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    Broad-band chopper for a CW proton linac at Fermilab

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    Requirements and technical limitations to the bunch-by-bunch chopper for the Fermilab Project X are discussed.Comment: 3 pp. Particle Accelerator, 24th Conference (PAC'11) 2011. 28 Mar - 1 Apr 2011. New York, US

    Stretched-Wire Techniques and Measurements for the Alignment of a 15GHz RF-BPM for CLIC

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    For the Compact LInear Collider (CLIC) project at CERN, maintaining low emittance beams, as they are transported along the two independent 10-20 km long main linacs, is crucial. The beam trajectory therefore has to be very well aligned to the magnetic centre of the quadrupole magnets. A series of microwave cavity beam position monitors (BPM) is foreseen to detect the position of the beam along the main linacs to precisely monitor the beam trajectory in the circular beam pipe of only 8 mm diameter. The PACMAN project aims to demonstrate the pre-alignment of the magnetic field of a main CLIC quadrupole with the electro-magnetic centre of a 15 GHz RF-BPM to the required sub-micron accuracy. This paper focuses on stretched-wire measurements of a CLIC Test Facility (CTF) cavity BPM, to locate its electrical centre. Details of two measurement methods are discussed: RF signal excitation of the wire and analysis of RF signal transfer through the slot-coupled waveguides of the cavity, using the stretched wire as a passive target. This contribution will present the theory behind these measurements, their electromagnetic analysis and first, preliminary experimental results

    An HST/COS legacy survey of high-velocity ultraviolet absorption in the Milky Way's circumgalactic medium and the Local Group

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    To characterize the absorption properties of this circumgalactic medium (CGM) and its relation to the LG we present the so-far largest survey of metal absorption in Galactic high-velocity clouds (HVCs) using archival ultraviolet (UV) spectra of extragalactic background sources. The UV data are obtained with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) onboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and are supplemented by 21 cm radio observations of neutral hydrogen. Along 270 sightlines we measure metal absorption in the lines of SiII, SiIII, CII, and CIV and associated HI 21 cm emission in HVCs in the velocity range |v_LSR|=100-500 km s^-1. With this unprecedented large HVC sample we were able to improve the statistics on HVC covering fractions, ionization conditions, small-scale structure, CGM mass, and inflow rate. For the first time, we determine robustly the angular two point correlation function of the high-velocity absorbers, systematically analyze antipodal sightlines on the celestial sphere, and compare the absorption characteristics with that of Damped Lyman alpha absorbers (DLAs) and constrained cosmological simulations of the LG. Our study demonstrates that the Milky Way CGM contains sufficient gaseous material to maintain the Galactic star-formation rate at its current level. We show that the CGM is composed of discrete gaseous structures that exhibit a large-scale kinematics together with small-scale variations in physical conditions. The Magellanic Stream clearly dominates both the cross section and mass flow of high-velocity gas in the Milky Way's CGM. The possible presence of high-velocity LG gas underlines the important role of the local cosmological environment in the large-scale gas-circulation processes in and around the Milky Way (abridged).Comment: 37 pages, 25 figures, 8 tables, accepted for publication in A&

    Variação genética em populações naturais de Ocotea porosa Ness utilizando-se isoenzimas.

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    Organizado por Patricia Póvoa de Mattos, Celso Garcia Auer, Rejane Stumpf Sberze, Katia Regina Pichelli e Paulo César Botosso

    Caracterização genética de populações naturais de Ilex paraguariensis St. Hil.

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    Ilex paraguariensis, popularmente conhecida como erva-mate, é uma espécie de grande importância econômica, social e cultural para a região Sul do Brasil. Devido à composição química das folhas, possui diversas aplicações industriais, destacando-se a produção de bebidas. A despeito da sua expressão socioeconômica, existe pouca informação sobre a biologia e a variabilidade genética das populações naturais. Estes conhecimentos são essenciais aos programas de melhoramento e de conservação dos recursos genéticos. Marcadores bioquímicos (isoenzimas) são amplamente utilizados nos estudos da genética de populações florestais, pois oferecem diversas vantagens, destacando-se a expressão codominante, que permite distinguir genótipos homozigotos de heterozigotos. O presente trabalho teve por objetivo caracterizar, geneticamente, populações naturais de I. paraguariensis, utilizando marcadores isoenzimáticos. Três populações naturais (Quatro Barras-PR, Jaguariaíva-PR e Barão de Cotegipe-RS) foram analisadas, utilizando sete locos gênicos: GOT-A, PGI-B, NDH-A, NDH-B, 6-PGDH-A, 6-PGDH-B e G-6PDH. Observaramse 65% dos locos polimórficos, com média de 2,00 alelos por loco e 2,54 alelos por loco polimórfico. A média da heterozigosidade esperada foi de 0,359 e a observada foi de 0,210. As populações de Quatro Barras e Jaguariaíva apresentaram maior similaridade genética, enquanto que Barão de Cotegipe foi a mais divergente.Seção: Conservação, Melhoramento e Multiplicação. Feira do Agronegócio da Erva-mate, 1., 2003, Chapecó. Integrar para promover o agronegócio da erva-mate
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