A design concept is presented for an advanced hadron facility consisting of a combined kaon factory and second generation spallation source. Our proposed facility consists of a 1.2 GeV superconducting H/sup -/ linac to bring the LAMPF energy up to 2 GeV, a multi-ring 2 GeV compressor, a shared cold-neutron and stopped-pion neutrino source, a 60 GeV 25 ..mu..Amp 6 Hz proton synchrotron, and kaon and proton experimental areas. We discuss the considerations which led to this design concept. We summarize recent results of r and d work on components for rapid-cycling synchrotrons. Finally, we mention briefly a pion linac, which may be a good way to gain experience with superconducting cavities if advanced hadron facility funding is delayed.

Periodic bulletin analyzing issues related to Texas legislation. This issue focuses on the franchise tax.

This brief discussion of replicons of higher plants offers a glimpse into the properties of chromosomal DNA replication. It gives evidence that the S phase of unrelated plant species is comprised of temporally ordered replicon families that increase in number with genome size. This orderly process, which assures a normal inheritance of genetic material to recipient daughter cells, is maintained at the level of replicon clusters by two mutually exclusive mechanisms, one involving the rate at which single replicons replicate their allotment of DNA, and another by means of the tempo-pause. The same two mechanisms are used by cells to alter the pattern of chromosomal DNA replication just prior to and during normal development. Both mechanisms are genetically determined and produce genetic effects when disturbed of disrupted by additional non-conforming DNAs. Further insight into how these two mechanisms operate requires more molecular information about the nature of replicons and the factors that govern when a replicon family replicates. Plant material is a rich and ideal source for this information just awaiting exploitation. 63 refs.

The lasertron is more efficient, lighter, and smaller than a klystron, especially at outputs below 2 GHz. Higher peak output powers are possible with the lasertron, and a separate modulator is not required. These advantages are useful for rf accelerators and linear colliders. The electron dynamics are simulated to estimate the device performance limits and to design an experimental lasertron. The relativistic electron dynamics are followed from the photocathode through the acceleration region and through the output region. The total fields are the sum of the space-charge, external magnetic, and acceleration or output-cavity fields. Wake fields are ignored, and the steady-state output fields are found. Lasertron performance as a function of acceleration field, charge per pulse nd frequency is calculated, showing its avantages and limitations. A preliminary design for the first Orsay lasertron experiment is presented.

The usual conditions for achromaticity of a dispersive system are shown to be inadequate when space-charge effects are included. Using a matrix formulation describing linear space-charge forces, we give generalized criteria necessary for a system to be achromatic. Additionally, these conditions are necessary for conservation of transverse emittances. An example of such a system is given.

An experiment was conducted in Tunnel Complex G at the Nevada Test Site to evaluate geotomography as a possible candidate for in situ monitoring of hydrology in the near field of a heater placed in densely welded tuff. Alterant tomographs of 200 MHz electromagnetic permittivity were made for a vertical and a horizontal plane. After the 1 kilowatt heater was turned on, the tomographs indicated a rapid and strong drying adjacent to the heater. Moisture loss was not symmetric about the heater, but seemed to be strongly influenced by heterogeneity in the rock mass. The linear character of many tomographic features and their spatial correlation with fractures mapped in boreholes are evidence that drying was most rapid along some fractures. When the heater was turned off, an increase in moisture content occurred around the heater and along the dry fractures. However, this process is much slower and the magnitude of the moisture increase much smaller than the changes observed during heating of the rock. The interpretation of the tomographs is preliminary until they can be processed without the restrictive assumption of straight ray paths for the signals through the highly heterogeneous rock mass. 15 refs., 4 figs.

The small-angle source (SAS) and 4X source are Penning surface-plasma sources (SPS) that produce high-brightness H/sup -/ ion beams for accelerator applications. However, electrode cooling considerations have limited the duty factor for pulsed operation to 1 to 3% and the maximum cw H/sup -/ beam to 2 to 4 mA. The addition of some active cooling to the 4X source has allowed pulsed operation at 6% duty factor for arc parameters sufficient to produce approx. 100 mA of H/sup -/ beam. More vigorous cooling, now being added, should allow production of cw H/sup -/ beams up to 20 to 40 mA. The cooled electrodes were designed using the predictions of TOPAZ2D, a 2-D transient, conductive heat-transfer code. The latest results, along with the possibility of producing even larger cw II/sup -/ beam currents, will be discussed.

This paper describes the improved mesh generator of the POISSON Group Codes. These improvements enable one to have full control over the way the mesh is generated and in particular the way the mesh density is distributed throughout this model. A higher mesh density in certain regions coupled with a successively lower mesh density in others keeps the accuracy of the field computation high and the requirements on the computer time and computer memory low. The mesh is generated with the help of codes AUTOMESH and LATTICE; both have gone through a major upgrade. Modifications have also been made in the POISSON part of these codes. We shall present an example of a superconducting dipole magnet to explain how to use this code. The results of field computations are found to be reliable within a few parts in a hundred thousand even in such complex geometries.

A beam buncher has been designed, fabricated, and installed on the accelerator test stand (ATS) to match the 2-MeV output beam of a 425-MHz H/sup -/ radio-frequency quadrupole (RFQ) into a 425-MHz drift-tube linac (DTL). The buncher configuration provides integral-matching permanent-magnet quadrupoles (PMQ) at the exit of the RFQ and one ..beta..lambda across the buncher accelerating gap; a third PMQ is the first DTL half-cell magnet. Located between the second and third PMQs is a 50-..cap omega.., capacitively coupled, beam-sensing pickup loop. Cooling channels are provided in each of the brazed OFHC copper wall sections. Vacuum pumping of the buncher is provided by a cryogenic refrigerator vacuum pump through an array of small-diameter holes in the buncher cavity wall. Mechanical features of the buncher, the brazing and electron-beam welding of the solid-copper buncher structure, and the beam pickup loop are described in this paper. The buncher has been tuned, installed, and operated at full power on the ATS.

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Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Jim Mattox, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification; Whether the public utility commission may grant a temporary stay to an order entered by a hearing examiner without holding a public meeting.

For an energy-efficient accelerator system to be used for a free-electron laser, the stability of an energy-recovery system utilizing a bridge coupler placed between the accelerator and the decelerator is studied numerically. Energy is recovered by recirculating the accelerated electron beam through the decelerator; the recovered energy is then transported through the bridge coupler to the accelerator. The calculation shows that a large transient voltage oscillation is induced in the system. This transient oscillation can be reduced significantly by slowly applying both the electron-beam current and the klystron power at the beginning. Two types of instabilities are predicted according to the scraping of the electron beam between the accelerator and the decelerator. When the energy spectrum of the electron beam is scraped at the high end, the system induces an oscillation. However, when the low-energy end is scraped, the electron recirculation may stop unless the klystron power is boosted by a feedback system.