A conceptual design for a tokamak demonstration power plant (DEMO) was developed. A large part of the study focused on examining the key issues and identifying the R and D needs for: (1) current drive for steady-state operation, (2) impurity control and exhaust, (3) tritium breeding blanket, and (4) reactor configuration and maintenance. Impurity control and exhaust will not be covered in this paper but is discussed in another paper in these proceedings, entitled Key Issues of FED/INTOR Impurity Control System.

I will report preliminary results on elastic neutrino-electron scattering from data taken with the 200 ton segmented liquid scintillator - proportional drift-tube neutrino detector at Brookhaven. Features of the detector (such as the active target and long radiation length) permit a uniquely clean signal. Prospects of results from the completed analysis and further data taking are discussed.

The experimental setup and preliminary results of nu..mu.. + e elastic scattering measurements are described. (WHK)

Scope of the tasks being performed by Los Alamos will be identified. Emphasis will be placed upon the geotechnical work. Important geotechnical properties of a low-level waste disposal site include hydraulic conductivity consolidation, and shear strength of the applicable medium. The hydraulic conductivity of crushed Bandelier tuff has been assessed using the instantaneous profile method. The best fit of hydraulic conductivity as a function of water content was found to be a power function. The coefficient of consolidation was difficult to measure because of the relatively high hydraulic conductivity. The repose angle for crushed tuff is higher than the normally expected range. This is probably because of a higher than average angularity and surface roughness. The high coefficient of consolidation and high internal friction angle make finely crushed tuff a material with ideal mechanical characteristics. The drawback is that a high coefficient of consolidation is linked to a high hydraulic conductivity.

As part of the National Plutonium Workers Study, cancer incidence for 1969 to 1978 among employees of the Los Alamos National Laboratory was investigated. Incident cancers were identified by a computer match of the Los Alamos employed roster against New Mexico Tumor Registry files. The resulting numbers of total and site-specific cancers were compared to the numbers expected based on incidence rates for the State of New Mexico, specific for age, sex, ethnicity, and calendar period. For Anglo males, significantly fewer cancers than expected (SIR = 0.60, 95% CI 0.44 to 0.79) were found. This resulted from marked deficits of smoking-related cancers, particularly lung (2 observed, 19.4 expected) and oral (1 observed, 6.5 expected) cancer. Similarly, no smoking-related cancers were detected among Anglo females, though they had a slight nonsignificant excess of breast cancer (14 observed, 9.1 expected) and a suggestive excess of cancer of the uterine corpus (2 observed, 0.25 expected). The pattern of cancerincidence among Anglo employees is typical of high social class populations and not likely related to the Los Alamos working environment.

A summary review of hydraulic fracture modeling is given. Advanced hydraulic fracture model formulations and simulation, using the finite element method, are presented. The numerical examples include the determination of fracture width, height, length, and stress intensity factors with the effects of frac fluid properties, layered strata, in situ stresses, and joints. Future model extensions are also recommended. 66 references, 23 figures.

LAMPF is a multi-purpose high-intensity meson factory capable of producing a 1 mA beam of 800-MeV protons. The three target cells and the beam stop facilities in the high intensity area have many special design features that are required for operation in the presence of high heat loads and intense radiation fields where accessibility is extremely limited. Reliable targets, beam windows, beam stops, beam transport and diagnostic components, vacuum enclosures, and auxiliary systems have been developed. Sophisticated remote-handling systems are employed for maintenance. Complex protection systems have been developed to guard against damage caused by errant beam. Beam availability approaching 90% has been achieved at currents of 600 to 700 ..mu..A. A new facility for direct proton and neutron radiation effects studies will be installed in 1985. The new facility will provide an integrated spallation neutron flux of up to 5 x 10/sup 17/ m/sup -2/s/sup -1/ and will anable proton irradiation studies in the primary beam.

D* production is studied in the decay chain D*/sup +/ ..-->.. D/sup 0/ ..pi../sup +/ with the D/sup 0/ observed in the K/sup -/..pi../sup +/ mode and the corresponding charge conjugate decays. The results were obtained from a preliminary analysis of an 80 pb/sup -1/ data sample of e/sup +/e/sup -/ annihilations at 29 GeV taken with the High Resolution Spectrometer at PEP. The excellent mass resolution of the HRS allows the study of the D* production and decay with very low background. We present the fragmentation function over the range of Z from 0.2 to 1.0.

