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Against the backdrop of an increasing interest in visual methods in social research, this paper examines some theoretical foundations of human (inter-)action by reflecting on the interplay between senses, the body, and biography. The main purpose of the paper is to combine an integral, non-Cartesian concept of the self as body (respectively the lived body as self) with biographical research—thus enriching research on the body, as well as on biography. Criticizing the Cartesian split of body and mind, classical phenomenological (Leib) and recent concepts of the body (“embodiment”) are sketched, resulting in a processual model of the sensual construction of the lived and living body in its environment. Given the interplay of bodily foundations of the self and processes of biographical structuring, so far, distant fields of research are converged. Some suggestions for conceptual improvements, an attentional shift to body aspects, respective research topics, and the extension of methods exceeding the narrative biographical interview in biographical research are indicated.

We study the measurement of transverse diffusion through beam echoes. We revisit earlier observations of echoes in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and apply an updated theoretical model to these measurements. We consider three possible models for the diffusion coefficient and show that only one is consistent with measured echo amplitudes and pulse widths. This model allows us to parameterize the diffusion coefficients as functions of the bunch charge. We demonstrate that echoes can be used to measure diffusion much quicker than present methods and could be useful to a variety of hadron synchrotrons.

We derive the effect of 3-dimensional polarization profiles on the measured polarization in polarimeters, as well as the observed polarization and the polarization-weighted luminosity (figure of merit) in single and double spin measurements in colliding beam experiments. Applications to RHIC are discussed.

The linear one-turn map of a storage ring contains coupling information on which a correction algorithm can be based. In principal, the one-turn matrix can be fitted from turn-by-turn data of beam position monitors. However, the signal-to-noise ratio of the coupling information can be greatly enhanced by fitting maps for larger turn numbers N . Furthermore, by using a number of beam position monitors in a region with only small coupling sources, the determination of the N -turn map can be made robust against failures of individual beam position monitors, and the signal-to-noise ratio of the coupling information is further enhanced. With the so obtained N -turn maps an automated global coupling correction is possible without the need for a tune change. This is demonstrated for the Brookhaven Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider where the implementation of the algorithm allows a global coupling correction within a few seconds at injection.

The luminosity of the ring-ring version of the proposed electron-ion collider eRHIC is limited by the beam-beam effect on the electrons. Once the beam-beam limit is reached, the luminosity no longer increases linearly with the bunch intensity of the ion beam, but begins to saturate and even drops again if the beam-beam tuneshift is increased further. To overcome this limitation we investigate a compensation scheme with an electron lens acting on the electron beam. Using weak-strong simulations we find a possible luminosity increase of about a factor 2.

Intro -- List of Contributors -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. The Extension of Technical Systems -- Introduction -- Innovation and Radio Industry in Europe during the Interwar Period -- From Small Insulated Plants to Regional Networks: The Path of Growth of the Italian Electrical Industry from its Beginning to the 1930s -- The German Long Distance Telephone Network as a Large Technical System, 1919-1939, and its Spin-offs for the Integration of Europe -- II. The Transfer of Technology and its Diffusion -- Introduction -- Spin-off from British and German Aircraft Technology after the Great War -- Technology and Chocolate: Research in the British Food Industry before 1940 -- III. The Structure of Enterprise and Innovation -- Introduction -- Innovation and the Structure of the IG Farben -- Strategies of Growth and Innovation in the Decentralized Du Pont Company 1921-1950 -- Strategy, Technological Capability, and Innovation: German Enterprises in Comparative Perspective -- IV. The Formation and Development of Industrial Research and Technology -- Introduction -- The Choice between Competition and Cooperation: Research and Development in the Electrical Industry in Germany and the Netherlands, 1920-1936 -- Science and Industry. Modernisation Strategies in Norway 1900-1940 -- The Evolution of European Industrial Technology in the Interwar Period -- Summary -- Index.

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The beam-beam interaction is one of the dominant sources of emittance growth and luminosity lifetime deterioration. A current-carrying wire has been proposed to compensate long-range beam-beam effects in the LHC and strong localized long-range beam-beam effects are experimentally investigated in the RHIC collider. Tune shift, beam transfer function, and beam loss rate are measured in dedicated experiments. In this paper, we report on simulations to study the effect of beam-wire interactions based on diffusive apertures, beam loss rates, and beam transfer function using a parallelized weak-strong beam simulation code (bbsimc). The simulation results are compared with measurements performed in RHIC during 2007 and 2008.

Molecular desorption coefficients from electron bombardment of the warm Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider beam pipe are derived from measurements for both baked and unbaked stainless steel. For this, we analyze electron detector and pressure gauge signals in the presence of an electron cloud. Finally, we present a comparison between the measured and simulated energy spectrum of the cloud electrons.