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

title: STACKTAIL MOMENTUM COOLING IN THE FERMILAB ANTIPROTON SOURCE

title: Large Dynamic Range Beam Profile Measurement in a High Background Environment
abstract: Beam profile measurements using a scanning target and loss monitor in the Fermilab Main Ring extraction channel have long proved their usefulness as a diagnostic method in analyzing extraction problems. To extend these measurements to a sensitivity greater than in the present system a different technique has been employed. A simple three element particle telescope viewing the scanning target allows a sensitive measurement of the tail on the edges of the beam profiles as well as the relative particle densities of the extracted beam and the circulating beam in the Main Ring. Both these regions are of significant interest in understanding extraction losses. The details of the profile measurement technique, some results using the telescope and possible methods of improving the measurements are discussed.

title: Mechanical and Electrical Design of the Fermilab Lithium Lens and Transformer System
abstract: 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.

title: Helium Refrigeration System and Cryogenic System for Superconducting Switchyard Magnets at Fermilab
abstract: 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

title: Very High Precision Current Regulated Power Supplies for the Fermilab Antiproton Source
abstract: 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.

title: A study of lithium deuteride as a material for a polarized target
abstract: Experiment E155 at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) measured the spin-dependent structure of the proton and neutron, using for the first time 6 LiD as the polarized deuteron target material in a high-energy electron beam. This compound provides a significantly higher dilution factor than any other solid deuteron target material currently used in high-energy physics experiments. Results of the polarization behavior of the 6 LiD target material before and after exposure to the 50 GeV/ c electron beam used in E155 are presented.

title: Implications of LHCb measurements and future prospects
abstract: During 2011 the LHCb experiment at CERN collected 1.0 fb−1 of $\sqrt{s} = 7\mbox{~TeV}$pp collisions. Due to the large heavy quark production cross-sections, these data provide unprecedented samples of heavy flavoured hadrons. The first results from LHCb have made a significant impact on the flavour physics landscape and have definitively proved the concept of a dedicated experiment in the forward region at a hadron collider. This document discusses the implications of these first measurements on classes of extensions to the Standard Model, bearing in mind the interplay with the results of searches for on-shell production of new particles at ATLAS and CMS. The physics potential of an upgrade to the LHCb detector, which would allow an order of magnitude more data to be collected, is emphasised.

title: THE NATIONAL ELECTRON ACCELERATOR LABORATORY

title: LHCb detector performance
abstract: The LHCb detector is a forward spectrometer at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The experiment is designed for precision measurements of CP violation and rare decays of beauty and charm hadrons. In this paper the performance of the various LHCb sub-detectors and the trigger system are described, using data taken from 2010 to 2012. It is shown that the design criteria of the experiment have been met. The excellent performance of the detector has allowed the LHCb collaboration to publish a wide range of physics results, demonstrating LHCb's unique role, both as a heavy flavour experiment and as a general purpose detector in the forward region.

title: Off-shell effects in quasielastic electron nucleus scattering
abstract: Using the Ward-Takahashi identity, on-shell condition, bound Dirac equation and off-shell expansion, a reduced version of half off-shell virtual photon nucleon vertex has been suggested. The vertex are decomposed into several different order terms: the on-shell terms, first and second off-shell terms. The off-shell behaviour of the form factors is discussed in the one meson loop model. Using the reduced vertex and parametrized off-shell form factors the quasielastic response functions are calculated for several nuclei at ¦q¦–kf and for56Fe at large ¦q¦ up to 1.14 GeV/c and at −q2=0.9 (GeV/c)2. The Coulomb sums are evaluated and a comparison of the theoretical prediction with data is given. The off-shell electron nucleon cross section is calculated and compared with the “cc1” off-shell extrapolation.