Fermilab Proton Beam for Mu2e

Plans to use existing Fermilab facilities to provide beam for the Muon to Electron Conversion Experiment (Mu2e) are under development. The experiment will follow the completion of the Tevatron Collider Run II, utilizing the beam lines and storage rings used today for antiproton accumulation without considerable reconfiguration. The proposed Mu2e operating scenario is described as well as the accelerator issues being addressed to meet the experimental goals

Degradation of Multibunch Luminosity in a Linear Collider Due to Cumulative Beam Breakup

Beam-excited transverse wakes in accelerating radiofrequency structures will influence the transverse offsets of each bunch in a multibunch train, causing the projected emittance of the bunch train to grow. An analytic theory of this phenomenon that includes the mitigating influence of a correlated energy spread across the bunch train was recently devised and applied to electron-positron linear colliders. We use the results of this theory to estimate analytically the associated degradation of multibunch luminosity in terms of top-level parameters for the two beams, the two accelerators, and the final-focus system. Then we compare the estimates with results from GUINEA-PIG, a code that includes the detailed physics of beam-beam interactions

Accelerator physics issues for the Very Large Hadron Collider

The goal of the Very Large Hadron Collider (VLHC) is to extend the energy frontier beyond LHC. The proposed design center of mass energy for the VLHC pp collider is 100 TeV, with a luminosity of 1*10/sup 34 / cm/sup -2/ sec/sup -1/ and an integrated luminosity of about 100 fb /sup -1/ per year. In this paper we present a summary of work conducted during a workshop and issues we feel are most important. Accelerator Physics issues and design aspects specific to both the high field and low field magnet technologies were studied, including the general accelerator parameters, beam stability issues, magnet field quality and the R&D needed to relax the accelerator component tolerances. This paper summarizes the accelerator physics R&D the VLHC Accelerator Physics Working Group members are undertaking. (13 refs)

Considerations for an Ac Dipole for the LHC

Following successful experience at the BNL AGS, FNAL Tevatron, and CERN SPS, an AC Dipole will be adopted at the LHC for rapid measurements of ring optics. This paper describes some of the parameters of the AC dipole for the LHC, scaling from performance of the FNAL and BNL devices.Comment: proceedings of the 2007 Particle Accelerator Conferenc

Edge Theories for Polarized Quantum Hall States

Starting from recently proposed bosonic mean field theories for fully and partially polarized quantum Hall states, we construct corresponding effective low energy theories for the edge modes. The requirements of gauge symmetry and invariance under global O(3) spin rotations, broken only by a Zeeman coupling, imply boundary conditions that allow for edge spin waves. In the generic case, these modes are chiral, and the spin stiffness differs from that in the bulk. For the case of a fully polarized $\nu=1$ state, our results agree with previous Hartree-Fock calculations.Comment: 15 pages (number of pages has been reduced by typesetting in RevTeX); 2 references adde