The study of multi-particle final state in high-energy reactions has a long history. Detailed studies of hadronic interactions at Fermilab and at the CERN ISR have shown that particles are emitted in clear jets of hadrons along the beam directions. For the highest energies, a small fraction of events contains large-angle jets originating from hard collisions, in addition to the beam and target fragmentation products. The clearest observation of jets has been in high-energy e/sup +/e/sup -/ reactions. Hadronic interactions contain 5 or 6 valence quarks already in the initial state. The final state in e/sup +/e/sup -/ annihilation represents at the parton level a relatively simple dynamical system: a q anti q state plus possibly a hard gluon therefore jets produced in e/sup +/e/sup -/ annihilation have to be considered as the cleanest ones. The study of their properties can help, not only to understand quark fragmentation but may also serve as an important tool in the analysis of the much more complex mechanism in hadronic interactions. In this paper we present preliminary results of the overall features of our first sample of e/sup +/e/sup -/ annihilation events at 29 GeV. The data were taken using the High Resolution …

A hierarchical, distributed intelligence data acquisition system which has been used for the past two years in neutrino experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory is described. Performance characteristics and the nature of problems encountered in bringing the system to maturity are discussed and some generalizations of the experience are suggested.

Two groups have submitted major proposals for neutrino oscillation searches at BNL. Both are two detector experiments with a close detector at approx. = 100m and a far detector at approx. = 900m. While the details of the experiments are quite different, both groups expect to obtain nu/sub ..mu../ disappearance limits of delta m/sup 2/sin2 theta approx. = 0.1 - 0.2 for small mass difference and sin/sup 2/2 theta at the few percent level for the most sensitive delta m/sup 2/(approx. = 25eV/sup 2/). Since both detectors are designed to identify electrons as well as muons they expect to obtain significant limits on nu/sub e/ appearance (nu/sub ..mu../ ..-->.. nu/sub e/). Each has received approval for a single detector (Phase I) experiment with the two detector phase (Phase II) still pending. The present status of the single detector experiments is detailed. (WHK)

A measurement of the nu/sub ..mu../e elastic scattering cross section is presented. These data analyzed were run at the Brookhaven AGS wide band neutrino beam ((E/sub nu/) = 1.5 GeV).

The production of identified charged particles in pp collisions at ..sqrt..s = 63 GeV with an identified high p/sub T/ trigger particle emitted in the central region is studied. The measurements were performed at the CERN ISR using the Axial Field Spectrometer. Trigger particle ratios, sigma(..pi../sup + -/)/ sigma(all/sup + -/), sigma(K/sup + -/) and sigma(p/sup + -/)/sigma(all/sup + -/) are presented for p/sub T/ from 5 GeV/c to 8 GeV/c. In addition sigma(..pi../sup + -/)/sigma(all/sup + -/) is presented in the p/sub T/ region from 2.5 GeV/c to 4.5 GeV/c. The charge compensation in the hemisphere containing the trigger particle is shown to depend strongly on the identity of the trigger particle and on the identity of the associated particles. 13 references.

We present a preliminary report on a study of the exclusive reaction pp ..-->.. pph/sup +/h/sup -/ (h = ..pi..,K,p) at ..sqrt..s = 63 GeV and ..sqrt..s = 45 GeV, with h/sup +/ and h/sup -/ in the central region. This reaction has been suggested as a method of searching for gluonium states. The mass distributions in the ..pi../sup +/..pi../sup -/ system appear to be identical at the two values of ..sqrt..s. They show a rapid order of magnitude decrease in cross-section at 1000 MeV/c/sup 2/ and 1500 MeV/c/sup 2/. Further structure is observed above 2000 MeV/c/sup 2/.

Tritium waste disposal methods in the US range from disposal of low specific activity waste along with other low-level waste in shallow land burial facilities, to disposal of kilocurie amounts in specially designed triple containers in 65' deep augered holes located in an aird region of the US. Total estimated curies disposed of are 500,000 in commercial burial sites and 10 million curies in defense related sites. At three disposal sites in humid areas, tritium has migrated into the ground water, and at one arid site tritium vapor has been detected emerging from the soil above the disposal area. Leaching tests on tritium containing waste show that tritium in the form of HTO leaches readily from most waste forms, but that leaching rates of tritiated water into polymer impregnated concrete are reduced by as much as a factor of ten. Tests on improved tritium containment are ongoing. Disposal costs for tritium waste are 7 to 10 dollars per cubic foot for shallow land burial of low specific activity tritium waste, and 10 to 20 dollars per cubic foot for disposal of high specific activity waste. The cost of packaging the high specific activity waste is 150 to 300 dollars per …

Development of an intense polarized H/sup -/ source for the AGS continues at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Initial tests with about one milliampere, 40 keV pulsed neutral cesium beam, colliding with more than two milliampere polarized hydrogen atoms, produced about one-half microampere polarized negative ions, extracted at 20 keV. A new pulsed cesium source with an anticipated output of 5 to 15 mA and an improved neutralizer are under construction.

