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Design and Status of the SuperKEKB Accelerator Control Network System
We have upgraded the accelerator control network system for SuperKEKB, the next generation B-factory experiment in Japan. The designed network system has the higher performance based on the wider bandwidth data transfer, and more reliable and redundant configuration. For the SuperKEKB beamline construction and accelerator components maintenance, we have installed the new wireless network system consists with the Leaky Coaxial (LCX) cable antennas and collinear antennas into the 3 km circumference accelerator tunnel. In this paper, we describe the design and current status of the SuperKEKB accelerator control network system.
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Linear Collider vertex detector optimization for Higgs branching ratio measurements
The Higgs branching ratio measurement is a premier goal of the next Linear Collider physics program. Variations of a CCD vertex detector have been studied to assess the impact of inner radius and hit precision on the measurement of the Higgs branching ratios. A small dependence is found when the beampipe radius is varied between 1.2 cm and 2.4 cm, and the hit precision between 3 μm and 5 μm.
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The SuperKEKB accelerator status
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EVALUATION OF THE DETECTOR BG FOR SuperKEKB
SuperKEKB is the upgrade plan of the current B-factory experiment with the KEKB accelerator at KEK. Its luminosity is designed to be 8×1035/cm2/s (40 times higher than KEKB) and the integrated luminosity is expected to be 50 ab−1. In SuperKEKB, it is important to evaluate the beam induced BG and design the interaction region (IR) to assure the stable detector operation. To estimate the beam induced BG, we construct the beam-line simulation based on the GEANT4 simulation. To study the particle BG features, we did the background studies during the 2009 fall Belle runs. In this paper, we report the BG evaluation for SuperKEKB. IR DESIGN FOR SUPERKEKB For the next generation B-factory experiment in Japan, SuperKEKB, the high luminosity e+e− asymmetric collider at the B mesons CM energy, is planed as an upgrade of the current KEKB [1]. It is designed to achieve a luminosity of 8×1035/cm2/s, 40 times higher than the highest luminosity record at KEKB, by employing higher beam currents and smaller interaction point (IP) beam sizes. For SuperKEKB, we deign that the 7 GeV electrons stored in the high-energy ring (HER) and the 4 GeV positrons in the low-energy ring (LER) collide at IP with a finite crossing angle of 83 mrad. The large crossing angle helps to separate quickly the two beams and to position the final quadrupole magnets closer to IP to achieve small β-functions at IP. We have separated quadrupole magnets for the two beams on each side in this design. Parameters are listed in Table 1, here x and y directions are defined as the horizontal and vertical directions, respectively. In the higher luminosity machine operations, the higher beam-induced background to the Belle II detector is expected. To assure the stable detector operations under such high luminosity experiments, the IR design based on the beam-induced background estimations compared to the present level is important. In this paper, we discuss the expected beam-induced background at SuperKEKB. Note that all expectations strongly depend on the beam optics. Then the numbers will be updated after fixing the beam optics and the IR design. ∗masako.iwasaki@kek.jp Table 1: SuperKEKB Beam Parameters LER HER Unit Beam Energy 4.0 7.0 GeV β∗ x / β ∗ y 32 / 0.27 25 / 0.41 mm x / y 3.2 / 12.8 2.4 / 8.4 nm / pm IP beam size (x) 10.2 7.75 μ m IP beam size (y) 0.059 0.059 μ m Bunch length 6 5 mm Beam current 3.60 2.62 A Crossing angle 83 mrad Luminosity 8× 10 cm−2 s−1 EVALUATION OF POSSIBLE BEAM-INDUCED BACKGROUNDS In this section, we describe the possible background sources in SuperKEKB: synchrotron radiation (SR) from upstream of the high energy ring (HER), backscattering of SR from HER downstream, scattering of the beam on residual gas1, Touschek scattering, radiative Bhabha scattering, and electron-positron pair production via the two photon process e+e− → e+e−e+e−. SR from Upstream (SR Upstream) It is important to evaluate the upstream SR background to design the IP-chamber to protect the inner detectors of the pixel detector(PXD) and the silicon vertex detector (SVD). Here we design the IP-chamber to avoid the direct SR hit from HER to the detector. Figure 1 shows a rough sketch of the current IP-chamber design for SuperKEKB. The baseline design of the IP chamber is similar to the current IP-chamber [2]. In SuperKEKB, as shown in the figure, there are crotched structures both left and right sides, since IP chamber is connected to the two separate quadrupole magnets in both ends. In SuperKEKB, the polarity of the last bend is designed so that SR fan from the bend do not directly hit the central part of the IP chamber. Then we expect SR from the last bend is stopped by the crotched part. For further detailed estimations, we also perform GEANT4 based beam1In what follows, we will use the expression ’beam-gas scattering’ or just ’beam-gas’ for this kind of scattering. Proceedings of IPAC’10, Kyoto, Japan TUPEB019 01 Circular Colliders A02 Lepton Colliders 1557 Figure 1: Picture of IP chamber. line simulations, since the SR background level depends on the HER current, beam-optics (magnet positions, magnetic field strength, and beam orbits), and the geometry of the IR components. As a result, no direct SR hits from HER are expected by assuming the current beam optics and IPchamber design. Backscattering of SR from Downstream (SR Backscattering) The final focusing magnet for the HER downstream side is called ’QCS-R’, where R stands for the right hand side. The magnet QCS-R provides the final focusing of the LER beam. In the current KEKB case, it also works as a bending magnet to separate the outgoing HER beam from the LER. Then, strong SR is emitted because of this bending. These strong SR emissions once destroyed the SVD. On the other hand, in SuperKEKB case, two separate quadrupole magnets are located in both R and L sides, and beam orbits of both incoming and outgoing beams are on center of the magnets. Then we expect much lower background than current KEKB. Based on the optics calculations, we expect 1/800 of the current KEKB backscattering SR at SuperKEKB. To confirm this, careful simulation studies will also be necessary after fixing the beam optics.
