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Attainment of an MeV-range, DC electron beam for the Fermilab cooler
To prepare a beam generation device for Fermilab's future Recycler Electron Cooling system, an experimental set-up with a simplified beam line has been commissioned at Fermilab. Stable operation was achieved at an electron energy of 3.5 MeV and a DC beam current of up to 0.5 A. The main reason for interruptions of the operation was found to be microsecond long bursts of the cathode current. While the frequency of the interruptions is determined primarily by a flow of secondary ions, the resulting reduction in the duty factor depends on the beam optics, the protection systems, and the tube electric field strength.
25489712
The AGS Fast Kicker Magnet System
A new fast extraction system from the AGS will be implemented to improve the neutrino beam and to serve for ISABELLE injection. The fast kicker for the system is of an open C-type design with a field strength of 1.25 kG at 2650 amperes. The pulser system is a mismatched, discharge type PFN which is capable of delivering a pulse of 3000 amperes peak current at 30 kV d.c., with a 2.7 ¿sec pulse width, 170 nsec rise time, and flat top ripple within ± 1%. It also serves as a prototype for an ISA injection magnet, and is to be operated in UHV in the 10-11 Torr range. Special measures to achieve this goal are also discussed.
119968235
Direct current surface plasma source with high emission current density
A surface plasma source for long-time dc operation with efficient production of negative ions and high emission current density has been designed and tested. Several modifications of the discharge system, beam extraction, cesium supply, and source design have been tested for long-time operation. The emission current density of H− ions has been increased to j=1 A/cm2 in the dc mode of operation with a discharge voltage, Ud=80 V; a discharge current, Id=0.9 A and a discharge power, P=70 W. Corresponding efficiency of the current density production S=j/P=15 A/cm2 kW is much higher than in modern positive ion sources. Source features determining an operational lifetime will be discussed.
723137
Status of the Fermilab electron cooling project
The first stage of the Fermilab Electron Cooling R&D program is now complete: technology necessary to generate hundreds of milliamps of electron beam current at MeV energies has been demonstrated. Conceptual design studies show that with an electron beam current of 200 mA and with a cooling section of 20 m electron cooling in the Fermilab Recycler ring can provide antiproton stacking rates suitable for the Tevatron upgrades beyond Run II luminosity goals. A prototype of such an electron cooling system is now being built at Fermilab as part of the continuing R&D program. This paper describes the electron cooling system design as well as the status of the Fermilab electron cooling R&D program.
123613871
Observations of the transverse and longitudinal nature of the Fermilab linac beam
The installation of nonintercepting beam position monitors (BPMs) in the 200 MeV linac at Fermilab has facilitated several new observations on the character of the linac beam. In particular, two interesting phenomena have been discovered: a high-frequency change in the beam position and a slow variation in the phase-lock loops during a 30 mu s beam pulse. Progress in initiating the Delta -t measurement is being made. The Delta -t procedure adjusts the RF phase and amplitude in each of the accelerating modules of a linac. The procedure uses beam-induced signals from linac BPMs to determine changes in the times of flight of beam bunches when the tuned module is turned off and when it is turned on.<<ETX>>
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Factors Affecting H- Beam Performance in the Fermilab Linac
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Baryon number and charge fluctuations from lattice QCD
Abstract We calculate electric and baryonic charge fluctuations on the lattice. Results have been obtained with the highly improved staggered quark action (HISQ) and almost physical quark masses on lattices with spacial extent of N τ = 6 , 8 , 12 . Higher order cumulants of the net-charge distributions are increasingly dominated by a universal scaling behavior, which is arising due to a critical point of QCD in the chiral limit. Considering cumulants up to the sixth order, we observe that they generically behave as expected from universal scaling laws, which is quite different from the cumulants calculated within the hadron resonance gas model. Taking ratios of these cumulants, we obtain volume independent results that can be compared to the experimental measurements. Such a comparison will unambiguously relate the QCD transition temperature that has been determined on the lattice with the freeze out temperature of heavy ion collision at LHC and RHIC.
14794189
The density of states method at non-zero chemical potential
We study the QCD phase diagram by first principle lattice calculations at so far unreached high densities. For this purpose we employ the density of states method. Unimproved staggered fermions, which describe four quark flavors in the continuum are used in this analysis. Though the method is quite expensive, small lattices show an indication for a triple-point connecting three different phases on the phase diagram.
119508221
Diphoton background to Higgs boson production at the LHC with soft gluon effects
Abstract The detection and the measurement of the production cross section of a light Higgs boson at the CERN Large Hadron Collider demand the accurate prediction of the background distributions of photon pairs. To improve this theoretical prediction, we present the soft-gluon resummed calculation of the pp → γγX cross section, including the exact one loop gg → γγg contribution. By incorporating the known fixed order results and the leading terms in the higher order corrections, the resummed cross section provides a reliable prediction for the inclusive diphoton invariant mass and transverse momentum distributions. Given our results, we propose the search for the Higgs boson in the inclusive diphoton mode with a cut on the transverse momentum of the photon pair, without the requirement of an additional tagged jet.
17264957
An Effective Higgsless Theory: Satisfying Electroweak Constraints and a Heavy Top Quark
The main challenge faced by Higgsless models of electroweak symmetry breaking is to reconcile the experimental constraints imposed by the precision electroweak data and the top quark phenomenology with the unitarity constraints imposed by longitudinal gauge boson scattering amplitudes. In this paper we expand on previous work, giving details of how delocalized fermions can be used to adjust the S parameter to zero, while keeping the T and U parameters naturally suppressed. We also show that it is possible to obtain the top quark mass, without affecting the delay of unitarity violation of the W{sup +}W{sup -}{yields}W{sup +}W{sup -} scattering amplitude, by separating the mass scales of the fermion sector (1/R{sub f}) from that of the gauge sector (1/R{sub g}). The fermion sector scale 1/R{sub f} is only weakly constrained by unitarity of the tt{yields}W{sup +}W{sup -} scattering amplitude; thus the ratio R{sub g}/R{sub f} can be quite large, and the top mass can be achieved easily. Anomalous right-handed couplings involving the third generation quarks also avoid constraints from experimental data if 1/R{sub f} is sufficiently large.
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Top Quark Physics at the NLC
A high energy $e^+e^-$ linear collider (NLC) is an excellent tool for studying the properties of the top quark. In this talk I review some of the theory of top quark production and decay in $e^+e^-$ collisions both at threshold and in the continuum. I also report on the results of phenomenological analyses of $t\bar t$ production at the NLC.