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The superconducting solenoid magnets for MICE
The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) is a channel of superconducting solenoid magnets. The magnets in MICE are around the RF cavities, absorbers (liquid or solid) and the primary particle detectors [1], [2]. The MICE superconducting solenoid system consists of eighteen coils that are grouped in three types of magnet assemblies. The cooling channel consists of two complete cell of an SFOFO cooling channel. Each cell consists of a focusing coil pair around an absorber and a coupling coil around a RF cavity that re-accelerates the muons to their original momentum. At the ends of the experiment are uniform field solenoids for the particle detectors and a set of matching coils used to match the muon beam to the cooling cells. Three absorbers are used instead of two in order to shield the detectors from dark currents generated by the RF cavities at high operating acceleration gradients.
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ESCAR Superconducting Magnet System
The ESCAR (Experimental Superconductinq Aqcelerator Ring) project has been described previously. , Twentyfour superconducting dipoles each about 1 meter long, provide the guide field for this proton acceleratorstorage ring. Injection of 50 MeV protons corresponds to a 3 kG central dipole field, and a peak proton energy of 4.2 GeV corresponds to a 46 kG central field. Thirtytwo quadrupoles provide focusing.
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PROGRESS ON THE SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNET FOR THE TIME PROJECTION CHAMBER EXPERIMENT (TPC) AT PEP
The TPC (Time Projection Chamber) experiment at PEP will have a two meter inside diameter superconducting magnet which creatests a 1.5 T uniform solenoidal field for the TPC. The superconducting magnet coil, cryostat, cooling system, and the TPC gas pressure vessel (which operatests at 11 atm) were designed to be about two thirds of a radiation length thick. As a result, a high current density coil design was chosen. The magnet is cooled by forced flow two phase helium. The TPC magnet is the largest adiabatically stable superconducting magnet built to date. The paper presents the parameters of the TPC thin solenoid and its subsystems. Tests results from the Spring 1980 cryogenic tes are presented. The topics to be dealt with in the paper are cryogenic services and the tests of magnet subsystems such as the folded current leads. Large thin superconducting magnet technology will be important to large detectors to be used on LEP.
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A compact-high performance NLC damping ring using high magnetic field bending magnets
We describe a 1.5 GeV damping ring for very low emittance e/sup /spl plusmn// beams that can be used for the NLC. A key feature of this system is the use of 7 T bending magnets to greatly reduce the size and cost of the storage ring as well as the tune and the damping ring while increasing the acceptance. We present only a preliminary study here.
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Superconducting magnets for induction linac phase-rotation in a neutrino factory
The neutrino factory[1-3] consists of a target section where pions are produced and captured in a solenoidal magnetic field. Pions in a range of energies from 100 Mev to 400 MeV decay into muons in an 18-meter long channel of 1.25 T superconducting solenoids. The warm bore diameter of these solenoids is about 600 mm. The phase rotation section slows down the high-energy muon and speeds up the low energy muons to an average momentum of 200 MeV/c. The phase-rotation channel consists of three induction linac channels with a short cooling section and a magnetic flux reversal section between the first and second induction linacs and a drift space between the second and third induction linacs. The length of the phase rotation channel will be about 320 meters. The superconducting coils in the channel are 0.36 m long with a gap of 0.14 m between the coils. The magnetic induction within the channel will be 1.25. For 260 meters of the 320-meter long channel, the solenoids are inside the induction linac. This paper discusses the design parameters for the superconducting solenoids in the neutrino factory phase-rotation channel.
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Quench back in thin superconducting solenoid magnets
Abstract Superconducting magnets with well coupled, low resistance, secondary circuits have been observed to become fully normal faster than quench propagation in the coil would permit. This process is referred to as ‘quench back’. Quench back observed at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) was caused by heating the secondary circuit from the current induced from the primary circuit as normal region in the superconducting coil propagated. This paper develops the theory for thermal quench back in thin solenoid magnets and compares this theory with measurements made in two one-meter diameter superconducting solenoid magnets.
