Author: Beaudoin, B.L.
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THPAK141 Initial Tests of Nonlinear Quasi-Integrable Optics at the University of Maryland Electron Ring 3581
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  • H. Baumgartner, B.L. Beaudoin, I. Haber, T.W. Koeth, D.B. Matthew, K.J. Ruisard
    UMD, College Park, Maryland, USA
 
  Funding: Funding for this project and travel is provided by DOE-HEP, NSF GRFP and NSF Accelerator Science Program.
An octupole channel has been inserted into the University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER), in order to investigate the mitigation of destructive resonances as a novel approach in high-intensity beam transport. The individual octupole magnets have been characterized using our in-house 3-dimensional magnet mapping stage, with a measured gradient of 51.6 ± 1.5 T/m3/A. A single section (20°) of an 18-cell FODO lattice has been replaced by a longitudinally-varying octupole channel constructed from seven flexible printed circuits (PCBs). We present the design of the channel and preliminary beam based measurements on the ring.
 
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THPAK143 Tuning Low-Current Beam for Nonlinear Quasi-Integrable Optics Experiments at the University of Maryland Electron Ring 3585
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  • K.J. Ruisard, H. Baumgartner, B.L. Beaudoin, S. Bernal, B. M. Cannon, L. Dovlatyan, I. Haber, T.W. Koeth
    UMD, College Park, Maryland, USA
 
  Funding: Travel was supported by the NSF, the APS DPB, and TRIUMF. Funding for the work was provided through DOE-HEP Award DESC0010301, NSF Award PHY1414681 and the NSF GRFP program.
Design of accelerator lattices with nonlinear integrable optics is a novel approach to suppress transverse resonances and may be crucial for enabling low-loss high-intensity beam transport. Lattices with large amplitude-dependent tune spreads, driven by strong nonlinear magnet inserts, have reduced response to resonant driving perturbations [*]. This paper describes preparations for tests of a quasi-integrable octupole lattice at the University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER). The planned tests employ a low-current highemittance beam with low space charge tune shift (∼ 0.005) to probe the dynamics of a lattice with large external tune spread (∼ 0.26).
* V. Danilov and S. Nagaitsev, Nonlinear accelerator lattices
with one and two analytic invariants, PRSTAB, 13, 084002, 2010.
 
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THPML055 Scaled Studies on Radio Frequency Sources for Megawatt-Class Ionospheric Heaters 4763
 
  • B.L. Beaudoin, T.M. Antonsen, J.A. Karakkad, A.H. Narayan, G.S. Nusinovich, K.J. Ruisard
    UMD, College Park, Maryland, USA
  • R. Fischer
    Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Washington, USA
  • S.H. Gold, A. Ting
    NRL, Washington,, USA
 
  Funding: Funding for this project and travel is provided by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under grant FA95501410019.
The ionosphere plays a prominent role in the performance of critical civilian and military communication systems. The key instrument in Ionospheric Modification (IM) research is a powerful, ground-based, High Frequency (HF) source of electromagnetic waves known as a heater. With a mobile heater, investigators would be able to conduct IM research at different latitudes without building a costly permanent installation. A new highly efficient Megawatt class of Radio Frequency sources is required to reduce the overall power demands on a fully deployable system. Such a source has been described previously*. Results of a scaled experiment, using the electron beam produced by a gridded gun to drive an external lumped element circuit for high efficiency radio frequency generation is presented. The IOT gun produces an electron beam bunched at the driving frequency that is then collected by an external circuit for impedance matching to the load. Results showed that effects such as the internal resistance of the inductor and deflection of beam electrons by the induced RF voltages on the beam collector are important considerations to be included in the design of a practical device.
* B.L. Beaudoin, G.S. Nusinovich, G. Milikh, A. Ting, S. Gold, J.A. Karakkad, A.H. Narayan, D.B. Matthew, D.K. Papadopoulos, T.M. Antonsen Jr., Journal of Elec. Waves and Appl.,31,17,pp.1786, 2017.
 
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THPML107 Steering Optimizations for the University of Maryland Electron Ring 4913
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  • L. Dovlatyan, B.L. Beaudoin, R.A. Kishek, K.J. Ruisard
    UMD, College Park, Maryland, USA
 
  Funding: This work is supported by the US Dept. of Energy, Office of High Energy Physics award # DE-SC0010301
The University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER) has the flexibility to set up alternative lattices for different research experiments, including nonlinear optics studies using octupoles. Each alternative lattice requires an acceptable steering solution for use in experiments. Existing beam-based alignment tools can take a significant amount of time to run and become difficult to process with a low number of BPMs. The Robust Conjugate Directional Search (RCDS) optimizer* is used to quickly obtain steering solutions for different lattice configurations and has been adopted for beam steering at UMER. Steering magnets are optimized online to reduce scraping, correct equilibrium orbits, and increase beam lifetimes. This study presents the application of the optimizer at UMER.
* X. Huang, J. Corbett, J. Safranek, J. Wu, Nucl. Instr. Meth. A vol. 726, pp. 77-83, 2013.
 
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