CMS Grid Activities in Europe

The CMS experiment at the CERN LHC collider is producing large amounts of simulated data in order to provide an adequate statistic for the Trigger System design.These productions are performed in a distributed environment,prototyping the hierarchical model of LHC computing centers developed by MONARC.A GRID approach is being used for interconnecting the Regional Centers.The main issues which are currently addressed are:automatic submission of data production requests to available productioin sites,data transfer among production sites,“best-replica” location and submission of enduser analysis job to the appropriate Regional Center,In each production site different hardware configurations are being tested and exploited.Furthermore robust job submission systems.which are also able to provide the needed bookkeeping of the produced data are being developed.BOSS(Batch Object Submission System)is an interface to the local computing center scheduling system that has been developed in order to allow recording in a relational database of information produced by the jobe running on the batch facilities A summary of the current activites and a plan for the use of DataGrid PM9 tools are presented.     

Specification and Simulation of the ALICE Trigger and DAQ System

The ALICE Trigger and Data Acquisition (TRG/DAQ) System is required to support an aggregate event building bandwidth of up to 4 GByte/s and a storage capability of up to 1.25 GByte/s to mass storage.The system has been decomposed in a set of hardware and software components and prototypes of these components are being developed.It is necessary to verity the system design,its capability to reach the expected behavior and the target performances,discover possible bottlenecks and ways to correct for them,and explore alternative algorithms and new architectures.To achieve this the complete TRG/DAQ system has been formally specified.and the verification of the expected behavior has been performed through the execution of the specification,Two tools were used for this.Foresight,and Ptolemy.     

Active spot-scanning test with heavy ions at HIRFL-CSR

An active spot beam delivery system for heavy ion therapy has been developed based on the Cooling Storage Ring at HIRFL-CSR, where the pencil carbon-ion beams were scanned within a target volume transversely by a pair of orthogonal (horizontal and vertical) dipole magnets to paint the slices of the target volume and longitudinally by active energy variation of the synchrotron slice by slice. The unique techniques such as dose shaping via active energy variation and magnetic deflection constitute a promising three-dimensional conformal even intensity-modulated radiotherapy with heavy ions at HIRFL-CSR. In this paper, the verification of active energy variation and the calibration of steerable beam deflection are shown, as the basic functionality components of the active spot-scanning system. Additionally, based on the capability of creating homogeneous irradiation fields with steerable pencil beams, a radiobiological experiment like cell survival measurement has been performed aiming at comparison of the radiobiological effects under active and passive beam deliveries.     

Accuracy Measurements of the CAS-LIBB Single-Particle Microbeam for Single Cell Irradiation

A single-particle microbeam facility has been constructed at the Laboratory of Ion Beam Bioengineering (LIBB),Chinese Academy of Sciences. The system is designed to deliver the defined number of hydrogen ions, covering a range of energy from 1.0 to 3.5 MeV, into an area smaller than the nuclei of individual living cells. Accuracy of the particle detection system and the cell targeting system in the facility has been assessed using CR39 (nuclear track detector) for 2.3 MeV protons. The results demonstrate that the particle detection efficiency is above 98%,and the overall targeting accuracy of the microbeam is limited within 3μm for more than 90% hits.     

Progress on the construction of the 100 MeV/100 kW electron linac for the NSC KIPT neutron source

IHEP, China is constructing a 100 MeV/100 kW electron Linac for NSC KIPT, Ukraine. This linac will be used as the driver of a neutron source based on a subcritical assembly. In 2012, the injector part of the accelerator was pre-installed as a testing facility in the experimental hall ≠2 of IHEP. The injector beam and key hardware testing results met the design goal. Recently, the injector testing facility was disassembled and all of the components for the whole accelerator have been shipped to Ukraine from China by the ocean shipping. The installation of the whole machine in KIPT will be started in June, 2013. The construction progress, the design and testing results of the injector beam and key hardware are presented.     

