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Status and perspectives of the electron cooling device under construction at CERN
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Experiments on a 14.5 GHz ECR Source
A device for measuring the speed of the wind at medium altitude by the Doppler effect within the visible frequency range comprises a laser which emits pulses of light, a telescope which receives a scattered light and an interferometer used to measure the spectral shift of the scattered light in relation to the emitted pulse of light. The interferometer is a Fabry-Perot interferometer in which a part of one of the two mirrors of the interferometer is covered with an excess thickness of silica to form two separate filters. The spacing of the two mirrors and the excess thickness of silica are determined in such a manner that the pass bands of each one of the two filters thus constructed are centered on the flanks of the spectral distribution of the backscattered light.
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Status and first beam measurements on the CERN RFQ
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The LHC Lead Ion Injector Chain
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Studies on ECR4 for the CERN ion program
The CERN heavy ion community, and some other high energy physics experiments, are starting to demand other ions, both heavy and light, in addition to the traditional lead ions. Studies of the behavior of the afterglow for different operation modes of the ECR4 at CERN have been continued to try to understand the differences between pulsed afterglow and continuous operation, and their effect on ion yield and beam reproducibility. The progress in adapting the source and ion beam characteristics to meet the new demands will be presented, as will new information on voltage holding problems in the extraction.
119401628
The Electron Cooling Device for LEAR
The experiments1,2,3 in which low energetic protons were cooled by a “cold” electron beam have proved that this method is a very powerful technique to improve low energy beams and to increase their phase space density by several orders of magnitude in short times. The theoretical understanding of the cooling process is well advanced4,5,6. The applications of this technique, which was invented and developed in Novosibirsk, are manifold7. It seems to be clear that its main domain is the cooling of non-relativistic ions. However, also at extremely high energies, cooling of protons and antiprotons with stored electrons (cooled themselves by synchrotron radiation) can be contemplated8,9.
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Status of the top‐quark
A brief review of current predictions and bounds on the mass of the t-quark is presented. Most involve new ideas based on Grand Unification.
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Models and new phenomenological implications of a class of pseudo-Goldstone bosons
Abstract Light pseudo-Goldstone bosons, with mixed CP quantum numbers leading to scalar couplings, can arise naturally in extensions of the standard model. We study several models in detail, including supersymmetric and flavour symmetric theories containing invisible axions and these new objects. They yield new phenomenological implications: (1) potentially detectable long-range forces; (2) quark and lepton masses and mixing angles sensitive to the classical background field; (3) finite gauge-coupling renormalizations in classical fields; and (4) ƒ axion can be raised to 10 15 GeV by resonant de-excitation. The possibility of experimental detection of variations in masses, charges and mixing angles is discussed in some detail.
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Operational experience and performance of the CDFII silicon detector
The CDFII silicon detector consists of 8 layers of double-sided silicon micro-strip sensors totaling 722,432 readout channels, making it one of the largest silicon detectors in present use by an HEP experiment. After nearly 2 years of data taking, we report on our experience operating the complex device. The performance of the CDFII silicon detector is presented and its effect on physics analyses is discussed. The CDFII silicon detector has begun to show measurable effects of radiation damage. These results and their impact on the expected lifetime of the detector are briefly reviewed.
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Anomalies and effective lagrangians of superconducting cosmic strings
We study the effective lagrangians of superconducting cosmic strings and the underlying anomaly structure leading to various effects. We show that fermionic superconducting cosmic (Nielsen-Olesen) strings arise as a consequence of a mixed anomaly of the form E · B′ where E is the electromagnetic field strength and B′ the core flux of the string. We show how this controls superconductivity, the index theorems, topological mass terms on domain walls, and string-axion interactions. We contrast this to global strinfs with Chern-Simons currents.
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Anomaly mediated neutrino-photon interactions at finite baryon density.
We propose new physical processes based on the axial vector anomaly and described by the Wess-Zumino-Witten term that couples the photon, Z-boson, and the omega-meson. The interaction takes the form of a pseudo-Chern-Simons term, approximately E(munurhosigma)omega(mu)ZnuFrhosigma. This term induces neutrino-photon interactions at finite baryon density via the coupling of the Z-boson to neutrinos. These interactions may be detectable in various laboratory and astrophysical arenas. The new interactions may account for the excess observed at the Fermilab Booster Neutrino Experiment MiniBooNE. They also produce a competitive contribution to neutron star cooling at temperatures greater, similar10(9) K. These processes and related axion-photon interactions at finite baryon density appear to be relevant in many astrophysical regimes.