Nanoscale electropolishing of high-purity nickel with an ionic liquid

High purity(>99.9% composition) nickel metal specimens were used in electropolishing treatments with an acid-free ionic liquid electrolyte prepared from quaternary ammonium salts as a green polishing solution. Voltammetry and chronoamperometry tests were conducted to determine the optimum conditions for electrochemical polishing. Atomic force microscopy(AFM) revealed nanoscale effectiveness of each polishing treatment. Atomic force microscopy provided an overall observation of the material interface between the treated and unpolished regions. Surface morphology comparisons summarized electrochemical polishing efficiency by providing root-mean-square roughness averages before and after electrochemical polishing to reveal a mirror finish six times smoother than the same nickel metal surface prior to electropolishing. This transition manifested in a marked change in root-mean-squared roughness from 112.58 nm to 18.64 nm and producing a smooth mirror finish. Finally, the mechanism of the ionic liquid during electropolishing revealed decomposition of choline in the form of a transient choline radical by acceptance of an electron from the nickel-working electrode to decompose to trimethylamine and ethanol.

Development of Vertical Buffered Electropolishing for Its Post-Treatment Technology on 1.5GHz Niobium SRF Cavities

We report the latest research development of vertical buffered electropolishing on its post-treatment procedure as well as the effects of several major post-treatment techniques for buffered electropolishing(BEP)processed 1.5 GHz niobium(Nb)superconducting radio frequency(SRF)cavities.With the established post-treatment procedure,an accelerating gradient of 28.4MV/m is obtained on a single cell cavity of the cebaf shape.This is the best result in the history of BEP development.The cavity is limited by quench with a high quality factor over 1.2×1010 at the quench point.Analyses from optical inspection and temperature-mapping show that the quench should be originated from the pits that were already present on the cavity before this BEP treatment.All of these factors indicate that this procedure will have a great potential to produce better results if cavities without intrinsic performance limiting imperfections are used.

2 GeV Electron Beam Irradiation Effects in Advanced Metallic Glasses

Six amorphous alloys (Alloy 1: Fe56Co24Nb4B13Si2Cu1, Alloy 2: Fe68.5Co5Nb3Cu1Si15.5B7, Alloy 3: Fe75.3Ni0.8Cr0.9Si8.7B14.3, Alloy 4: Fe56Co24Cr10Nb4B3Si1Cu2, Alloy 5: Fe72.9Nb3Cu1Si16.2B6.9, Alloy 6: Fe83.3Si8.6Nb5.5B1.4Cu1.2) were selected in terms of their composition and magnetostriction constants and uniformly irradiated in a high radiation environment in Hall A of the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. The 2 GeV electron beam irradiation-induced effects were characterized by Mӧssbauer spectroscopy. The microstructural changes were related to the evolution of the hyperfine magnetic field distributions and isomer shifts. In particular, the occurrence of stress centers in the amorphous materials was evidenced.

STCF conceptual design report (Volume 1): Physics & detector

The superτ-charm facility(STCF)is an electron–positron collider proposed by the Chinese particle physics community.It is designed to operate in a center-of-mass energy range from 2 to 7 GeV with a peak luminosity of 0.5×10^(35) cm^(–2)·s^(–1) or higher.The STCF will produce a data sample about a factor of 100 larger than that of the presentτ-charm factory—the BEPCII,providing a unique platform for exploring the asymmetry of matter-antimatter(charge-parity violation),in-depth studies of the internal structure of hadrons and the nature of non-perturbative strong interactions,as well as searching for exotic hadrons and physics beyond the Standard Model.The STCF project in China is under development with an extensive R&D program.This document presents the physics opportunities at the STCF,describes conceptual designs of the STCF detector system,and discusses future plans for detector R&D and physics case studies.

NaI (Tl) calorimeter calibration and simulation for Coulomb sum rule experiment in Hall-A at Jefferson Lab

A precision measurment of inclusive electron scattering cross sections is carried out at Jefferson Lab in the quasi-elastic region for 4 He, 12 C, 56 Fe and 208 Pb targets. The longitudinal （R L ） and transverse （R T ） response functions of the nucleon need to be extracted precisely in the momentum transfer range 0.55 GeV/c≤ ｜ q ｜ ≤1.0 GeV/c. To achieve the above goal, a NaI （Tl） calorimeter is used to distinguish good electrons from background, including pions and low energy electrons rescattered from the walls of the spectrometer magnets. Due to a large set of kinematics and changes in HV settings, a number of calibrations are performed for the NaI （Tl） detector. Corrections for a few blocks of NaI （Tl） with bad or no signal are applied. The resolution of the NaI （Tl） detector after calibration reached δE/E^（1/2） ≈ 3% at E=1 GeV. The performance of the NaI （Tl） detector is compared with a simulation. The good calibration and background analysis for the NaI（Tl） detector are very important for the reduction of the systematic error of cross sections and the separation of R L and R T .

