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Direct electron acceleration by stochastic laser fields in the presence of self-generated magnetic fields.
A simple direct acceleration model is proposed, taking into account the stochastic phase disturbance of the coherent driving laser fields. A relativistic single particle simulation shows that plasma electrons are efficiently accelerated far above the ponderomotive energy. The energy and momentum distributions of the accelerated electrons are derived to examine the effects of the self-generated magnetic field on the characteristics of the electron beams. In addition to the beam collimation effect, the magnetic field is found to further enhance the electron acceleration, resulting in the generation of ultrahigh energy electrons.
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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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Experimental Study on the Scaling Law of a Self-Modulated Laser Wakefield Accelerator
We performed experiments to obtain an empirical scaling of a self‐modulated laser wakefield accelerator (SMLWFA) by using laser pulses at a laser power of 2–6 TW and pulse duration of 50 fs. By decreasing the electron density from 1.5 × 1020 cm−3 to 4 × 1019 cm−3 and increasing the laser power, the energy of quasimonoenergetic components increased from 7 MeV to 25 MeV. We obtained the scaling law, according to which the energy gain is inversely proportional to the electron density and proportional to the laser power when the acceleration length is greater than the dephasing length of acceleration. Satellite peaks in the forward‐scattering spectrum suggested that the excitation of a nonlinear wakefield was closely related to the quasimonoenergetic acceleration of electrons.
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VARIOUS RINSING EFFECTS TO MITIGATE CONTAMINANTS BROUGHT BY BCP ON NIOBIUM SRF CAVITY SURFACE
Various rinsing processes have been widely used after the surface treatment for niobium cavities. After the chemical treatment of the cavities some residues from the etching acids are left on the surface. To examine rinsing effects in detail, we carried out BCP experiment followed by post-polishing methods on a series of niobium samples at KEK. As a result of the BCP process [1,2] some contaminants like fluorine, carbon, etc. have been detected at the surfaces which may be the prominent cause of limiting the performance of SRF cavities. To remove these contaminants, various rinsing processes such as ultra pure water rinse, ultrasonic pure water rinse, alcoholic rinse, detergent rinse, high pressure water rinse (HPR) have been used after the BCP. In this article, we report the effect of HPR with different high pressures on the contaminants. The surface of the samples treated with HPR was analyzed using X-ray photo-electron spectroscopy.
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KEKB performance
The history of the KEKB commissioning is characterized by struggles with three obstacles, namely the electron-cloud instability, the beam-beam blowup and beam current limitations from many reasons. A rapid improvement in the luminosity in this year (2001) has been made by progress in each of these three problems. This report summarizes this year's progress of the KEKB accelerator, since the history of prior days is covered by other reports.
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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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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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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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Tidal Instability and Superhump by a Wave-Wave Resonant Model
On a disk deformed to a non-axisymmetric form, a set of oscillations can be excited by their resonant interaction through the disk deformation (Kato et al. 2011). This resonant instability process has been proposed to suggest a possible cause of the high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HF QPOs) observed in black-hole lowmass X-ray binaries. In the present paper, we examine whether the above-mentioned wave-wave resonant process can describe the tidal instability and superhump in dwarf novae. The results show that the process seems to well describe the observations. If this process is really the cause of the tidal instability and superhump, a two-armed oscillation with high frequency roughly on the magnitude of three times the orbital frequency is present on disks, although its expected amplitude may be small.
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Trapped, Two-Armed, Nearly Vertical Oscillations in Disks with Toroidal Magnetic Fields
We have examined the trapping of two-armed (m = 2) nearly vertical oscillations (vertical p-mode) in vertically isothermal (cs = const.) relativistic disks with toroidal magnetic fields. The magnetic fields are stratified so that the Alfven speed, cA, is constant in the vertical direction. The ratio c 2 A =c 2 in the vertical direction is taken to be a parameter that examines the effects of magnetic fields on wave trapping. We find that the two-armed nearly vertical oscillations are trapped in the inner region of the disks, and their frequencies decrease with an increase of c 2 A =c 2 s . The trapped regions of the fundamental (n = 1) and the first-overtone (n = 2) are narrow (less than the length of the Schwarzschild radius, rg), and their frequencies are relatively high (on the order of the angular frequency of disk rotation in the inner region). In contrast to this, the second overtone (n = 3) is trapped in a wide region (a few times rg), and the frequencies are low and tend to zero in the limit of c 2 A =c 2 s = 2.0.
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Resonant Excitation of Disk Oscillations in Deformed Disks. V. Effects of Dissipative Process
It is suggested that a set of positive- and negative-energy oscillations can be resonantly excited in the inner region of deformed (warped or eccentric) relativistic disks. In this paper we examine how a dissipative process affects this wave excitation. The results show that when the resonant condition in frequency is roughly satisfied, and thus the oscillations are excited, the introduction of a dissipative process works so as to decrease the growth rate of the oscillations. When the frequency difference between the two oscillations is larger than a certain amount that is required by the resonant condition, however, the oscillations are excited by introducing a dissipative process. This excitation by the dissipative process can be understood as a special example of a double-diffusive instability.