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Design of a superconducting linac cavity for high-current energy recovery linac operation
The RHIC electron cooler as well as other applications (such as a linac-ring version of eRHIC) requires a very high average current CW electron linac in an energy recovery mode. In this paper we present the design of a 5-cell superconducting linac cavity for velocity of light particles. This cavity will operate at 703.75 MHz with a large beam pipe aperture of 19 cm diameter and ferrite HOM absorbers in the beam pipe, in addition to the conventional HOM couplers for low frequency HOMs. We will report the design of the cavity geometry using the BuildCavity and Superfish codes, loss factor simulations with ABCI, detailed HOM simulations with MAFIA (with and without the ferrite absorbers) and beam breakup simulations using the code TDBBU.
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Stripline beam position monitor for the MIT-Bates South Hall Ring
The MIT-Bates South Hall Ring (SHR) is an electron storage ring currently being commissioned. It is designed to operate at an RF frequency of 2856 MHz with all of the 1812 buckets filled and a circulating current of 80 mA or greater. This leads to a small charge per bunch and the requirement for beam position monitors. Since there will be 31 such monitors in the vacuum system, it is important to suppress trapped modes which may excite coupled bunch instabilities. The stripline monitor built for the SHR is a stainless steel structure, designed to be manufactured using standard machining techniques and commercial feedthroughs. With proper 50 Ohm matching and a geometry derived from insight from MAFIA calculations, the monitor was constructed having a nearly flat RF response up through 10 GHz over the range of measurement. The stripline electronics allows the measurements with 0.1 mm resolution, maintains orbital harmonics information past the 10th harmonic, and operates over a dynamic range of 1 mA to greater than 80 mA of beam current.<<ETX>>
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PROGRESS OF THE eRHIC ELECTRON RING DESIGN
Over the past year, a baseline design of the electron ring for the eRHIC hadron-lepton collider has been developed. This site-specific design is based on the understanding of the existing RHIC machine performance and its possible upgrades. The design includes a full energy polarized electron beam injector to ensure operational reliability and to provide high integrated luminosity. The electron ring energy range is 5 to 10 GeV. The electron beam emittance, the electron beam path length, and the interaction region optics have to be adjustable over wide ranges depending on the ion species and energy for collisions. We describe the design features and expected machine performance. The results of recent beam polarization and beam-beam studies are also discussed.
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STATUS OF THE FERMI @ ELETTRA PHOTOINJECTOR
The new FERMI@Elettra photoinjector is presently undergoing high-power testing and characterization at MAXlab in Lund, Sweden. This effort is a collaboration between Sincrotrone Trieste, MAX-lab and UCLA. The 1.6-cell RF gun cavity and the focusing solenoid were successfully designed and built by the Particle Beam Physics Laboratory at UCLA, delivered to Sincrotrone Trieste at the beginning of 2008, and installed in the linac tunnel at MAX-lab. Use of the MAX-lab facility will allow the FERMI project to progress significantly with the photoinjector while waiting for the completion of the new linac building extension at Sincrotrone Trieste. We report here on the high-power conditioning of the RF cavity and the first beam tests. STATUS OF THE FERMI@ELETTRA PHOTOINJECTOR∗ M. Trovò† , L. Badano, S. Biedron, D. Castronovo, F. Cianciosi, P. Craievich, M.D. Danailov, G. D’Auria, M. Ferianis, S.V. Milton, G. Penco, L. Pivetta, L. Rumiz, D. Wang, Sincrotrone Trieste, Trieste, Italy M. Eriksson, D.Kumbaro, F. Lindau, MAX-lab, Lunds Universitet, Lund, Sweden H. Badakov, A. Fukasawa, B. O’Shea, J. Rosenzweig, UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA 90095
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STUDY OF THE ENERGY CHIRP EFFECTS ON SEEDED FEL SCHEMES AT SDUV-FEL
In this paper, theoretical and simulation study of the energy chirp effects on the HGHG and EEHG schemes are present. It is found that the central wavelength and output bandwidth of EEHG can be nearly immune to the beam energy chirp by properly setting the strengths of the chicanes. Experimental studies for both these two schemes have been carried out at the SDUV-FEL to demonstrate the theoretical predictions.