Radiation and ionization energy loss simulation for the GDH sum rule experiment in Hall-A at Jefferson Lab

The radiation and ionization energy loss are presented for single arm Monte Carlo simulation for the GDH sum rule experiment in Hall-A at the Jefferson Lab. Radiation and ionization energy loss are discussed for12 C elastic scattering simulation. The relative momentum ratio△p pand12 C elastic cross section are compared without and with radiative energy loss and a reasonable shape is obtained by the simulation. The total energy loss distribution is obtained, showing a Landau shape for12 C elastic scattering. This simulation work will give good support for radiation correction analysis of the GDH sum rule experiment.

A vertical test system for China-ADS project injector Ⅱ superconducting cavities

To test superconducting cavities, a vertical test system has been designed and set up at the Institute of Modern Physics （IMP）. The system design is based on VCO-PLL hardware and the NI Labview software. The test of the HWR010#2 superconducting cavity shows that the function of this test system is satisfactory for testing the low frequency cavity.

Study of spin sum rules (and the strong coupling constant at large distances)

We present recent results from Jefferson Lab on sum rules related to the spin structure of the nucleon. We then discuss how the Bjorken sum rule with its connection to the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn sum, allows us to conveniently define an effective coupling for the strong force at all distances.

Study on transient beam loading compensation for China ADS proton linac injectorⅡ

Significant transient beam loading effects were observed during beam commissioning tests of prototype II of the injector for the accelerator driven sub-critical （ADS） system, which took place at the Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, between October and December 2014. During these tests experiments were performed with continuous wave （CW） operation of the cavities with pulsed beam current, and the system was configured to make use of a prototype digital low level radio frequency （LLRF） controller. The system was originally operated in pulsed mode with a simple proportional plus integral and deviation （PID） feedback control algorithm, which was not able to maintain the desired gradient regulation during pulsed 10 mA beam operations. A unique simple transient beam loading compensation method which made use of a combination of proportional and integral （PI） feedback and feedforward control algorithm was implemented in order to significantly reduce the beam induced transient effect in the cavity gradients. The superconducting cavity field variation was reduced to less than 1.7% after turning on this control algorithm. The design and experimental results of this system are presented in this paper.

Position reconstruction in fission fragment detection using the low pressure MWPC technique for the JLab experiment E02-017

When a A hyperon is embedded in a nucleus it can form a hypernucleus. The lifetime and its mass dependence of stable hypernuclei provide information about the AN interaction in the nuclear medium. This work will introduce the Jefferson Lab experiment （E02-017）, which aims to study the lifetime of the heavy hypernuclei using a specially developed fission fragment detection technique： a multi-wire proportional chamber operating under low gas pressure （LPMWPC）. The trajectory of the detected fragment is reconstructed and used to find the fission point on the target foil, the position resolution is less than I ram, which meets the original design, the separation of target materials and events mixture percentage in different regions are verified by Monte Carlo simulation.

Color halo scenario of charmonium-like hybrids

The internal structures of J^(PC)=1^(--),(0,1,2)^(-+)charmonium-like hybrids are investigated under lattice QCD in the quenched approximation.We define the Bethe-Salpeter wave function(Φn(r))in the Coulomb gauge as the matrix element of a spatially extended hybrid-like operator(ccg)between the vacuum and n-th state for each J^(PC),with r being the spatial separation between a localized cc component and the chromomagnetic strength tensor.These wave functions exhibit some similarities for states with the aforementioned different quantum numbers,and their r-behaviors(no node for the ground states and one node for the first excited states)imply that r can be a meaningful dynamical variable for these states.Additionally,the mass splittings of the ground states and first excited states of charmonium-like hybrids in these channels are obtained for the first time to be approximately 1.2-1.4 GeV.These results do not support the flux-tube description of heavy-quarkonium-like hybrids in the Born-Oppenheimer approximation.In contrast,a charmonium-like hybrid can be viewed as a"color halo"charmonium for which a relatively localized color octet cc is surrounded by gluonic degrees of freedom,which can readily decay into a charmonium state along with one or more light hadrons.The color halo picture is compatible with the decay properties of Y(4260)and suggests LHCb and BelleⅡto search for(0,1,2)^(-+)charmonium-like hybrids inχ_(c0,1,2η) and J/ψω(φ)final states.

