121309706
Measurements of magnet quench levels induced by proton beam spray
A superconducting dipole magnet was installed in the Fermilab primary beam line. Targets were inserted in the proton beam upstream of the magnet and measurements made of the energy deposition within the magnet sufficient to cause quenching. The quench levels were 25 mW/g for 1 sec beam spill and 1 mJ/g for a spill of 1 msec or less. In comparison, the energy deposition at the extraction septum was 0.6 mJ/g.
45030934
Superconducting Delay Line for Stochastic Cooling Filters
The stochastic cooling system of the antiproton source at Fermilab uses notch filters for reducing the feedback power at frequencies corresponding to particles in the core. At the same time these filters assist in shaping the gain vs. momentum in the stack tail. These filters, therefore, must attenuate all the harmonics of the revolution frequency (629 kHz) in the operating frequency band (1-2 GHz). They require components providing delays of 1.59 microseconds with a minimum of attenuation and undesirable distortion in this passband. Transmission lines providing such delays are typically 328 m long, have a rather large diameter, and are fabricated from a high conductivity material to keep the attenuation sufficiently low. The use of superconductors allows a dramatic reduction in the diameter, total size, and cost of this component in spite of the added cryogenic requirements. The authors measured the performance of two such cables in order to demonstrate the feasibility of the superconducting cable-notch filter concept. The first cable is an 84 m long superconducting coax consisting of a solid Niobium inner conductor inside a teflon dielectric, a lead outer conductor, and an outer jacket of mylar tape. The second cable is a 1.0 km long coaxial line more » with an inner conductor of lead-plated copper wire, a FEP teflon dielectric, and an outer conductor of leadplated copper tape wrapped with mylar. This paper discusses the results of performance testing of both cables and assesses their compatibilities with notch filters. « less
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STACKTAIL MOMENTUM COOLING IN THE FERMILAB ANTIPROTON SOURCE
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Helium Refrigeration System and Cryogenic System for Superconducting Switchyard Magnets at Fermilab
The first Fermilab Satellite Refrigerator produced from commercially built components has been operated in the Switchyard in a stand alone mode. After some initial shakedown runs, it has been used to cool two magnetically opposed superconducting magnets in the external beam line to the Meson Laboratory. This equipment was installed as a test of the cryogenic system to be used in converting the entire major horizontal bend to superconducting magnets (currently containing 56 conventional 10 foot dipoles). We report here on the successful operation of the refrigerator, our operating experience with the cryo nic system, and the successful transport of 1.8 x 10'1 350 GeV protons per pulse through the magnets. The complete system was designed and built by Fermilab personnel. Process and component specification and design were shared by Fermilab and an independent consulting firm.1
11644763
Mechanical and Electrical Design of the Fermilab Lithium Lens and Transformer System
A lithium lens focusing device will be used for the collection of 8 GeV antiprotons in the Fermilab Tevatron I Project. The details of the mechanical and electrical design of the Fermilab lens and its associated toroidal transformer are discussed. The lens, with a radius of 1 cm and length 15 cm, is expected to achieve gradients of 1000 T/m for a focal distance of 0.225 m. The gradient requires a current on the order of 5x105A, resulting in large electromagnetic and thermal stresses. The power supply discharge current and the effect of the inductance of the power leads and connections are minimized by the use of a toroidal matching transformer surrounding the lens itself.
121309706
Measurements of magnet quench levels induced by proton beam spray
A superconducting dipole magnet was installed in the Fermilab primary beam line. Targets were inserted in the proton beam upstream of the magnet and measurements made of the energy deposition within the magnet sufficient to cause quenching. The quench levels were 25 mW/g for 1 sec beam spill and 1 mJ/g for a spill of 1 msec or less. In comparison, the energy deposition at the extraction septum was 0.6 mJ/g.
