Comparisons Of Equivalent Circuit Predictions With Measurements For Short Stacks Of RDDS1 Discs, And Their Potential Application To Improved Wakefield Prediction
In fabricating the first X-Band RDDS (Rounded Damped Detuned Structure) accelerator structure, microwave measurements are made on short groups of discs prior to bonding the discs of the entire structure. The design dispersion curves are compared with the frequency measurements. The theory utilized is based on a circuit model adapted to a short stack of slowly varying non-uniform discs. The model reveals the nature of the modes in the structure and may also be used to refit the experimental data to the parameters in a model of the wakefield given earlier . This method allows a more faithful determination of the wakefield that a beam will experience as it traverses the structure. Results obtained on the frequencies are compared to the original design.

title: Modeling and design of an X-band rf photoinjector
abstract: A design for an X-band rf photoinjector that was developed jointly by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is presented. The photoinjector is based around a 5.59 cell rf gun that has state-of-the-art features including: elliptical contoured irises; improved mode separation; an optimized initial half cell length; a racetrack input coupler; and coupling that balances pulsed heating with cavity fill time. Radio-frequency and beam dynamics modeling have been done using a combination of codes including PARMELA, HFSS, IMPACT-T, ASTRA, and the ACE3P suite of codes developed at SLAC. The impact of lower gradient operation, magnet misalignment, solenoid multipole errors, beam offset, mode beating, wakefields, and beam line symmetry have been analyzed and are described. Fabrication and testing plans at both LLNL and SLAC are discussed.

title: RF POWER SOURCES FOR LINEAR COLLIDERS
abstract: The next generation of linear colliders requires peak power sources of over 200 MW per meter at frequencies above 10 GHz at pulse widths of less than 100 nsec. Several power sources are under active development, including a conventional klystron with rf pulse compression, a relativistic klystron (RK) and a crossed-field amplifier. Power from one of these has energized a 0.5 meter two- section High Gradient Accelerator (HGA) and accelerated a beam at over 80 MeV meter. Results of tests with these experimental devices are presented here.

title: MANIFOLD DAMPING OF WAKEFIELDS IN HIGH PHASE ADVANCE LINACS FOR THE NLC
abstract: Earlier RDDS (Rounded Damped Detuned Structures) , designed, fabricated and tested at SLAC, in collaboration with KEK, have been shown to damp wakefields successfully. However, electrical breakdown has been found to occur in these structures and this makes them inoperable at the desired gradient. Recent results  indicate that lowering the group velocity of the accelerating mode reduces electrical breakdown events. In order to preserve the filling time of each structure a high synchronous phase advance (150 degrees as opposed to 120 used in previous NLC designs) has been chosen. Here, damping of the wakefield is analyzed. Manifold damping and interleaving of structure cell frequencies is discussed. These wakefields impose alignment tolerances on the cells and on the structure as a whole. Tolerance calculations are performed and these are compared with analytic estimations.

title: 50 MW X-BAND RF SYSTEM FOR A PHOTOINJECTOR TEST STATION AT LLNL
abstract: In support of X-band photoinjector development efforts at LLNL, a 50 MW test station is being constructed to investigate structure and photocathode optimization for future upgrades. A SLAC XL-4 klystron capable of generating 50 MW, 1.5 microsecond pulses will be the high power RF source for the system. Timing of the laser pulse on the photocathode with the applied RF field places very stringent requirements on phase jitter and drift. To achieve these requirements, the klystron will be powered by a state of the art, solid-state, high voltage modulator. The 50 MW will be divided between the photoinjector and a traveling wave accelerator section. A high power phase shifter is located between the photoinjector and accelerator section to adjust the phasing of the electron bunches with respect to the accelerating field. A variable attenuator is included on the input of the photoinjector. The distribution system including the various x-band components is being designed and constructed. In this paper, we will present the design, layout, and status of the RF system.

title: Measurements of Ultimate Accelerating Gradients in the SLAC Disk-Loaded Structure
abstract: The work reported here describes measurements made to study the maximum attainable accelerating gradients in a conventional SLAC disk-loaded accelerator section of the constant-gradient type running at 2856 MHz. The objective was to reach an accelerating gradient of at least 100 MV/m. The accelerating gradient at which the SLAC disk-loaded waveguide runs routinely is approx. 9 MV/m (36 MW tubes without SLED) and approx. 12 MV/m with SLED I (2.5 ..mu..sec pulse). To reach 100 MV/m in a conventional 3 m constant-gradient section, one would need a klystron with a peak power output of 900 MW. since such a tube is not available, we decided to use a short standing-wave section in which the resonant fields would be allowed to build up. The design criteria for this section, the fabrication, matching and tuning, the experimental set-up and the results are described below.

