Cyclotrons2019 - List of Keywords (optics)

Paper	Title	Other Keywords	Page
MOP016	Vertical Focussing with a Field Gradient Spiral Inflector	cyclotron, experiment, quadrupole, emittance	58
	A.H. Barnard, J.I. Broodryk, J.L. Conradie, J.G. De Villiers, J. Mira, F. Nemulodi, R.W. Thomae iThemba LABS, Somerset West, South Africa
	Traditional spiral inflectors suffer from vertical defocussing, leading to beam loss. In this study the electrode shape of an inflector is modified to intentionally produce transverse electric field gradients, which have a significant influence on the optics. This is done by placing the traditionally parallel electrodes at an angle relative to each other in the transverse plane, creating a quadrupole field on the central path. Varying the electrode angle along the path length creates an alternating-gradient effect. The electrode entrance and exit faces are also shaped to create quadrupoles inside the fringe field. By numerical optimisation a design with good vertical focussing is obtained. Experiments show a roughly 100% increase in transmission in cases where the buncher is turned off. However, high losses at extraction are observed with the buncher turned on, due to RF-phase spread introduced by longitudinal defocussing in the inflector. This results in an improvement of only 20% during normal cyclotron operation, and shows that an inflector should ideally focus vertically and longitudinally at the same time. Ongoing work to achieve such combined focussing is described.
	Poster MOP016 [1.410 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-Cyclotrons2019-MOP016
About •	paper received ※ 13 September 2019 paper accepted ※ 24 September 2019 issue date ※ 20 June 2020
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MOP016

Vertical Focussing with a Field Gradient Spiral Inflector

cyclotron, experiment, quadrupole, emittance

58

A.H. Barnard, J.I. Broodryk, J.L. Conradie, J.G. De Villiers, J. Mira, F. Nemulodi, R.W. Thomae
iThemba LABS, Somerset West, South Africa

Traditional spiral inflectors suffer from vertical defocussing, leading to beam loss. In this study the electrode shape of an inflector is modified to intentionally produce transverse electric field gradients, which have a significant influence on the optics. This is done by placing the traditionally parallel electrodes at an angle relative to each other in the transverse plane, creating a quadrupole field on the central path. Varying the electrode angle along the path length creates an alternating-gradient effect. The electrode entrance and exit faces are also shaped to create quadrupoles inside the fringe field. By numerical optimisation a design with good vertical focussing is obtained. Experiments show a roughly 100% increase in transmission in cases where the buncher is turned off. However, high losses at extraction are observed with the buncher turned on, due to RF-phase spread introduced by longitudinal defocussing in the inflector. This results in an improvement of only 20% during normal cyclotron operation, and shows that an inflector should ideally focus vertically and longitudinally at the same time. Ongoing work to achieve such combined focussing is described.

Poster MOP016 [1.410 MB]

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-Cyclotrons2019-MOP016

About •

paper received ※ 13 September 2019 paper accepted ※ 24 September 2019 issue date ※ 20 June 2020

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reference for this paper using ※ BibTeX, ※ LaTeX, ※ Text/Word, ※ RIS, ※ EndNote (xml)