Progress on the construction of the 100 MeV/100 kW electron linac for the NSC KIPT neutron source

IHEP, China is constructing a 100 MeV/100 kW electron Linac for NSC KIPT, Ukraine. This linac will be used as the driver of a neutron source based on a subcritical assembly. In 2012, the injector part of the accelerator was pre-installed as a testing facility in the experimental hall #2 of IHEP. The injector beam and key hardware testing results met the design goal. Recently, the injector testing facility was disassembled and all of the components for the whole accelerator have been shipped to Ukraine from China by the ocean shipping. The installation of the whole machine in KIPT will be started in June, 2013. The construction progress, the design and testing results of the injector beam and key hardware are presented.     

Thermodynamic behaviour of Rashba quantum dot in the presence of magnetic field

The thermodynamic properties of an In Sb quantum dot have been investigated in the presence of Rashba spin–orbit interaction and a static magnetic field. The energy spectrum and wave-functions for the system are obtained by solving the Schrodinger wave-equation analytically. These energy levels are employed to calculate the specific heat, entropy,magnetization and susceptibility of the quantum dot system using canonical formalism. It is observed that the system is susceptible to maximum heat absorption at a particular value of magnetic field which depends on the Rashba coupling parameter as well as the temperature. The variation of specific heat shows a Schottky-like anomaly in the low temperature limit and rapidly converges to the value of 2kB with the further increase in temperature. The entropy of the quantum dot is found to be inversely proportional to the magnetic field but has a direct variation with temperature. The substantial effect of Rashba spin–orbit interaction on the magnetic properties of quantum dot is observed at low values of magnetic field and temperature.     

The power spectrum and correlation of flow noise for an axisymmetric body in water

Understanding the physical features of the flow noise for an axisymmetric body is important for improving the performance of a sonar mounted on an underwater platform. Analytical calculation and numerical analysis of the physical features of the flow noise for an axisymmetric body are presented and a simulation scheme for the noise correlation on the hydrophones is given. It is shown that the numerical values of the flow noise coincide well with the analytical values. The main physical features of flow noise are obtained. The flow noises of two different models are compared and a model with a rather optimal fore-body shape is given. The flow noise in horizontal symmetry profile of the axisymmetric body is non-uniform, but it is omni-directional and has little difference in the cross section of the body. The loss of noise diffraction has a great effect on the flow noise from boundary layer transition. Meanwhile, based on the simulation, the noise power level increases with velocity to approximately the fifth power at high frequencies, which is consistent with the experiment data reported in the literature. Furthermore, the flow noise received by the acoustic array has lower correlation at a designed central frequency, which is important for sonar system design.     

Dissociative Chemisorption of an H2（v,j） Molecule on Rigid Ni （100） Surface： Dependence on Surface Topologies and Initial Rovibrational States of the Molecules

The H2(v,j) Ni(100) collision system has been studied to understand the effects of the surface sites and initial rovibrational states of the molecule on molecule-surface interactions, by a quasiclassical molecular dynamic simulation method. Dissociative adsorption of an H2 molecule on the rigid Ni(100) surface is investigated at topologically different three sites of the surface. Interaction between the molecule and Ni surface was described by a London-Eyring-Polani-Sato (LEPS) potential. Dissociative chemisorption probabilities of the H2(v, j) molecule on various sites of the surface are presented as a function of the translation energies between 0.001-1.0eV. The probabilities obtained at each collision site have unique behaviour. At lower collision energies, indirect processes enhance the reactivity, effects of the rotational excitations and impact sites on the reactivity are more pronounced. The results are compared with the available studies. The physical mechanisms underlying the results and quantum effects are discussed.     

Bilevel Architecture for High—Thronghput Computing

We have prototyped and analyzed design of a novel approach for the high throughput computing-a core element for the emerging HENP computational grid.Independent event processing in HENP is well suted for computing in parallel.The prototype facilitateds use of inexpensive mass-market components by poviding fault tolerant resilienece (instead of the expensive total system reliablity) via highly scalable management components. The ability to handle both hardware and software failures on a large dedicated HENP facility limits the need for user intervention.A robust data management is especially important in HENP computing since large data-flows occur before and /or atfer each processing task.The architecture of our active object object coordination schema implements a multi-level hierarchical agent model,It provides fault tolerance by splitting a large overall task into independent atomic processes,performed by lower level agents synchronizing each other via a local database.Necessary control function performed by higher level agents interact with the same database thus managing distributed data production.The system has been tested in production environment for simulations in the STAR experiment at RHIC.Our architectural prototype controlled processes on more than a hundred processors at a time and has run for extended periods of time.Twenty terabytes of simulated data hava been produced.The generic nature of our two level architectural solution fault tolerance in distributed environment has been demonstrated by ist successful test for the grid file replication services between BNL and LBNL.     

