723137
Status of the Fermilab electron cooling project
The first stage of the Fermilab Electron Cooling R&D program is now complete: technology necessary to generate hundreds of milliamps of electron beam current at MeV energies has been demonstrated. Conceptual design studies show that with an electron beam current of 200 mA and with a cooling section of 20 m electron cooling in the Fermilab Recycler ring can provide antiproton stacking rates suitable for the Tevatron upgrades beyond Run II luminosity goals. A prototype of such an electron cooling system is now being built at Fermilab as part of the continuing R&D program. This paper describes the electron cooling system design as well as the status of the Fermilab electron cooling R&D program.
30461684
Commissioning of Fermilab's Electron Cooling System for 8-GeV Antiprotons
A 4.3-MeV electron cooling system [1] has been installed at Fermilab in the Recycler antiproton storage ring and is currently being commissioned. The cooling system is designed to assist accumulation of 8.9-GeV/c antiprotons for the Tevatron collider operations. This paper reports on the progress of the electron beam commissioning effort as well as on detailed plans of demonstrating the cooling of antiprotons.
119968235
Direct current surface plasma source with high emission current density
A surface plasma source for long-time dc operation with efficient production of negative ions and high emission current density has been designed and tested. Several modifications of the discharge system, beam extraction, cesium supply, and source design have been tested for long-time operation. The emission current density of H− ions has been increased to j=1 A/cm2 in the dc mode of operation with a discharge voltage, Ud=80 V; a discharge current, Id=0.9 A and a discharge power, P=70 W. Corresponding efficiency of the current density production S=j/P=15 A/cm2 kW is much higher than in modern positive ion sources. Source features determining an operational lifetime will be discussed.
120137510
Use of Subsurface Voids for Offsetting Saturation Effects in Quadrupole Magnets
25489712
The AGS Fast Kicker Magnet System
A new fast extraction system from the AGS will be implemented to improve the neutrino beam and to serve for ISABELLE injection. The fast kicker for the system is of an open C-type design with a field strength of 1.25 kG at 2650 amperes. The pulser system is a mismatched, discharge type PFN which is capable of delivering a pulse of 3000 amperes peak current at 30 kV d.c., with a 2.7 ¿sec pulse width, 170 nsec rise time, and flat top ripple within ± 1%. It also serves as a prototype for an ISA injection magnet, and is to be operated in UHV in the 10-11 Torr range. Special measures to achieve this goal are also discussed.
110755788
Fermilab linac injector, revisited
The Fermilab Linac has been operating at 200 MeV since 1971 and was upgraded to 400 MeV in 1993 with a peak current of /spl sim/35 mA. The injector consists of a Haefely Cockcroft-Walton, H/sup -/ source, an high gradient accelerating column (750 kV), 4 and 10 meter long transfer lines and a single gap 201.24 MHz cavity. The performance of the injector has been very gratifying although some tuning must be done approximately daily. The purpose of this report is to present representative experimental data and numerical simulations that are used as a guide for improvements to the Fermilab Linac. Today, the Fermilab Linac delivers a 400 MeV H/sup -/ beam with a peak current over 45 mA.
18306849
Status of the BFKL Resummation Program
I discuss the calculation of the next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) corrections to the BFKL resummation, as well as some of the issues that arise in this formalism at NLL. In particular I consider the large size and apparent instability of the corrections, and I address some of the attempts to understand and tame them.
118579706
The strange degrees of freedom in QCD at high temperature
We discuss recent results on fluctuations of conserved charges, and their approach to the hadron resonance gas at temperatures below the chiral crossover (Tc) as well as to a gas of free quarks at very high temperatures. We will focus on the strange degrees of freedom and verify that they are consistent with those of an uncorrelated gas of hadrons for temperatures of T . 160 MeV and that they can be described by a quasi particle model at best for T & 2Tc. To extract this information we use all cumulants of net baryon number and net strangeness fluctuations and their correlations up to the fourth order. In particular we propose observables that serve as indicator for the validity of the hadronic degrees of freedom and show that the partial pressures from different strangeness sectors agree separately with HRG model predicions.
