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Schmidt, Frank

Publications and source records attributed to Schmidt, Frank.

5 records

DOE OSTI2024

Preliminary results of the 2023 International Fermilab Booster Studies

Here, an overview is given of the methods and preliminary results from dedicated beam studies on three topics conducted over five days in July 2023. In the first study, the Fermilab Booster magnets were held constant at magnetic fields corresponding to the injection energy. The beam loss and emittance growth were observed under varying intensity, tunes, and sextupole resonances. The corresponding beam conditions were also simulated with the MADX-SC code [1]. In the second study, measurements of the vertical half-integer resonance and correction methods are conducted for high-intensity beams ramping in the Booster. Finally, syncho-betatron instabilities are observed during transition-crossing in the Booster under strong space-charge conditions.

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗

DOE OSTI2015

HTS Transmission Cable System for installation in the Long Island Power Grid

Department of Energy (DOE) Award DE-FC26-07NT43240 was issued on October 1, 2007. Referred to as LIPA2, the principal objectives of the project were to develop key components required to deploy and demonstrate second-generation (2G) high temperature superconductor (HTS) cables in a 600 meter (2000 feet) underground segment of a 138kV three-phase transmission circuit of the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) power grid. A previous effort under DOE Award DE-FC36-03GO13032 (referred to as LIPA1) resulted in installation (and subsequent successful operation) of first-generation (1G) HTS cables at the LIPA site. As with LIPA1, American Superconductor (AMSC) led the effort for LIPA2 and was responsible for overall management of the project and producing sufficient 2G wire to fabricate the required cable. Nexans' tasks included design/manufacture/installation of the cable, joint (splice), cable terminations and field repairable cryostat; while work by Air Liquide involved engineering and installation support for the refrigeration system modifications.

24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION↗

DOE OSTI2014

Experience with OpenMP for MADX-SC

MADX-SC allows the treatment of frozen space charge using beam-beam elements in a thin lattice, i.e. one can take advantage of the standard set-up of MAD-X lattices without the need for specialized codes for the space-charge (SC) evaluation. The idea is to simulate over many turns without the problem of noise as in the PIC SC codes. For the examples under study, like the PS and RHIC, it would be desirable to simulate up to 1 million turns or more. To this end one had to make an effort to optimize the scalar speed and, most importantly, get a speed-up of approximately a factor of 5 using OpenMP.

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗

DOE OSTI2013

Correlation between structural and opto-electronic characteristics of crystalline Si microhole arrays for photonic light management

By employing electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and optical measurements, we systematically correlate the structural and optical properties with the deep-level defect characteristics of various tailored periodic Si microhole arrays, which are manufactured in an easily scalable and versatile process on nanoimprinted sol-gel coated glass. While tapered microhole arrays in a structured base layer are characterized by partly nanocrystalline features, poor electronic quality with a defect concentration of 10{sup 17} cm{sup −3} and a high optical sub-band gap absorption, planar polycrystalline Si layers perforated with periodic arrays of tapered microholes are composed of a compact crystalline structure and a defect concentration in the low 10{sup 16} cm{sup −3} regime. The low defect concentration is equivalent to the one in planar state-of-the-art solid phase crystallized Si films and correlates with a low optical sub-band gap absorption. By complementing the experimental characterization with 3-dimensional finite element simulations, we provide the basis for a computer-aided approach for the low-cost fabrication of novel high-quality structures on large areas featuring tailored opto-electronic properties.

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE↗

DOE OSTI2010

Superconductor cable

A superconductor cable is described, having a superconductive flexible cable core, which is laid in a cryostat, in which the cable core runs in the cryostat in the form of a wave or helix at room temperature.

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE↗