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AN OVERVIEW OF THE SNS ACCELERATOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.
The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS*) is an accelerator-based neutron source currently nearing completion at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. When completed in 2006, the SNS will provide a 1 GeV, 1.44 MW proton beam to a liquid mercury target for neutron production. SNS is a collaborative effort between six U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories and offered a unique opportunity for the mechanical engineers to work with their peers from across the country. This paper presents an overview of the overall success of the collaboration concentrating on the accelerator ring mechanical engineering along with some discussion regarding the relative merits of such a collaborative approach. Also presented are a status of the mechanical engineering installation and a review of the associated installation costs.
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Design and manufacturing of the SNS accumulator ring and transport system dc magnets
The Spallation Neutron Source accumulator ring requires large aperture dipole magnets, strong focusing quadrupole and sextupole magnets, and low field corrector dipole, quadrupole, sextupole, and octopole magnets. All of these magnets will provide a fixed magnetic field throughout the accumulator's fill/storage/extraction cycle. Similar fixed field magnets are also being built for the beam transport lines from the linac and to the target. Because of the high intensity in the accumulator, the magnets must be built with tight tolerances for optimum field quality. Because some of the magnets are powered in strings, those magnets must have tight tolerances and consistent material properties to provide the same integral field from magnet to magnet. Radiation resistance, maintainability, and cost were other major factors in determining the magnets' design. The accumulator ring and transport line lattice design required 32 different magnet types out of the 312 magnets to be installed. This resulted in small quantity procurements that affected the cost of fabrication and testing of the magnets.
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Polarized H− Jet Polarimeter For Absolute Proton Polarization Measurements in RHIC
Status of the H‐jet polarimeter development is reviewed. A number of design issues are discussed including vacuum system, integration into the RHIC storage ring, scattering chamber, and uniform vertical holding field magnet design. The absolute proton polarization of the atomic hydrogen‐jet target will be measured to 3% accuracy by a Breit‐ systematic error contribution to the jet‐target polarization measurements is also discussed.
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Proof-of-principle experiment for FEL-based coherent electron cooling
Coherent electron cooling (CEC) has a potential to significantly boost luminosity of high-energy, high-intensity hadron-hadron and electron-hadron colliders. In a CEC system, a hadron beam interacts with a cooling electron beam. A perturbation of the electron density caused by ions is amplified and fed back to the ions to reduce the energy spread and the emittance of the ion beam. To demonstrate the feasibility of CEC we propose a proof-of-principle experiment at RHIC using SRF linac. In this paper, we describe the setup for CeC installed into one of RHIC's interaction regions. We present results of analytical estimates and results of initial simulations of cooling a gold-ion beam at 40 GeV/u energy via CeC. We plan to complete the program in five years. During first two years we will build coherent electron cooler in IP2 of RHIC. In parallel we will develop complete package of computer simulation tools for the start-to-end simulation predicting exact performance of a CeC. The later activity will be the core of Tech X involvement into the project. We will use these tools to predict the performance of our CeC device. The experimental demonstration of the CeC will be undertaken in years three to five of the project. The goal of this experiment is to demonstrate the cooling of ion beam and to compare its measured performance with predictions made by us prior to the experiments.
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Coherent electron cooling demonstration experiment
Coherent electron cooling (CEC) has a potential to significantly boost luminosity of high-energy, high-intensity hadron-hadron and electron-hadron colliders. In a CEC system, a hadron beam interacts with a cooling electron beam. A perturbation of the electron density caused by ions is amplified and fed back to the ions to reduce the energy spread and the emittance of the ion beam. To demonstrate the feasibility of CEC we propose a proof-of-principle experiment at RHIC using SRF linac. In this paper, we describe the setup for CeC installed into one of RHIC's interaction regions. We present results of analytical estimates and results of initial simulations of cooling a gold-ion beam at 40 GeV/u energy via CeC. We plan to complete the program in five years. During first two years we will build coherent electron cooler in IP2 of RHIC. In parallel we will develop complete package of computer simulation tools for the start-to-end simulation predicting exact performance of a CeC. The later activity will be the core of Tech X involvement into the project. We will use these tools to predict the performance of our CeC device. The experimental demonstration of the CeC will be undertaken in years three to five ofmore » the project. The goal of this experiment is to demonstrate the cooling of ion beam and to compare its measured performance with predictions made by us prior to the experiments.« less
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Absolute polarized H-jet polarimeter development, for RHIC
Status of the H-jet polarimeter development is reviewed. The preliminary results of atomic beam intensity and density measurements are presented.
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Quantum control by compensation of quantum fluctuations.
We show that the influence of quantum fluctuations in the electromagnetic field vacuum on a two level atom can be measured and consequently compensated by balanced homodyne detection and a coherent feedback field. This compensation suppresses the decoherence associated with spontaneous emissions for a specific state of the atomic system allowing complete control of the coherent state of the system.
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Quantum approach to a derivation of the second law of thermodynamics.
We reinterpret the microcanonical conditions in the quantum domain as constraints for the interaction of the "gas subsystem" under consideration and its environment ("container"). The time average of a purity measure is found to equal the average over the respective path in Hilbert space. We then show that for typical (degenerate or nondegenerate) thermodynamical systems almost all states within the allowed region of Hilbert space have a local von Neumann entropy S close to the maximum and a purity P close to its minimum, respectively. Typically, thermodynamical systems should obey the second law.
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Correlation between Correlations: Process and Time in Quantum Networks
We study a special inhomogeneous quantum network consisting of a ring of M pseudo-spins (here M = 4) sequentially coupled to one and the same central spin under the influence of given pulse sequences (quantum gate operations). This architecture could be visualized as a quantum Turing machine with a cyclic "tape". Rather than input-output-relations we investigate the resulting process, i.e. the correlation between one-and two-point expectation values ("correlations") over various time-steps. The resulting spatiotemporal pattern exhibits many non-classical features including Zeno-effects, violation of temporal Bell-inequalities and quantum parallelism. Due to the strange web of correlations being built-up, specific measurement outcomes for the tape may refer to one or several preparation histories of the head. Specific families of correlation functions are more stable with respect to dissipation than the total wave-function.