Methods are discussed for the production of polarized H/sup -/ ions from polarized atoms produced in ground state atomic beam sources. Present day sources use ionizers of two basic types - electron ionizers for H/sup +/ Vector production followed by double charge exchange in a vapor, or direct H/sup -/ Vector production by charge exchange of H/sup 0/ with Cs/sup 0/. Both methods have ionization efficiencies of less than 0.5%. Ionization efficiencies in excess of 10% may be obtained in the future by the use of a plasma ionizer plus charge exchange in Cs or Sr vapor, or ionization by resonant charge exchange with a self-extracted D/sup -/ beam from a ring magnetron or HCD source. 36 references, 4 figures.

A pulsed Cs/sup +/ beam has been developed for use on a polarized H/sup -/ source. Cesium ion production is by surface ionization using a porous tungsten ionizer. While satisfactory current pulses (5 to 10 mA greater than or equal to 0.5 ms) can be obtained, the pulse shapes are a sensitive function of the ionizer temperature and Cs surface coverage. The beam optical requirements are stringent, and the optics have been studied experimentally for both Cs/sup +/ and Cs/sup 0/ beams. Computer calculations are in good agreement with the observed results. The present source has delivered 2.6 mA of Cs/sup +/ through the interaction region of the polarized ion source, and as much as 2.0 particle mA of Cs/sup 0/. A new source is being built which is designed to give 15 mA through the interaction region.

It has been realized for some time that the use of the charge exchange reaction of negative deuterium ions with polarized neutral hydrogen yielding neutral deuterium and polarized negative hydrogen ions to produce polarized H/sup -/ ions could be very efficient. While intense H/sup -//D/sup -/ ion sources exist, one encounters space charge problems when trying to put this scheme into practice. In this paper, a simple method, which uses a self-extracted D/sup -/ beam from a ring magnetron source, is proposed. The basic idea is presented, approximate numbers are given and the expected intensity is estimated. The method not only offers improvement in intensity, but equally important, improvements in reliability and lifetime.

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The electron density (n/sub e/) and temperature (T/sub e/) of the plasma channel created by the propagation of a relativistic electron beam in air have been measured by a ruby laser Thomson scattering diagnostic. The measurements were made at the MIMI electron beam accelerator (1.6 MV, 21 kA, 70 ns) at various times during the plasma channel development, with 25 ns temporal resolution and 2 mm radial resolution. For example, in 5 Torr air, at the time of maximum electron beam current, the results are n/sub e/ = 1.86 x 10/sup 15/ cm/sup -3/ (+- 12%), T/sub e/ = 4.24 eV (+- 20%). These results, as well as those with other timing, are in good agreement with the theoretical results of the Air Propagation Code: n/sub e/ = 1.65 x 10/sup 15/ cm/sup -3/, T/sub e/ = 2.59 eV. Signal-to-noise is very good (10:1), limited by x-ray fluorescence of the fiber optics at the spectrometer. In fielding the diagnostic on higher energy accelerators, however, the dominant noise is expected to be the background light from the plasma and hot gas, or the fluorescence of the collecting optics. Improvements to the diagnostic and an ongoing experiment in 80 Torr of air, …

The linear collider project at SLAC contains two damping rings to reduce the emittance of short electron or positron bunches which contain 5 x 10/sup 10/ particles per bunch. Two of these bunches are stored at a time and then extracted for acceleration in the collider. The rf system is subject to strong transients in beam loading. A computer model is used to optimize capture while minimizing rf power. The introduction of phase jump in the rf drive at injection time together with offsets in the tuning loops of the rf cavities when no beam is stored allows optimum performance under heavy beam load conditions. The rf system (800 kV at 714 MHz) for the electron damping ring has been built, tested and installed, and is being tested with beam.

According to beam dynamics calculations it should be possible to accelerate a high-perveance beam in a radio-frequency quadrupole (RFQ) accelerator with low emittance growth and nearly 100% capture efficiency. A 100-mA, 100-keV H/sup -/ ion injector with a 5-Hz, 1-ms duty factor was built for use with this accelerator, but the beam emittance at 100 keV was found to be two to four times the value previously determined at 20 keV. This emittance growth was traced to the 20-keV beam transport, where an instability occurred in the background plasma created by beam ionization of the residual gas. The injector has been rebuilt with a shorter transport length, resulting in greatly reduced emittance growth.

An emittance scanner has been developed for use with low-energy H/sup -/ ion beams to satisfy the following requirements: (1) angular resolution of +-1/2 mrad, (2) small errors from beam space charge, and (3) compact and simple design. The scanner consists of a 10-cm-long analyzer containing two slits and a pair of electric deflection plates driven by a +-500-V linear ramp generator. As the analyzer is mechanically driven across the beam, the front slit passes a thin ribbon of beam through the plates. The ion transit time is short compared with the ramp speed; therefore, the initial angle of the ions that pass through the rear slit is proportional to the instantaneous ramp voltage. The current through the rear slit then is proportional to the phase-space density d/sup 2/i/dxdx'. The data are computer-analyzed to give, for example, rms emittance and phase-space density contours. Comparison of measured data with those calculated from a prepared (collimated) phase space is in good agreement.