High brightness electron sources for linac based free-electron lasers (FELs) are being developed at the Photo Injector Test facility at DESY, Zeuthen site (PITZ). Production of electron bunches with extremely small transverse emittance is the focus of the PITZ scientific program. The photoinjector optimization in 2008-2009 for a bunch charge of 1, 0.5, 0.25, and 0.1 nC resulted in measured emittance values which are beyond the requirements of the European XFEL [S. Rimjaem et al., Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., Sect. A 671, 62 (2012)]. Several essential modifications were commissioned in 2010-2011 at PITZ, resulting in further improvement of the photoinjector performance. Significant improvement of the rf gun phase stability is a major contribution in the reduction of the measured transverse emittance. The old TESLA prototype booster was replaced by a new cut disk structure cavity. This allows acceleration of the electron beam to higher energies and supports much higher flexibility for stable booster operation as well as for longer rf pulses which is of vital importance especially for the emittance optimization of low charge bunches. The transverse phase space of the electron beam was optimized at PITZ for bunch charges in the range between 0.02 and 2 nC, where the quality of the beam measurements was preserved by utilizing long pulse train operation. The experimental optimization yielded worldwide unprecedented low normalized emittance beams in the whole charge range studied.
The nature of 0 + excitations, especially in transitional and deformed nuclei, has attracted new attention. Following a recent experiment studying 158 Gd, we investigated a large group of nuclei in the rare-earth region with the (p, t) pickup reaction using the Q3D magnetic spectrograph at the University of Munich MP tandem accelerator laboratory. Outgoing tritons were recorded at various lab angles, and their angular distributions are compared to those calculated using the distorted-wave Born approximation. Using the unique shape of the L = 0 angular distribution, more than double the number of 0 + states than were previously known are identified. The distribution of 0 + energies and cross sections is discussed in terms of collective and noncollective degrees of freedom, and the density of low-lying 0 + states is discussed as a corroboration of a characteristic feature of phase transition regions. The degree of level mixing, as extracted from Brody distribution fits to the energy spacings of adjacent 0 + levels, is also explored.
With the Q3D magnetic spectrograph of the Maier-Leibnitz-Laboratorium at München at a resolution of about 3 keV, angular distributions and excitation functions of the reaction 208 Pb(p,p ) were measured at some scattering angles 20 • -138 • for several proton energies 14.8-18.1 MeV. All seven known isobaric analog resonances in 209 Bi are covered. By the excitation near the j 15/2 intruder resonance in 209 Bi, several new positive parity states in 208 Pb with excitation energies 4.6-6.2 MeV are identified by comparison of the mean cross section to the known single particle widths. The dominant configuration for 27 positive parity states is determined and compared to the schematic shell model.
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