CYCLOTRONS 2010 - List of Authors (Berz, M.)

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Innovations in Fixed-Field Accelerators: Design and Simulation

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C. Johnstone
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
M. Berz, K. Makino
MSU, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
S.R. Koscielniak
TRIUMF, Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Vancouver, Canada
P. Snopok
UCR, Riverside, California, USA

The drive for high beam power, high duty cycle, and reliable beams has focused world interest on fixed field accelerators, notably Fixed-field Alternating Gradient accelerators (FFAGs) ' with cyclotrons representing a specific class of fixed-field accelerators. Recently, the concept of isochronous orbits has been developed for nonscaling FFAGs using new methodologies in FFAG design. The property of isochronous orbits enables the simplicity of fixed RF and, by tailoring a nonlinear radial field profile, the FFAG is isochronous well into the relativistic regime. The machine proposed here has the high current advantage and duty cycle of the cyclotron in combination with the strong focusing, smaller losses, and energy variability that are more typical of the synchrotron. Further, compact high-performance devices are often are operated in a regime where space charge effects become significant, but are complicated to analyze in fixed-field accelerators because of the cross talk between beams at different nearby radii. A new space charge simulation approach is under development in the code COSY INFINITY. This presentation reports on advances in FFAG accelerator design and simulation.

Slides THA1CIO03 [1.527 MB]

Paper	Title	Page
THA1CIO03	Innovations in Fixed-Field Accelerators: Design and Simulation	389
	C. Johnstone Fermilab, Batavia, USA M. Berz, K. Makino MSU, East Lansing, Michigan, USA S.R. Koscielniak TRIUMF, Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Vancouver, Canada P. Snopok UCR, Riverside, California, USA
	The drive for high beam power, high duty cycle, and reliable beams has focused world interest on fixed field accelerators, notably Fixed-field Alternating Gradient accelerators (FFAGs) ' with cyclotrons representing a specific class of fixed-field accelerators. Recently, the concept of isochronous orbits has been developed for nonscaling FFAGs using new methodologies in FFAG design. The property of isochronous orbits enables the simplicity of fixed RF and, by tailoring a nonlinear radial field profile, the FFAG is isochronous well into the relativistic regime. The machine proposed here has the high current advantage and duty cycle of the cyclotron in combination with the strong focusing, smaller losses, and energy variability that are more typical of the synchrotron. Further, compact high-performance devices are often are operated in a regime where space charge effects become significant, but are complicated to analyze in fixed-field accelerators because of the cross talk between beams at different nearby radii. A new space charge simulation approach is under development in the code COSY INFINITY. This presentation reports on advances in FFAG accelerator design and simulation.
	Slides THA1CIO03 [1.527 MB]