European research platform IPANEMA at the SOLEIL synchrotron for ancient and historical materials

IPANEMA, a research platform devoted to ancient and historical materials (archaeology, cultural heritage, palaeontology and past environments), is currently being set up at the synchrotron facility SOLEIL (Saint‐Aubin, France; SOLEIL opened to users in January 2008). The new platform is open to French, European and international users. The activities of the platform are centred on two main fields: increased support to synchrotron projects on ancient materials and methodological research. The IPANEMA team currently occupies temporary premises at SOLEIL, but the platform comprises construction of a new building that will comply with conservation and environmental standards and of a hard X‐ray imaging beamline today in its conceptual design phase, named PUMA. Since 2008, the team has supported synchrotron works at SOLEIL and at European synchrotron facilities on a range of topics including pigment degradation in paintings, composition of musical instrument varnishes, and provenancing of medieval archaeological ferrous artefacts. Once the platform is fully operational, user support will primarily take place within medium‐term research projects for `hosted' scientists, PhDs and post‐docs. IPANEMA methodological research is focused on advanced two‐dimensional/three‐dimensional imaging and spectroscopy and statistical image analysis, both optimized for ancient materials.     

质子治疗装置动态电源控制系统研发

针对质子治疗装置中主环动态电源多平台能量的引出需求,研制了基于开源平台的高速实时动态电源控制系统,该控制系统以开源平台Beaglebone作为顶层硬件接口,以现场可编程逻辑门阵列(FPGA)为核心的控制器作为底层硬件接口,采用分布式的实验物理及工业控制系统(EPICS)进行远程控制。该系统可实时传输任意动态电源的输出参考电流波形数据,并结合定时系统与联锁系统,控制动态电源按预设电流波形进行输出,并实现多平台能量的引出。实验结果显示该控制系统能实现每秒最高十万条指令传输,百万次数据传输零误码率。同时,该系统结构灵活、扩展性强,可作为通用控制平台。     

DC-SC光阴极注入器的束载实验的调试进展

 北京大学射频超导实验室设计了新型超导光电子枪——DC-SC光阴极注入器，目标是为自由电子激光平台提供能量在2~3MeV，脉宽小于10ps，脉冲重复频率为81.25MHz，平均流强约为1mA的低发射度电子束。现在已经建成了DC-SC光阴极注入器实验平台，包括激光驱动光阴极系统，Pierce直流高压加速结构，1.3GHz 1＋1/2纯铌超导腔，恒温器低温系统，4.5kW连续波微波系统，1/16分频与同步控制系统，束流诊断系统和能量分析系统等。并且完成了超导腔的静态实验，直流加速结构也经过了100μA低电流测试。实验结果符合设计要求，整体调试后即可以进行束载实验。     

First Measurements with the Gas Cell for SHIPTRAP

SHIPTRAP is an electromagnetic transport and trapping system to provide very clean and cold beams of singly-charged recoil ions from the SHIP facility at GSI. The different components of the system are currently under development in Munich (gas cell and extraction RFQ) and GSI (Buncher RFQ and Penning traps)[1]. Design and manufacturing of the prototype buffer gas cell and the extraction RFQ based on a wide range of simulations have been completed. The results of these simulations together with the first measurements will be reported. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Design of the 10 m AEI prototype facility for interferometry studies

The AEI 10 m prototype interferometer facility is currently being constructed at the Albert Einstein Institute in Hannover, Germany. It aims to perform experiments for future gravitational wave detectors using advanced techniques. Seismically isolated benches are planned to be interferometrically interconnected and stabilized, forming a low-noise testbed inside a 100 m³ ultra-high vacuum system. A well-stabilized high-power laser will perform differential position readout of 100 g test masses in a 10 m suspended arm-cavity enhanced Michelson interferometer at the crossover of measurement (shot) noise and back-action (quantum radiation pressure) noise, the so-called Standard Quantum Limit (SQL). Such a sensitivity enables experiments in the highly topical field of macroscopic quantum mechanics. In this article we introduce the experimental facility and describe the methods employed; technical details of subsystems will be covered in future papers.     

