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Free-electron laser growing modes and their bandwidths
Collider-Accelerator Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory(Dated: May 3, 2011)Free-electron lasers play an increasing role in science, from generating unique femtosecond X-ray pulses for single short recording of the protein structures to amplifying feeble interactions inadvanced cooling systems for high-energy hadron colliders. While modern Free-electron laser codescan describe their ampliﬁcation mechanism, a deep analytical understanding of the mechanism isof extreme importance for a number of applications. Mode competition, their growth rates andampliﬁcation bandwidth are among the most important parameters of a free-electron laser. Adispersion relation, which deﬁnes these important characteristics, can be solved analytically onlyfor a very few simple cases. In this letter we show that for a typical bell-shape energy distributionin electron beam there is no more that one growing mode. We also derive an analytical expressionwhich determines the bandwidth of the free-electron laser.
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Linear optics measurements and corrections using an AC dipole in RHIC
We report recent experimental results on linear optics measurements and corrections using ac dipole. In RHIC 2009 run, the concept of the SVD correction algorithm is tested at injection energy for both identifying the artificial gradient errors and correcting it using the trim quadrupoles. The measured phase beatings were reduced by 30% and 40% respectively for two dedicated experiments. In RHIC 2010 run, ac dipole is used to measure {beta}* and chromatic {beta} function. For the 0.65m {beta}* lattice, we observed a factor of 3 discrepancy between model and measured chromatic {beta} function in the yellow ring.
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Progress on Analytical Modeling of Coherent Electron Cooling
We report recent progresses on analytical studies of Coherent Electron Cooling. The phase space electron beam distribution obtained from the 1D FEL amplifier is applied to an infinite electron plasma model and the electron density evolution inside the kicker is derived. We also investigate the velocity modulation in the modulator and obtain a closed form solution for the current density evolution for infinite homogeneous electron plasma.
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Status of R&D energy recovery LINAC at Brookhaven National Laboratory
In this paper we present status and plans for the 20- MeV R&D energy recovery linac (ERL), which is under construction at Collider Accelerator Department at BNL. The facility is based on high current (up to 0.5 A of average current) super-conducting 2.5 MeV RF gun,single-mode super-conducting 5-cell RF linac and about 20-m long return loop with very flexible lattice. The R&D ERL, which is planned for commissioning in early 2009, aims to address many outstanding questions relevant for high current, high brightness energy-recovery linacs.
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Three-dimensional model of small signal free-electron lasers
Coherent electron cooling is an ultra-high-bandwidth form of stochastic cooling which utilizes the charge perturbation from Debye screening as a seed for a free-electron laser. The amplified and frequency-modulated signal that results from the free-electron laser process is then used to give an energy-dependent kick on the hadrons in a bunch. In this paper, we present a theoretical description of a high-gain free-electron laser with applications to a complete theoretical description of coherent electron cooling.
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Studies of beam dynamics for eRHIC
We present our studies on various aspects of the beam dynamics in 'racetrack' design of the first stage electron-ion collider at RHIC (eRHIC), including transverse beam break up instabilities, energy loss due to wakefields, electron beam emittance growth and energy loss due to synchrotron radiation, electron beam losses due to Touschek effects and residue gas scattering, beam-beam effects at the interaction region and emittance growth of ion beam due to electron bunch to bunch noises. For all effects considered above, no showstopper has been found.
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Incident-energy and system-size dependence of directed flow
We present STAR's measurements of directed flow for charged hadrons in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at GeV and 62.4 GeV, as a function of pseudorapidity, transverse momentum and centrality. We find that directed flow depends on the incident energy, but not on the system size. We extend the validity of limiting fragmentation hypothesis to different collision systems.
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The progress of development of four kickers' bump system for injection in HLS ring
There are three kicker magnets to manipulate local bump orbit in Hefei storage ring, which could satisfy basically the commissioning and operations of General Purpose Light Source (GPLS) mode. In the Phase Two Project of HLS, four kicker magnets will be employed and installed in one straight section to form a ladder-shaped bump orbit. So the parameters of bump orbit are independent of the ring lattice. The new system also satisfies the multicycle and multiturn injection of High Brightness Light Source (HBLS) mode and other modes, and it expected to run stably for a long time. This paper presents the development of the new bump orbit system.
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SHORT PULSE GENERATION BY LASER SLICING AT NSLSII
We discuss an upgrade R&D project for NSLSII to generate sub-pico-second short x-ray pulses using laser slicing. We discuss its basic parameters and present a specific example for a viable design and its performance. Since the installation of the laser slicing system into the storage ring will break the symmetry of the lattice, we demonstrate it is possible to recover the dynamical aperture to the original design goal of the ring. There is a rapid growth of ultrafast user community interested in science using sub-pico-second x-ray pulses. In BNL's Short Pulse Workshop, the discussion from users shows clearly the need for a sub-pico-second pulse source using laser slicing method. In the proposal submitted following this workshop, NSLS team proposed both hard x-ray and soft x-ray beamlines using laser slicing pulses. Hence there is clearly a need to consider the R&D efforts of laser slicing short pulse generation at NSLSII to meet these goals.
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An analysis of the two-vortex case in the Chern-Simons Higgs model
Abstract. Extending work of Caffarelli-Yang and Tarantello, we present a variational existence proof for two-vortex solutions of the periodic Chern-Simons Higgs model and analyze the asymptotic behavior of these solutions as the parameter coupling the gauge field with the scalar field tends to 0.

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Demonstration of a widely-tunable and fully-coherent high-gain harmonic-generation free-electron laser
Free-electron lasers (FELs) are fourth-generation light sources that deliver extremely high intensity, ultrashort light pulses over a broad wavelength range from far-infrared to hard x ray. FELs based on the self-amplified spontaneous emission principle have been successfully operated with ultrahigh brightness and a broad wavelengths tuning range with good transverse coherence but poor temporal coherence. In contrast, the laser-seeded FELs have provided full coherence but at selected central wavelengths, usually the harmonics of the laser seeds, with relatively narrower tuning range. We report the experimental demonstration of a high-gain harmonic-generation (HGHG) FEL that is continuously tunable over a wide range using the combination of optical parametrical amplification, variable-gap undulator, and harmonic selection, where the temporal coherence is preserved as confirmed with the Michelson interferometry. In order to achieve higher photon energies, the first try of cascaded HGHG with a fresh-bunch technique is also made at the Shanghai Deep Ultraviolet Free-electron Laser test facility. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.16.020704