| Paper | Title | Page |
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| THAW04 | Experimental Characterization of the “1st Pulse” e-p Instability at the LANL PSR | 311 |
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| A puzzling aspect of the e-p instability at PSR is the so called “1st Pulse” instability phenomenon. It shows up on the first beam pulse after a period (10 to 30 minutes or more) of beam off time. This pulse has a significantly lower threshold than subsequent beam pulses that follow with the standard time separation. While the standard PSR operation for Lujan Center operation is unaffected by this phenomenon, it does interfere with some high intensity, single pulse experiments using PSR beam. We will summarize the present experimental data characterizing this phenomenon as compared with the typical e-p instability observed at higher repetition rates at PSR and discuss some possible explanations. |