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Multiturn Measurements at the CERN SPS
The CERN SPS multiturn facility, based on the new beam orbit measurement system MOPOS, enables the User to acquire the position of the beam at each beam position monitor (BPM) over a number of consecutive turns. When the multiturn acquisition is synchronised with a perturbation imposed on the beam (for instance a fast kick), useful information about the optics of the SPS and the dynamic behaviour of the beam can be extracted from the data. A measurement of the amplitude and phase of the betatron oscillation at each BPM can be used to compare the theoretical optics functions with the real ones, and possibly to detect localised errors. Differences between two such measurements can be used to study the dependence on a variable parameter (e.g. beam intensity, beam energy, etc.) and therefore indirectly measure quantities, like the impedance, distributed along the ring. Finally, due to the 90 degrees phase advance lattice, plotting the positions measured at two consecutive BPMs against each other gives information about the behaviour of the beam in the transverse phase space. Results of measurements performed at the CERN SPS are presented.
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Overview of LEP operation in 1998
After the installation of 32 additional RF cavities in the 1997-1998 shutdown LEP was operated at a beam energy of 94.5 GeV. The total integrated luminosity for the year 1998 clearly surpassed its target and reached 198 pb/sup -1/. Vertical beam-beam tuneshifts of more than 0.07 were obtained. The performance did not seem to be beam-beam limited, but the total beam current was limited by power dissipation problems to around 6 mA. A high phase advance optics (102/spl deg/, 90/spl deg/), with a smaller natural emittance, was used for regular operation in 1998. This contributed to the excellent performance of LEP, together with the further reduction of both the horizontal and vertical beta function at the interaction points. No dynamic aperture problems were encountered.
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First trial of BOM harmonic analysis
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Measurement of chromatic effects in LEP
The chromaticity produced by the insertions and the lattice of LEP is corrected in the FODO lattice of the arcs which has horizontal and vertical phase advances of 90/spl deg/ and 60/spl deg/ for the LEP optics presently used. This is done with two horizontal and three vertical sextupole families. To check this correction scheme the non-linear chromaticities have been measured by observing the betatron tunes as a function of RF-frequency, i.e. of momentum deviation. The differences between the results and the expected effects of the sextupoles are interpreted in terms of octupole and decapole components in the dipole magnets. To check the distribution around the ring of the chromaticities and their corrections the betatron phase advances have been measured as a function of momentum deviation. This was done by observing an excited betatron oscillation for 1024 turns in all beam position monitors for different RF-frequencies. The results clearly show the negative chromaticity produced in the straight sections and its correction in the arcs. The parasitic sextupole components are found to be spread uniformly in the arcs within the measurement errors. Under this condition one finds that they have a negligible effect on the dynamic aperture.
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The RTC-a software support system for the control of the CERN SPS
The RTC (Run Time Coordinator) is described. It is a software support system designed for the SPS (Super Proton Synchrotron) control system to provide a run time environment for application software. It coordinates the execution of individual programs or processes and supervises the process control, i.e. process synchronization, interprocess communication, data transfer, and operator I/O (input/output). This supervision includes the control of processes distributed on a Unix-based network. A standard language independent data interface is part of the system. The system includes tools for data presentation, error logging, and contention resolution. Separating system-dependent features for the body of the application programs leads to high flexibility and simplifies the software development. The basic philosophy of the RTC is discussed and its implementation is described.<<ETX>>
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LEP OPERATION AND PERFORMANCE WITH 100 GEV COLLIDING BEAMS
Luminosity production in LEP was extended to 101 GeV beam energy in 1999 and 104.4 GeV in 2000. The performance was continually optimised, resulting in 1999 peak and integrated luminosities higher than in any previous year of LEP operation. In particular, the beambeam tune shift reached 0.083 per interaction point. This was achieved with the help of a faster luminosity monitoring, a new tune working point, a reduced design vertical dispersion and new dispersion and coupling optimisation tools. A higher beam rate from the injectors, a better injection efficiency, a faster ramp and a newly automated control of the horizontal damping partition number J x maximised the time available for physics and thus contributed to the higher integrated luminosity.