197461694
Evidence for the decay $X(3872)\rightarrow\psi(2S)\gamma$
Evidence for the decay mode $X(3872)\rightarrow\psi(2S)\gamma$ in $B^+\rightarrow X(3872)K^+$ decays is found with a significance of 4.4 standard deviations. The analysis is based on a data sample of proton-proton collisions, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3fb$^{-1}$ collected with the LHCb detector, at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8TeV. The ratio of the branching fraction of the $X(3872)\to\psi(2S)\gamma$ decay to that of the $X(3872)\rightarrow J/\psi \gamma$ decay is measured to be $$ \frac{Br(X(3872)\rightarrow\psi(2S)\gamma)}{Br(X(3872)\rightarrow J/\psi\gamma)} = 2.46\pm0.64\pm0.29, %\pm0.06,$$ where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic. The measured value agrees with expectations for a pure charmonium interpretation of the $X(3872)$ state and a mixture of charmonium and molecular interpretations. However, it does not support a pure $D\bar{D}^{*}$ molecular interpretation of the $X(3872)$state.
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Evidence for the decay $B_c^+ \rightarrow J/\psi 3\pi^+ 2\pi^-$
Evidence is presented for the decay $B_c+\rightarrow J/\psi 3\pi^+2\pi^-$ using proton-proton collision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3fb$^{-1}$, collected with the LHCb detector. A signal yield of $32\pm8$ decays is found with a significance of 4.5 standard deviations. The ratio of the branching fraction of the $B_c^+\rightarrow J/\psi 3\pi^+ 2\pi^-$ decay to that of the $B_c^+ \rightarrow J/\psi \pi^+$ decay is measured to be $$ \frac{Br (B_c^+ \rightarrow J/\psi 3\pi^+2\pi^)}{Br (B_c^+ \rightarrow J/\psi \pi^+)} = 1.74\pm0.44\pm0.24, $$ where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic.
122523656
A large Streamer Chamber muon tracking detector in a high-flux fixed-target application
Arrays of limited streamer tubes of the Iarocci type were deployed in our experiment at CERN as part of a forward muon detector system with provisions for the beam to pass through the center of each panel in the array. A total of 16 4 m x 4 m panels were assembled with inductive readout strips on both sides of each panel. An active feedback system. was deployed to regulate the high voltage to the streamer tubes to insure a constant efficiency for minimum ionizing particles. The arrays were operated in this environment for over five years of data taking. Streamer tube track-reconstruction efficiencies and tube replacement rates are reported. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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Design of an electron beam spectral modification system
We report the design of a spectral modification system (SMS) for use with the proposed NEAL linac-pulse stretcher ring, cw electron beam facility. The SMS allows tailoring of the energy distribution of electrons in beams produced by a pulsed linac operating in the transient beam loading (TBL) regime. Modification of the energy distribution of electrons injected into the pulse strecher ring will increase the duty factor of current extracted from the ring and improve the efficiency of the extraction process. Physically, the SMS consists of an anisochronous, achromatic magnetic lattice followed by a pair of traveling-wave accelerating sections. For beams in the energy range of 500 MeV to 4 GeV, TBL ripple on the energy envelope of microsecond long beam spills is expected to be reduced from 1% peak-peak to less than 0.01% while the desired width of the energy profile due to the phase extent of the microbunches in the beam spill is preserved.
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Measurement of the SMC muon beam polarisation using the asymmetry in the elastic scattering off polarised electrons
A muon beam polarimeter was built for the SMC experiment at the CERN SPS, for beam energies of 100 and 190 GeV. The beam polarisation is determined from the asymmetry in the elastic scattering off the polarised electrons of a ferromagnetic target whose magnetisation is periodically reversed. At muon energies of 100 and 190 GeV the measured polarisation is P-mu = -0.80 +/- 0.03 (stat.) +/- 0.02 (syst.) and P-mu = - 0.797 +/- 0.011 (stat.) +/- 0.012 (syst.), respectively. These results agree with measurements of the beam polarisation using a shape analysis of the decay positron energy spectrum. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.