A New Design for ILC 3.2 km Damping Ring Based on FODO Cell
In this paper, we made a new design for ILC 3.2 km damping ring with 2 arcs based on FODO cell and 2 straight sections which are nearly the same as the new version of the 6.4 km ring DCO4 . This new lattice uses less magnets than DCO4 and less quadrupoles than the present SuperB like lattice , and has a freely tunable momentum compaction factor. The work of lattice design and dynamic aperture study will be presented in detail.  After ILC enter the Technical Design Phase 1 by the end of 2008, the Minimum Machine study  based on RDR baseline was launched as the essential strategy of cost-reduction. The term “minimum machine” which try to redesign the machine does not refer to any definable true minimum, but instead is a euphemism for higher level alternative design concepts which promise significant cost-reduction while maintaining the machine performance. With the new machine parameter, a reduction in the number of bunches by a factor of two allows a reduction by the same factor in the circumference of the damping ring, while keeping the current (bunch spacing) in the rings constant. To first order, this could result in a reduction of the damping rings’ cost by almost a factor of two. However, the actual cost savings will depend on the exact lattice design. The design study of ILC 6 km damping ring has started very early and gone through intense competition. The 6.4 km DCO4 based on FODO arc cell is the final version adopted by RDR baseline in 2008. But for the 3.2 km ring, the study which was started by the end of 2008 seems to be immature. The only existent design for the smaller ring is DSB3 based on SuperB lattice. Considering the advantage of FODO lattice such as smaller number of quadrupoles and sextupoles per cell, freely tuable momentum compaction, and better dynamic aperture, we try to make a new design for the smaller ring using FODO arc cell which can also provide a reference for DSB3 design. We named our new design as DMC1 for convenience. GLOBAL CONSIDERATION AND PARAMETER CALCULATION In our design, we adopted the racetrack structure as the 6.4 km baseline design (DCO4). The layout of our 3.2 km damping ring is shown in Figure 1 with the electron and positron beams counter-rotating in the two rings. The advantage of this kind of structure is that the ————————————— injection and extraction beam lines for e+ and erings can be in the same tunnel. Also, the rf section and wigglers are located near each other in order to minimize cryogenic transfer lines, while the rf section must be upstream to avoid the radiation damage.  Layout of the 3.2 km ILC damping ring. The first parameter should be considered before lattice design is the damping time. ILC damping ring has a very fast damping time (about 25 ms) which is decided by the 5 Hz machine repetition rate. The damping time for a damping ring is given by

title: Main linac lattice design and optimization for Ecm = 1 TeV CLIC
abstract: The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) is a future e+e− linear collider. The CLIC study concentrated on a design of center-of-mass energy of 3 TeV and demonstrated the feasibility of the technology. However, the physics also demands lower energy collision. To satisfy this, CLIC can be built in stages. The actual stages will depend on LHC results. Some specific scenarios of staged constructions have been shown in CLIC Concept Design Report (CDR). In this paper, we concentrate on the main linac lattice design for Ecm = 1 TeV CLIC aiming to upgrade from Ecm = 500 GeV CLIC and then to Ecm = 3 TeV one. This main linac accelerates the electron or positron beam from 9 GeV to 500 GeV. A primary lattice design based on the 3 TeV CLIC main linac design and its optimization based on the beam dynamics study will be presented. As we use the same design principles as 3TeV CLIC main linac, this optimization is basically identical to the 3 TeV one. All the simulations results are obtained using the tracking code PLACET.

title: Direct space-charge calculation in elegant and its application to the ilc damping ring
abstract: A direct space-charge force model has been implemented in the tracking code elegant [1]. The user can simulate transverse space-charge effects by inserting space- charge elements in the beamline at any desired position. Application to the international linear collider damping ring is presented in this paper. We simulated beam under equilibrium conditions, as well as the entire damping cycle from injection to extraction. Results show that beam halo is generated due to space-charge effects. This would be a significant concern for the ILC damping ring and a detailed follow-up study is needed.

title: The Mock LISA data challenges: from challenge 1B to challenge 3
abstract: The Mock LISA Data Challenges are a programme to demonstrate and encourage the development of LISA data-analysis capabilities, tools and techniques. At the time of this workshop, three rounds of challenges had been completed, and the next was about to start. In this paper we provide a critical analysis of the entries to the latest completed round, Challenge 1B. The entries confirm the consolidation of a range of data-analysis techniques for galactic and massive-black-hole binaries, and they include the first convincing examples of detection and parameter estimation of extreme-mass-ratio inspiral sources. In this paper we also introduce the next round, Challenge 3. Its data sets feature more realistic waveform models (e.g., galactic binaries may now chirp, and massive-black-hole binaries may precess due to spin interactions), as well as new source classes (bursts from cosmic strings, isotropic stochastic backgrounds) and more complicated nonsymmetric instrument noise.

title: Unified dark fluid with constant adiabatic sound speed and cosmic constraints
abstract: As is known above 90% of the energy content in Universe is made of unknown dark component. Usually this dark fluid is separated into two parts: dark matter and dark energy. However, it may be a mixture of these two energy components, or just one exotic unknown fluid. This property is dubbed as dark degeneracy. With this motivation, in this paper, a unified dark fluid having constant adiabatic sound speed $c_s^2=\alpha$, which is in the range $[0,1]$, is studied. At first, via the energy conservation equation, its energy density, $\rho_d/\rho_{d0}=(1-B_s)+B_s a^{-3(1+\alpha)}$ where $B_s$ is related to integration constant from energy conservation equation as another model parameter, is presented. Then by using Markov Chain Monte Carlo method with currently available cosmic observational data sets which include type Ia supernova Union 2, baryon acoustic oscillation and WMAP 7-year data of cosmic background radiation, we show that small values of $\alpha$ are favored in this unified dark fluid model. Furthermore, we show that smaller values of $\alpha<10^{-5}$ are required to match matter (baryon) power spectrum from SDSS DR7.

title: BEAM DYNAMICS IN THE LASER-ELECTRON STORAGE RING FOR A COMPTON X-RAY SOURCE
abstract: We present the lattice analysis and simulation study of the beam dynamics in the pulse mode of the laser-electron storage ring. Compton Scattering (CS), Intra-beam Scattering (IBS) with non-Gaussian beam and Synchrotron Radiation (SR) are taken into consideration. Emittance growth, energy spread and phase space of the electron beam, as well as spatial and temporal distribution of the scattered photon are studied in this paper.  The idea of utilizing a Laser-Electron Storage Ring (LESR) for the purpose of increasing frequency and luminosity of x-ray by means of Compton Scattering was proposed by Huang and Ruth in 1998 . There are two main operation mode proposed for this scheme: the steady mode and the pulse mode. In this paper, we focus on the pulse mode of the LESR, in which electron beams are injected and dumped at the frequency of 50Hz. We will present the lattice design, simulation method and simulation results in this paper.

title: Chain inflation reconsidered
abstract: We investigate density perturbations in the chain inflation scenario, where the inflaton undergoes successive tunneling transitions along one field direction. First we show that when the bubble walls associated with such a phase transition meet, they induce the next phase transition and continue to propagate as phase interfaces. Then we present an analytical calculation of the density fluctuations and an estimate of non-Gaussianities such as fNL, which we find to be small (of order 1). To get the right amplitude for the power spectrum, there have to be 108 phase transitions per Hubble time, a significant model building challenge. We find that working models of chain inflation must be rather strongly coupled, and thus have a very limited range of validity as effective field theories. We discuss generalizations to the multiple field case, the curvaton scenario, and noncanonical kinetic terms.