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5 loops in 24/5 dimensions
A first quantised approach to loop amplitudes based on the pure spinor particle is applied to the systematics of four-particle amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric field theories. Counting of fermionic zero modes allows the identification of momentum factors multiplying $ {\mathcal{R}^4} $ in the case of supergravity (and F4 in the Yang-Mills case) thereby making manifest their ultraviolet properties as a function of dimension, D. For L = 2, 3, 4 loops the leading supergravity divergence is in D = 4 + 6/L dimensions and proportional to $ {\partial^{2L}}\ {\mathcal{R}^4} $, in line with earlier field theory calculations. However, at five loops there is a radical change in the systematics, suggesting the presence of a contribution with an explicit L = 5 logarithmic ultraviolet divergence when D = 24/5 that is proportional to $ {\partial^8}{\mathcal{R}^4} $. We further argue that $ {\partial^8}{\mathcal{R}^4} $ should receive contributions from all loops, which would imply that $ \mathcal{N} = 8 $ supergravity (with D = 4) is not protected by supersymmetry from a seven-loop divergence.
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Properties of the covariant formulation of superstring theories
Abstract The covariant two-dimensional action principle that describes the dynamics of free superstrings in a Minkowski background is reviewed. Covariant gauge conditions are formulated, which simplify the equations of motion of the superspace coordinates to free equations. In this gauge there are bosonic and fermionic constraints whose generators give a supersymmetric generalization of the Virasoro algebra. As in certain supersymmetric field theories, closure of the algebra requires using the equations of motion. Covariant constrained bracket relations are obtained for the classical theory, but it is very difficult to extend them to quantum mechanical commutation relations. Interaction vertices satisfying supersymmetry and the necessary gauge conditions are constructed. They reduce in a special frame to ones found in earlier work in the light-cone gauge, and then can be interpreted quantum mechanically.
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Supersymmetrical String Theories
A supersymmetrical light-cone-gauge string action is presented. It provides a basis for understanding the previously-studied supersymmetrical dual string theory as well as two new closed-string theories that have extended supersymmetry in ten dimensions, corresponding to N = 8 supersymmetry in four dimensions.
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The structure of superstring field theories
Abstract Superstring field theories involve two basic types of local interactions, which may be regarded as string generalizations of a cubic Yang-Mills coupling and a cubic gravity coupling. The higher-order contact terms of the low-energy effective supergravity field theories arise from the exchange of massive superstring states.
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Quantum mechanics of a twisted superparticle
Abstract This paper is devoted to the quantization of the ten-dimensional superparticle in the formulation, due to Siegel, in which the local fermionic symmetry is implemented using explicit gauge fields and in which momentum coordinates conjugate to the fermionic superspace coordinates are introduced. Here, a truncation of the complete N = 1 superparticle is considered (the complete superparticle is analysed in a separate paper). This “truncated model” (which was the first modified superparticle considered by Siegel) is shown to be invariant under a “twisted” N = 2 space-time supersymmetry, and a light-cone gauge analysis shows that the physical spectrum is a representation of this algebra which includes negative norm states. The Batalin-Vilkovisky method is used to covariantly quantize the system in two ways, one with an infinite number of ghost fields and one with only a finite number. In both cases, the BRST cohomology is analysed in detail. Our results illustrate certain general features: (i) In a formulation with gauge fields for the fermionic symmetries the invariance can be fixed by imposing gauge conditions on the gauge fields. This results in a free quantum action, without the need for the problematic field redefinitions that arise in earlier formulations in which gauge conditions are imposed on the spinorial coordinates. (ii) There is an interesting pattern for the infinite number of ghost-for-ghosts, which naturally divide into two sets. The first is an infinite sequence of gauge fields while the second is a set of ghosts for the corresponding sequence of gauge invariances. (iii) The infinite set of quantum fields packages into simple infinite-dimensional spinor representations of the supergroup OSp(9, 1 | 2). The cohomology classes are particularly easy to describe in terms of OSp(9, 1 | 2) spinor notation.