A High Current Proton Linac with 352 MHz SC Cavities

A proposal for a 10-120 mA proton linac employing superconducting beta-graded, CERN type, four cell cavities at 352 MHz is presented. The high energy part (100 MeV-1 GeV) of the machine is split in three beta-graded sections, and transverse focusing is provided via a periodic doublet array. All the parameters, like power in the couplers and accelerating fields in the cavities, are within the state of the art, achieved in operating machines. A first stage of operation at 30 mA beam current is proposed, while the upgrade of the machine to 120 mA operation can be obtained increasing the number of klystrons and couplers per cavity. The additional coupler ports, up to four, will be integrated in the cavity design. Preliminary calculations indicate that beam transport is feasible, given the wide aperture of the 352 MHz structures. A capital cost of less than 100 M$at 10 mA, reaching up to 280 M$ for the 120 mA extension, has been estimated for the superconducting high energy section (100 MeV-1 GeV). The high efficiency of the proposed machine, reaching 50% at 15 mA, makes it a good candidate for proposed nuclear waste incineration facilities and Energy Amplifier studies.Comment: 9 Pages, 4 figures, LaTeX2e, html version found from http://hptesla.mi.infn.it/~pierini/publication_list.html . To Appear in the Proceedings of the 1996 LINAC Conference, Geneve, August 26-30 199

Entanglement, Superselection Rules and Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics

In this paper we show that the energy eigenstates of supersymmetric quantum mechanics (SUSYQM) with non definite "fermion" number are entangled states. They are "physical states" of the model provided that observables with odd number of spin variables are allowed in the theory like it happens in the Jaynes-Cummings model. Those states generalize the so called "spin spring" states of the Jaynes-Cummings model which have played an important role in the study of entanglement.Comment: 2 words added in the title, a section (IV) added in the text, a new author joined the projec

Some considerations to carry out a composite indicator for ordinal data

Composite indicators (CIs) are important and useful tools in many elds to assess, compare and rank performances, development stage, quality and many other different targets. CIs are an overall measure of a multidimensional, not directly observable, concept and are obtained by means of a set of manifest variables (elementary indicators) that contribute to dene the overall measure. In this paper, some matters regarding methods to build CIs are reviewed, assuming elementary indicators are ordinal and quantication is necessary to convert observed data into a numerical form. Scoring methods, aggregating functions and weighting systems are considered. In particular, a scoring method based on the observed distribution or the use of dissimilarity indices for quantication together with the Kendall-T association or a heterogeneity measure for weighting are suggested. Some of the reviewed procedures are compared using students' satisfaction data. \ua9 Universit\ue0 del Salento

Fractal Geometry of Higher Derivative Gravity

We determine the scaling properties of geometric operators such as lengths, areas, and volumes in models of higher derivative quantum gravity by renormalizing appropriate composite operators. We use these results to deduce the fractal dimensions of such hypersurfaces embedded in a quantum spacetime at very small distances