = 3.5 −1.7 +3.5 × 10 −13 s, using a maximum likelihood analysis.
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New results on the electric form factor of the proton
The longitudinal, P, and transverse, Pt, polarizations of the recoil proton were measured for the elastic p reaction in Hall A at JLab. The ratio of the electric, GEp, to the magnetic, GMp, form factors of the proton was obtained from the ratio Pt/P. Using this technique, an earlier experiment [1] in Hall A at JLab measured GEp/GMp for the four-momentum transferred, Q2, from 0.5 to 3.5 GeV2 and found that above Q2 0.8 GeV2 the ratio falls off linearly with Q2. New data presented here extend the measurement of GEp/GMp to Q2 = 5.6 GeV2 and shows that it continues to fall linearly with Q2.