414 research outputs found
A Genetic Algorithm for Chromaticity Correction in Diffraction Limited Storage Rings
A multi-objective genetic algorithm is developed for optimizing
nonlinearities in diffraction limited storage rings. This algorithm determines
sextupole and octupole strengths for chromaticity correction that deliver
optimized dynamic aperture and beam lifetime. The algorithm makes use of
dominance constraints to breed desirable properties into the early generations.
The momentum aperture is optimized indirectly by constraining the chromatic
tune footprint and optimizing the off-energy dynamic aperture. The result is an
effective and computationally efficient technique for correcting chromaticity
in a storage ring while maintaining optimal dynamic aperture and beam lifetime.
This framework was developed for the Swiss Light Source (SLS) upgrade project.Comment: 12 pages, 14 figure
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In This Corner: An Analysis of Federal Boxing Legislation
Muhammad Ali—arguably the greatest boxer of all time—lay beaten in a hospital bed. Defeated by his former sparring partner, Larry Holmes, Ali was battered and prone: King Arthur run through by Mordred. An aide to Don King, Ali's long-time promoter, stole into the room with a briefcase. At the time, King owed Ali over 50,000 in cash, which Ali— defeated—accepted after signing a release dropping all claims against King. While the Senate's version of what was to ultimately become the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act ("Ali Act"), referenced only Ali's "unsurpassed" "career achievements and personal contributions to the sport [of boxing]," it is likely that this shameful episode was present in legislators' minds when honoring their bill's revered—yet tragic—eponym
Helping children think: Gaze aversion and teaching
Looking away from an interlocutor's face during demanding cognitive activity can help adults answer challenging arithmetic and verbal-reasoning questions (Glenberg, Schroeder, & Robertson, 1998). However, such `gaze aversion' (GA) is poorly applied by 5-year-old school children (Doherty-Sneddon, Bruce, Bonner, Longbotham, & Doyle, 2002). In Experiment 1 we trained ten 5-year-old children to use GA while thinking about answers to questions. This trained group performed significantly better on challenging questions compared with 10 controls given no GA training. In Experiment 2 we found significant and monotonic age-related increments in spontaneous use of GA across three cohorts of ten 5-year-old school children (mean ages: 5;02, 5;06 and 5;08). Teaching and encouraging GA during challenging cognitive activity promises to be invaluable in promoting learning, particularly during early primary years
Automated verification of shape, size and bag properties.
In recent years, separation logic has emerged as a contender for formal reasoning of heap-manipulating imperative programs. Recent works have focused on specialised provers that are mostly based on fixed sets of predicates. To improve expressivity, we have proposed a prover that can automatically handle user-defined predicates. These shape predicates allow programmers to describe a wide range of data structures with their associated size properties. In the current work, we shall enhance this prover by providing support for a new type of constraints, namely bag (multi-set) constraints. With this extension, we can capture the reachable nodes (or values) inside a heap predicate as a bag constraint. Consequently, we are able to prove properties about the actual values stored inside a data structure
Measurement and Compensation of Horizontal Crabbing at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring Test Accelerator
In storage rings, horizontal dispersion in the rf cavities introduces
horizontal-longitudinal (xz) coupling, contributing to beam tilt in the xz
plane. This coupling can be characterized by a "crabbing" dispersion term
{\zeta}a that appears in the normal mode decomposition of the 1-turn transfer
matrix. {\zeta}a is proportional to the rf cavity voltage and the horizontal
dispersion in the cavity. We report experiments at the Cornell Electron Storage
Ring Test Accelerator (CesrTA) where xz coupling was explored using three
lattices with distinct crabbing properties. We characterize the xz coupling for
each case by measuring the horizontal projection of the beam with a beam size
monitor. The three lattice configurations correspond to a) 16 mrad xz tilt at
the beam size monitor source point, b) compensation of the {\zeta}a introduced
by one of two pairs of RF cavities with the second, and c) zero dispersion in
RF cavities, eliminating {\zeta}a entirely. Additionally, intrabeam scattering
(IBS) is evident in our measurements of beam size vs. rf voltage.Comment: 5 figures, 10 page
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