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We have measured the total energy spread (99% energy spread) of the Booster beam at its injection energy of 400 MeV by three different methods - 1) creating a notch of about 40 nsec wide in the beam immediately after multiple turn injection and measuring the slippage time required for high and low momentum particles for a grazing touch in line-charge distribution, 2) injecting partial turn beam and letting it to debunch, and 3) comparing the beam profile monitor data with predictions from MAD simulations for the 400 MeV injection beam line. The measurements are repeated under varieties of conditions of RF systems in the ring and in the beam transfer line., Proceedings of the 6th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2015, Richmond, VA, USA

Fermilab has assembled an ILC like cryomodule using U.S. processed high gradient cavities and achieved an average gradient of 31.5 MV/m for the entire cryomodule. Test results and challenges along the way will be discussed., Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on RF Superconductivity, SRF2015, Whistler, BC, Canada

New auxiliary components have been designed and fabricated for the 1.3 GHz SRF cavities comprising the LCLS-II linac. In particular, the LCLS-II cavity’s helium vessel, high-power input coupler, higher-order mode (HOM) feedthroughs, magnetic shielding, and cavity tuning system were all designed to meet LCLS-II specifications. Integrated tests of the cavity and these components were done at Fermilab’s Horizontal Test Stand (HTS) using several kilowatts of continuous-wave (CW) RF power. The results of the tests are summarized here., Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on RF Superconductivity, SRF2015, Whistler, BC, Canada

Colorado State University (CSU) and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) have been developing a control system to regulate the resonant frequency of an RF electron gun. As part of this effort, we present experimental results for a benchmark temperature controller that combines a machine learning-based model and a predictive control algorithm for improved settling time, overshoot, and disturbance rejection relative to conventional techniques. Such improvements have implications for machine up-time and management of reflected power. This work is part of an on-going effort to develop adaptive, machine learning-based tools specifically to address control challenges found in particle accelerator systems., Proceedings of the 6th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2015, Richmond, VA, USA

The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is planning an upgrade (LCLS-II) to the Linear Coherent Light Source with a 4 GeV CW superconducting (SCRF) linac. The SCRF linac consists of 35 ILC style cryomodules (eight cavities each) for a total of 280 cavities. Expected cavity gradients are 16 MV/m with a loaded QL of ~ 4x10⁷. The RF system will have 3.8 kW solid state amplifiers driving single cavities. To ensure optimum field stability a single source single cavity control system has been chosen. It consists of a precision four channel cavity receiver and RF stations (Forward, Reflected and Drive signals). In order to regulate the resonant frequency variations of the cavities due to He pressure, the tuning of each cavity is controlled by a Piezo actuator and a slow stepper motor. In addition the system (LLRF-amplifier-cavity) is being modeled and cavity microphonic testing has started. This paper describes the LLRF system under consideration, including recent modeling and cavity tests., Proceedings of the 6th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2015, Richmond, VA, USA

Operation of the 3-12 GeV electron collider 8-shape ring of the MEIC facility causes a Synchrotron Radiation (SR) of electrons in arcs with energy loss of ~20 kW/m at beam current of ~3 A. The total SR loss up to 2 MW per a revolution is presumed to compensate by Superconducting RF (SRF) accelerating cavities. To minimize the beam emittance, each individual SRF cavity is proposed to feed by an individual and independent RF source allowing a wide-band control in phase and power. Most efficient and less expensive in capital and maintenance costs the high-power transmitters based on magnetrons, injection-locked by phase-modulated signals, controlled in wide-band are proposed as the RF sources. The magnetron RF sources utilizing 2-cascade magnetrons allowing a wide-band phase and power control by the injection-locking phase-modulated signals were experimentally modelled by 2.45 GHz, CW, 1 kW magnetrons. Results of the modelling and adequacy of the transmitters for the SRF cavities are discussed in the presented article., Proceedings of the 6th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2015, Richmond, VA, USA

Accelerators developed for Science now are used broadly for industrial, medical, and security applications. Over 30,000 accelerators touch over $500B/yr in products producing a major impact on our economy, health, and well being. Industrial accelerators must be cost effective, simple, versatile, efficient, and robust. Many industrial applications require high average beam power. Exploiting recent advances in Superconducting Radio Frequency (SRF) cavities and RF power sources as well as innovative solutions for the SRF gun and cathode system, a collaboration of Fermilab-CSU-NIU has developed a design for a compact SRF high-average power electron linac. Capable of 5-50 kW average power and continuous wave operation this accelerator will produce electron beam energies up to 10 MeV and small and light enough to mount on mobile platforms, such accelerators will enable new in-situ environmental remediation methods and new applications involving in-situ crosslinking of materials. More importantly, we believe this accelerator will be the first of a new class of simple, turn-key SRF accelerators that will find broad application in industry, medicine, security, and science., Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on RF Superconductivity, SRF2015, Whistler, BC, Canada

A facility dedicated to SRF cryomodule testing is under construction at Fermilab. The test stand has been designed to be flexible enough to cool down and power test full length TESLA-style 8-cavity cryomodules as well cryomodules for low-β acceleration. We describe the design considerations, status, and near future plans for utilization of the test stand., Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on RF Superconductivity, SRF2015, Whistler, BC, Canada

The Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator (ASTA) is under construction at Fermilab. This accelerator will consist of a photo-electron gun, injector, ILC-type cryomodules, and multiple downstream beam-lines. Its purpose is to be a user-based facility for Advanced Accelerator R&D. . Following the successful commissioning of the photoinjector gun, a Tesla style 8-cavity cryomodule and a high gradient capture cavity have been cooled down to 2 K and powered commissioning and performance characterization has begun. We will report on the commissioning status and near-term future plans for the facility., Proceedings of the 5th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2014, Dresden, Germany

The Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator (ASTA) at Fermilab now being commissioned is comprised of a number of superconducting RF systems including single-cavity cryomodules and a TESLA/ILC style 8-cavity cryomodule. Two of them, 'Capture Cavity 2' and 'Cryomodule 2', have been cooled to 2 Kelvin and brought into operation. We provide an overview of the unique characteristics of each of the systems, commissioning experience, and latest results including their respective operating characteristics., Proceedings of the 5th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2014, Dresden, Germany

Fermilab has built a cryomodule comprised of eight 1.3 GHz superconducting RF cavities for use in its Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator (ASTA) facility. This cryomodule (RFCA002) was intended to achieve the International Linear Collider (ILC) “S1” goal of demonstrating an average accelerating gradient of 31.5 MV/m, and is the first of its kind built in the United States. The module has been cooled down and operated without beam at ASTA in order to assess its performance. The results from these tests are presented here., Proceedings of the 5th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2014, Dresden, Germany

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International audience; A growing number of proxy, historical and instrumental data sets are now available from continental Africa through which past variations in temperaturecan be assessed. This paper, co-authored by members of the PAGES Africa2k Working Group, synthesises published material to produce a record oftemperature variability for Africa as a whole spanning the last 2000 years. The paper focuses on temperature variability during the ‘Medieval ClimateAnomaly’ (MCA), ‘Little Ice Age’ (LIA) and late 19th–early 21st centuries. Warmer conditions during the MCA are evident in records from LakeTanganyika in central Africa, the Ethiopian Highlands in northeastern Africa, and Cango Cave, the Kuiseb River and Wonderkrater in southern Africa.Other records covering the MCA give ambiguous signals. Warming appears to have been greater during the early MCA (c. ad 1000) in parts of southernAfrica and during the later MCA (from ad 1100) in Namibia, Ethiopia and at Lake Tanganyika. LIA cooling is evident in Ethiopian and southern Africanpollen records and in organic biomarker data from Lake Malawi in southeastern tropical Africa, while at Lake Tanganyika the temperature depressionappears to have been less consistent. A warming trend in mean annual temperatures is clearly evident from historical and instrumental data coveringthe late 19th to early 21st centuries. General warming has occurred over Africa since the 1880s punctuated only by a period of cooling in the mid 20thcentury. The rate of temperature increase appears to have accelerated towards the end of the 20th century. The few long high-resolution proxy recordsthat extend into the late 20th century indicate that average annual temperatures were 1–2°C higher in the last few decades than during the MCA.

International audience; We present here a potential new method to evaluate past variations of the mean intensity of Peruvian coastal upwelling and of the seasonal timing of phytoplankton blooms. This method uses a combination of the monthly carbon and oxygen isotopic signals preserved in fossil mollusk shells, and a series of corrections to extract the variations of the dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) δ13C. Based on the analysis of five shell samples (85 shells in total) from the southern Peruvian coast, we suggest that the mean coastal upwelling intensity can be determined from a linear relationship between average values of corrected shell δ13C and δ18O. This new potential proxy would bring additional independent information valuable to interpret paleoproductivity changes reconstructed from marine sediment of the nearby continental shelf. Results obtained on fossil samples from the middle Holocene show an increase in upwelling intensity during this period associated to a spatial reorganization of upwelling centers along the South Peruvian coast. At the seasonal scale, corrected shell δ13C enrichment indicates a phytoplankton bloom. Seasonal timing of phytoplankton blooms can be estimated by the lag with the annual temperature cycle reproduced by shell δ18O monthly variations. The results obtained with two modern shell samples indicate phytoplankton blooms occurring during summer and fall, consistently with in situ productivity observations. Our method relies on revisited assumptions about the influence of temperature and metabolism in mollusk shell δ13C. We further discussed the validity of these assumptions and the potential implications for the interpretation of similar data sets.

In arid and semi-arid areas such as southern Africa, rock hyrax ( Procavia capensis ) middens represent an exceptionally valuable source of late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental information. Pollen and stable isotope data derived from two rock hyrax middens extracted from De Rif in the Cederberg Mountains of the southwestern Cape, casts new light on climatic changes that occurred across the Last Glacial–Interglacial Transition (LGIT) and the Holocene (19.5–0.7 cal kBP) and how the region's vegetation responded to these changes. Significant changes in vegetation community composition would be expected in response to environmental changes characteristic of the contrast between ‘glacial’ and ‘interglacial’ climates. However, the pollen assemblages in general indicate that mountain fynbos remained dominant throughout the record and that most of the pollen taxa exhibited only muted frequency variations. This finding could be considered to be inconsistent with indications of marked climatic variations recorded in the stable isotope records for the same midden. An analysis of the geological setting and the bioclimatic affinities of the taxa suggest that the explanation for this inconsistency may lie in the dominating influence of sandstone substrates and the relative resilience of mountain fynbos vegetation to climate change.