Simon Van Gorp 1/x Thesis defense 28 th of February, 2011 Search for physics beyond the standard electroweak model with the WITCH experiment Simon Van

Search for physics beyond the standard electroweak model with the WITCH experiment

Simon Van Gorp28th of February 2011, Leuven

Promotor: Prof. Dr. Nathal Severijns

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Outline

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• WITCH– Motivation– Overview– Status 2007

• Simbuca– Graphics card– Buffer gas routines– An example

• June 2011 experiment– Data set– Reconstruction of the data– Simulations– results

• Nonneutral plasmas– Boundary with one-particle regime– Penning trap excitations

• One species• Multiple species

• Conclusion

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Physics motivation


EXP [1]: |CS/CV| < 0.07 |CT/CA| < 0.09

=>Search for scalar (or Tensor) Interactions

Low energy (couple 100 eV)! ÞNeed for scattering free source

[1]: Severijns, N., Beck, M., & Naviliat-Cuncic, O. (2006).Rev. Mod. Phys., 78(3), 991.

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Overview


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Experimental setup


• Penning traps– Preparation trap

• Helium buffer gas (10-3 - 10-4 mbar)• Possible excitations

– Decay trap• scattering-free source

• Energy determination with retardation spectrometer– Conversion of radial in axial energy

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Time situation of the PhD


• October 2007– 35Cl contamination (ratio 25:1)– Charge exchange in REXTRAP (t1/2=70 ms) and WITCH (t1/2=8 ms)– Unwanted ionization effects (sudden discharges)

=> Upgrade campaign to tackle those issues (WITCH 2.0)• November 2009

– Still small ionization that was not noticed before was solved by installation of a wire

Not covered in my thesis but in PhD thesis of Michael Tandecki

• Our goal was in sight– Measure a– Prepare the tools for such the analysis of a

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Simbuca


• 104 – 106 ions / trap cycle stored up to a few seconds in the decay trap.

• Simulation time scales with O(N2)– Tree codes O(N log(N))– Scaled Coulomb approach

• Novel approach by using the GPU instead of conventional CPU: Simbuca code– Complete simulations package– Different buffer gas routines and integrators– Importing realistic field maps

Integrators and buffer gas models

•Integrators:• 4th and 5th order Runga Kutta with adaptive step size and error control.• 1st order (predictor corrector) Gear method.

• Buffer gas models:• Langevin or polarizability model (= for all mases)• Ion Mobility based model ( ≈ for all mases)• HS1 SIMION model

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Why a GPU?

GPU -high parallelism-very fast floating point calculations-SIMD structure (pipelining!)

Stream processor≈ CPU= Comparable with a factory assembly line with threads being the workers

Geforce 8800 GTX

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Chamomile scheme

Calculating gravitational interactions on a Graphics Card via the Chamomile scheme from Hamada and Iitaka (in 2007).

Why a GPU?-parallelism!-only 20 float operations-CUDA programming

language for GPU’s

i-particles piece available for each ‘assembly line’j-particles piece presents itself sequentially to each lineforce is the output of each line

[7]: T. Hamada and T. Iitaka, arXiv.org:astro-ph/0703100, 2007


Chamomile scheme: practical usage

Function provided by Hamada and Iitaka:

Gravitational force ≈ Coulomb Force

Conversion coefficient:

Needed: - 64 bit linux - NVIDIA Graphics Card that supports CUDA - CUDA environment v2.3 - 4.0

Not needed: -CUDA knowledge -…

2 2 grav coulomb e

Mm QqG k F r F rr r

cunbody1_force(xj, mj, xi, eps, ai, nmax, nmax)

2

;eCoulomb

q ka ai

m


GPU vs CPU•GPU blows the CPU away. The effect becomes more visible with even more particles simulated.•Simulated is a quadrupole excitation for 100 ms with buffer gas. This takes 3 days with a GPU compared to 3-4 years with a CPU!

GPU improvement factor CPU and GPU simulation time


Simbuca: outlook and future WITCH

• Behavior of large ion clouds• Mass separation of ions

Smiletrap (Stockholm)

• Highly charged ions• Cooling processes

ISOLTRAP (CERN)

• In-trap decay• Determine and understand the mass selectivity in a Penning trap

ISOLTRAP(Greifswald)

• isobaric buncher, mass separation and negative mass effect CLIC (CERN)

• Simulate bunches of the beam• Piperade (Orsay and MPI Heidelberg)

• Simulate mass separation of ion species

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Data analysis: 3 (or 4) steps

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1. reconstruct the experimentally obtained spectrum from the data

2. Simulate the experimentally obtained spectrum, taking into account the experimental conditions

(3.) verify your simulations with experimental observations The observed beam spot The energy distribution of the ions in the trap Ratio b`s/ions from the PhD

4. Fit the two spectra to extract the -b n angular correlation coefficient a

Experimental conditions June 2011


ISOLDE target broke few days before the actual run. Replaced with used target. => low 35Ar yield (5.105 compared to 2.107 in yieldbook)

HV electrode could not be operated as intended. Not-optimal focus of the electrodes caused a loss off 40%

Losses in the decay-trap

-> A low statistics experiment (~2600 ions/trapload).

losses in the decay-trap due tonon-optimized voltages andtimings. The red curve (better settings) shows a more constant behavior

Proof of recoil ions


- Guassian bell shape indicates the observation of recoil ions

- Position distribution shows the presence of recoil ions and missing counts along the Y-

axis.

measurements


500 ms cooling in the cooler-trap. Afterwards capture in the decay-trap.Measurement with and without retardation voltages.