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Magnetic Field Measurement System for the SuperKEKB Final Focus Superconducting Magnets
SuperKEKB final beam focusing system consists of different types of superconducting magnets: 8 quadrupole magnets, 4 solenoids and 43 corrector coils. In order to measure the field performances of the magnets and the coils, KEK prepared one set of harmonic coil system during the production stage in a factory, and two sets of harmonic coil systems for the cold tests at 4K for the vertical cryostat test stand in KEK. In this paper, we report these magnetic field measurement systems
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Mechanisms affecting performance of the BaBar resistive plate chambers and searches for remediation
The BaBar experiment at PEPII relies on the instrumentation of the flux return (IFR) for both muon identification and KL detection. The active detector is composed of resistive plate chambers (RPCs) operated in streamer mode. Since the start of operation the RPCs have suffered persistent efficiency deterioration and dark current increase problems. The ‘‘autopsy’’ of bad BaBar RPCs revealed that in many cases uncured linseed oil droplets had formed on the inner surface of the Bakelite plates, leading to current paths from oil ‘‘stalagmites’’ bridging the 2mm gap. In this paper, a possible model of this ‘‘stalagmite’’ formation and its effect on the dark current and efficiency of RPC chambers is presented. Laboratory test results strongly support this model. ARTICLE IN PRESS *Corresponding author. Tel.: +1-609-258-4391; fax: +1-609-258-6360. E-mail address: changguo@princeton.edu (C. Lu). 0168-9002/03/$ see front matter r 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/S0168-9002(03)01292-0 Based upon this model we are searching for solutions to eliminate the unfavorable effect of the oil stalagmites. The lab tests show that the stalagmite resistivity increases dramatically if exposed to the air, an observation that points to a possible way to remedy the damage and increase the efficiency. We have seen that flowing an oxygen gas mixture into the chamber helps to polymerize the uncured linseed oil. Consequently, the resistivity of the bridged oil stalagmites increases, as does that of the oil coating on the frame edges and spacers, significantly reducing the RPC dark currents and low-efficiency regions. We have tested this idea on two chambers removed from BaBar because of their low efficiency and high dark current. These test results are reported in the paper, and two other remediation methods also mentioned. We continue to study this problem, and try to find new treatments with permanent improvement. r 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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A search for deeply bound kaonic nuclear states at J‐PARC
J‐PARC E15 experiment aims to search for the lightest kaonic nuclei, namely K−pp bound states, using in‐flight (K−, n) reactions. The advantage of this experiment is to perform exclusive measurement by missing mass study using the primary neutrons and invariant mass spectroscopy via such decay as K−pp→Λp→pπ−p, simultaneously. In this report, an overview of this experiment and the current status are presented.
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Recent Development of a point positive muon source at the RIKEN‐RAL muon facility
We report recent progress of slow muon beam line constructed at the RIKEN‐RAL muon facility. The slow muons are muons which are re‐accelerated from the one at thermal velocity. This beam is expected to have very small emittance compared with conventional muon beam, where muons are obtained from decays of pions at rest or on move. Especially, its smallness of energy spread will make it possible to apply μSR technique to the studies of thin films, multilayered systems, nanomaterials, and other objects of restricted dimensionality. Intense slow muon beams which can be realized at future neutrino factories will be a valuable tool for material science.
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Kaonic hydrogen X-ray experiment at KEK
Abstract For the further understanding of the K -N interaction in the low energy region, we are performing a measurement of K − p X rays at KEK which adopts a new technique to improve the signal-to-background ratio (S/N); specifying the final state of the K − p reaction and using a gaseous hydrogen target (4 atm at 100 K). With this technique three orders of magnitude better S/N and one order higher statistics are expected as compared to previous experiments.
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Secondary charged beam lines at the J-PARC hadron experimental hall
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Excited baryons in the MIT bag model
Abstract The Johnson-Thorn bag model which explains the rotational motion of the elongated MIT bag is extended so as to describe the longitudinal vibration along the elongated bag. Our model is a kind of string model for baryons but it reduces to the ordinary spherical MIT bag model in the ground states. It is shown that the mass spectra of the P 11 and P 33 resonances of baryons can be reproduced by the present model as well as the Regge trajectories.