108610387
Simulations of the laser photocathode injector
New, fully electromagnetic simulations of the beam optics in a laser-photocathode injector have been make using the PIC Code MASK. The recent studies are for the two-cavity design now undergoing tests by R. Sheffield, LANL. Pulses up to 10 nC are simulated, using cavities operating at 1300 MHz with above 1 MeV energy gain per cavity. The work is guided by previous simulation results which show that to achieve good agreement with the best experimental results, it is necessary to use very high RF fields near the cathode and to maintain small beam cross sections, corresponding to very high emission density.
18642583
Application of a Mapping Function Technique to the Design of Damped Detuned Structures and to the Rapid Calculation of Their Wakefields
In order to reduce the dipole wake encountered by the first few bunches accelerated in a multi-bunch NLC scenario the DDS (damped detuned structure) was redesigned such that a much improved Gaussian fall-off occurs in the initial wake-function. From the 9 parameterized model of DDS1 the authors use a mapping function to allow DDS 3 and 4 to be modeled and hence avoid additional and prohibitively time consuming MAFIA runs. The equivalent circuit parameters and geometrical parameters are treated as functions of the synchronous frequency and are readily mapped onto the new synchronous frequencies. The new geometrical parameters form a family where each is associated with the iris diameter.
15840236
Effects of alternating cell misalignments on the DDS
The authors study some effects of cell misalignments in accelerator structures in which each cell is displaced the same amount and direction but with sign which alternates from cell to cell. In particular they study the manifold radiation in a damped detuned structure (DDS1) and wakefield effects in a uniform constant impedance structure. A synchronous wave aliasing phenomenon is observed. In previous treatments the effect of cell misalignment has been modeled by replacing it by beam displacement. Here they compare finite difference simulation of cell misalignment with the beam displacement model. They conclude with discussions about the relevance of the results for general misalignment profiles.
36965886
A traveling wave accelerator with HOM outcouplers for FELs
The application to FELs (free-electron lasers) of RF electron guns with laser-driven photocathodes has opened the door to developing efficient optical FELs. The next task is to develop accelerator structures which can transport such beams with a minimum of beam degradation. A low-cost approach to this using four 1.26-m constant gradient (CG) TW sections driven in parallel by a SLAC 5045 klystron is suggested. Using CG sections makes the higher order modes incoherent due to the linearly decreasing group velocity along the structure. Together with incorporating higher-order-mode outcouplers, this system is predicted to accelerate 1 nC per micropulse, 0.4 A per macropulse to 75 MeV from an injection energy of 5 MeV. Emittance growth is predicted to be 5 mm-mr.<<ETX>>
117399426
A Resonant Cavity Approach to Non-Invasive, Pulse-to-Pulse EmittanceMeasurement
We present a resonant cavity approach for non-invasive, pulse-to-pulse, beam emittance measurements of non-circular multi-bunch beams. In a resonant cavity, desired field components can be enhanced up to Q{sub L{lambda}}/{pi}, where Q{sub L{lambda}} is the loaded quality factor of the resonant mode {lambda}, when the cavity resonant mode matches the bunch frequency of a bunch-train beam pulse. In particular, a quad-cavity, with its quadrupole mode (TM{sub 220} for rectangular cavities) at beam operating frequency, rotated 45{sup o} with respect to the beamline, extracts the beam quadrupole moment exclusively, utilizing the symmetry of the cavity and some simple networks to suppress common modes. Six successive beam quadrupole moment measurements, performed at different betatron phases in a linear transport system determine the beam emittance, i.e. the beam size and shape in the beam's phase space, if the beam current and position at these points are known. In the presence of x-y beam coupling, ten measurements are required. One measurement alone provides the rms-beam size of a large aspect ratio beam. The resolution for such a measurement of rms-beam size with the rectangular quad-cavity monitor presented in this article is estimated to be on the order of ten microns. A prototype quad-cavity was fabricated and preliminary beam tests were performed at the Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator (NLCTA) at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). Results were mainly limited by beam jitter and uncertainty in the beam position measurement at the cavity location. This motivated the development of a position-emittance integrated monitor.
17815790
Polarized electron sources for linear colliders
Linear colliders require high peak current beams with low duty factors. Several methods to produce polarized e{sup {minus}} beams for accelerators have been developed. The SLC, the first linear collider, utilizes a photocathode gun with a GaAs cathode. Although photocathode sources are probably the only practical alternative for the next generation of linear colliders, several problems remain to be solved, including high voltage breakdown which poisons the cathode, charge limitations that are associated with the condition of the semiconductor cathode, and a relatively low polarization of {le}5O%. Methods to solve or at least greatly reduce the impact of each of these problems are at hand.