Unified boundary integral equation for the scattering of elastic and acoustic waves: solution by the method of moments

A unified boundary integral equation (BIE) is developed for the scattering of elastic and acoustic waves. Traditionally, the elastic and acoustic wave problems are solved separately with different BIEs. The elastic wave case is represented in a vector BIE with the traction and displacement vectors as unknowns whereas the acoustic wave case is governed by a scalar BIE with velocity potential or pressure as unknowns. Although these two waves can be unified in the form of a partial differential equation, the unified form in its BIE counterpart has not been reported. In this work, we derive the unified BIE for these two waves and then show that the acoustic wave case can be derived from this BIE by introducing a shielding loss for small shear modulus approximation; hence only one code needs to be maintained for both elastic and acoustic wave scattering. We also derive the asymptotic Green's tensor for zero shear modulus and solve the corresponding vector equation. We employ the method of moments, which has been widely used in electromagnetics, as a numerical tool to solve the BIEs involved. Our numerical experiments show that it can also be used robustly in elastodynamics and acoustics.     

重离子加速器实验环内靶控制系统

介绍了国家大科学工程项目——兰州重离子加速器冷却储存环实验环团簇内靶装置的控制系统.该系统基于VAC800,VAC600和TC硬件平台,集成了温度测量与控制、真空与阀门监控及分子泵监控等功能,能够实时实现对温度、真空度的远程监控,满足了内靶实验的需求.在该控制系统的支持下,成功地完成了Me54+离子与氮气靶碰撞实验.该...     

适用于聚变装置偏滤器部件的高热负荷测试平台真空腔体系统设计

对托卡马克聚变装置偏滤器的高热负荷测试平台真空腔体系统进行了结构设计,其中包括真空室、 真空抽气系统、部件调节机构、小型水冷系统和电子枪操作平台,利用 Ansys 对真空室主体结构的合理性和可靠 性进行了验证。模拟结果表明：真空室外壁温度不超过 50℃,真空室及其支撑上的最大应力分别为 134.49MPa 和 48.76MPa,满足许用应力 3S_m 值 620MPa 的要求。     

Unified boundary integral equation for the scattering of elastic and acoustic waves: solution by the method of moments

A unified boundary integral equation (BIE) is developed for the scattering of elastic and acoustic waves. Traditionally, the elastic and acoustic wave problems are solved separately with different BIEs. The elastic wave case is represented in a vector BIE with the traction and displacement vectors as unknowns whereas the acoustic wave case is governed by a scalar BIE with velocity potential or pressure as unknowns. Although these two waves can be unified in the form of a partial differential equation, the unified form in its BIE counterpart has not been reported. In this work, we derive the unified BIE for these two waves and then show that the acoustic wave case can be derived from this BIE by introducing a shielding loss for small shear modulus approximation; hence only one code needs to be maintained for both elastic and acoustic wave scattering. We also derive the asymptotic Green's tensor for zero shear modulus and solve the corresponding vector equation. We employ the method of moments, which has been widely used in electromagnetics, as a numerical tool to solve the BIEs involved. Our numerical experiments show that it can also be used robustly in elastodynamics and acoustics.     

Results of the Nuclotron-M project

The main goal of the Nuclotron-M project, approved in 2007, was formulated as follows: modernization of the main accelerator systems for reliable and safe operation of the Nuclotron as a part of the accelerator facility NICA (Nuclotron-based Ion Collider Facility) being constructed at JINR. Demonstration of heavy-ion beam acceleration (with atomic mass number higher than 100) as well as safe and stable operation of the main superconducting system operation at a magnetic field of up to 2 T had been defined as criteria of successful project fulfillment. Another very important issue is performance of stable, long-term beam runs and increase of the accelerated beam intensity. All the main goals of the Nuclotron-M project had been successfully achieved by the end of 2010. In this report we give an overview of the project realization chronology and present the main experimental results obtained at LHEP Nuclotron accelerator facility in the period from 2007 to early 2011.