Study of excited nucleon states at EBAC:status and plans

We present an overview of a research program for the excited nucleon states in Excited Baryon Analysis Center （EBAC） at Jefferson Lab. Current status of our analysis of the meson production reactions based on the unitary dynamical coupled-channels model is summarized, and the N＊ pole positions extracted from the constructed scattering amplitudes are presented. Our plans for future developments are also discussed.

Cold RF test and associated mechanical features correlation of a TESLA-style 9-cell superconducting niobium cavity built in China

The RF performance of a 1.3 GHz 9-cell superconducting niobium cavity was evaluated at cryogenic temperatures following surface processing by using the standard ILC-style recipe. The cavity is a TESLA-style 9-cell superconducting niobium cavity, with complete end group components including a higher order mode coupler, built in China for practical applications. An accelerating gradient of 28.6 MV/m was achieved at an unloaded quality factor of 4× 109. The morphological property of mechanical features on the RF surface of this cavity was characterized through optical inspection the RF performance of the cavity is attempted. Correlation between the observed mechanical features and

Extraction of resonance parameters from meson production reaction

We have developed an analytic continuation method for extracting parameters of nucleon resonances within a Hamiltonian formulation of meson-nucleon reactions. The method was tested for simple solvable models and then applied for our recent coupled channels model （πN, ηN, π△, ρN, and σN ） of the π＊N and γ＊N reactions. The resonance pole positions and their properties are studied for P11and P11 channels.

The Third Generation(e,e'K^+) Λ Hypernuclear Spectroscopy at JLab

We are now preparing for the third generation (e,e' K+) Λ hypernuclear spectroscopic experiment at Hall C,Jefferson Lab (USA). The goal of the experiment is the precise spectroscopy of hypernuclei in wide mass region. We have constructed a new high resolution electron spectrometer "HES" dedicated to (e,e' K+) hypernuclear study in Japan and it was shipped to JLab in February,2008. We will discuss about the physics of the (e,e' K+) hypernuclear study at JLab and report the current preparation status of the third generatrion experiment.

η-production on the proton via electromagnetic and hadronic probes

The reactions π-p →ηn and γ＇p →ηP are investigated within a dynamical coupledJchannels model of meson production reactions in the nucleon resonance region. The meson-baryon channels included are πN, ηN, π△, σN, and pN. The direct wphotoproduction process is studied within a formalism based on a chiral constituent quark model approach, complemented with a one-gluon-exchange mechanism, to take into account the breakdown of the SU（6）0（3） symmetry. In the models search, the following known nucleon resonances are embodied： Sll （1535）, $11（1650）, Pll （1440）, Pl1（1710）, P13（1720）, D13（1520）, D13（1700）, D15（1675）, and F15（1680）. Data for the π-p →ηnreaction from threshold up to a total center-of-mass energy of W ≈ 2 GeV are satisfactorily reproduced. For the photoproduction channel, two additional higher mass known resonances, P13 （1900） and F15 （2000）, are also considered. However, reproducing the data for γ＇p →ηP requires, within our approach, two new nucleon resonances, for which we extract mass and width.

Summary

A summary of the contributions to this workshop is given. The status and future development of N＊ physics are discussed.

Comment on ‘Note on X(3872) production at hadron colliders and its molecular structure’

We briefly comment on the paper by Albaladejo et al., Chinese Phys. C 41 121001, rejecting its conclusions.

Single photo and electroproduction of pions at EBAC@JLAB

Within the Excited Baryon Analysis Center we have performed a dynamical coupled-channels analysis of the available p（e,e＇π）N data in the region of W ≤ 1.6 GeV and Q2 ≤1.45 （GeV/c）2. The channels included are γ＊N, π＊N, ηN, and ηN which has π△, pN, and σN components. With the hadronic parameters of the model determined in our previous investigations of πN→ πN reaction, we have found that the available data in the considered W ≤ 1.6 GeV region can be fitted well by only adjusting the bare γ＊N → N＊ helicity amplitudes for the lowest N＊ states in P33, P11, S11 and D13 partial waves. The meson cloud effect, as required by the unitarity conditions, on the γ＊N → N＊ form factors are examined.

Forward pion-nucleon charge exchange reaction and Regge constraints

We present our recent study of pion-nucleon charge exchange amplitudes above 2 GeV. We analyze the forward pion-nucleon charge exchange reaction data in a Regge model and compare the resulting amplitudes with those from the Karlsruhe-Helsinki and George-Washington-University partial-wave analyses. We explore possible high-energy constraints for theoretical baryon resonance analyses in the energy region above 2 GeV. Our results show that for the pion-nucleon charge exchange reaction, the appropriate energy region for matching meson-nucleon dynamics to diffractive scattering should be around 3 GeV for the helicity flip amplitude.