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Nonintersecting Brownian motions on the unit circle. Part I: noncritical cases
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Measurement of the average local energy spread of electron beam via coherent harmonic generation
The local energy spread of electron beam is a very important parameter for high-gain free-electron lasers (FELs), especially the seeded FELs. Highly accurate measurement of the extremely small local energy spread is rather challenging. In this paper, a simple method to accurately measure the average local energy spread based on the coherent harmonic generation is proposed. A one-dimensional analytical estimation is given to show the principle of this method, and three-dimensional simulation codes have been used to verify the theory. This method has been demonstrated on the Shanghai deep ultraviolet FEL, and the results show that the average local energy spread is about only 1.2 keV at the exit of the 136 MeV linac, which agrees well with the numerical simulations.
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Slippage effect on energy modulation in seeded free-electron lasers with frequency chirped seed laser pulses
Free-electron lasers (FELs) seeded with external lasers hold great promise for generating high power radiation with nearly transform-limited bandwidth in the soft x-ray region. However, it has been pointed out that the initial seed laser phase error will be amplified by the frequency up-conversion process, which may degrade the quality of the output radiation produced by a harmonic generation scheme. In this paper, theoretical and simulation studies on frequency chirp amplification in seeded FEL schemes with slippage effect taken into account are presented. It is found that the seed laser imperfection experienced by the electron beam can be significantly smoothed by the slippage effect in the modulator when the slippage length is comparable to the seed laser pulse length. This smoothing effect allows one to preserve the excellent temporal coherence of seeded FELs in the presence of large frequency chirp in the seed laser. Our studies show that the tolerance on frequency chirp in the seed laser for generating nearly transform-limited soft x-ray pulses in seeded FELs is much looser than previously thought and fully coherent radiation at nanometer wavelength may be reached with current technologies.
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Coherent synchrotron radiation effects in the electron cooler for RHIC
The Coherent Synchrotron Radiation (CSR) could be a concern in many modern accelerator projects. In the proposed electron-cooling project for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), the electron cooler is designed to cool 100 GeV/nucleon bunched ion-beam using 55 MeV electrons. The electron bunch length will be on the order of cm, and the charge per bunch would be around 5-10 nC. We study the CSR effect in this paper.
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FEL Polarization Control Studies on Dalian Coherent Light Source
The polarization switch of a free-electron laser (FEL) is of great importance to the user scientific community. In this paper, we investigate the generation of controllable polarization FEL from two well-known approaches for Dalian coherent light source, i.e., crossed planar undulator and elliptical permanent undulator. In order to perform a fair comparative study, a one-dimensional time-dependent FEL code has been developed, in which the imperfection effects of an elliptical permanent undulator are taken into account. Comprehensive simulation results indicate that the residual beam energy chirp and the intrinsic FEL gain may contribute to the degradation of the polarization performance for the crossed planar undulator. And the elliptical permanent undulator is not very sensitive to the undulator errors and beam imperfections. Meanwhile, with proper configurations of the main planar undulators and additional elliptical permanent undulator section, circular polarized FEL with pulse energy exceeds 100 μJ could be achieved at Dalian coherent light source.
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Chemical Constraints on the Oxygen Abundances in Jupiter and Saturn
We perform a comparative analysis of the chemical kinetics of CO and $\rm PH_3$ in Jupiter and Saturn to assess the full set of constraints available on the troposphere water abundance in the two giant planets. For carbon monoxide we employ both a widely used CO kinetic scheme from Yung et al, and a newly identified CO chemical scheme from Visscher and Moses. For $\rm PH_3$ chemical scheme, we use the same chemical scheme as in Visscher and Fegley. Yung's chemical scheme for CO yields a water enrichment of 0.95 - 23.0 times solar abundance on Jupiter, and an upper limit of 14.0 for Saturn. Visscher's chemical scheme in contrast produces a water enrichment of 0.24 - 2.6 times solar abundance in Jupiter, and for Saturn an upper limit for water enrichment of 8.0. From this scheme, which takes advantage of the most up-to-date kinetics, we preclude high water enrichments on Jupiter and Saturn, and show that the kinetics approach yields Jovian bulk abundance in which values of C/O elevated relative to solar are admissible. Our result is consistent with recent reinterpretation of Galileo Probe data in which Jupiter formed in a water-depleted portion of the protoplanetary disk (Mousis et al).
