118820620
Magnetic field measurement and compensation in the Recycler Electron Cooler
Cooling of 8.9‐GeV/c antiprotons in the Recycler Electron Cooler requires a round 4.34‐MeV electron beam with a small angular spread propagating through a 20‐m long cooling section. To confine the electron beam tightly and to keep its total transverse angles below 0.2 mrad the cooling section is immersed in a solenoidal field of 50–200 G. The field was measured with a compass‐based sensor (transversal) and a hall‐probe (longitudinal) after installation of the solenoids into the Recycler tunnel. For the field strength of 105 G, the transverse field components were compensated to the level that provided corresponding dipole beam oscillations below 0.1 mrad, which in turn allowed the first cooling of antiprotons in the GeV energy range. This paper discusses the field measurements and compensation scheme including the results of dipole oscillation measurements.
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>>
118674965
Operation and improvements of the Fermilab 400 MeV Linac
The 400 MeV Fermilab Linac Upgrade commissioning began August 28, 1993. High energy physics collider operation (run 1b) began in November 1993 and ended March 1, 1996. The Linac, operating at 98% reliability, provided 400 MeV H{sup -} beam to the Booster and 66 MeV H{sup -} beam to the Neutron Therapy Facility. During this time, the beam intensity, which initially was administratively set to 35 MA, rose to a peak of 50 mA while losses decreased significantly. This paper discusses the Linac operation and reliability since the Upgrade.
113925183
Factors Affecting H- Beam Performance in the Fermilab Linac
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.
110755788
Fermilab linac injector, revisited
The Fermilab Linac has been operating at 200 MeV since 1971 and was upgraded to 400 MeV in 1993 with a peak current of /spl sim/35 mA. The injector consists of a Haefely Cockcroft-Walton, H/sup -/ source, an high gradient accelerating column (750 kV), 4 and 10 meter long transfer lines and a single gap 201.24 MHz cavity. The performance of the injector has been very gratifying although some tuning must be done approximately daily. The purpose of this report is to present representative experimental data and numerical simulations that are used as a guide for improvements to the Fermilab Linac. Today, the Fermilab Linac delivers a 400 MeV H/sup -/ beam with a peak current over 45 mA.
119202385
Equation of state at non-zero baryon density based on lattice QCD
We employ the lattice QCD data on Taylor expansion coefficients to extend our previous parametrization of the equation of state to finite baryon density. When we take into account lattice spacing and quark mass dependence of the hadron masses, the Taylor coefficients at low temperature are equal to those of hadron resonance gas. Parametrized lattice equation of state can thus be smoothly connected to the hadron resonance gas equation of state at low temperatures.
125171654
Lattice QCD thermodynamic results with improved staggered fermions
We present results on the QCD equation of state, obtained with two different improved dynamical staggered fermion actions and almost physical quark masses. Lattice cut-off effects are discussed in detail as results for three different lattice spacings are available now, i.e. results have been obtained on lattices with temporal extent of Nτ=4,6 and 8. Furthermore we discuss the Taylor expansion approach to non-zero baryon chemical potential and present the isentropic equation of state on lines of constant entropy per baryon number.
18306849
Status of the BFKL Resummation Program
I discuss the calculation of the next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) corrections to the BFKL resummation, as well as some of the issues that arise in this formalism at NLL. In particular I consider the large size and apparent instability of the corrections, and I address some of the attempts to understand and tame them.
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.
6678978
Ultrahigh-energy neutrino–nucleon cross sections and perturbative unitarity
Abstract Unitarity relates the total cross section for neutrino–nucleon scattering to the neutrino–nucleon forward scattering amplitude. Assuming the validity of the perturbative expansion of the forward amplitude in the weak coupling constant, we derive a unitarity bound on the inelastic cross section. The inelastic cross section saturates this bound at a typical neutrino energy E ν ≃10 8  GeV. This implies that calculations of the inelastic cross section that use current parton distribution functions and lowest order weak perturbation theory are unreliable above this energy.