Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, June, 2003. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 190-193)

<p> In the soft photon limit the bremsstrahlung cross-section is related to the corresponding elastic scattering cross-section in a model-independent manner. The cross-section for threshold photoproduction of pions becomes independent of the detailed pion-nucleon interaction if the ratio of pion to nucleon mass is made sufficiently small. These two results are a consequence of the gauge invariance of the scattering amplitude for a process involving one photon. We review the derivation of Low's bremsstrahlung theorem for spin-zero and spin-half particles, and outline an extension to all orders of photon energy. The theorem for photopion production is derived by the same method. A non-relativistic analogue to the Bremsstrahlung theorem is also considered.</p> / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc)

The characterization and measurement of the spatial, temporal and energy emission of air-scattered photons, electrons and neutrons generated near 10 MV or greater accelerator-based bremsstrahlung photon sources is becoming important in many applications. The national and homeland security research community is interested in developing technologies which can detect illicit materials at substantial standoff distances in outdoor environments. These systems are referred to as "active" interrogation systems and are defined as inspection systems that take advantage of an externally applied "source" to perform traditional imaging of, or to stimulate characteristic emissions from, an inspected object. A key concern in the development of these systems is the ability to effectively predict the dose equivalents at long standoff distances from these sources in order to ascertain the operational radiation safety of said systems. Current computational radiation transport simulation tools have the ability to effectively model these systems; however, a paucity of experimental data exists in comparing the results of these simulations. A methodology to assess the radiation dose surrounding a high-energy bremsstrahlung-based accelerator system for national defense applications was developed. Fluence-to-dose conversion coefficients for the International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements operational quantity ambient dose equivalent were calculated for photons and electrons up to 25 MeV utilizing the Los Alamos National Laboratory Monte Carlo N-Particle code, MCNP5 Version 1.51. Special consideration was given to the treatment of secondary charged particle equilibrium in all simulations. An extensive set of system simulations was performed to model a prototype high-energy bremsstrahlung-based accelerator system to obtain photon, electron and neutron fluence spectra. These fluence data were folded with the calculated ambient dose equivalent conversion coefficients as well as previously published effective dose conversion coefficients. A set of integral air-scatter measurements for accelerator-generated primary and secondary radiations (photon and neutron) were performed around the prototype system in order to provide a comparative data set from which to determine the total dose equivalent both in the beam (on-axis) and outside of the beam (off-axis).

Le multi-détecteur PANDA (antiProton ANnihilation at DArmstadt) équipera l’anneau de stockage d’antiprotons du complexe d’accélérateurs FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research), en construction à Darmstadt et dont les premiers faisceaux sont prévus en 2019. L’expérience cible fixe PANDA est un outil du futur pour la physique hadronique. Avec PANDA, on peut étudier par exemple la spectroscopie des mésons, rechercher de nouveaux états de la matière, comme les boules de glue et les hybrides, étudier la spectroscopie des baryons charmés et multi-étranges, les hypernoyaux, les hadrons dans la matière nucléaire. Les réactions d’annihilation antiproton-proton permettent aussi d’étudier la structure du nucléon, en particulier en utilisant les canaux électromagnétiques de production de paires électron-positron, qui constituent l’objet d’étude de cette thèse. Un problème majeur de l’étude des canaux électromagnétiques, est le bruit de fond hadronique, qui est au moins six ordres de grandeur plus grand que le signal et qui nécessite une excellente identification de particules et une bonne résolution en impulsion. Or, la reconstruction de l’impulsion des électrons et positrons est dégradée par l’émission de photons de Bremsstrahlung le long de leur trace. Dans la première partie de la thèse, j’ai étudié ce problème et développé une méthode, basée sur une correction de l’impulsion des électrons et positrons événement par événement, en utilisant la détection des photons de Bremsstrahlung dans le calorimètre électromagnétique. Cette méthode, qui a été intégrée dans le code de reconstruction officiel de PANDA, PANDAroot, permet une amélioration très significative de la résolution en impulsion des électrons dont peuvent bénéficier toutes les études de canaux de production de paires électron-positron.Dans la deuxième partie, j’ai effectué une étude de faisabilité de la mesure de la réaction antiproton proton → J/Ψ π⁰ dans un modèle utilisant des TDAs (Transition Distribution Amplitudes) pion-nucléon. Les TDAs sont des objets non-perturbatifs qui décrivent la transition entre deux particules différentes. Par exemple, les TDAs pion-nucléon donnent des informations sur les composantes pioniques dans la fonction d’onde du nucléon. Pour cette étude, j’ai utilisé le modèle de TDA pour créer un générateur d’événements, puis j’ai étudié les capacités de réjection du bruit de fond hadronique. L’amélioration de l’efficacité du signal, due à la méthode de correction de Bremsstrahlung a pu aussi être quantifiée. Cette étude pourra être utilisée pour une proposition d’expérience pour PANDA. / The multi-purpose detector PANDA (antiProton Annihilation at Darmstadt) will be built at the antiproton storage ring of the FAIR accelerator complex that is under construction in Darmstadt and is expected to provide its first beam in 2019. The fixed target experiment PANDA is a state of the art hadronic physics detector. With PANDA, one can explore a wide range of topics including meson spectroscopy, search for new states of matter such as glue balls and hybrids, charmed and multi-strange baryon spectroscopy, hyper-nuclei, and properties of hadrons in nuclei. Proton antiproton annihilation reactions will also allow to study the structure of nucleons, in particular by exploiting the electromagnetic channel of electron-positron pair production which is the subject of this thesis.One major problem with studies of electromagnetic channels is the hadronic background with cross-sections at least six orders of magnitude larger than the signal, requiring excellent particle identification and good momentum resolution. However the momentum reconstruction for electrons and positrons is degraded due to the emission of Bremsstrahlung photons along their path. In the first part of this thesis, I studied this problem and developed a method based on the correction of the momentum of electrons and positrons event by event, using Bremsstrahlung photons detected in the electromagnetic calorimeter. This method, which has been integrated into PANDAroot, the official PANDA reconstruction code, provides a significant improvement of momentum resolution for electrons, and will be exploitable by any measurement with electron-positron pair in the exit channel.In the second part, I performed a feasibility study of measuring the reaction antiproton p →J/Ψ π⁰ using predictions from a model based on pion-nucleon TDAs (Transition Distribution Amplitudes). TDAs are non-perturbative objects that describe the transition between two particles of different nature. For example, pion-nucleon TDAs contain information about the pionic components in the nucleon's wave function. For this study, I relied on the TDA model to create an event generator, and studied the capability to reject hadronic background. The improvement of the efficiency for the signal due to the Bremsstrahlung correction method was quantified. This study can be used as basis for a proposal of an experiment with PANDA.

