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A large acceptance spectrometer using wire chambers
Abstract A large acceptance magnetic spectrometer has been constructed for an experiment on the π 0 -photoproduction off hydrogen and proton Compton scattering with the 1.3 GeV electron synchrotron at the Institute for Nuclear Study, University of Tokyo. The spectrometer system consists of four multiwire proportional chambers, six wire spark chambers and scintillation counters. The system has worked smoothly under high background events from electromagnetic processes. The performance, construction and monitoring system of the spectrometer are described.
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MEASUREMENT OF THE POLARIZATION PARAMETER IN BACKWARD $pi$$sup +$p ELASTIC SCATTERING AT 1.60, 1.80, 2.11, AND 2.31 GeV/c.
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Polarimeter System for High-Energy Protons Using Carbon Plate and Liquid Hydrogen
In order to measure recoil proton polarization for the reaction γ+p→π°+p in a wide energy range, a polarimeter system has been constructed using carbon plate and liquid hydrogen as the scatterer. It consists of multi-wire proportional chambers, wire spark chambers, scintillation counter hodoscopes, and scatterers. Carbon plates for lower energy protons and liquid hydrogen for higher-energy protons were used as scatterers. The liquid-hydrogen polarimeter has worked reliably in continuous operation for a long time. The performance of the system in the experiment is described.
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A new type of liquid-3He target system using small mechanical refrigerators
Abstract A new type of liquid- 3 He target has been developed for photoabsorption experiments at intermediate energies. Using the cooling power of liquid 4 He at reduced vapour pressure, 3 He gas is liquefied into a cylindrical target cell of 180 ml and is maintained at 2.0 K during the experiment. Evaporated 4 He gas is evacuated by a rotary pump and returned into the 4 He bath in the cryostat, where two small mechanical refrigerators with cooling capacities of 3 W at 4.3 K and 10 W at 20 K are operated for the purpose of 4 He recondensation. A maintenance-free operation of more than 1000 hours has become possible by adopting the 4 He circulation system.
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Neutral-pion photoproduction on the deuteron.
Large-angle cross sections for ..gamma..d..--> pi../sup 0/d are systematically measured in a photon energy range between 500 and 1000 MeV. A good fit is obtained by use of a Glauber model calculation which includes the dibaryon resonances /sup 3/F/sub 3/(2.26) and /sup 1/G/sub 4/(2.51), but the fit has an unusual nature in the role of resonance and nonresonance contributions.
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A honeycomb sandwich structure vacuum jacket for cryogenic targets
Abstract Cryogenic targets (H 2 , D 2 and 4 He) have been built for use in the study of photonuclear reactions with a π sr spectrometer, TAGX, at the 1.3 GeV Tokyo electron synchrotron. A new type of vacuum jacket, fabricated from plastic honeycomb core and Mylar skins, has been used in the target system for more than 5000 hours. The average radiation thickness and the average density of this jacket are measured to be 3.3 × 10 −3 X 0 and 0.15 g/cm 3 , respectively.
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Surface Study on Niobium Stain after Electro-polishing for Super-conducting RF Cavity
In development of superconducting radio-frequency niobium cavities, there are problems in low performances of electro-polished (EP) cavities with a fresh EP solution due to stains on the surfaces with discoloration. Although the stain problems have been known from the past researches, the detailed study with surface analysis has not been carried out. In this study, the stains on the niobium surfaces were observed with x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Auger electron spectroscopy and scanning electron microscope. According to results of XPS, there are some differences in atomic components at the stained and non-stained surfaces, ex, a little amount of fluorine and no metal oxide were found only at the stained surface. In this article, we will describe the detail of the XPS results.
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Residual gas analysis and electron cloud measurement of DLC and TiN coated chambers at KEKB LER
For future high-intensity positron or proton accelerators, beam instability caused by electron cloud is one of the most important problems. Some coatings on inner surface of beam chambers with materials having low secondary emission yields such as titanium nitride (TiN), nonevaporable getter and so on have represented good effects against the electron cloud instability. In this study, diamond like carbon (DLC) and TiN coated chambers, and a copper chamber without coating were installed to an arc section of KEKB LER to make comparisons of total pressure, residual gas components and electron cloud activity during the beam operation under the same condition. Residual gas observation for the DLC coating revealed much higher hydrogen gas desorption because a process gas including hydrogen was used for the film growth. No remarkable hydrocarbon gas desorption was found. On the other hand, a mass peak of amu = 14, that is N was prominent in the TiN coating. The electron cloud activity in the DLC coating was lower than the TiN coating and the copper chamber.
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The vacuum system of KEKB
Abstract For the KEK B-factory, two rings with a circumference of 3016 m , mainly made of copper, were constructed. A gap between the flanges is filled using Helicoflex as a vacuum seal. The contact force of an RF finger in a bellows is assured by using a spring finger. Pumping slots are backed by crossing bars to prevent the penetration of beam-induced fields. To obtain a pressure of 10 −9 Torr with the beam when the photo-desorption coefficient reaches 10 −6 , the design of pump layout is aimed to realize 100 l s −1 m −1 . NEG strips are used as the main pump. Chemical polishing is applied to clean the extruded surface of a copper chamber. Almost all chambers were baked before installation. Only ion pumps were baked in situ. The photo-desorption coefficient at the start of commissioning was slightly higher than expected, but a decrease of the coefficient is as expected on the whole. At high currents, some bellows were found to be warmed by the TE mode of beam induced fields. The effect of the electron cloud became evident, especially in the LER. Direct damage by the beam is seen at the surface of the movable mask.
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Resonant Excitation of Disk Oscillations in Deformed Disks IV: A New Formulation Studying Stability
The possibility has been suggested that high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations observed in low-mass X-ray binaries are resonantly excited disk oscillations in deformed (warped or eccentric) relativistic disks (Kato 2004). In this paper we examine this wave excitation process from a viewpoint somewhat different from that of previous studies. We study how amplitudes of a set of normal mode oscillations change secularly with time by their mutual couplings through disk deformation. As a first step, we consider the case where the number of oscillation modes contributing to the resonance coupling is two. The results show that two prograde oscillations interacting through disk deformation can grow if their wave energies have opposite signs.
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NONLINEAR RESONANCE IN THE ACCRETION DISK OF A MILLISECOND PULSAR
Two simultaneous frequencies of quasi-periodic millisecond modulation of the X-ray flux (twin kilohertz quasiperiodic oscillations) have recently been detected in an accreting 2.5 ms X-ray pulsar. Their difference, equal to about of the neutron star spin rate, clearly indicates that resonant oscillations of the accretion disk have been 1 2 observed. Similar nonlinear resonances may be spontaneously excited in the accretion disk in the absence of a pulsar, e.g., in black holes. We identify modes of disk oscillations whose frequencies are in agreement with the two observed ones when the rotating neutron star is modeled with realistic equations of state. Subject headings: stars: neutron — X-rays: general On-line material: color figures