| |
Records |
Links |
|
Author |
Esposito, R. et al; Domingo-Pardo, C. |
|
| |
Title |
Design of the third-generation lead-based neutron spallation target for the neutron time-of-flight facility at CERN |
Type |
Journal Article |
| |
Year |
2021 |
Publication |
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams |
|
| |
Volume |
24 |
Issue |
9 |
Pages |
093001 - 17pp |
|
| |
Keywords |
|
|
| |
Abstract |
The neutron time-of-flight (n_TOF) facility at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) is a pulsed white-spectrum neutron spallation source producing neutrons for two experimental areas: the Experimental Area 1 (EAR1), located 185 m horizontally from the target, and the Experimental Area 2 (EAR2), located 20 m above the target. The target, based on pure lead, is impacted by a high-intensity 20-GeV/c pulsed proton beam. The facility was conceived to study neutron-nucleus interactions for neutron kinetic energies between a few meV to several GeV, with applications of interest for nuclear astrophysics, nuclear technology, and medical research. After the second-generation target reached the end of its lifetime, the facility underwent a major upgrade during CERN's Long Shutdown 2 (LS2, 2019-2021), which included the installation of the new third-generation neutron target. The first- and second-generation targets were based on water-cooled massive lead blocks and were designed focusing on EAR1, since EAR2 was built later. The new target is cooled by nitrogen gas to avoid erosion-corrosion and contamination of cooling water with radioactive lead spallation products. Moreover, the new design is optimized also for the vertical flight path and EAR2. This paper presents an overview of the target design focused on both physics and thermomechanical performance, and includes a description of the nitrogen cooling circuit and radiation protection studies. |
|
| |
Address |
[Esposito, R.; Calviani, M.; Aberle, O.; Barbagallo, M.; Coiffet, T.; Dragoni, F.; Ximenes, R. Franqueira; Giordanino, L.; Grenier, D.; Kershaw, K.; Maire, V.; Moyret, P.; Fontenla, A. Perez; Perillo-Marcone, A.; Pozzi, F.; Sgobba, S.; Timmins, M.; Vlachoudis, V.] European Lab Particle Phys CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland, Email: raffaele.esposito@cern.ch; |
|
| |
Corporate Author |
|
Thesis |
|
|
| |
Publisher |
Amer Physical Soc |
Place of Publication |
|
Editor |
|
|
| |
Language |
English |
Summary Language |
|
Original Title |
|
|
| |
Series Editor |
|
Series Title |
|
Abbreviated Series Title |
|
|
| |
Series Volume |
|
Series Issue |
|
Edition |
|
|
| |
ISSN  |
|
ISBN |
|
Medium |
|
|
| |
Area |
|
Expedition |
|
Conference |
|
|
| |
Notes |
WOS:000696029700001 |
Approved |
no |
|
| |
Is ISI |
yes |
International Collaboration |
yes |
|
| |
Call Number |
IFIC @ pastor @ |
Serial |
4963 |
|
| Permanent link to this record |
| |
|
| |
|
Author |
Fuster-Martinez, N.; Bruce, R.; Hofer, M.; Persson, T.; Redaelli, S.; Tomas, R. |
|
| |
Title |
Aperture measurements with ac dipoles and movable collimators in the Large Hadron Collider |
Type |
Journal Article |
| |
Year |
2022 |
Publication |
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams |
|
| |
Volume |
25 |
Issue |
10 |
Pages |
101002 - 13pp |
|
| |
Keywords |
|
|
| |
Abstract |
This paper presents a first experimental demonstration of a new nondestructive method for aperture measurements based on ac dipoles. In high intensity particle colliders, such as the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), aperture measurements are crucial for a safe operation while optimizing the optics in order to reduce the size of the colliding beams and hence increase the luminosity. In the LHC, this type of measurements became mandatory during beam commissioning and the current method used is based on the destructive blowup of bunches using a transverse damper. The new method presented in this paper uses the ac-dipole excitation to generate adiabatic forced oscillations of the beam in order to create losses to identify the smallest aperture in the machine without blowing up the beam emittance. A precise and tuneable control of the oscillation amplitude enables the beams to be reused for several aperture measurements, as well as for other subsequent commissioning activities. Measurements performed with the new method are presented and compared with the current LHC transverse damper method for two different beam energies and two different operational optics. |
|
| |
Address |
[Fuster-Martinez, N.] CSIC UV, Inst Fis Corpuscular, Valencia 46908, Spain, Email: nuria.fuster@ific.uv.es |
|
| |
Corporate Author |
|
Thesis |
|
|
| |
Publisher |
Amer Physical Soc |
Place of Publication |
|
Editor |
|
|
| |
Language |
English |
Summary Language |
|
Original Title |
|
|
| |
Series Editor |
|
Series Title |
|
Abbreviated Series Title |
|
|
| |
Series Volume |
|
Series Issue |
|
Edition |
|
|
| |
ISSN |
|
ISBN |
|
Medium |
|
|
| |
Area |
|
Expedition |
|
Conference |
|
|
| |
Notes |
WOS:000875736400001 |
Approved |
no |
|
| |
Is ISI |
yes |
International Collaboration |
yes |
|
| |
Call Number |
IFIC @ pastor @ |
Serial |
5397 |
|
| Permanent link to this record |
| |
|
| |
|
Author |
Perez, A. |
|
| |
Title |
Information encoding of a qubit into a multilevel environment |
Type |
Journal Article |
| |
Year |
2010 |
Publication |
Physical Review A |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Rev. A |
|
| |
Volume |
81 |
Issue |
5 |
Pages |
052326 - 6pp |
|
| |
Keywords |
|
|
| |
Abstract |