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SEARCHES OF FRACTIONALLY CHARGED PARTICLES IN MATTER WITH THE MAGNETIC LEVITATION TECHNIQUE
Abstract A survey is given of the experiments performed with the magnetic levitation electrometer to search for stable fractional charges in matter. After a general introduction, illustrating the principle of the method, an analysis is presented of the electric forces acting on the levitating object (who se knowledge is essential to determine the residual charge). This is followed by a short account of the historical evolution of the subject, after which we proceed to a detailed description of the ferromagnetic levitation electrometer used in our laboratory and of the results obtained. The main differences with the Stanford diamagnetic (superconducting) instrument are also illustrated. The final section contains a concise summary of the other experiments of search of quarks in matter, in particular of the Millikan automated ones.
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On the miracle of the Coleman–Glashow and other baryon mass formulas
Abstract Due to a new measurement of the Ξ0 mass, the Coleman–Glashow formula for the baryon octet e.m. masses (derived using unbroken flavor SU3) is satisfied to an extraordinary level of precision. The same unexpected precision exists for the Gell Mann–Okubo formula and for its octet-decuplet extension (G. Morpurgo, Phys. Rev. Lett. 68 (1992) 139). We show that the old question “why do they work so well?” is now answered by the general parametrization method.
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Demodulation and detection of correlations in a beam by a scattering detector
Abstract The demodulation and the detection of correlations in a beam using a detector that scatters the beam is discussed employing a localized wave packet description of the beam. It is shown that a simple very general formula for the spectral excitation function of the detector can be given; by spectral excitation function we mean the rate of excitation of the detector to a given level. The formula is derived without making specific assumptions on the nature of the detector. The spectral excitation function is naturally decomposed as a sum of four terms: Two of these (the B terms in what follows) depend only on the wavefunction and stochastic distribution of the incident beam; they are proportional to the square (and higher powers) of the flux and contain all the information on the self-beat, Forrester-type effects and demodulation. More precisely, one of these B terms contains the information on the demodulation and the other on the beat effects. The remaining two terms (to be called the A terms) describe the conventional inelastic scattering (proportional to the flux) and some coherent corrections to it (proportional to higher powers of the flux): These A terms behave as noise if the signal of interest is that described by the B terms. The theory is illustrated with many examples to known situations; particular attention is given to some conceptual questions involved.
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Some remarks on a paper by G.-S. Yang and H.-C.Kim: Mass splitting of SU(3) baryons within a chiral soliton model
In a recent paper Yang and Kim discuss the lowest baryon mass formulas using a chiral soliton model. However, contrary to their assertion, their result is not equivalent to a generalized Gell Mann-Okubo mass formula derived (G.Morpurgo,1992) using only general properties of QCD (The General Parameterization method). The reason for the non equivalence is that the generalized mass formula includes all the main terms that break flavor at second order, whereas the Authors above do not go beyond first order flavor breaking (and should therefore find the usual Gell Mann Okubo formula). This is not so, due to some inconsistencies. Below we confine to the part of the Yang-Kim paper dealing with the mass formula. We will not consider the other items of their paper. 1.Second order versus first order in flavor breaking. As stated in the Abstract, I will consider only the part of the paper of Yang and Kim [1] dealing with the Gell Mann-Okubo mass formula (see the generalized Gell Mann-Okubo mass formula Eqs.(1) below) derived [2] many years ago. In the Eqs.(1,2) below the particle symbols stay for the particle masses. 1 2 (p+ Ξ) + T = 1 4 (3Λ + 2Σ − Σ) (1) where T stays for T ≡ Ξ∗− − 1 2 (Ω + Σ∗−) (2) The fit to the data depends on whether we use the conventional or the pole values for the masses of the resonances appearing in T : l.h.s. = 1132.36± 0.7MeV, r.h.s. = 1133.93± 0.04MeV (conventional) l.h.s. = 1133.86± 1.25MeV, r.h.s. = 1133.93± 0.04MeV (pole) (3) In Eq.(1) the value of T is 5.7±0.7MeV . The Eq.(1), written with the signs of the charges indicated in it, includes correctly the effects of the e.m. contributions to the masses. (See in Ref.[2], the text and the footnote 9). Note from Eq.(3) e-mail morpurgo@ge.infn.it
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The magnetic levitation electrometer and its use in the search for fractionally charged particles
Abstract The operation of the magnetic levitation electrometer both in the static and in the resonance version is described in detail. The sensitivity of the instrument in the resonance version allows measurements of charge to a precision often better than 1 20 e in grains of matter (graphite) having a mass of the order of 5×10 −7 g. On a total amount of 3.4 × 10 −6 g of pyrolitic graphite explored, corresponding to ≈2 × 10 18 nucleons, no fractionally charged quark has been found.