NEG Coating at RHIC

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Measurements of the helium propagation at 4.4 K in a 480 m long stainless steel pipe

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), with two concentric rings 3.8 km in circumference, uses superconducting magnets to focus the high energy beams. Each sextant of RHIC will have continuous cryostats up to 480 m in length housing the magnets and the cold beam pipes. For an acceptable lifetime of the stored beam, the pressure in the cold beam pipe will be < 10{sup {minus}11} Torr. The characteristics of He pressure front propagation due to He leaks will be of importance for beam lifetimes and for vacuum monitoring due to the high vapor pressure of He at 4.4 K, even with small surface coverage. The travel of the He pressure fronts along a 480 m long, 6.9 cm I.D. stainless steel beam pipe cooled to 4.4 K has recently been measured during the RHIC first sextant test. The experiment was carried out over a 12-day period by bleeding in a calibrated He leak of 3 {times} 10{sup {minus}5} Torr{center_dot}l/s (20 C) while measuring the He pressures along this 480 m cold tube at {approximately} 30 m intervals. The measured speed of the pressure fronts and the pressure profiles are summarized and compared with the calculated ones

Low secondary electron yield engineered surface for electron cloud mitigation

Secondary electron yield (SEY or δ) limits the performance of a number of devices. Particularly, in high-energy charged particle accelerators, the beam-induced electron multipacting is one of the main sources of electron cloud (e-cloud) build up on the beam path; in radio frequency wave guides, the electron multipacting limits their lifetime and causes power loss; and in detectors, the secondary electrons define the signal background and reduce the sensitivity. The best solution would be a material with a low SEY coating and for many applications δ < 1 would be sufficient. We report on an alternative surface preparation to the ones that are currently advocated. Three commonly used materials in accelerator vacuum chambers (stainless steel, copper, and aluminium) were laser processed to create a highly regular surface topography. It is shown that this treatment reduces the SEY of the copper, aluminium, and stainless steel from δmax of 1.90, 2.55, and 2.25 to 1.12, 1.45, and 1.12, respectively. The δmax further reduced to 0.76-0.78 for all three treated metals after bombardment with 500 eV electrons to a dose between 3.5 × 10-3 and 2.0 × 10-2 C·mm-2

Pressure Rise in Run6 and Related Issues

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Effects of Surface Monolayers on the Electron-Transfer Kinetics and Adsorption of Methyl Viologen and Phenothiazine Derivatives on Glassy Carbon Electrodes

Five organic redox systems were examined in aqueous electrolytes on polished and chemically modified glassy carbon (GC), to evaluate the effects of surface structure on the heterogeneous transfer rate constant, k°. Methyl viologen reduction to its cation radical exhibited a voltammetric peak potential difference which was insensitive to surface modification, with k°decreasing by only 50% when a chemisorbed monolayer was present. Methylene blue and three other phenothiazines adsorbed to polished GC, but the adsorption was suppressed by surface modification. For all four phenothiazines, chemisorbed or physisorbed monolayers of electroinactive species had minor effects on k°, with a compact nitrophenyl monolayer decreasing k°by 50%. This minor change in k°was accompanied by a major decrease in adsorption, apparently due to inhibition of dipole-dipole or π-π interactions between the phenothiazine and GC. Chlorpromazine oxidation to its cation radical was studied in more detail, under conditions where adsorption was suppressed. A plot of the natural log of the observed rate constant vs the monolayer thickness for a variety of chemisorbed monolayers was linear, with a slope of -0.22 Å -1 . The observations are consistent with a through-bond electron-tunneling mechanism for electron transfer to all five redox systems studied. The tunneling constant for CPZ of 0.22 Å -1 is between that reported for electron tunneling through conjugated polyene spacers (0.14 Å -1 ) and that reported for phenyl-methylene spacers (0.57 Å -1 ), on the basis of long-range electron transfer in rigid molecules. Through a variety of efforts from many laboratories, significant progress has been made toward understanding the electrochemical behavior of widely used carbon electrodes. 1-7 Since sp 2 carbon surfaces are difficult to prepare reproducibly and are prone to degradation via oxidation and impurity adsorption, our understanding of the behavior of carbon electrodes has lagged that of metal electrodes, particularly mercury ones. This situation improved dramatically after more attention was paid to surface preparation and the number of uncontrolled surface variables was reduced. In particular, several landmarks indicating reproducible performance of sp 2 carbon electrodes, mainly glassy carbon (GC), have been achieved: 1. Determination of the rapid heterogeneous electron-transfer rate constants (k°), for outer-sphere systems (e.g., Ru(NH 3 ) 6 +3/+2 k°&gt; 0.2 cm/s), 8,9 comparable to those observed on Au and Pt. 10 2. Preparation of low-oxide (O/C &lt; 2%) carbon surfaces which retain their low oxide levels for at least one month in air. 11,12 3. Structural characterization of organic monolayers and submonolayers on carbon with Raman spectroscopy. [13][14][15] 4. Correlation of specific surface sites with electrocatalytic activity for various redox systems, including ascorbic acid, NADH, Fe 3+/2+ , etc. 8,[16][17][18][19] 5

