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Muon capture for the front end of a muon collider
We discuss the design of the muon capture front end for a \mu+-\mu- Collider.
In the front end, a proton bunch on a target creates secondary pions that drift
into a capture transport channel, decaying into muons. A sequence of rf
cavities forms the resulting muon beams into strings of bunches of differing
energies, aligns the bunches to (nearly) equal central energies, and initiates
ionization cooling. The muons are then cooled and accelerated to high energy
into a storage ring for high-energy high luminosity collisions. Our initial
design is based on the somewhat similar front end of the International Design
Study (IDS) neutrino factory.Comment: 3 pp. Particle Accelerator, 24th Conference (PAC'11) 28 Mar - 1 Apr
2011: New York, US
Optimization of the Target Subsystem for the New g-2 Experiment
A precision measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment, , was previously performed at BNL with a result of 2.2 - 2.7 standard
deviations above the Standard Model (SM) theoretical calculations. The same
experimental apparatus is being planned to run in the new Muon Campus at
Fermilab, where the muon beam is expected to have less pion contamination and
the extended dataset may provide a possible deviation from the SM,
creating a sensitive and complementary bench mark for proposed SM extensions.
We report here on a preliminary study of the target subsystem where the
apparatus is optimized for pions that have favorable phase space to create
polarized daughter muons around the magic momentum of 3.094 GeV/c, which is
needed by the downstream g 2 muon ring.Comment: 4 pp. 3rd International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC 2012)
20-25 May 2012, New Orleans, Louisian
Coagulation kinetics beyond mean field theory using an optimised Poisson representation
Binary particle coagulation can be modelled as the repeated random process of
the combination of two particles to form a third. The kinetics can be
represented by population rate equations based on a mean field assumption,
according to which the rate of aggregation is taken to be proportional to the
product of the mean populations of the two participants. This can be a poor
approximation when the mean populations are small. However, using the Poisson
representation it is possible to derive a set of rate equations that go beyond
mean field theory, describing pseudo-populations that are continuous, noisy and
complex, but where averaging over the noise and initial conditions gives the
mean of the physical population. Such an approach is explored for the simple
case of a size-independent rate of coagulation between particles. Analytical
results are compared with numerical computations and with results derived by
other means. In the numerical work we encounter instabilities that can be
eliminated using a suitable 'gauge' transformation of the problem [P. D.
Drummond, Eur. Phys. J. B38, 617 (2004)] which we show to be equivalent to the
application of the Cameron-Martin-Girsanov formula describing a shift in a
probability measure. The cost of such a procedure is to introduce additional
statistical noise into the numerical results, but we identify an optimised
gauge transformation where this difficulty is minimal for the main properties
of interest. For more complicated systems, such an approach is likely to be
computationally cheaper than Monte Carlo simulation
Social Impact Summary : Dickey-Lincoln School Lakes Project / Prepared for the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, New England Division
The Dickey-Lincoln Hydroelectric Dam is a water resources project proposed by the Federal Government (U. S. Army Corps of Engineers). Therefore, in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act, the Corps of Engineers is required to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) on the project. A federal plan or project such as Dickey-Lincoln should take into account its effect upon man\u27s health, safety, welfare and economic well-being, as well as effects upon the surrounding environment. More importantly, project plans should be evaluated in a manner calculated to encourage harmony between man and his environment. In other words, project plans or policies which have adverse impacts upon the environment should be reexamined to see if they can be modified. This provides for mitigation of defined impacts
Summary of Labor Impacts During Construction : Dickey-Lincoln School Lakes Project
This study is to assess the effects or impacts of construction and operation of the Dickey-Lincoln hydroelectric project upon the people in the St. John Valley, Maine, and New England. Having determined the effects of the project, a second objective is to discuss mitigation of defined adverse impacts. More specifically, this study attempts to identify adverse impacts and deal with how to minimize such impacts if at all possible
Brief of Amicus Curiae C. Itoh and Company (America), Inc., In Support of Petitioner
ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIThttps://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/sumitomo_briefs/1018/thumbnail.jp
Geology and drilling history of the Ashida #1 geothermal test, Opihikao prospect, Hawaii
Discussion of the drilling program and interpretation of downhole geology based on cuttings samples from the Barnwell Ashida #1 well.For Barnwell Industries, Inc., Honolulu, Hawaii
Defects and boundary layers in non-Euclidean plates
We investigate the behavior of non-Euclidean plates with constant negative
Gaussian curvature using the F\"oppl-von K\'arm\'an reduced theory of
elasticity. Motivated by recent experimental results, we focus on annuli with a
periodic profile. We prove rigorous upper and lower bounds for the elastic
energy that scales like the thickness squared. In particular we show that are
only two types of global minimizers -- deformations that remain flat and saddle
shaped deformations with isolated regions of stretching near the edge of the
annulus. We also show that there exist local minimizers with a periodic profile
that have additional boundary layers near their lines of inflection. These
additional boundary layers are a new phenomenon in thin elastic sheets and are
necessary to regularize jump discontinuities in the azimuthal curvature across
lines of inflection. We rigorously derive scaling laws for the width of these
boundary layers as a function of the thickness of the sheet
Geology and drilling history of Lanipuna #1/sidetrack, Tokyo lands prospect, Hawaii
Discussion of the drilling program and interpretation of downhole geology based on cuttings samples from the Barnwell Lanipuna #1 sidetrack well.For Barnwell Industries, Inc., New York, New York
A scalable parallel finite element framework for growing geometries. Application to metal additive manufacturing
This work introduces an innovative parallel, fully-distributed finite element
framework for growing geometries and its application to metal additive
manufacturing. It is well-known that virtual part design and qualification in
additive manufacturing requires highly-accurate multiscale and multiphysics
analyses. Only high performance computing tools are able to handle such
complexity in time frames compatible with time-to-market. However, efficiency,
without loss of accuracy, has rarely held the centre stage in the numerical
community. Here, in contrast, the framework is designed to adequately exploit
the resources of high-end distributed-memory machines. It is grounded on three
building blocks: (1) Hierarchical adaptive mesh refinement with octree-based
meshes; (2) a parallel strategy to model the growth of the geometry; (3)
state-of-the-art parallel iterative linear solvers. Computational experiments
consider the heat transfer analysis at the part scale of the printing process
by powder-bed technologies. After verification against a 3D benchmark, a
strong-scaling analysis assesses performance and identifies major sources of
parallel overhead. A third numerical example examines the efficiency and
robustness of (2) in a curved 3D shape. Unprecedented parallelism and
scalability were achieved in this work. Hence, this framework contributes to
take on higher complexity and/or accuracy, not only of part-scale simulations
of metal or polymer additive manufacturing, but also in welding, sedimentation,
atherosclerosis, or any other physical problem where the physical domain of
interest grows in time
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