Interpreting the origins of the human hip : Evaluation of articular contact area in the ancestral hip joint [abstract]

Understanding hip joint functional anatomy is critical to interpreting the origins of the human hip. A new pelvis of the 9 million year old ape Rudapithecus, argued to represent a close African ape-human relative, provides an opportunity to evaluate ancestral hip morphology. Joint morphology represents a functional tradeoff between maximizing articular contact area and mobility. Terrestrial primates are expected to have deep acetabulae because their limbs are used primarily in flexion-extension. In contrast, arboreal primates use wide range of hip postures and should have mobile hip joints with shallow acetabulae. We evaluated acetabular form using a novel analysis of continuous 3D laser scan data from a large sample of anthropoid pelves. Using Rapidform software, a best-fit sphere fit to the lunate surface characterized overall joint size. It was cut with a polyline fit to the acetabular rim to quantify area inscribed within the acetabulum Terrestrial primates do have significantly deeper acetabulae at all sizes than arboreal ones. Rudapithecus most closely resembles arboreal species, supporting the hypothesis that bipeds evolved from arboreal ancestors, although perhaps generalized ones. Methods developed here could be useful in an orthopaedic setting for quantifying joint form and variability in normal and compromised patients, and for instrumentation design

Beam Dynamics in High Intensity Cyclotrons Including Neighboring Bunch Effects: Model, Implementation and Application

Space charge effects, being one of the most significant collective effects, play an important role in high intensity cyclotrons. However, for cyclotrons with small turn separation, other existing effects are of equal importance. Interactions of radially neighboring bunches are also present, but their combined effects has not yet been investigated in any great detail. In this paper, a new particle in cell based self-consistent numerical simulation model is presented for the first time. The model covers neighboring bunch effects and is implemented in the three-dimensional object-oriented parallel code OPAL-cycl, a flavor of the OPAL framework. We discuss this model together with its implementation and validation. Simulation results are presented from the PSI 590 MeV Ring Cyclotron in the context of the ongoing high intensity upgrade program, which aims to provide a beam power of 1.8 MW (CW) at the target destination

Mobile Free-Electron Laser for Remote Atmospheric Survey

Reliable atmospheric surveys for carbon distributions will be essential to building an understanding of the Earth\u27s carbon cycle and the role it plays in climate change. One of the core needs of NASA \u27s Active Sensing of CO2 Over Nights, Days and Seasons (ASCENDS) Mission is to advance the range and precision of current remote atmospheric survey techniques. The feasibility of using accelerator-based sources of infrared light to improve current airborne lidar systems has been explored. A literary review has been conducted to asses the needs of ASCENDS versus the current capabilities of modern atmospheric survey technology, and the parameters of a free electron laser (FEL) source were calculated for a lidar system that will meet these needs. By using the Next Linear Collider from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), a mobile FEL-based lidar may be constructed for airborne surveillance. The calculated energy of the lidar pulse is 0.1 joule: this output is a two orders of magnitude gain over current lidar systems, so in principle, the mobile FEL will exceed the needs of ASCENDS. Further research will be required to asses other challenges to mobilizing the FEL technology

The Emma Lattice Design

EMMA is a 10 to 20 MeV electron ring designed to test our understanding of beam dynamics in a relativistic linear non-scaling fixed field alternating gradient accelerator (FFAG). This paper describes the design of the EMMA lattice. We begin with a summary of the experimental goals that impact the lattice design, and then outline what motivated the choice for the basic lattice parameters, such as the type of cells, the number of cells, and the RF frequency. We next list the different configurations that we wish to operate the machine in so as to accomplish our experimental goals. Finally, we enumerate the detailed lattice parameters, showing how these parameters result from the various lattice configurations

A Cost-Effective Design for a Neutrino Factory

There have been active efforts in the U.S., Europe, and Japan on the design of a Neutrino Factory. This type of facility produces intense beams of neutrinos from the decay of muons in a high energy storage ring. In the U.S., a second detailed Feasibility Study (FS2) for a Neutrino Factory was completed in 2001. Since that report was published, new ideas in bunching, cooling and acceleration of muon beams have been developed. We have incorporated these ideas into a new facility design, which we designate as Study 2B (ST2B), that should lead to significant cost savings over the FS2 design.Comment: 46 pages, 38 figures; to be submitted to Physical Review Special Topics: Accelerators and Beam

Coupled Bunch Instability from JLEIC Crab Cavity Higher Order Modules

Particle bunches traveling in a ring can excite wakefields inside any radio-frequency element present. These electromagnetic modes can resonate long enough and interact with subsequent passing bunches. A coherent oscillation between bunches can quickly become an instability and needs to be addressed. The Jefferson Lab electron ion collider has a large 50 mrad crossing angle and thus relies on bunch crabbing to achieve high luminosity. Bunch crabbing is done with compact superconducting rf dipole cavities. We study coupled bunch oscillations driven by the higher order modes of multicell RFD crab cavities under study for JLEIC, we calculate the instability growth time assuming a symmetric beam spectrum, identify the HOMs driving the instability and discuss mitigation measures

Simulation Study of the Magnetized Electron Beam

Electron cooling of the ion beam plays an important role in electron ion colliders to obtain the required high luminosity. This cooling efficiency can be enhanced by using a magnetized electron beam, where the cooling process occurs inside a solenoid field. This paper compares the predictions of ASTRA and GPT simulations to measurements made using a DC high voltage photogun producing magnetized electron beam, related to beam size and rotation angles as a function of the photogun magnetizing solenoid and other parameters