I consider the interaction of a small quantum system (a qubit) with a structured environment consisting of many levels. The qubit will experience a decoherence process, which implies that part of its initial information will be encoded into correlations between system and environment. I investigate how this information is distributed on a given subset of levels as a function of its size, using the mutual information between both entities, in the spirit of the partial-information plots studied by Zurek and co-workers. In this case we can observe some differences, which arise from the fact that I am partitioning just one quantum system and not a collection of them. However, some similar features, like redundancy (in the sense that a given amount of information is shared by many subsets), which increases with the size of the environment, are also found here. |
|
| |
Address |
[Perez, A.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Dept Fis Teor, E-46100 Burjassot, Spain |
|
| |
Corporate Author |
|
Thesis |
|
|
| |
Publisher |
Amer Physical Soc |
Place of Publication |
|
Editor |
|
|
| |
Language |
English |
Summary Language |
|
Original Title |
|
|
| |
Series Editor |
|
Series Title |
|
Abbreviated Series Title |
|
|
| |
Series Volume |
|
Series Issue |
|
Edition |
|
|
| |
ISSN |
1050-2947 |
ISBN |
|
Medium |
|
|
| |
Area |
|
Expedition |
|
Conference |
|
|
| |
Notes |
ISI:000278140000064 |
Approved |
no |
|
| |
Is ISI |
yes |
International Collaboration |
no |
|
| |
Call Number |
IFIC @ elepoucu @ |
Serial |
445 |
|
| Permanent link to this record |
| |
|
| |
|
Author |
Hinarejos, M.; Di Franco, C.; Romanelli, A.; Perez, A. |
|
| |
Title |
Chirality asymptotic behavior and non-Markovianity in quantum walks on a line |
Type |
Journal Article |
| |
Year |
2014 |
Publication |
Physical Review A |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Rev. A |
|
| |
Volume |
89 |
Issue |
5 |
Pages |
052330 - 7pp |
|
| |
Keywords |
|
|
| |
Abstract |
We investigate the time evolution of the chirality reduced density matrix for a discrete-time quantum walk on a one-dimensional lattice. The matrix is obtained by tracing out the spatial degree of freedom. We analyze the standard case, without decoherence, and the situation in which decoherence appears in the form of broken links in the lattice. By examining the trace distance for possible pairs of initial states as a function of time, we conclude that the evolution of the reduced density matrix is non-Markovian, in the sense defined by Breuer, Laine, and Piilo [Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 210401 (2009)]. As the level of noise increases, the dynamics approaches a Markovian process. The highest non-Markovianity corresponds to the case without decoherence. The reduced density matrix tends always to a well-defined limit that we calculate, but only in the decoherence-free case is this limit nontrivial. |
|
| |
Address |
[Hinarejos, Margarida; Perez, Armando] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Dept Fis Teor, E-46100 Burjassot, Spain |
|
| |
Corporate Author |
|
Thesis |
|
|
| |
Publisher |
Amer Physical Soc |
Place of Publication |
|
Editor |
|
|
| |
Language |
English |
Summary Language |
|
Original Title |
|
|
| |
Series Editor |
|
Series Title |
|
Abbreviated Series Title |
|
|
| |
Series Volume |
|
Series Issue |
|
Edition |
|
|
| |
ISSN |
1050-2947 |
ISBN |
|
Medium |
|
|
| |
Area |
|
Expedition |
|
Conference |
|
|
| |
Notes |
WOS:000336751300003 |
Approved |
no |
|
| |
Is ISI |
yes |
International Collaboration |
yes |
|
| |
Call Number |
IFIC @ pastor @ |
Serial |
1807 |
|
| Permanent link to this record |
| |
|
| |
|
Author |
Perez, A. |
|
| |
Title |
Asymptotic properties of the Dirac quantum cellular automaton |
Type |
Journal Article |
| |
Year |
2016 |
Publication |
Physical Review A |
Abbreviated Journal |
Phys. Rev. A |
|
| |
Volume |
93 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
012328 - 10pp |
|
| |
Keywords |
|
|
| |
Abstract |
We show that the Dirac quantum cellular automaton [A. Bisio, G. M. D'Ariano, and A. Tosini, Ann. Phys. (N. Y.) 354, 244 (2015)] shares many properties in common with the discrete-time quantum walk. These similarities can be exploited to study the automaton as a unitary process that takes place at regular time steps on a one-dimensional lattice, in the spirit of general quantum cellular automata. In this way, it becomes an alternative to the quantum walk, with a dispersion relation that can be controlled by a parameter that plays a similar role to the coin angle in the quantum walk. The Dirac Hamiltonian is recovered under a suitable limit. We provide two independent analytical approximations to the long-term probability distribution. It is shown that, starting from localized conditions, the asymptotic value of the entropy of entanglement between internal and motional degrees of freedom overcomes the known limit that is approached by the quantum walk for the same initial conditions and is similar to the ones achieved by highly localized states of the Dirac equation. |
|
| |
Address |
[Perez, A.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, IFIC, Dept Fis Teor, E-46100 Valencia, Spain |
|
| |
Corporate Author |
|
Thesis |
|
|
| |
Publisher |
Amer Physical Soc |
Place of Publication |
|
Editor |
|
|
| |
Language |
English |
Summary Language |
|
Original Title |
|
|
| |
Series Editor |
|
Series Title |
|
Abbreviated Series Title |
|
|
| |
Series Volume |
|
Series Issue |
|
Edition |
|
|
| |
ISSN |
1050-2947 |
ISBN |
|
Medium |
|
|
| |
Area |
|
Expedition |
|
Conference |
|
|
| |
Notes |
WOS:000368291600005 |
Approved |
no |
|
| |
Is ISI |
yes |
International Collaboration |
no |
|
| |
Call Number |
IFIC @ pastor @ |
Serial |
2520 |
|
| Permanent link to this record |
