IPAC2012 - List of Authors (O'Hara, J.F.)

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WEPPP035	Pushing the Gradient Limitations of Superconducting Photonic Band Gap Structure Cells	2801
	E.I. Simakov, W.B. Haynes, S.S. Kurennoy, J.F. O'Hara, E.R. Olivas, D.Y. Shchegolkov LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
	Funding: This work is supported by the Department of Defense High Energy Laser Joint Technology Office through the Office of Naval Research. We present a design of a superconducting photonic band gap (PBG) accelerator cell operating at 2.1 GHz. The cell is designed with the PBG rods that are specially shaped to reduce the peak magnetic fields and at the same time to preserve its effectiveness for suppression of the higher order modes (HOMs). It has been long recognized that PBG structures have great potential in reducing and even completely eliminating HOMs in accelerators. This is especially beneficial for superconducting electron accelerators for high power free-electron lasers (FELs), which are intended to provide high current continuous duty electron beams. Using PBG structures to reduce the prominent beam-breakup phenomena due to HOMs will allow significantly increased beam-breakup thresholds, and consequently will allow the increase of the frequency of SRF accelerators and the development of novel compact high-current accelerator modules for FELs. High gradient limitations of PBG resonators and the optimal arrangement of the wakefield couplers will be discussed in details in this presentation.

THPPR067	A Conceptual 3-GeV LANSCE Linac Upgrade for Enhanced Proton Radiography	4130
	R.W. Garnett, F.E. Merrill, J.F. O'Hara, D. Rees, L. Rybarcyk, T. Tajima, P.L. Walstrom LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
	Funding: Work supported by the United States Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Agency, under contract DE-AC52-06NA25396 A conceptual design of a 3-GeV linac upgrade that would enable enhanced proton radiography at LANSCE is presented. The upgrade is based on the use of superconducting accelerating cavities to increase the present LANSCE linac output energy from 800 MeV to 3 GeV. The LANSCE linac at Los Alamos National Laboratory currently provides H⁻ and H⁺ beams to several user facilities that support Isotope Production, NNSA Stockpile Stewardship, and Basic Energy Science programs. Required changes to the front-end and to the RF systems to meet the new performance goals, and changes to the existing beam switchyard to maintain operations for a robust user program are also described.

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Pushing the Gradient Limitations of Superconducting Photonic Band Gap Structure Cells

2801

E.I. Simakov, W.B. Haynes, S.S. Kurennoy, J.F. O'Hara, E.R. Olivas, D.Y. Shchegolkov
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

Funding: This work is supported by the Department of Defense High Energy Laser Joint Technology Office through the Office of Naval Research.
We present a design of a superconducting photonic band gap (PBG) accelerator cell operating at 2.1 GHz. The cell is designed with the PBG rods that are specially shaped to reduce the peak magnetic fields and at the same time to preserve its effectiveness for suppression of the higher order modes (HOMs). It has been long recognized that PBG structures have great potential in reducing and even completely eliminating HOMs in accelerators. This is especially beneficial for superconducting electron accelerators for high power free-electron lasers (FELs), which are intended to provide high current continuous duty electron beams. Using PBG structures to reduce the prominent beam-breakup phenomena due to HOMs will allow significantly increased beam-breakup thresholds, and consequently will allow the increase of the frequency of SRF accelerators and the development of novel compact high-current accelerator modules for FELs. High gradient limitations of PBG resonators and the optimal arrangement of the wakefield couplers will be discussed in details in this presentation.

THPPR067

A Conceptual 3-GeV LANSCE Linac Upgrade for Enhanced Proton Radiography

4130

R.W. Garnett, F.E. Merrill, J.F. O'Hara, D. Rees, L. Rybarcyk, T. Tajima, P.L. Walstrom
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

Funding: Work supported by the United States Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Agency, under contract DE-AC52-06NA25396
A conceptual design of a 3-GeV linac upgrade that would enable enhanced proton radiography at LANSCE is presented. The upgrade is based on the use of superconducting accelerating cavities to increase the present LANSCE linac output energy from 800 MeV to 3 GeV. The LANSCE linac at Los Alamos National Laboratory currently provides H⁻ and H⁺ beams to several user facilities that support Isotope Production, NNSA Stockpile Stewardship, and Basic Energy Science programs. Required changes to the front-end and to the RF systems to meet the new performance goals, and changes to the existing beam switchyard to maintain operations for a robust user program are also described.