EPAC 2008 Special Edition

A collection of articles that expand upon original research presented at the 11th European Particle Accelerator Conference (June 23 - 27, 2008, Genoa, Italy). View Original Announcement

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EPAC2008 Table of Contents

ARTICLES

Low-and Intermediate-Energy Accelerators

Superconducting linac at Inter-University Accelerator Centre: Operational challenges and solutions
S. Ghosh, R. Mehta, G. K. Chowdhury, A. Rai, P. Patra, B. K. Sahu, A. Pandey, D. S. Mathuria, J. Chacko, A. Chowdhury, S. Kar, S. Babu, M. Kumar, S. S. Sonti, K. K. Mistry, J. Zacharias, P. N. Prakash, T. S. Datta, A. Mandal, D. Kanjilal, and A. Roy
Published 23 April 2009 (8 pages)
040101 [View PDF (3346 kB) or One-column PDF (3351 kB) ]

Synchrotron Radiation and Free-Electron Lasers

Induction shimming: A new shimming concept for superconductive undulators
D. Wollmann, A. Bernhard, P. Peiffer, T. Baumbach, and R. Rossmanith
Published 17 October 2008 (7 pages)
100702 [View PDF (396 kB) , One-column PDF (405 kB), or gzip'ed PS (255 kB) ]

Operation of the Metrology Light Source as a primary radiation source standard
Roman Klein, Guido Brandt, Rolf Fliegauf, Arne Hoehl, Ralph Müller, Reiner Thornagel, Gerhard Ulm, Michael Abo-Bakr, Jörg Feikes, Michael v. Hartrott, Karsten Holldack, and Godehard Wüstefeld
Published 20 November 2008 (10 pages)
110701 [View PDF (1580 kB) , One-column PDF (1604 kB), or gzip'ed PS (1928 kB) ]

Scheme for stabilization of output power of an x-ray self-amplified spontaneous emission free-electron laser
Gianluca Geloni, Evgeni Saldin, Evgeni Schneidmiller, and Mikhail Yurkov
Published 4 December 2008 (5 pages)
120701 [View PDF (5213 kB) or One-column PDF (5211 kB) ]

Stable operation of a self-amplified spontaneous-emission free-electron laser in the extremely ultraviolet region
Tsumoru Shintake et al.
Published 2 July 2009 (12 pages)
070701 [View PDF (1629 kB) or One-column PDF (1644 kB) ]

Microbunching instability in a chicane: Two-dimensional mean field treatment
Gabriele Bassi, James A. Ellison, Klaus Heinemann, and Robert Warnock
Published 20 August 2009 (24 pages)
080704 [View PDF (4879 kB) or One-column PDF (4715 kB) ]

High-Energy Accelerators and Colliders

Measurements of heavy ion beam losses from collimation
R. Bruce, R. W. Assmann, G. Bellodi, C. Bracco, H. H. Braun, S. Gilardoni, E. B. Holzer, J. M. Jowett, S. Redaelli, and T. Weiler
Published 14 January 2009 (12 pages)
011001 [View PDF (1507 kB) or One-column PDF (1513 kB) ]

Nonlinear correction schemes for the phase 1 LHC insertion region upgrade and dynamic aperture studies
R. Tomás, M. Giovannozzi, and R. de Maria
Published 21 January 2009 (7 pages)
011002 [View PDF (376 kB) or One-column PDF (379 kB) ]

New Acceleration Techniques

Lattice and beam dynamics for the pulse mode of the laser-electron storage ring for a Compton x-ray source
Peicheng Yu, Yu Wang, and Wenhui Huang
Published 9 June 2009 (12 pages)
061301 [View PDF (5976 kB) or One-column PDF (5982 kB) ]

Magnet Calculations and Technology

Experimental setup to detect superconducting wire motion
K. Ruwali, A. Yamanaka, Y. Teramoto, K. Nakanishi, and K. Hosoyama
Published 21 April 2009 (5 pages)
042401 [View PDF (605 kB) or One-column PDF (589 kB) ]

Performance of extraction kicker magnet in a rapid cycling synchrotron
Junichiro Kamiya, Tomohiro Takayanagi, and Masao Watanabe
Published 23 July 2009 (9 pages)
072401 [View PDF (868 kB) or One-column PDF (549 kB) ]

Beam Control, Diagnostics, and Feedback

Universal picosecond timing system for the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research
M. Bousonville and J. Rausch
Published 3 April 2009 (10 pages)
042801 [View PDF (1227 kB) or One-column PDF (1231 kB) ]

Cryogenics and Vacuum Technology

H2 adsorption on multiwalled carbon nanotubes at low temperatures and low pressures
F. Xu, M. Barberio, R. Vasta, P. Barone, A. Bonanno, and V. Pirronello
Published 18 November 2008 (4 pages)
113201 [View PDF (1256 kB) , One-column PDF (1263 kB), or gzip'ed PS (5089 kB) ]

Other Accelerator Subsystems and Technologies

Development of high resolution camera for observations of superconducting cavities
Yoshihisa Iwashita, Yujiro Tajima, and Hitoshi Hayano
Published 16 September 2008 (6 pages)
093501 [View PDF (2625 kB) , One-column PDF (2628 kB), or gzip'ed PS (23224 kB) ]

Single-Particle Dynamics

Generating unstable resonances for extraction schemes based on transverse splitting
M. Giovannozzi, D. Quatraro, and G. Turchetti
Published 26 February 2009 (15 pages)
024003 [View PDF (1445 kB) or One-column PDF (1451 kB) ]

Relativistic, Multiple-Particle Dynamics

Measurement of coherent beam-beam tune shift under crabbing collision at KEKB
T. Ieiri, Y. Ohnishi, M. Tobiyama, and S. Uehara
Published 9 June 2009 (9 pages)
064401 [View PDF (1665 kB) or One-column PDF (1681 kB) ]

Applications

Operation event logging system of the Swiss Light Source
Andreas Lüdeke
Published 17 February 2009 (13 pages)
024701 [View PDF (2705 kB) or One-column PDF (2714 kB) ]