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Kernel regression for determining photometric redshifts from Sloan broad‐band photometry
We present a new approach, namely kernel regression, to determine photometric redshifts for 399 929 galaxies in the Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Kernel regression is a weighted average of spectral redshifts of the neighbours for a query point, and higher weights are associated with points that are closer to the query point. One important design decision when using kernel regression is the choice of bandwidth. We apply 10-fold cross-validation to choose the optimal bandwidth, which is obtained as the cross-validation error approaches its minimum. The results show that the optimal bandwidth is different for different input patterns: the lowest rms error of photometric redshift estimation arrives at 0.019 using colour+eClass as the inputs, the lowest rms errors comes to 0.020 using ugriz+eClass as the inputs. Where eClass is a galaxy spectral type, and 0.021 using colour+ r as the inputs. Thus, in addition to parameters such as magnitude and colour, eClass is a valid parameter with which to predict photometric redshifts. Moreover, the results suggest that the accuracy of estimating photometric redshifts is improved when the sample is divided into early-type and late-type galaxies; in particular, for early-type galaxies, the rms scatter is 0.016 with colour+eClass as the inputs. In addition, kernel regression achieves high accuracy when predicting the photometric eClass (σ rms = 0.034) using colour+ r as the input pattern. For kernel regression, the accuracy of the photometric redshifts does not always increase with the number of parameters considered, but is satisfactory only when appropriate parameters are chosen. Kernel regression is a comprehensible and accurate regression method. Experiments reveal the superiority of kernel regression over other empirical training approaches.
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Intrabeam scattering and touscheck lifetime for the optical stochastic cooling experiment at the MIT-Bates South Hall ring
A proof-of-principle experiment of optical stochastic cooling (OSC) at the MIT-Bates South Hall electron storage ring (SHR) has been proposed. To produce convincing cooling results, the ring will be run near 300 MeV. Beam emittance growth caused by Intrabeam scattering (IBS) is a major concern for the design of experiment. Touschek scattering imposes a dominant limit on beam lifetime. Evaluation of these effects is part of the design optimization process. Simulation analyses of cooling for a viable OSC experiment are presented.
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Terahertz Coherent Synchrotron Radiation in the MIT-Bates South Hall Ring
We investigate the terahertz coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR) potential of the South Hall Ring (SHR) at MIT-Bates Linear Accelerator Center. The SHR is equipped with a unique single cavity, 2.856 GHz RF system. The high RF frequency is advantageous for producing short bunch length and for having higher bunch current threshold to generate stable CSR. Combining with other techniques such as external pulse stacking cavity, femtosecond laser slicing, the potential for generating ultra-stable, high power, broadband terahertz CSR is very attractive. Beam dynamics issues related to short bunch length operation, such as multi-bunch instability (perhaps associated with the high frequency RF system), are considered. The SHR is ideal for experimental exploration of such issues, which could affect bunch length, bunch intensity and beam stability. Results of initial tests of low momentum compaction lattices and bunch length measurements are presented and compared to expectations.
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Cryomodule development for the CEBAF upgrade
Long term plans for CEBAF at Jefferson Lab call for achieving 12 GeV in the middle of the next decade and 24 GeV after 2010. In support of those plans, an Upgrade Cryomodule capable of providing more than three times the voltage of the original CEBAF cryomodule specification within the same length is under development. Development activities have been focused on critical areas thought to have maximum impact on the overall design. These have included the cavity structure, RF power coupling, cavity suspension, alignment, cavity tuning, and beamline interface. It has been found that all design and development areas are tightly coupled and can not be developed independently. Substantial progress has been made toward an integrated design for the Jefferson Lab Upgraded Cryomodule.
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Layout and optics for the RHIC electron cooler
As part of a luminosity upgrade it is planned to add an electron cooling section to the RHIC accelerator. Existing electron coolers operate at low beam energies and use a continuous electron stream. The ion energy of 100 GeV/u in RHIC requires an electron energy of 55 MeV. Therefore the RHIC cooler uses a linac with energy recovery for the electron acceleration. Short bunches exiting the linac section are stretched longitudinally to reduce the momentum charge and space charge effects in the cooling section, and compressed afterwards for deceleration and energy recovery in the linac. This report describes the design of the electron beam transport and simulation results.