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The eRHIC Ring-Ring Collider Design
The eRHIC ring-ring collider is the main design option for the future lepton-ion collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The baseline design is presented in the eRHIC Zeroth-Order Design Report (ZDR) [1]. We report on progress made during the past year including possible interaction region design changes, upgrade efforts on RHIC (the ion ring), and results of a new design study on the e-ring. The interaction region revision is based on a new scheme for the main detector design. RHIC upgrades are being pursued to ensure luminosity and ion polarization goals of the ring-ring option in the baseline design will be met. Higher current operation of the lepton storage ring is under serious consideration as a result of better understanding of beam-beam interaction effects.
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Polarization control proposal for Shanghai deep ultraviolet free electron laser
In this paper, a fully coherent radiation option with controllable polarization is proposed for the Shanghai deep ultraviolet free electron laser (FEL) test facility. Intensive start-to-end simulation suggests that the two crossed planar undulators which generate the horizontal and vertical linear polarized FEL, should be placed as close as possible for avoiding the polarization performance degradation of the final combined FEL radiation. With the existence of the phase-shifter between the two crossed radiators. Fourier-Transform-Limited output radiation with 100 nJ order pulse energy, 5 Ps full pulse length and circular polarization degree above 90% could be achieved. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Chemical Constraints on the Oxygen Abundances in Jupiter and Saturn
We perform a comparative analysis of the chemical kinetics of CO and $\rm PH_3$ in Jupiter and Saturn to assess the full set of constraints available on the troposphere water abundance in the two giant planets. For carbon monoxide we employ both a widely used CO kinetic scheme from Yung et al, and a newly identified CO chemical scheme from Visscher and Moses. For $\rm PH_3$ chemical scheme, we use the same chemical scheme as in Visscher and Fegley. Yung's chemical scheme for CO yields a water enrichment of 0.95 - 23.0 times solar abundance on Jupiter, and an upper limit of 14.0 for Saturn. Visscher's chemical scheme in contrast produces a water enrichment of 0.24 - 2.6 times solar abundance in Jupiter, and for Saturn an upper limit for water enrichment of 8.0. From this scheme, which takes advantage of the most up-to-date kinetics, we preclude high water enrichments on Jupiter and Saturn, and show that the kinetics approach yields Jovian bulk abundance in which values of C/O elevated relative to solar are admissible. Our result is consistent with recent reinterpretation of Galileo Probe data in which Jupiter formed in a water-depleted portion of the protoplanetary disk (Mousis et al).
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Simulation studies on laser pulse stability for Dalian coherent light source
Dalian Coherent Light Source will use a 300 MeV LINAC to produce fully coherent photon pulses in the wavelength range between 150-50 nm by high gain harmonic generation free electron laser (FEL) scheme. To generate stable FEL pulses, a stringent tolerance budget is required for the LINAC output parameters, such as the mean beam energy stability, electron bunch arrival time jitter, peak current variation and the transverse beam position offset. In order to provide guidance for the design of the Dalian Coherent Light Source, in this paper, the sensitivity of FEL pulse energy fluctuation to various error sources of the electron bunch was performed using intensive start-to-end FEL simulations.
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Threshold error rates for the toric and surface codes
The surface code scheme for quantum computation features a 2d array of nearest-neighbor coupled qubits yet claims a threshold error rate approaching 1% (NJoP 9:199, 2007). This result was obtained for the toric code, from which the surface code is derived, and surpasses all other known codes restricted to 2d nearest-neighbor architectures by several orders of magnitude. We describe in detail an error correction procedure for the toric and surface codes, which is based on polynomial-time graph matching techniques and is efficiently implementable as the classical feed-forward processing step in a real quantum computer. By direct simulation of this error correction scheme, we determine the threshold error rates for the two codes (differing only in their boundary conditions) for both ideal and non-ideal syndrome extraction scenarios. We verify that the toric code has an asymptotic threshold of p = 15.5% under ideal syndrome extraction, and p = 7.8 10^-3 for the non-ideal case, in agreement with prior work. Simulations of the surface code indicate that the threshold is close to that of the toric code.
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Experiments and simulation of high current operation at CEBAF
The superconducting rf, cw electron accelerator at CEBAF has achieved the design energy of 4 GeV using 5-pass recirculation through a pair of 400 MeV linacs. Stable beam current of 35 {mu}A has been delivered to the Experimental Hall C. The total beam current that has been recirculated so far is 248 {mu}A. Measurements of the performance of the rf control system have been made in both pulsed and cw mode, and a numerical model has been developed which describes the beam-cavity interaction, includes a realistic representation of low level controls, klystron characteristics and microphonic noise. Experimental data and simulation results on transient beam loading, klystron saturation, a new technique for cavity phasing, and heavy beam loading tests are described; in conclusion, an outlook on full current operation is presented.