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Absolute polarized H-jet polarimeter development, for RHIC
Status of the H-jet polarimeter development is reviewed. The preliminary results of atomic beam intensity and density measurements are presented.
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Coherent electron cooling demonstration experiment
Coherent electron cooling (CEC) has a potential to significantly boost luminosity of high-energy, high-intensity hadron-hadron and electron-hadron colliders. In a CEC system, a hadron beam interacts with a cooling electron beam. A perturbation of the electron density caused by ions is amplified and fed back to the ions to reduce the energy spread and the emittance of the ion beam. To demonstrate the feasibility of CEC we propose a proof-of-principle experiment at RHIC using SRF linac. In this paper, we describe the setup for CeC installed into one of RHIC's interaction regions. We present results of analytical estimates and results of initial simulations of cooling a gold-ion beam at 40 GeV/u energy via CeC. We plan to complete the program in five years. During first two years we will build coherent electron cooler in IP2 of RHIC. In parallel we will develop complete package of computer simulation tools for the start-to-end simulation predicting exact performance of a CeC. The later activity will be the core of Tech X involvement into the project. We will use these tools to predict the performance of our CeC device. The experimental demonstration of the CeC will be undertaken in years three to five ofmore » the project. The goal of this experiment is to demonstrate the cooling of ion beam and to compare its measured performance with predictions made by us prior to the experiments.« less
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Small gap magnets and vacuum chambers for eRHIC
eRHIC[1][2][3], a future high luminosity electron-ion collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), will add polarized electrons to the list of colliding species in RHIC. A 10-30 GeV electron energy recovery linac (ERL) will require up to six passes around the RHIC 3.8 km circumference. We are developing and testing small (5 mm) gap dipole and quadrupole magnets and vacuum chambers for cost-effective eRHIC passes [4]. We are also studying the sensitivity of eRHIC pass optics to magnet and alignment errors in such a small magnet structure. We present the magnetic and mechanical designs of the small gap eRHIC components and prototyping test progress.
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ATOMIC BEAM STUDIES IN THE RHIC H-JET POLARIMETER.
The results of atomic beam production studies are presented. Improved cooling of the atoms before jet formation in the dissociator cold nozzle apparently reduces the atomic beam velocity spread and improves beam focusing conditions. A carefully designed sextupole separating (and focusing) magnet system takes advantage of the high brightness source. As a result a record beam intensity of a 12.4 {center_dot} 10{sup 16} atoms/s was obtained within 10 mm acceptance at the collision point. The results of the polarization dilution factor measurements (by the hydrogen molecules at the collision point) are also presented.
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Correlation between Correlations: Process and Time in Quantum Networks
We study a special inhomogeneous quantum network consisting of a ring of M pseudo-spins (here M = 4) sequentially coupled to one and the same central spin under the influence of given pulse sequences (quantum gate operations). This architecture could be visualized as a quantum Turing machine with a cyclic "tape". Rather than input-output-relations we investigate the resulting process, i.e. the correlation between one-and two-point expectation values ("correlations") over various time-steps. The resulting spatiotemporal pattern exhibits many non-classical features including Zeno-effects, violation of temporal Bell-inequalities and quantum parallelism. Due to the strange web of correlations being built-up, specific measurement outcomes for the tape may refer to one or several preparation histories of the head. Specific families of correlation functions are more stable with respect to dissipation than the total wave-function.
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Pattern formation in quantum Turing machines
We investigate the iteration of a sequence of local and pair unitary transformations, which can be interpreted to result from a Turing-head $(\mathrm{pseudospin}S)$ rotating along a closed Turing tape $(M$ additional pseudospins). The dynamical evolution of the Bloch vector of S, which can be decomposed into ${2}^{M}$ primitive pure state Turing-head trajectories, gives rise to fascinating geometrical patterns reflecting the entanglement between head and tape. These machines thus provide intuitive examples for quantum parallelism and, at the same time, means for local testing of quantum network dynamics.
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Moving Quantum Agents in a Finite Environment
We investigate an all-quantum-mechanical spin network, in which a subset of spins, the K “moving agents”, are subject to local and pair unitary transformations controlled by their position with respect to a fixed ring of M “environmental”-spins. We demonstrate that a “flow of coherence” results between the various subsystems. Despite entanglement between the agents and between agent and environment, local (non-linear) invariants may persist, which then show up as fascinating patterns in each agent’s Bloch-sphere. Such patterns disappear, though, if the agents are controlled by different rules. Geometric aspects thus help to understand the interplay between entanglement and decoherence.