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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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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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GENERATION OF HIGH-ENERGY ELECTRON BEAM BY LASER-PLASMA ACCELERATOR
An energy gain of the monoenergetic component of electrons γ were successfully increased to 25 MeV by decreasing an electron density ne to 4 × 1019cm-3 and increasing a laser power PL to 4 TW. An empirical scaling law of the energy gain of γ ∝ PL/ne was derived from the experiment. A forward scattering spectrum of the laser pulse showed anti-Stokes satellite peaks up to third-order harmonics around a second harmonic light and a Stokes satellite peak around a laser wavelength, which indicated that a wakefield was excited in a self-modulation laser wakefield regime. A density modulation of wakefield was estimated at 60 ± 10 % from intensity ratios of satellite peaks. The empirical scaling law well agrees with results obtained at other institutes by using higher laser power of 10 ~ 30 TW.
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Residual gas analysis and electron cloud measurement of DLC and TiN coated chambers at KEKB LER
For future high-intensity positron or proton accelerators, beam instability caused by electron cloud is one of the most important problems. Some coatings on inner surface of beam chambers with materials having low secondary emission yields such as titanium nitride (TiN), nonevaporable getter and so on have represented good effects against the electron cloud instability. In this study, diamond like carbon (DLC) and TiN coated chambers, and a copper chamber without coating were installed to an arc section of KEKB LER to make comparisons of total pressure, residual gas components and electron cloud activity during the beam operation under the same condition. Residual gas observation for the DLC coating revealed much higher hydrogen gas desorption because a process gas including hydrogen was used for the film growth. No remarkable hydrocarbon gas desorption was found. On the other hand, a mass peak of amu = 14, that is N was prominent in the TiN coating. The electron cloud activity in the DLC coating was lower than the TiN coating and the copper chamber.
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Recent progress of KEKB
We summarize the machine operation of KEKB during past one year focusing on progress for this period.
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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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Differential cross sections of neutral pion photoproduction from hydrogen in the energy region from 390 MeV to 975 MeV
The differential cross sections of the reaction γp→π0p have been measured at photon energies between 390 MeV and 975 MeV with an energy step of 20 or 25 MeV. The angular region covers 11 angles between 15° and 130° in the c.m.s. A combination of a magnetic spectrometer and photon detector was used for the measurement in the angular region from 50° to 130°. At forward angles of 15°, 35° and 50°, π0 mesons were detected using a π0 detector consisting of a pair of photon detectors. The data obtained with two different detection systems overlap at the angle of 50° and coincide with each other within the experimental error. The results are compared with those of phenomenological partial-wave analyses.
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Coherent bremsstrahlung from the internal target of the 1.3 GeV electron synchrotron
Abstract A Si single crystal has been mounted on the conventional internal target holder of the 1.3 GeV electron synchrotron at the Institute for Nuclear Study, Tokyo. The energy spectrum measured with the pair spectrometer has a clear enhancement due to the coherent bremsstrahlung process. The linear polarization of the photon beam thus obtained is estimated to be 27% and 10% at the photon energy of 200 and 540 MeV, respectively.
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An Attempt to Describe Frequency-Correlations among kHz QPOs and HBOs by Two-Armed Vertical p-Mode Oscillations: Case of No Magnetic Field
The trapping of two-armed (m = 2) vertical p-mode oscillations in relativistic disks is examined. The disks are assumed to be isothermal in the vertical direction, but are truncated at a certain height by the presence of corona. The same issues were examined in a previous paper (Kato 2012a). In this paper, unlike the previous paper, however, we do not use the approximation that the oscillations are nearly vertical, but limit to a simpler case of no magnetic field. As in the previous paper, the results suggest that the two basic oscillation modes [both are the fundamental (n = 1) in the vertical direction, but in the horizontal direction one is the fundamental (nr = 0) and the other the first overtone (nr = 1)] correspond to the twin kHz QPOs. Second, the oscillation mode, which is the first overtone (n = 2) in the vertical direction and the fundamental in the horizontal direction (nr = 0), will correspond to the horizontal branch oscillation (HBO) of Z-sources. The latter suggests that the horizontal branch of Z-sources is a sequence of temperature change in disks whose vertical thickness is strongly terminated. The temperature increases leftward along the sequence from the apex between the normal and horizontal branches.
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Differential cross sections of proton compton scattering in the resonance region
Differential cross sections of proton Compton scattering have been measured in the energy range between 375 MeV and 1150 MeV in steps of 25 MeV at c.m. angles of 130°, 100° and 70°. The recoil proton was detected with a magnetic spectrometer. In coincidence with the proton, the scattered photon was detected with a lead-glass Cerenkov counter of the total absorption type. 
 
Theoretical calculations based on an isobar model with two components, that is, the resonance plus the background, were practiced. The photon couplings of the second resonance region were determined from the proton Compton data for the firs time. The results were that the helicity 12 photon couplings of P11(1470) and S11(1535), and the helicity 32 photon coupling of D13(1520) were consistent with those determined from the single-pion photoproduction data; however, the helicity 12 photon coupling of D13(1520) required a somewhat larger value than that from the single-pion photoproduction data.
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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/.