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Measurements of impedance distributions and instability thresholds in LEP
The distribution of reactive and resistive components of the transverse impedance around the circumference of LEP has been obtained by exciting the beam and measuring the variations of phase advance and of closed orbit displacements with beam current. Tune shifts with current and instability thresholds were determined for two machine lattices with different beta functions and momentum compaction for various values of bunch length and synchrotron frequency. These measurements are particularly interesting for LEP2, which will require larger bunch currents to achieve the design luminosity.
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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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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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First trial of BOM harmonic analysis
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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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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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Discussion on Quarks
You heard the talks giving rather different views about quarks and their place in hadron physics. I think we would like to start this discussion by asking for questions from the audience.
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Pion exchange contribution to baryon magnetic moments in QCD:an apparent paradox and its solution
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The relation between QCD and constituent quark models
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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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The General QCD parametrization and the hierarchy of its parameters: Why some simple models of hadrons work so well
After summarizing the basic points of the general QCD parametrization (GP) we discuss systematically its applications to the properties of the lowest families of baryons and mesons. We show how the hierarchy of the parameters in the GP emerges clearly in the properties of hadrons. Among other things, it explains why simple models can work reasonably well and clarifies the relationship between current and constituent quarks. More details on the hadron properties discussed with the GP appear from the list of secrions at the beginning of the paper.