Reconstruction via:- Subtraction

- Regression analysis

- Overshoot peak

- Fitting the data

Normalization (1) : subtraction


Difference of measurements with and without retardation voltage applied. (normalized via regression analysis).

Correct the data for 35Ar half-life and losses in the decay-trap.

Scale factor f equals 3.540(3)

(less good) normalizations (2,3)


Data set 2: normalization on the overshoot peakData set 3: normalization via a fit function of the data

Simulations:


Compare obtained spectra with simulated spectra. Therefore:1. Simbuca simulates the ion-cloud in the decay-trap.2. Ion-cloud parameters are fed to a MC simulation program

(SimWITCH).

Comsol multiphysics program is used to extract electric fieldmaps given the electrode voltages

Magnetic fieldmaps from the magnet manufacturer

Buffergas collisions and excitations are handled by Simbuca

Simulations: Simbuca


Due to limited time the traps were not properly optimized:Transfer time was not set ideally 32.5 us instead of 38.5 us.

-mean energy of 4.5 eV (instead of 0.2 eV)-ions positions in the decay-trap is 15 mm lower than the center

Simulations: SimWITCH (1)


Simulations for- All retardation voltages (0V, 150V, 250V, 350V, 600V)- All charge states (1+,2+,3+,4+,5+)

1+ : 75(1)% 2+: 17.3(4)%3+: 5.7(2)%4+ : 1.7(2)%5+ : < 1 %

Including the charge state distribution (as measured with LPC trap) we can extract %ions reaching the MCP depending on the retardation step and a

-> Fit the data with a linear combination of a=1 and a=-1 to obtain the final result for the beta-neutrino angular correlation factor a.

Simulations: SimWITCH (2)


Ions are not properly focused on the MCP, due to the lower HV settings applied. The applied voltages are not high enough to pull the ions of the magnetic field lines.

- Ions are lost on SPDRIF01 electrode.- The higher the charge-state of the daughter ion the better the focus.

Input spectra

1+

2+

Extracting a


The preliminary result from the analysis yields a = 1.12 (33)stat c2/n= 0.64

SM value of a =0.09004(16).Not including actual experimental conditions yields a = 2.62 (42) !! => This stresses the importance of simulations!!

a=-1

a=1

Conclusion and outlook


Conclusion:- Seems to have solved unwanted ionization - Magnetic shield and RFQ allow much more testing time.- First determination of a on the decay of 35Ar with the WITCH experiment.

Outlook:- Experiment in October already increased the available statistics and solved the losses in the decay trap and in the spectrometer. - Count rate can be improved by: 10 (ISOLDE) * 50 (measurement time) * 2

(measurement cycle) * 2 (focussing electrode efficiency) * 4 (tuning in the B-field) = 8000 times more statistics

-> sqrt(8000)=90 meaning that it is possible to reduce the statistical error to 0.5 %

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Non-neutral plasmas: an outlook for WITCH


• When trapping a large amount of ions, the cloud`s own electric field will create an E x B drift force for the ions with

• Good agreement between calculated and fit value (factor 2).

• Indications that around 104 ions the ion motion behaves like a nonneutral plasma

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Boundary single particle & nonneutral plasma regime


When storing around 5000 and 20000 ions the ions behave like a nonneutral plasma (in good comparison with [x])- Energy broadening due to Coulomb repulsion- Resistance to excitations due to electric field of the ion cloud

[x]: Nikolaev et al. (2007). RCM, 21(22), 3527–3546

• Single ions regime:

• Nonneutral plasma regime:

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Single ion species trapped


• Plot centered 133Cs ions vs. duration of the quadrupole excitation

• Losses due to Coulomb effects• Resonant excitation frequency tends to be more positive (as

in Ref. [x])

[x]: F. Ames et al. (2005). NIM A, 538, 17–32

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Multiple ion species trapped


• When multiple ion species are trapped a more negative frequency is favored [x]

• Seems to depend on the N (not on n)

• There is a large resistance to the applied excitation due to shielding of Ecloud

No C

C

ratio25%to

10%

Nx2

[x]: Herlert, A., et al. (2011). Hyperfine Interactions, 199, 211–220. 10.1007/s10751-011-0316-6.

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Conclusion and Outlook


• Conclusion– A versatile Penning trap simulation package is the first application that

uses a GPU to calculate the Coulomb interaction between ions in the Penning trap.

– First analysis and determination of a on the decay of 35Ar with the WITCH experiment

• Outlook– Simbuca will continue to be used by WITCH and other experiments. – Mass purification in Penning traps is a new field that is gaining interest– Investigate the properties of the non-neutral plasma in the WITCH

Penning traps– New phase for WITCH, i.e. extensive investigation of systematic effects

Conclusion and outlook


Conclusion:- Seems to have solved unwanted ionization - Magnetic shield and RFQ allow much more testing time.- First determination of a on the decay of 35Ar with the WITCH experiment.

Outlook:- Experiment in October already increased the available statistics and solved the losses in the decay trap and in the spectrometer. - Count rate can be improved by: 10 (ISOLDE) * 50 (measurement time) * 2

(measurement cycle) * 2 (focussing electrode efficiency) * 4 (tuning in the B-field) = 8000 times more statistics

-> sqrt(8000)=90 meaning that it is possible to reduce the statistical error to 0.5 %

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