Beam Dynamics Studies for the CLIC Main Linac

The implications of long-range wakefields on the beam quality are investigated through a detailed beam dynamics study. Injection offsets are considered and the resulting emittance dilution recorded, including systematic sources of error. These simulations have been conducted for damped and detuned structures (DDS) and for waveguide damped structures-both for the CLIC collider.Comment: 3 pages, 6 figures, IPAC1

Alignment of the CLIC BDS

Aligning the CLIC Beam Delivery System faces two major challenges, the tight tolerances for the emittance preservation and its strong non-linear beam dynamics. For these reasons conventional beam-based alignment techniques, like dispersion free steering, are only partially successful and need to be followed by optimization algorithms based on other observables, like beam sizes

Dynamics effects in the new CLIC Main LINAC

In the compact linear collider (CLIC) the tolerances on dynamic imperfections are tight in themain linac. In particular the limited beam delivery system bandwidth requires very good RF phase and amplitude stability. Transverse motion of the beam line components is also of concern. The resulting tolerances are detailed in the paper for the CLIC main linac lattice [1]

Polarimetric Evidence of Non-Spherical Winds

Polarization observations yield otherwise unobtainable information about the geometrical structure of unresolved objects. In this talk we review the evidences for non-spherically symmetric structures around Luminous Hot Stars from polarimetry and what we can learn with this technique. Polarimetry has added a new dimension to the study of the envelopes of Luminous Blue Variables, Wolf-Rayet stars and B[e] stars, all of which are discussed in some detail.Comment: 8 pages, 2 encapsulated Postscript figures, uses lamuphys.sty. Invited review to appear in IAU Coll. 169, Variable and Non-Spherical Stellar Winds in Luminous Hot Stars, eds. B. Wolf, A.Fullerton and O. Stahl (Springer

Elastic Form Factors of 3,4^{3,4}He up to Large Q2Q^2

Elastic electron scattering off $^3$He and $^4$He has recently been studied at forward and backward scattering angles in Hall A at JLab. The results will provide accurate data on the elastic form factors, charge and magnetic for $^3$He and charge only for $^4$He, up to squared momentum transfer $Q^2$-values of 3.2 GeV$^2$.Comment: 3 pages, Proceedings of EFB2

Optimizing the CLIC Beam Delivery System

The optimization of the new CLIC Final Focus System (FFS) with L*=3.5m is presented for a collection of CLIC beam parameters. The final performance is computed for the full Beam Delivery System including the new diagnostics section. A comparison to previous designs is also presented

Optimal Control for Generating Quantum Gates in Open Dissipative Systems

Optimal control methods for implementing quantum modules with least amount of relaxative loss are devised to give best approximations to unitary gates under relaxation. The potential gain by optimal control using relaxation parameters against time-optimal control is explored and exemplified in numerical and in algebraic terms: it is the method of choice to govern quantum systems within subspaces of weak relaxation whenever the drift Hamiltonian would otherwise drive the system through fast decaying modes. In a standard model system generalising decoherence-free subspaces to more realistic scenarios, openGRAPE-derived controls realise a CNOT with fidelities beyond 95% instead of at most 15% for a standard Trotter expansion. As additional benefit it requires control fields orders of magnitude lower than the bang-bang decouplings in the latter.Comment: largely expanded version, superseedes v1: 10 pages, 5 figure

Feedback Studies

Dynamic imperfections in future linear colliders can lead to a significant luminosity loss. We discuss different orbit feedback strategies in the main linac that can mitigate the emittance dilution and compare their efficiency. We also address the impact of ground motion in the beam delivery system and the potential cures

Magnetic properties of Fe/Dy multilayers: a Monte Carlo investigation

We investigate the magnetic properties of a Heisenberg ferrimagnetic multilayer by using Monte Carlo simulations. The aim of this work is to study the local structural anisotropy model which is a possible origin of the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in transition metal/rare earth amorphous multilayers. We have considered a face centered cubic lattice where each site is occupied by a classical Heisenberg spin. We have introduced in our model of amorphous multilayers a small fraction of crystallized Fe-Dy nanoclusters with a mean anisotropy axis along the deposition direction. We show that a competition in the energy terms takes place between the mean uniaxial anisotropy of the Dy atoms in the nanoclusters and the random anisotropy of the Dy atoms in the matrix.Comment: accepte pour publication - Proceeding of the Joint European Magnetic Symposia (JEMS 06) - Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Material

Beam Dynamics Issues in the CLIC Long Transfer Line

Both the main and the drive beam of the CLIC project must be transported from the central production site to the head of the main linacs over more than twenty kilometers. Over such distances chromatic error may be substantial. With long distances and large beam currents, ion-induced detuning and instabilities and multi-bunch resistive wall effects must also be considered. These effects are quantified and simulated. Based on these results, a baseline design has been established