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Hurricane Isabel gives accelerators a severe test
Hurricane Isabel was at category five--the most violent on the Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane strength--when it began threatening the central Atlantic seaboard of the US. Over the course of several days, precautions against the extreme weather conditions were taken across the Jefferson Lab site in south-east Virginia. On 18 September 2003, when Isabel struck North Carolina's Outer Banks and moved northward, directly across the region around the laboratory, the storm was still quite destructive, albeit considerably reduced in strength. The flood surge and trees felled by wind substantially damaged or even devastated buildings and homes, including many belonging to Jefferson Lab staff members. For the laboratory itself, Isabel delivered an unplanned and severe challenge in another form: a power outage that lasted nearly three-and-a-half days, and which severely tested the robustness of Jefferson Lab's two superconducting machines, the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) and the superconducting radiofrequency ''driver'' accelerator of the laboratory's free-electron laser. Robustness matters greatly for science at a time when microwave superconducting linear accelerators (linacs) are not only being considered, but in some cases already being built for projects such as neutron sources, rare-isotope accelerators, innovative light sources and TeV-scale electron-positron linear colliders. Hurricane Isabel interruptedmore » a several-week-long maintenance shutdown of CEBAF, which serves nuclear and particle physics and represents the world's pioneering large-scale implementation of superconducting radiofrequency (SRF) technology. The racetrack-shaped machine is actually a pair of 500-600 MeV SRF linacs interconnected by recirculation arc beamlines. CEBAF delivers simultaneous beams at up to 6 GeV to three experimental halls. An imminent upgrade will double the energy to 12 GeV and add an extra hall for ''quark confinement'' studies. On a smaller scale, Jefferson Lab's original kilowatt-scale infrared free-electron laser (FEL) is ''driven'' by a high-current cousin of CEBAF, a 70 MeV SRF linac with a high-current injector. The FEL serves multidisciplinary science and technology as the world's highest-average-power source of tunable coherent infrared light. An upgrade to 10 kW is in commissioning--as it was when Isabel began threatening.« less
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Optimization of the Parameters of a Storage Ring for a High Power XUV Free Electron Laser
In this paper we describe the operation of an XUV high gain FEL operating within a bypass of an electron storage ring, and discuss the implications on storage ring optimization imposed by FEL requirements. It transpires that, in the parameter regime of interest, collective effects within the beam play an important role. For example, intrabeam scattering dilutes the transverse emittance of the beam and the microwave instability increases the momentum spread. Both phenomena reduce the effectiveness of the FEL. A computer code, ZAP, has been written which, for a given lattice design, takes all such effects into consideration and produces a figure of merit for FEL operation for that machine. We show the results of ZAP for several storage ring designs, all optimized for FEL operation, and present a design example of a facility capable of producing coherent radiation at 400 Å with tens of megawatts of peak power.
124556579
Motivation and goals of ERL 2005
Various types of ERL sources are introduced, the relevant beam physics and accelerator technology issues noted, innovative areas of development identified and current and future goals of ERL research and development established.
56152176
CEBAF-ER: Extending the Frontier of Energy Recovery at Jefferson Lab
A successful GeV scale energy recovery demonstration with a high ratio of peak-to-injection energies (50:1) was recently carried out on the CEBAF (Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility) recirculating superconducting linear accelerator in an effort to address issues related to beam quality preservation in a large scale energy recovery system. To gain a quantitative understanding of the beam behavior through the machine, an intense effort was made to characterize the 6D phase space during the CEBAF-ER (CEBAF with Energy Recovery) experimental run. A scheme was implemented to measure the transverse emittance of the energy recovered beam prior to being sent to the dump, as well as in the injector and in each arc. The emittance provides a figure of merit in this context inasmuch as it characterizes the extent to which beam quality is preserved during energy recovery. In addition to describing the transverse phase space, the momentum spread was measured in the injector and arcs to characterize the longitudinal phase space. Measurements also included the RF system's response to the energy recovery process. And by using a novel technique employing wire scans in conjunction with PMTs (Photomultiplier Tubes) to accurately measure the beam profile at the dump, we can qualitativelymore » characterize beam preservation through the recirculator. One of the salient conclusions from the experiment is that the energy recovery process does not contribute to the emittance degradation since the emittance of the recirculating pass is consistent with that of the accelerating pass.« less
55975443
Accelerator physics experiments at Aladdin