title: Twisted Gauge Theory Model of Topological Phases in Three Dimensions
abstract: We propose an exactly solvable lattice Hamiltonian model of topological phases in $3+1$ dimensions, based on a generic finite group $G$ and a $4$-cocycle $\omega$ over $G$. We show that our model has topologically protected degenerate ground states and obtain the formula of its ground state degeneracy on the $3$-torus. In particular, the ground state spectrum implies the existence of purely three-dimensional looplike quasi-excitations specified by two nontrivial flux indices and one charge index. We also construct other nontrivial topological observables of the model, namely the $SL(3,\mathbb{Z})$ generators as the modular $S$ and $T$ matrices of the ground states, which yield a set of topological quantum numbers classified by $\omega$ and quantities derived from $\omega$. Our model fulfills a Hamiltonian extension of the $3+1$-dimensional Dijkgraaf-Witten topological gauge theory with a gauge group $G$. This work is presented to be accessible for a wide range of physicists and mathematicians.

title: Measurement of branching fractions for B-->eta(c)K(*) decays.
abstract: We report measurements of branching fractions for charged and neutral B-->eta(c)K decays where the eta(c) meson is reconstructed in the K(0)(S)K+/-pi(-/+), K+K-pi(0), K(*0)K-pi(+), and pp; decay channels. The neutral B0 channel is a CP eigenstate and can be used to measure the CP violation parameter sin(2phi(1). We also report the first observation of the B0-->eta(c)K(*0) mode. The results are based on an analysis of 29.1 fb(-1) of data collected by the Belle detector at KEKB.

title: Measurement of wakefields generated in accelerator test structures using the SLC
abstract: Research is underway at SLAC to develop accelerator structures for the next generation linear collider. An important feature of the design is a detuning of the dipole moddes -of the cells to suppress the long-range transverse wakefield bptwo orders of magnitude. This paper describes a facility, called ASSET, that will be incorporated into the SLAC Linear Collider (SLC) to test the long-range wakefield suppression and also to measure the other components of the wakefields generated in accelerator test structures. _- 1 INTRGDUCTION The-designs being considered at SLAC for the Next Linear Collider (NLC) employ multi-bunch operation in a high acceleration -gradient X-band linac. The limitations in this _ __ approach come in part from the transverse and longitudinal wakefields generated in the accelerator structures of the linac. A particularly troublesome problem is the long-range transverse wakefield, -which if not controlled, will produce a large growth in the transverse motion of the bunches. The .currently favored cure for this problem is to detune the dipole mode frequencies of the cells of the structures so the sum of the wakefields generated in each structure decohere (l). Since a two orders of magnitude reduction is required, and the theoretical calculations of the suppression (2) have some uncertainty, it is important that the performance of the structures be verified before they are produced for use in an accelerator. Thus far, measurements of the wakefield suppression have been made on short-length detuned structures at Argonne's Advanced Accelerator Test Facility (3). Although the results look promising, this facility currently does not have the measurement precision required for the NLC structures being developed, nor the capability of measuring the wakefields beyond a few ns compared to the few hundred ns needed. In the future, the plan is to do the measurements at SLAC with a dedicated facility called the Accelerator Structure SETup or ASSET (4). It exploits the "asset" of the-SLC in its capability to independently inject two low emittance bunches (electrons and positrons) into the linac with individual control of the bunch timing and intensity. The layout for. ASSET. is shown in figure 1. It is divided into two sect*3 that.will take the place of the first two 3

title: Bonded wafer substrates for integrated detector arrays
abstract: Bonded wafer substrates that are optimized for integrating high-energy-particle silicon detector arrays with their readout electronics have been fabricated. The detectors are processed in the handle wafer, which is a 300- mu m-thick, high-resistivity, silicon wafer. This wafer is bonded to a primary wafer using a low-temperature process that does not affect the detector material. The support electronics are processed in the remnant of the primary wafer, which is a submicron-thick silicon film formed by a bond-and-etchback procedure. These two materials are isolated from each other by a radiation-hardened dielectric film. The integration process is based on a low-temperature, radiation-hardened VLSI CMOS process that is also shown not to seriously affect the detector material.

title: CS 5-4 survey toward nearby IR bright galaxies
abstract: With the observations of the CS 5-4 line toward a sample of 24 infrared bright galaxies using HHSMT, we detected CS 5-4 emission in 14 galaxies, including 12 ULIRGs/LIRGs and 2 nearby normal galaxies. As a good dense gas tracer, which has been well used for studying star formation in the Milky Way, CS 5-4 can trace the active star forming gas in galaxies. The correlation between CS 5-4 luminosity, which is estimated with detected CS 5-4 line emission, and infrared luminosity in these 14 galaxies is fitted with correlation coefficient of 0.939 and the slope close to unity. This correlation confirmed that dense gas, which is closely linked to star formation, is very important for understanding star formation in galaxies.