Outgassing rate of the copper-plated beam tube for ISABELLE

The ultrahigh vacuum system of the intersecting storage accelerator, ISABELLE, will consist of two interlaced rings of stainless steel beam tubes with a circumference 2-1/2 miles each. To obtain a good heat conduction during bakeout and to reduce the resistive wall instability during beam operation, a lmm thick copper coating will be electroplated to the outer surface of this 1.5 mm thick beam tube. To minimize the beam loss due to beam-gas collision, the pressure inside the beam tube is required to be 1 x 10/sup -11/ Torr (N/sub 2/ equivalent) or less. To achieve this ultrahigh vacuum, the outgassing rate of the 304 LN stainless steel tubes has been reduced to approx. 1 x 10/sup -13/ Torr. l/cm/sup 2/. sec by vacuum firing at 950/sup 0/C for one hour. However, during acid-bath electroplating of copper, significant amount of hydrogen will be reintroduced and trapped in stainless steel which will substantially increase the outgassing rate (to approx. 2 x 10/sup -12/ Torr . l/cm/sup 2/ sec). The outgassing characteristics of these copper-plated beam tubes are studied and discussed within the scope of diffusion and energy of activation. Methods to reduce the outgassing rate to an acceptable level (approx. 1 x 10/sup -13/ Torr . l/cm/sup 2/ . sec) are also given

A Reinforcement Learning Badminton Environment for Simulating Player Tactics (Student Abstract)

Recent techniques for analyzing sports precisely has stimulated various approaches to improve player performance and fan engagement. However, existing approaches are only able to evaluate offline performance since testing in real-time matches requires exhaustive costs and cannot be replicated. To test in a safe and reproducible simulator, we focus on turn-based sports and introduce a badminton environment by simulating rallies with different angles of view and designing the states, actions, and training procedures. This benefits not only coaches and players by simulating past matches for tactic investigation, but also researchers from rapidly evaluating their novel algorithms.Comment: Accepted by AAAI 2023 Student Abstract, code is available at https://github.com/wywyWang/CoachAI-Projects/tree/main/Strategic%20Environmen

Validation of the Action Research Arm Test using item response theory in patients after stroke

Objective: To validate the unidimensionality of the Action Research Arm Test (ARAT) using Mokken analysis and to examine whether scores of the ARAT can be transformed into interval scores using Rasch analysis. Subjects and methods: A total of 351 patients with stroke were recruited from 5 rehabilitation departments located in 4 regions of Taiwan. The 19-item ARAT was administered to all the subjects by a physical therapist. The data were analysed using item response theory by non-parametric Mokken analysis followed by Rasch analysis. Results: The results supported a unidimensional scale of the 19-item ARAT by Mokken analysis, with the scalability coefficient H = 0.95. Except for the item pinch ball bearing 3rd finger and thumb'', the remaining 18 items have a consistently hierarchical order along the upper extremity function's continuum. In contrast, the Rasch analysis, with a stepwise deletion of misfit items, showed that only 4 items (grasp ball'', grasp block 5 cm(3)'', grasp block 2.5 cm(3)'', and grip tube 1 cm(3)'') fit the Rasch rating scale model's expectations. Conclusion: Our findings indicated that the 19-item ARAT constituted a unidimensional construct measuring upper extremity function in stroke patients. However, the results did not support the premise that the raw sum scores of the ARAT can be transformed into interval Rasch scores. Thus, the raw sum scores of the ARAT can provide information only about order of patients on their upper extremity functional abilities, but not represent each patient's exact functioning

DESIGN OF VISIBLE DIAGNOSTIC BEAMLINE FOR NSLS2 STORAGE RING

A visible synchrotron light monitor (SLM) beam line has been designed at the NSLS2 storage ring, using the bending magnet radiation. A retractable thin absorber will be placed in front of the first mirror to block the central x-rays. The first mirror will reflect the visible light through a vacuum window. The light is guided by three 6-inch diameter mirrors into the experiment hutch. In this paper, we will describe design work on various optical components in the beamline. The ultra high brightness NSLS-II storage ring is under construction at Brookhaven National Laboratory. It will have 3GeV, 500mA electron beam circulating in the 792m ring, with very low emittance (0.9nm.rad horizontal and 8pm.rad vertical). The ring is composed of 30 DBA cells with 15 fold symmetry. Three damping wigglers will be installed in long straight sections 8, 18 and 28 to lower the emittance. While electrons pass through the bending magnet, synchrotron radiation will be generated covering a wide spectrum. There are other insertion devices in the storage ring which will generate shorter wavelength radiation as well. Synchrotron radiation has been widely used as diagnostic tool to measure the transverse and longitudinal profile. Three synchrotron light beam lines dedicated for diagnostics are under design and construction for the NSLS-II storage ring: two x-ray beam lines (pinhole and CRL) with the source points from Cell 22 BM{_}A (first bending in the DBA cell) and Cell22 three-pole wiggler; the third beam line is using visible part of radiation from Cell 30 BM{_}B (second bending magnet from the cell). Our paper focuses on the design of the visible beam line - SLM