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Cavity Performances in the 1.3 GHz Saclay / KEK Nb Cavities
Three single-cell cavities, which had been tested at KEK, were sent t o Saclay in order to compare the cavity performance. Two cavities made f r om Japanese niobium materials were fabricated and tested at Saclay. These cavities were prepared by the Saclay's standard surface treatment. Quench field, quench location and RRR in the cavity were measured in each cav i ty test. Their changes due to additional surface removal and heat t reatment were investigated. Qo degradation without electrons at high fields was observed in every cavity test.
137182571
A New Material Evaluation Method on Niobium by Magnetization Measurement
As a new evaluation method for the material defects or surface contamination of niobium, we have tried magnetization measurement using very small niobium samples. We could see the hyst~resis curve varied depending on the sample's history. This method has a high sensitivity. Th~ m.f1uence ?y surface treatments was observed on the hysteresis curve; annealing, chemical p~hshmg, Q-dlsease due to hydrogen etc .. In this paper we will report several study results by this method.
94312812
High Field Studies on L-band Superconducting Cavities at KEK
Several 1.3 GHz single-cell and nine-cell niobium cavities were fabricated to attain a higher maximum accelerating gradient and to understand the phenomena limiting it. Vertical cold tests at {approx}1.8 K for the 4 single-cell cavities prepared by various surface treatments have been conducted 15 times. In eight of the tests, maximum accelerating gradients (E{sub acc}, max) of more than 14 MV/m were obtained with no field emission. Furthermore, E{sub acc}, max values of higher than 20 MV/m with a high Q{sub 0} value of {approx}10{sup 10} were achieved repeatedly after heat treatment at 1400 degrees C. Once quenching was observed at E{sub acc}, max (14 {approx} 20 MV/m), however, a common phenomenon resulting in Q{sub 0}-deterioration occurred in every test. The cavity performances and the phenomenon at high fields are reported in this paper.
6846765
HIGHER HARMONICS BEAM LOADING COMPENSATION FOR A BROAD BAND MA-LOADED RF CAVITY
A broad band RF cavity loaded with magnetic alloy cores has been developed for the Japanese Hadron Facility synchrotrons. Its Q-value can be chosen at between 0.5 and 5. To reduce transient beam loading effects, a small Qvalue (< 3) is preferable to shorten the transient period. However, the circulating beam current of up to 7 A will induce a spurious voltage at the accelerating gap, which deforms the gap voltage due to higher harmonics components, if the Q-value is less than 3. The resulting RFbucket distortion may cause the beam loss. Therefore we have designed a beam loading compensation system to suppress the higher harmonics components.
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Characteristics of the results of measurement on 1.3 GHz high gradient superconducting cavities
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Improvement of cavity performance by electropolishing in the 1.3 GHz Nb superconducting cavities
A steep drop of the cavity quality factor (Q/sub 0/) at high electric field has been observed frequently in chemically-polished and high-pressure-rinsed Saclay cavities, even in the absence of field emission. Three single-cell cavities from Saclay were tested at KEK following electropolishing and high pressure rinsing. This treatment eliminated the steep Q/sub 0/ drop, the quench field increased to an accelerating gradient of more than 30 MV/m with a quality factor above 2/spl times/10/sup 10/. No dependence of the quench field on the niobium RRR was observed between RRR=200 and 320 in electropolished cavities.
55610926
EVALUATION OF MAGNETIC ALLOYS FOR JHF RF CAVITY
A new type of rf accelerating cavity using a high permeability magnetic alloy (MA) has been developed for the high intensity JHF proton synchrotrons. Compared with ordinary ferrites, the MA cores are very stable at high rf magnetic field and thus very high accelerating gradient (=accelerating voltage per cavity length) is available. We have measured several magnetic alloys in order to find a proper material for the cavity. In this paper, the test results are summarized and the evaluation of these materials is presented.
16595187
Luminosity Dependence of the Electron Temperature in the Bright Hard State of the Black Hole Candidate GX 339–4
We have analyzed 200 Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observations of the black hole candidate GX 339� 4, all from bright hard state periods between 1996 and 2005. The purpose of our study is to investigate the radiation mechanisms in the hard state of GX 339� 4. The broadband 3–200 keV spectra were successfully modeled by as imple analytic model, power-law with an exponential cut-off modified with a smeared edge. The obtained energy cut-off (Ecut )w as distributed over 50–200 keV, and the photon index over 1.4–1.7. We found a clear anti-correlation (Ecut / L � 0:70˙0:06 )b etween the X-ray luminosity (L )i n2–200 keV and Ecut ,w henL is larger than 7 � 10 37 erg s � 1 (assuming a distance of 8 kpc), while Ecut is roughly constant at around 200 keV when L is smaller than 7 � 10 37 erg s � 1 .T his anti-correlation remained unchanged by adopting a more physical thermal Comptonization model, which resulted in an anti-correlation that can be expressed as kTe / L � 0:24˙0:06 .T hese anti-correlations can be quantitatively explained by a picture in which the energy-flow rate from protons to electrons balances with inverse Compton cooling.
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Neutron Star Properties in the Chiral Quark–Meson Coupling Model
We study the properties of neutron stars using the chiral quark–meson coupling model, in which the quark–quark hyperfine interaction due to the exchanges of gluon and pion based on chiral symmetry is considered. We also examine the effects of hyperons and Δ-isobars in a neutron star. Extending the SU(6) spin-flavor symmetry to more general SU(3) flavor symmetry in the vector–meson couplings to baryons, the maximum mass of neutron star can reach the recently observed massive pulsar mass, $${1.97 \pm 0.04 M_{\odot}}$$. In this calculation, Λ and Ξ are generated in a neutron star, while Σ and Δ-isobars do not appear.
13952308
Meson mixing amplitudes in asymmetric nuclear matter
Abstract Using a purely hadronic model, we study the charge-symmetry-breaking ρ – ω , σ – δ , σ – ρ and δ – ω mixing amplitudes in isospin asymmetric nuclear matter. The basic assumption of the model is that the mixing amplitude is generated by nucleon and antinucleon loops and hence driven entirely by the difference between proton and neutron Fermi momenta and the proton–neutron mass difference. We find that the behavior of the mixing amplitude is very complicated in the spacelike region and quite sensitive to the proton fraction of nuclear medium and nuclear density. In particular, in neutron rich nuclei (like Pb) and/or neutron stars the mixing amplitudes become about 10∼100 times as large as those in typical mirror nuclei.
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A New type of RF cavity for high intensity proton synchrotron using high permeability magnetic alloy
A new type of rf accelerating cavity using a high-permeability magnetic alloy (MA) core is proposed for a highintensity hadron synchrotron. The prototype of a single-gap high gradient cavity whose total length is only 40cm is under development and a maximum rf voltage of 20kV has been obtained so far.