In this work we report on two sets of measurements involving the Hall-B photon tagging system of the Tomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. The relative energy calibration of the tagging counters was performed by using the PrimEx pair spectrometer and a series of high position resolution micro-strip detectors. The photon energies were determined by forming coincidence between the tagger and the e+ e- pairs for several values of the pair spectrometer magnetic field between 0.36T to 1.9T (total of 180 fields). The second set of measurements, collected in conjunction with the Fall 2004 PrimEx run, investigated inherent limitations on the photon tagging technique. We report for the first time an experimental signature for these effects.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-152).

Thesis (M.S. in Phys.)--Naval Postgraduate School, 1970. / Bibliography: l. 65-66. Also available online.

Techn. Universiẗat, Diss., 2002--Darmstadt.

Techn. Universiẗat, Diss., 2002--Darmstadt.

>Magister Scientiae - MSc / The ultimate aim of any multiply-charged ion source, like the Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Source, ECRIS, is the production of multiply-charged ions, in sufficiently large quantities. These multiplycharged ions, in the case of the ECRIS, are created by a step-by-step ionisation process, whereby neutral atoms are ionised by energetic electrons. The goal of this thesis was to gain an understanding of the relative importance of various ECRIS parameters on the production of these energetic electrons. This was done by measuring the bremsstrahlung continuum emitted by the mirror confined plasma of an ECR ion source. The focus of our study was to investigate the influence of neutral pressure, incident microwave power and magnetic field configuration on spectral temperature and electron density of the warm electron population of the ECRIS plasma. The thesis begins by familiarising the reader with various aspects of plasma physics as it relates to the measurements. The measurements were done with a high-purity germanium detector and processed with the DGF Pixie-4 module. Analyses of the measured spectra were done with subroutines written in Root. From the measured result, it was concluded that by increasing the incident microwave power from 50 W to 300 W, the spectral temperature increases by 14.01% for helium plasma and 7.88% for argon plasma. Evidence of saturation of spectral temperature and electron density with increasing microwave power was also noticed, as reported by other groups investigating plasma bremsstrahlung. The increase of spectral temperature with neutral pressure was found to be considerable, increasing by 20.23% as the neutral pressure in the plasma chamber of the ECRIS was decreased. This increase in spectral temperature was accompanied by a 40.33% decrease in electron density, which led us to conclude that the increase in spectral temperature was most likely due to an increase in the mean free path of the electrons. The influence of the magnetic field configuration on both spectral temperature and electron density was also investigated. During this investigation, one of the solenoid coil currents was increased, whilst keeping the other constant. This amounts to moving the plasma volume around axially in the plasma chamber of the ECRIS. This was found to significantly enhance the spectral temperature and this effect was attributed to more efficient heating of the electrons near the resonance zone. The electron density on the other hand was found to remain relatively constant, if one excludes the electron density as a result of one particularly setting of the solenoid coils. The decrease of electron density as a result of this particular setting of the solenoid coils enhanced the electron losses through the magnetic bottle. This is evidenced by the increase in photon counts as measured by our detector. The influence of neutral pressure, incident microwave power and magnetic field configuration on the extracted ion beam intensities was also investigated. This investigation led us to conclude that the mean charge state extracted increases with spectral temperature. This result was in agreement with those measured by other groups.