DISCLAIMER LBL--19905 DE86 005847 -J or un or _ames my 1epI liability or reaponli- bility for the accuracy com~ '. or usefuloeu or uy information, apparatus product, or r- _ _ _ _ or ~ts tbat Its UJe would not • I i · · eoce herein to any SpccUlC COOImercial oil ID nnse !, Ya!ely owned rishts. Refer- manufa<1urer, or othcr1¥ise does not PI' .~ pr~, or se~ by trade name, trademark, riI Y mendation, or favorinS by the United Go constItute or Imply its endorsement, recom- es veroment or an v agen thereof Th . e VIews a nd optDlODS of authors ex-..... b . d r'~ erelD 0 not necessarily late flee UDlted States Goveroment or any agency thereof. S or re t those of tbe or work IpOIIIOred b Gom-nmcnl Neilllcr Ik United St.tcs r _ _ y u aaency or the United States -- mUea any ......... ty exPRU JJDJc:nt DOl' uy .... .-~ thereof. or t heir cm.......-. . plied, DOl' any This n:port . . . prepm:d U .. _at ne;;::- ACCELERATOR PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS AT ALADDIN* S. Chattopadhyay, K. Cornacchia, A. Jackson, and K.S. Zisman Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory University of California Berkeley, California 94720 July 1985 This work vas partiaUy supported by the Direcloc-. Office of Enct'yllcl wlib ft.M IlJ.S. hH
51748746
Proposal for a one GeV plasma wakefield acceleration experiment at SLAC
Abstract A plasma-based wakefield acceleration experiment E-157 has been approved at SLAC to study acceleration of parts of an SLC bunch by up to 1 GeV/m over a length of 1 m. A single SLC bunch is used to both induce wakefields in the 1 m long plasma and to witness the resulting beam acceleration. The experiment will explore and further develop the techniques that are needed to apply high-gradient plasma wakefield acceleration to large-scale accelerators. The 1 m length of the experiment is about two orders of magnitude larger than for other high gradient plasma wakefield acceleration experiments and the 1 GeV/m accelerating gradient is roughly ten times larger than that achieved with conventional metallic structures. Using existing SLAC facilities, the experiment will study high gradient acceleration at the forefront of advanced accelerator research.
123064298
Time of flight (TOF) spectrometer for accurate measurement of mass and angular distribution of fission fragments in heavy ion induced fission reactions
Abstract The performance of a dual time of flight (TOF) spectrometer using two 24 cm×10 cm area X – Y position sensitive Multi-Wire Proportional Counters (MWPC) is reported. Good separation of compound nuclear fission channel from elastic, quasi-elastic and non-compound fission channels have been achieved. Time calibration of the spectrometer using a technique, dependent on the detector independence of the mass or kinetic energy distributions gave a three times better mass resolutions compared to the conventional calibration technique using elastically scattered projectiles in a heavy ion induced fission reaction. Detail experimental methods in determining fission fragment mass and angular distribution have been presented and discussed.
119248698
A study on the dependence of the dimensionless Brans-Dicke parameter on the scalar field and their time dependence
Abstract.The present paper reports a study on the dimensionless parameter $ \omega$ in Brans-Dicke theory. Based on a particular choice of scale factor a , we have investigated the signature flip of the deceleration parameter q to see whether the transition from decelerated to accelerated expansion of the universe is achievable under this choice of scale factor. Restrictions on the parameters obtained for this choice of scale factor have been subsequently used for discussing the Brans-Dicke parameter for two choices of scalar fields $ \phi$ . Moreover, analytical solutions for the Brans-Dicke parameter without any assumption about the scalar field have been obtained from the modified field equations through the choice of scale factor under consideration. Viable models have been obtained by comparing the results with observations.
119194734
Holographic reconstruction of f(G) gravity for scale factors pertaining to emergent, logamediate and intermediate scenarios
In this paper, we reconstruct the holographic dark energy in the framework of the f (G) modified theory of gravity, where G is the Gauss-Bonnet invariant. In this context, we choose the infrared cut-off as the Granda-Oliveros cut-off, which is proportional to the Hubble parameter H and its first derivative with respect to the cosmic time t . We reconstruct the f (G) model with the inclusion of HDE and the three well-known forms of the scale factor a(t) , i.e. the emergent, the logamediate and the intermediate scale factors. The reconstructed model as well as equation of state parameter are discussed numerically with the help of graphical representations to explore the accelerated expansion of the universe. Moreover, the stability of the models incorporating all the scale factors is checked through squared speed of sound vs2.
121983267
Behavior of Holographic Ricci Dark Energy in Scalar Gauss-Bonnet Gravity for Different Choices of the Scale Factor
In this paper, we studied the cosmological application of the interacting Ricci Dark Energy (RDE) model in the framework of the scalar Gauss-Bonnet modified gravity model. We studied the properties of the reconstructed potential Vt$V\left (t \right )$, the Strong Energy Condition (SEC), the Weak Energy Condition (WEC) and the deceleration parameter q for three different models of scale factor, i.e. the emergent, the intermediate and the logamediate one. We obtained that Vt$V\left (t \right )$, for the emergent scenario, has a decreasing behavior, while, for the logamediate scenario, the potential start with an increasing behavior then, for later times, it shows a slowly decreasing behavior. Finally, for the intermediate scenario, the potential has an initial increasing behavior, then for a time of t≈1.2, it starts to decrease. We also found that both SEC and WEC are violated for all the three scale factors considered. Finally, studying the plots of q, we derived that an accelerated universe can be achieved for the three models of scale factor considered.
116926017
Observation of magnetic rotation in odd-odd Ag-104