17714212
The NLC positron source
A baseline design for the NLC positron source based on the existing SLC positron system is described. The proposed NLC source consists of a dedicated S-band electron accelerator, a conventional positron production and capture system utilizing a high-Z target and an adiabatic matching device, and an L-band positron linac. The invariant transverse acceptance of the capture system is 0.06 m/spl middot/rad, ensuring an adequate positron beam intensity for the NLC.
116422220
A Measurement of K0(L) --> pi+ pi- pi0 Decay Parameters
The decay ${K}_{L}^{0}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{+}{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{\ensuremath{-}}{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{0}$ has been studied in an experiment using the Argonne 12-ft hydrogen bubble chamber exposed to a ${K}_{L}^{0}$ beam of momentum 550 \ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{} 35 MeV/c. After radiative corrections to the data, a fit using a matrix element of the form ${|M|}^{2}\ensuremath{\propto}1+\frac{g({s}_{3}\ensuremath{-}{s}_{0})}{{{m}_{{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{+}}}^{2}}+h{[\frac{({s}_{3} \ensuremath{-} {s}_{0})}{{{m}_{{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{+}}}^{2}}]}^{2} + k{[\frac{({s}_{1} \ensuremath{-} {s}_{2})}{{{m}_{{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{+}}}^{2}}]}^{2}$ gives $g = 0.681\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.24$, $h = 0.095\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.032$, and $k = 0.024\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.010$. The branching ratio $\frac{\ensuremath{\Gamma}({K}_{L}^{0}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{+}{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{\ensuremath{-}}{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{0})}{\ensuremath{\Gamma}({K}_{L}^{0}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\mathrm{charged})}$ was measured to be 0.163 \ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{} 0.003. These results, when compared to those obtained in other ${K}_{L}^{0}$ and ${K}^{\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}}$ decay experiments, indicate a substantial $\ensuremath{\Delta}g\frac{1}{2}$ contribution to the ${K}_{L}^{0}$ decay amplitude.
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Two-body final states in K-p interactions at 14.3 GeV/c
Event selection and weighting. In Fig. 1 a), the distribution of the square of the missing mass to the K0 in all zero-prong plus one K ~ events is displayed; a clear neutron signal is visible with a half-width of approximately 0.4 (GeV)L In the study of reaction (1) we use all events with missing mass less than the A(1236) mass. The cross-section is corrected for the few neutron events above this cut by double-counting the symmetrical region below the neutron mass. We also correct for the background reaction
118734978
High resolution magnetic spectrometer for antiproton physics at rest and low energies
A spectrometer is being installed in a high-intensity antiproton beam (LESBII) at the AGS. The beam momentum entering the target will be known to approximately +- /sup 1///sub 2/%. The target is surrounded by a stereoscopic cylindrical drift chamber, and thus the total charge of the event will be measured. Since the vertex will be reconstructed with an accuracy of approximately +- 2 mm, studies of annihilations with high resolution down to approximately 150 MeV/c will be possible. On one side of the target a large-aperture (2.3 x .62 m/sup 2/) magnet covered on both sides with drift chambers and triggering--TOF scintillation counters, will measure particle and ..gamma..-ray energies with high resolution, as well as identify particles. The primary objective is to look for peaks in the ..gamma.. spectra coming from annihilations at rest by converting them in a thin (.05 x/sub 0/) radiator before the magnet. Narrow peaks (< 1 MeV) which are produced with frequencies of approximately 10/sup -3/ or better are expected to be seen as 5 sigma effects. The principle and details of the spectrometer are presented.
21235770
Pore morphologies in disordered nanoporous thin films.
Materials with nanometer size heterogeneities are commonplace in the chemical and biological sciences (e.g, polymer blends, microemulsions, gels) and often exhibit complex morphologies. Although this morphology has a dramatic effect on the materials' properties, it is often difficult to accurately characterize. We describe a method, using small-angle X-ray scattering data, of generating representative three-dimensional morphologies of isotropic two-phase materials where the morphology is disordered, and we apply this to thin films containing nanometer sized pores with a range of porosities (4-44%). These representations provide a visualization of the pore morphology, give the pore size scale and extent of interconnection, and permit the determination of the transitions from closed pore to interconnected pores to bicontinuous morphology.