Observation of deflection of a beam of multi-GeV electrons by a thin crystal

We report on an experiment performing channeling and volume reflection of a high-energy electron beam using a quasimosaic, bent silicon (111) crystal at the End Station A Test Beam at SLAC. The experiment uses beams of 3.35 and 6.3 GeV. In the channeling orientation, deflections of the beam of 400μrad for both energies with about 22% efficiency are observed, while in the volume-reflection orientation, deflection of the beam by 120μrad at 3.35 GeV and by 80μrad at 6.3 GeV is observed with 86%-95% efficiency. Quantitative measurements of the channeling efficiency, surface transmission, and dechanneling length are taken. These are the first quantitative measurements of channeling and volume reflection using a primary beam of multi-GeV electrons

Spin dynamic tool developments and study regarding the Super-B project

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Parameters for a Super-Flavor-Factory

A Super Flavor Factory, an asymmetric energy e+e- collider with a luminosity of order 10^36 cm-2s-1, can provide a sensitive probe of new physics in the flavor sector of the Standard Model. The success of the PEP-II and KEKB asymmetric colliders in producing unprecedented luminosity above 10^34 cm-2s-1 has taught us about the accelerator physics of asymmetric e+e- colliders in a new parameter regime. Furthermore, the success of the SLAC Linear Collider and the subsequent work on the International Linear Collider allow a new Super-Flavor collider to also incorporate linear collider techniques. This note describes the parameters of an asymmetric Flavor-Factory collider at a luminosity of order 10^36 cm-2s-1 at the Upsilon(4S) resonance and about 10^35 cm-2s-1 at the Tau production threshold. Such a collider would produce an integrated luminosity of about 10,000 fb-1 (10 ab-1) in a running year (10^7 sec) at the Upsilon(4S) resonance.Comment: Flavor Physics & CP Violation Conference, Vancouver, 200

Doubling the PEP-II Luminosity in Simulation

Simulations show that luminosity of the PEP-II B-factory can be doubled from its present peak value of 1 x 10{sup 34}cm{sup -2}s{sup -1}. The particle simulation code BBI developed for studying beam-beam interaction was used to perform the simulations. It was first found that the parasitic collisions significantly degrade the simulated luminosity as the beam currents are increased from 3A and 1.7A to 4A and 2.2A in the low and high energy rings, respectively. The effect of changes in various accelerator parameters on luminosity was then studied in detail from a rough starting point based on analytic estimates and in the process we systematically optimized the luminosity and showed that a luminosity of over 2 x 10{sup 34}cm{sup -2}s{sup -1} is achievable within feasible limits

Analysis of the Wakefield Effects in the PEP-II SLAC B-FACTORY

We present the history and analysis of different wake field effects throughout the operational life of the PEP-II SLAC B-factory. Although the impedance of the high and low energy rings is small, the intense high current beams generated a lot of power. The effects from these wake fields are: heating and damage of vacuum beam chamber elements like RF seals, vacuum valves , shielded bellows, BPM buttons and ceramic tiles; vacuum spikes, vacuum instabilities and high detector background; beam longitudinal and transverse instabilities. We also discuss the methods used to eliminate these effects. Results of this analysis and the PEP-II experience may be very useful in the design of new storage rings and light sources

Changing the PEP-II Center-of-Mass Energy Down to 10 GeV and up to 11 GeV

PEP-II, the SLAC, LBNL, LLNL B-Factory was designed and optimized to run at the Upsilon 4S resonance (10.580 GeV with an 8.973 GeV e- beam and a 3.119 GeV e+ beam). The interaction region (IR) used permanent magnet dipoles to bring the beams into a head-on collision. The first focusing element for both beams was also a permanent magnet. The IR geometry, masking, beam orbits and beam pipe apertures were designed for 4S running. Even though PEP-II was optimized for the 4S, we successfully changed the center-of-mass energy (E{sub cm}) down to the Upsilon 2S resonance and completed an E{sub cm} scan from the 4S resonance up to 11.2 GeV. The luminosity throughout most of these changes remained near 1 x 10{sup 34} cm{sup -2}s{sup -1}. The E{sub cm} was changed by moving the energy of the high-energy beam (HEB). The beam energy differed by more than 20% which produced significantly different running conditions for the RF system. The energy loss per turn changed 2.5 times over this range. We describe how the beam energy was changed and discuss some of the consequences for the beam orbit in the interaction region. We also describe some of the RF issues that arose and how we solved them as the high-current HEB energy changed

Optimization of Chromatic Optics Near the Half Integer in PEP-II

The PEP-II collider has benefited greatly from the correction of the chromatic functions. By optimizing sextupole family strengths, it is possible to correct the non-linear chromaticity, the chromatic beta, and the second order dispersion in both the LER and HER. Having implemented some of these corrections, luminosity was improved in PEP-II by almost 10%