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Very High Precision Current Regulated Power Supplies for the Fermilab Antiproton Source
These Power Supplies were designed to power the accumulator and debuncher storage rings at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Antiproton Source. The accumulator and debuncher are both large acceptance 8 GeV storage rings. The accumulator ring has the most stringent requirements since it will be required to store beams for periods in excess of twenty four (24) hours. In order to ensure long term beam stability, resonances up to order eleven (11) must be avoided. Because of this stringent tuned stability requirement, the power supplies which power the three main quadrupole and the main dipole busses must be extremely stable. Thus the current regulation specification for these power supplies is 10 PPM (0.001%) including differential and common mode ripple, long term drift, and line and load regulation.
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Operational Experience with Tevatron I Antiproton Source
The secondaries are transported down the AP2 line into the Debuncher ring. The Debdncher ring has a 207 x 23~ transverse acceptance and 4% momentum acceptance. The antiprotons are then rotated using 4.2 MV of 53 MHz R.F. to .4% Ap/p in 80 turns and the adIabatically debunched to .2% APIP. The antiproton are then stochastically cooled for 2 seconds in the transverse planes with 2-4 GHz cooling systems to 771 x 77. The antiproton are then extracted from the Debuncher and transported across the D/A line to the Accumulator.
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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
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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.
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Quasi-Optimal Algorithms for the Control Loops of the Fermilab Energy Saver Satellite Refrigerator
The Cryogenic System of the Satellite Refrigerator for the Energy Saver Accelerator Ring comprises 12 interrelated closed loops and several open loops. A quasi-optimal algorithm to control the Cryogenic System, under different modes operation, is described. The constraints imposed to define these algorithms and the process followed to characterize the functional parameters are described. A report on the results obtained with the algorithms in a test facility will be presented.
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Anti-Proton Source Beam Position System
The TeV I Beam Position Monitor (BPM) system is designed to provide a useful diagnostic tool during the commissioning and operational phases of the antiproton source. Simply stated the design goal is to provide single turn position information for intensities of > 1x10/sup 9/ particles, and multi-turn (clocked orbit) information for beam intensities of > 1x10/sup 7/ particles, both with sub-millimeter resolution. It is anticipated that the system will be used during commissioning for establishing the first turn through the Debuncher and Accumulator, for aligning injection orbits, for providing information necessary to correct closed orbits, and for measuring various machine parameters (e.g. tunes, dispersion, aperture, chromaticity). During normal antiproton operation the system will be used to monitor the beam position throughout the accumulation process.
6449730
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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Observation of a resonance in $B^+ \to K^+ \mu^+\mu^-$ decays at low recoil
A broad peaking structure is observed in the dimuon spectrum of $B^+ \to K^+ \mu^+\mu^-$ decays in the kinematic region where the kaon has a low recoil against the dimuon system. The structure is consistent with interference between the $B^+ \to K^+ \mu^+\mu^-$ decay and a resonance and has a statistical significance exceeding six standard deviations. The mean and width of the resonance are measured to be $4191^{+9}_{-8}\mathrm{\,Me\kern -0.1em V/}c^2$ and $65^{+22}_{-16}\mathrm{\,Me\kern -0.1em V/}c^2$, respectively, where the uncertainties include statistical and systematic contributions. These measurements are compatible with the properties of the $\psi(4160)$ meson. First observations of both the decay $B^+ \to \psi(4160) K^+$ and the subsequent decay $\psi(4160) \to \mu^+\mu^-$ are reported. The resonant decay and the interference contribution make up 20\,% of the yield in the low recoil region, which is larger than theoretical estimates.
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Determination of the branching fractions of $B_{s}^{0} \to D_{s}^{\mp} K^{\pm}$ and $B^{0} \to D_{s}^{-} K^{+}$
Measurements are presented of the branching fractions of the decays $B_{s}^{0} \to D_{s}^{\mp} K^{\pm}$ and $B^{0} \to D_{s}^{-} K^{+}$ relative to the decays $B_{s}^{0} \to D_{s}^{-} \pi^{+}$ and $B^{0} \to D^{-} \pi^{+}$, respectively. The data used correspond to an integrated luminosity of 3.0 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collisions. The ratios of branching fractions are $\dfrac{\mathcal{B}(B_{s}^{0} \to D_{s}^{\mp} K^{\pm})}{\mathcal{B}(B_{s}^{0} \to D_{s}^{-} \pi^{+})} = 0.0752 \pm 0.0015 \pm 0.0019$ and $\dfrac{\mathcal{B}(B^{0} \to D_{s}^{-} K^{+})}{\mathcal{B}(B^{0} \to D^{-} \pi^{+})} = 0.0129 \pm 0.0005 \pm 0.0008,$ where the uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively.
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Computer Modeling of Internal Targets in Electron Storage Rings
The effect of thin (1-50 ¿gm/cm2) internal targets on beam quality in electron storage rings is evaluated. The internal target is modeled assuming that scattering is the result of elastic collisions between the beam electrons and the target nuclei. A screened coulomb potential is used and single and plural scattering mechanisms are included. A storage ring particle tracking code, DIMAT, was modified to include the internal target model and used to obtain the results discussed. Beam particle loss distributions and beam envelope "growth times" are given and discussed in light of damping mechanisms inherent in electron storage ring designs.
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Elastic electron scattering from c-12 and o-16
Abstract Electron scattering cross sections for carbon and oxygen between q = 1 fm −1 and 4 fm −1 are given. The data are analysed in terms of a phenomenological charge distribution and new information concerning the tail and the center of the charge distribution are obtained. The presence of dispersion effects appears to be necessary to explain the cross sections in the first diffraction minimum. The effect of a finite potential and short range correlations on the form factor are discussed.