EPAC 2006 Special Edition

A collection of articles that expand upon original research presented at the 10th European Particle Accelerator Conference (June 26 - 30, 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland). View Original Announcement

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EPAC2006 Table of Contents

ARTICLES

Low-and Intermediate-Energy Accelerators

Low- and intermediate-β, 352 MHz superconducting half-wave resonators for high power hadron acceleration
A. Facco, F. Scarpa, D. Zenere, R. Losito, and V. Zvyagintsev
Published 8 November 2006 (5 pages)
110101 [View PDF (507 kB) , One-column PDF (510 kB), or gzip'ed PS (3581 kB) ]

Design of the New Experimental Storage Ring for operation with ions and antiprotons
C. Dimopoulou, K. Beckert, P. Beller, A. Dolinskii, U. Laier, F. Nolden, G. Schreiber, M. Steck, and J. Yang
Published 12 February 2007 (8 pages)
020101 [View PDF (3701 kB) , One-column PDF (3937 kB), or gzip'ed PS (3598 kB) ]

Synchrotron Radiation and Free-Electron Lasers

Formation of electron bunches for harmonic cascade x-ray free electron lasers
M. Cornacchia, S. Di Mitri, G. Penco, and A. A. Zholents
Published 6 December 2006 (6 pages)
120701 [View PDF (551 kB) , One-column PDF (582 kB), or gzip'ed PS (1484 kB) ]

High-Energy Accelerators and Colliders

Beam-beam interaction studies at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring
M. G. Billing and J. A. Crittenden
Published 20 December 2006 (9 pages)
121001 [View PDF (445 kB) , One-column PDF (451 kB), or gzip'ed PS (352 kB) ]

New Acceleration Techniques

Staged concept of laser-plasma acceleration toward multi-GeV electron beams
Victor Malka, A. Lifschitz, J. Faure, and Y. Glinec
Published 12 September 2006 (7 pages)
091301 [View PDF (1124 kB) , One-column PDF (439 kB), or gzip'ed PS (3375 kB) ]

Radio Frequency Calculations and Technology

Influence of ambient gases on the dc saturated breakdown field of molybdenum, tungsten, and copper during intense breakdown conditioning
T. Ramsvik, S. Calatroni, A. Reginelli, and M. Taborelli
Published 12 April 2007 (9 pages)
042001 [View PDF (542 kB) , One-column PDF (542 kB), or gzip'ed PS (458 kB) ]

Beam Control, Diagnostics, and Feedback

High precision superconducting cavity diagnostics with higher order mode measurements
Stephen Molloy, Josef Frisch, Doug McCormick, Justin May, Marc Ross, Tonee Smith, Nicoleta Baboi, Olaf Hensler, Lyudvig Petrosyan, Olivier Napoly, Rita C. Paparella, Claire Simon, Nathan Eddy, Sergei Nagaitsev, and Manfred Wendt
Published 13 November 2006 (13 pages)
112802 [View PDF (1062 kB) , One-column PDF (1068 kB), or gzip'ed PS (1928 kB) ]

Very small beam-size measurement by a reflective synchrotron radiation interferometer
T. Naito and T. Mitsuhashi
Published 27 December 2006 (7 pages)
122802 [View PDF (1739 kB) , One-column PDF (1779 kB), or gzip'ed PS (20649 kB) ]

Modeling and simulation of longitudinal dynamics for Low Energy Ring–High Energy Ring at the Positron-Electron Project
C. Rivetta, T. Mastorides, J. D. Fox, D. Teytelman, and D. Van Winkle
Published 21 February 2007 (14 pages)
022801 [View PDF (862 kB) , One-column PDF (871 kB), or gzip'ed PS (1694 kB) ]

Improvement of Fresnel zone plate beam-profile monitor and application to ultralow emittance beam profile measurements
Hiroshi Sakai, Masami Fujisawa, Kensuke Iida, Isao Ito, Hirofumi Kudo, Norio Nakamura, Kenji Shinoe, Takeo Tanaka, Hitoshi Hayano, Masao Kuriki, and Toshiya Muto
Published 30 April 2007 (17 pages)
042801 [View PDF (2173 kB) , One-column PDF (2180 kB), or gzip'ed PS (6415 kB) ]

Other Accelerator Subsystems and Technologies

Carbon/proton therapy: A novel gantry design
D. Trbojevic, B. Parker, E. Keil, and A. M. Sessler
Published 29 May 2007 (6 pages)
053503 [View PDF (776 kB) , One-column PDF (780 kB), or gzip'ed PS (1880 kB) ]

Single-Particle Dynamics

Beam dynamics in Compton ring gamma sources
Eugene Bulyak, Peter Gladkikh, Vladislav Skomorokhov, Tsunehiko Omori, Junji Urakawa, Klaus Moenig, and Frank Zimmermann
Published 18 September 2006 (8 pages)
094001 [View PDF (1207 kB) , One-column PDF (1232 kB), or gzip'ed PS (659 kB) ]

Longitudinal emittance blowup in fixed field alternating gradient muon accelerators
Shinji Machida
Published 27 October 2006 (6 pages)
104002 [View PDF (958 kB) , One-column PDF (951 kB), or gzip'ed PS (626 kB) ]

Linear and nonlinear decoupling using time-dependent transformations
Andrzej Wolski and Andrew M. Sessler
Published 13 February 2007 (8 pages)
024002 [View PDF (423 kB) , One-column PDF (430 kB), or gzip'ed PS (287 kB) ]

Relativistic, Multiple-Particle Dynamics

Longitudinal beam dynamics simulation in electron rings in strong rf focusing regime
Luciano Falbo, David Alesini, and Mauro Migliorati
Published 13 September 2006 (10 pages)
094402 [View PDF (574 kB) , One-column PDF (581 kB), or gzip'ed PS (388 kB) ]

Longitudinal dynamics with rf phase modulation in the Brazilian electron storage ring
N. P. Abreu, R. H. Farias, and P. F. Tavares
Published 12 December 2006 (16 pages)
124401 [View PDF (1433 kB) , One-column PDF (1460 kB), or gzip'ed PS (1232 kB) ]

Applications

Hadron cancer therapy complex using nonscaling fixed field alternating gradient accelerator and gantry design
E. Keil, A. M. Sessler, and D. Trbojevic
Published 29 May 2007 (8 pages)
054701 [View PDF (1078 kB) , One-column PDF (1084 kB), or gzip'ed PS (3094 kB) ]