Editor's Report 2004

Guest Editors' Introduction: Emerging Technologies 2004

Interim Editors’ report

When the interim editorial team took over from the former Editors in September 2002, there were many aspects of the production and editing process for us to understand. This initial period also involved setting up a new system of administration that would clearly track all correspondence with authors and reviewers. Of the new papers received since September 2002, two-thirds were submitted by fe...

LNL Annual Report 2004

Linac accelerators based on independently phased resonators require precise phase shifters to setup the reference phase of each cavity with respect to the master oscillator. In a linac like ALPI, that has more than 80 resonators in operation (including those of the new PIAVE injector), the cost of such phase shifters represents a significant fraction of the cost of the overall RF control system...

2004 Nebraska Swine Report

MiniGRAIL progress report 2004

The MiniGRAIL detector was improved. The sphere was replaced by a slightly larger one, having a diameter of 68 cm (instead of 65 cm), reducing the resonant frequency by about 200 Hz to around 2.9 kHz. The last four masses of the attenuation system were machined to increase their resonant frequency and improve the attenuation around the resonant frequency of the sphere. In the new sphere, six ho...