1506202
Calculating Quark Number Susceptibilities with Domain-Wall Fermions
Prasad Hegde∗,a, Frithjof Karschb,c, Christian Schmidtc (RBC Collaboration) a Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11790, USA. E-mail: phegde@quark.phy.bnl.gov b Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratories, Upton, NY 11733, USA. E-mail: karsch@quark.phy.bnl.gov c Fakultat fur Physik, Universitat Bielefeld, D-33615 Bielefeld, Germany. E-mail: schmidt@physik.uni-bielefeld.de
119188644
QCD bulk thermodynamics and conserved charge fluctuations with HISQ fermions
After briefly reviewing recent progress by the HotQCD collaboration in studying the 2+1 flavor QCD equation of state, we will focus on results on fluctuations of conserved charges by the BNL-Bielefeld and HotQCD collaborations. Higher order cumulants of the net-charge distributions are increasingly dominated by a universal scaling behavior, which arises due to a critical point of QCD in the chiral limit. Considering cumulants up to the 6^{th} order, we observe that they generically behave as expected from universal scaling laws, which is quite different from cumulants calculated within the hadron resonance gas model. Taking ratios of these cumulants, we obtain volume independent results that can be compared to the experimental measurements. We will argue that the freeze-out chemical potentials and the freeze-out temperature, usually obtained by a HRG model fit to the measured hadronic yields, can also be obtained in a model independent way from ab-initio lattice QCD calculations by utilizing observables related to conserved charge fluctuations. Further, we will show that the freeze-out strangeness and electric charge chemical potentials can be fixed by imposing strangeness neutrality and isospin asymmetry constraints in the lattice QCD calculations, in order to accommodate conditions met in heavy ion collisions. All results have been obtained with the highly improved staggered quark action (HISQ) and almost physical quark masses on lattices with temporal extent of N_\tau=6,8,10,12. 
After briefly reviewing recent progress by the HotQCD collaboration in studying the 2+1 flavor QCD equation of state, we will focus on results on fluctuations of conserved charges by the BNL-Bielefeld and HotQCD collaborations. Higher order cumulants of the net-charge distributions are increasingly dominated by a universal scaling behavior, which arises due to a critical point of QCD in the chiral limit. Considering cumulants up to the 6(th) order, we observe that they generically behave as expected from universal scaling laws, which is quite different from cumulants calculated within the hadron resonance gas model. Taking ratios of these cumulants, we obtain volume independent results that can be compared to the experimental measurements. We will argue that the freeze-out chemical potentials and the freeze-out temperature, usually obtained by a HRG model fit to the measured hadronic yields, can also be obtained in a model independent way from ab-initio lattice QCD calculations by utilizing observables related to conserved charge fluctuations. Further, we will show that the freeze-out strangeness and electric charge chemical potentials can be fixed by imposing strangeness neutrality and isospin asymmetry constraints in the lattice QCD calculations, in order to accommodate conditions met in heavy ion collisions. All results have been obtained with the highly improved staggered quark action (HISQ) and almost physical quark masses on lattices with temporal extent of N(τ) = 6, 8, 10, 12.
17090149
Higgsless electroweak symmetry breaking from theory space
We investigate unitarity of W+W− scattering in the context of theory space models of the form U(1) × [SU(2)]N × SU(2)N+1, which are broken down to U(1)EM by non-linear Σ fields, without the presence of a physical Higgs Boson. By allowing the couplings of the U(1) and the final SU(2)N+1 to vary, we can fit the W and Z masses, and we find that the coefficient of the term in the amplitude that grows as E2/mW2 at high energies is suppressed by a factor of (N+1)−2. In the N+1→∞ limit the model becomes a 5-dimensional SU(2) gauge theory defined on an interval, where boundary terms at the two ends of the interval break the SU(2) down to U(1)EM. These boundary terms also modify the Kaluza-Klein (KK) mass spectrum, so that the lightest KK states can be identified as the W and Z bosons. The T parameter, which measures custodial symmetry breaking, is naturally small in these models. Depending on how matter fields are included, the strongest experimental constraints come from precision electroweak limits on the S parameter.