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Novel field emission scanner for surface study of niobium SRF cavity
Field emission strongly depends on Nb surface properties which are determined by its surface treatment and handling. Novel field emission scanner (FES) developed allows us to measure a distribution of the field emitting sites over a sample surface at a given field strength along with its SEM observation and energy dispersive x-ray analysis. A compact FES head driven by precise 3D stepping motors can be located in a space between the SEM object lens and a sample to be observed. For this reason, the scanner head is not required to be retracted for SEM-EDX observation. This design enabled us to have unique features of in-situ mapping of field emitters with a resolution of 250 nm together with SEM and EDX observation with an imaging resolution of 1.5 nm, vibration-free scanning, quite easy position matching between FES images and SEM images and easy cooperation of the two equipments. Preliminary result of the electropolished Nb surface with a plenty of segregated sulfate particles showed basic performance of this FES. It tuned out that the existence of insulating sulfate grown at Nb surface in electropolishing process would cause blasting of sulfate to deteriorate cavity performance.
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Experiences at the KEK B-factory vacuum system
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Recent progress of KEKB
We summarize the machine operation of KEKB during past one year focusing on progress for this period.
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GENERATION OF HIGH-ENERGY ELECTRON BEAM BY LASER-PLASMA ACCELERATOR
An energy gain of the monoenergetic component of electrons γ were successfully increased to 25 MeV by decreasing an electron density ne to 4 × 1019cm-3 and increasing a laser power PL to 4 TW. An empirical scaling law of the energy gain of γ ∝ PL/ne was derived from the experiment. A forward scattering spectrum of the laser pulse showed anti-Stokes satellite peaks up to third-order harmonics around a second harmonic light and a Stokes satellite peak around a laser wavelength, which indicated that a wakefield was excited in a self-modulation laser wakefield regime. A density modulation of wakefield was estimated at 60 ± 10 % from intensity ratios of satellite peaks. The empirical scaling law well agrees with results obtained at other institutes by using higher laser power of 10 ~ 30 TW.
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High energy electron acceleration by stochastic acceleration mechanism
A stochastic acceleration mechanism which explains the high energy electron acceleration by intense laser pulses is analyzed by Fokker‐Planck approach. The Fokker‐Planck equation describing is derived from the equation of motion of electrons interacting with filamented laser field. The time evolution of electron distribution function, energy distribution, effective temperature are obtained for initially rest plasma. The acceleration of 10 MeV electron beam is examined and shown to be effective.
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Present Status of KEKB Vacuum System
The commissioning of KEKB (KEK B-factory) started in December 1998. The vacuum system has been working almost satisfactorily. The photon stimulated gas desorption coefficient of copper beam chamber is decreasing steadily and reached to about 2 - 4 × 10 -6
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Constraints for transonic black hole accretion
Regularity conditions and global topological constraints leave some forbidden regions in the parameter space of the transonic isothermal, rotating matter onto black holes. Unstable flows occupy regions touching the boundaries of the forbidden regions. The astrophysical consequences of these results are discussed. 17 references.
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Multipole analysis for absolute magnetic field measured by multi-probe pulsed-NMR method
For accelerator dipole magnets, the study on multipole coefficients in a local region is useful for understanding magnet characteristics and checking construction procedure. The multi-probe pulsed-NMR method is a candidate for measurement of the local multipole coefficients. For the absolute fields measured by the multi-probe pulsed-NMR method, a rigorous application of the Fourier expansion is found to yield multipole coefficients. It is made clear that the direction of the dipole field is unable to be determined by the Fourier expansion alone. For estimating alignment accuracy of pulsed-NMR probes, the relationship between errors of multipole coefficients and those of probe position is derived by the Fourier expansion method. For applying of multi-probe pulsed-NMR method to accelerator dipole magnets, we designed and fabricated a field measuring system using two probes. The probes had NMR coils wound around glass ampoules with a diameter of about 1.4 mm. The NMR signal was processed with a phase lock loop circuit to produce the NMR frequency. Dipole field uniformity and multipole coefficients were measured at 0.35 T for a 1.5 m long dipole magnet. It was confirmed that the field data by this NMR system had an accuracy of 10/sup -6/.
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Differential cross sections of neutral pion photoproduction from hydrogen in the energy region from 390 MeV to 975 MeV
The differential cross sections of the reaction γp→π0p have been measured at photon energies between 390 MeV and 975 MeV with an energy step of 20 or 25 MeV. The angular region covers 11 angles between 15° and 130° in the c.m.s. A combination of a magnetic spectrometer and photon detector was used for the measurement in the angular region from 50° to 130°. At forward angles of 15°, 35° and 50°, π0 mesons were detected using a π0 detector consisting of a pair of photon detectors. The data obtained with two different detection systems overlap at the angle of 50° and coincide with each other within the experimental error. The results are compared with those of phenomenological partial-wave analyses.
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Trapped, Two-Armed, Nearly Vertical Oscillations in Polytropic Disks
We have examined trapping of two-armed nearly vertical oscillations in polytropic disks. Two-armed nearly vertical oscillations are interesting in the sense that they are trapped in an inner region of disks with proper frequencies, if the inner edge of disks is a boundary that reflects oscillations. The frequencies of the trapped oscillations cover the frequency range of kHz QPOs to low frequency QPOs in LMXBs, depending on the modes of oscillations. Low frequency trapped oscillations are particularly interesting since their trapped region is wide. These low frequency oscillations are, however, present only when $\Gamma(\equiv 1+1/N)$ is close to but smaller than 4/3 (when spin parameter $a_*$ is zero), where $N$ is the polytropic index. The above critical value 4/3 slightly increases as $a_*$ increases.
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Development of a 56 mm aperture superconducting dipole model magnet for LHC
A 56 mm single aperture superconducting dipole model magnet, which is one of the frameworks of the LHC collaboration between KEK and CERN, has been developed. A central field of 8.65 T is provided at a load line ratio of 90% with a 5 block coil wound with NbTi superconducting cables. The magnet has a straight section of 0.8 m and a total length of 1.2 m. The distinctive features of the magnet are a magnetically symmetrical configuration being applicable to the twin aperture magnet and mechanical consideration sharing the magnetic forces with a high manganese steel collar and a horizontally split iron yoke. The magnet showed almost no training at 4.4 K. The first quench current at 1.8 K was 91% of the short sample I/sub c/ and the magnet reached a central magnetic field of 8.8 T. Finally it could be excited with the current of more than 99% of the short sample limit which corresponds to a central field of 9.63 T.