IPAC2012 - List of Authors (Owen, H.L.)

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Thorium Energy Futures

29

S. Peggs, W. Horak, T. Roser
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
V.B. Ashley, R.F. Ashworth
Jacobs Engineering, Pasadena, USA
R.J. Barlow, R. Cywinski, R. Seviour
University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom
J.-L. Biarrotte
IPN, Orsay, France
S. Henderson
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
A. Hutton
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
J. Kelly
Thor Energy, Oslo, Norway
M. Lindroos
ESS, Lund, Sweden
P.M. McIntyre
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
A. Norlin
IThEO, Sweden
H.L. Owen
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
G.T. Parks
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

The potential for thorium as an alternative or supplement to uranium in fission power generation has long been recognised, and several reactors, of various types, have already operated using thorium-based fuels. Accelerator Driven Subcritical (ADS) systems have benefits and drawbacks when compared to conventional critical thorium reactors, for both solid and molten salt fuels. None of the four options – liquid or solid, with or without an accelerator – can yet be rated as better or worse than the other three, given today's knowledge. We outline the research that will be necessary to lead to an informed choice.

Slides MOOBA01 [3.887 MB]

THPPR053

A CW FFAG for Proton Computed Tomography

4094

C. Johnstone, D.V. Neuffer
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
H.L. Owen
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
P. Snopok
IIT, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Funding: Work supported by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC, under contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy
An advantage of the cyclotron in proton therapy is the continuous (CW) beam output which reduces complexity and response time in the dosimetry requirements and beam controls. A CW accelerator requires isochronous particle orbits at all energies through the acceleration cycle and present compact isochronous cyclotrons for proton therapy reach only 250 MeV (kinetic energy) which is required for patient treatment, but low for full Proton Computed Tomography (PCT) capability. PCT specifications need 300-330 MeV in order for protons to transit the human body. Recent innovations in nonscaling FFAG design have achieved isochronous performance in a compact (~3 m radius) design at these higher energies. Preliminary isochronous designs are presented here. Lower energy beams can be efficiently extracted for patient treatment without changes to the acceleration cycle and magnet currents.

MOEPPB003

Status of the PRISM FFAG Design for the Next Generation Muon-to-Electron Conversion Experiment

79

J. Pasternak, A. Alekou, M. Aslaninejad, R. Chudzinski, L.J. Jenner, A. Kurup, Y. Shi, Y. Uchida
Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
R. Appleby, H.L. Owen
UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
R.J. Barlow
University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom
K.M. Hock, B.D. Muratori
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
D.J. Kelliher, S. Machida, C.R. Prior
STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
Y. Kuno, A. Sato
Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
J.-B. Lagrange, Y. Mori
Kyoto University, Research Reactor Institute, Osaka, Japan
M. Lancaster
UCL, London, United Kingdom
C. Ohmori
KEK, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan
T. Planche
TRIUMF, Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Vancouver, Canada
S.L. Smith
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
H. Witte
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
T. Yokoi
JAI, Oxford, United Kingdom

The PRISM Task Force continues to study high intensity and high quality muon beams needed for next generation lepton flavor violation experiments. In the PRISM case such beams have been proposed to be produced by sending a short proton pulse to a pion production target, capturing the pions and performing RF phase rotation on the resulting muon beam in an FFAG ring. This paper summarizes the current status of the PRISM design obtained by the Task Force. In particular various designs for the PRISM FFAG ring are discussed and their performance compared to the baseline one, the injection/extraction systems and matching to the solenoid channels upstream and downstream of the FFAG ring are presented. The feasibility of the construction of the PRISM system is discussed.

MOPPC080

Modeling Space Charge in an FFAG with Zgoubi

322

S.C. Tygier, R. Appleby, H.L. Owen
UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
R.J. Barlow
University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom

The Zgoubi particle tracker uses a ray tracing algorithm that can accurately track particles with large offset from any reference momentum and trajectory, making it suitable for FFAGs. In high current FFAGs, for example an ADSR driver, space charge has a significant effect on the beam. A transverse space charge model was added to Zgoubi using the interface pyZgoubi. The magnets are sliced and a space charge kick is applied between each slice. Results are presented for an ADSR driver lattice.

MOPPD021

An Experimental Investigation of Slow Integer Tune Crossing in the EMMA Non-scaling FFAG

412

J.M. Garland, H.L. Owen
UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
D.J. Kelliher, S. Machida
STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
B.D. Muratori
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom

Funding: Student STFC grant number: ST/G004277/1.
Results are presented from a slow integer tune crossing experiment performed in the EMMA accelerator. Under nominal conditions EMMA accelerates an electron beam from 10–20 MeV rapidly in 5–10 turns in a novel “serpentine” channel causing several transverse integer tunes to be crossed. During this rapid acceleration it has been shown that the betatron amplitude of the beam does not grow. If the potential of non-scaling FFAGs were to be realized in such fields as high-current proton acceleration then tune space would be crossed slower with acceleration in an RF bucket. The crossing speed in a non-scaling FFAG is in a previously unstudied intermediate region and hence conventional crossing theory may not apply. It was proposed to observe the effects on betatron amplitude when a beam crosses integer tunes by the variation of tune with momentum over a range of crossing speeds derived from different acceleration rates. This method can be realized by synchrotron acceleration inside a stable RF bucket. Betatron amplitude growth and beam loss as a function of turn are explored when crossing an integer tune and a relationship between crossing speed and these quantities is established.

TUPPD020

An EMMA Racetrack

1452

B.D. Muratori, J.K. Jones
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
H.L. Owen
UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom

EMMA (Electron Machine for Many Applications) is the world’s first prototype non-scaling electron FFAG hosted at Daresbury Laboratory. Several upgrade possibilities for EMMA are explored, from creating a dispersion-free region in the ring to facilitate injection and extraction to making an insertion in EMMA by turning it into a racetrack-style machine. Alternative methods of injection and extraction into the EMMA ring are explored together with their feasibility and implications. The option of developing nested racetracks to achieve a particular desired energy is also explored.

WEOAB01

New Results from the EMMA Experiment

2134

B.D. Muratori, J.K. Jones
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
C.S. Edmonds, K.M. Hock, M.G. Ibison, I.W. Kirkman
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
J.M. Garland, H.L. Owen
UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
D.J. Kelliher, S. Machida
STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
J. Pasternak
Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom

EMMA (Electron Model for Many Applications) is a prototype non-scaling electron FFAG hosted at Daresbury Laboratory. After demonstration of acceleration in the serpentine channel in April 2011, the beam study with EMMA continues to explore the large transverse and longitudinal acceptance and effects of integer tune crossing with slower rate on the betatron amplitude. Together with a comparison of detailed models based on measured field maps and the experimental mapping of the machine by relating the initial and final phase space coordinates. These recent results together with more practical improvements such as injection orbit matching with real-time monitoring of the coordinates in the transverse phase space will be reported in this paper.

Slides WEOAB01 [2.120 MB]

Paper	Title	Page
MOOBA01	Thorium Energy Futures	29
	S. Peggs, W. Horak, T. Roser BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA V.B. Ashley, R.F. Ashworth Jacobs Engineering, Pasadena, USA R.J. Barlow, R. Cywinski, R. Seviour University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom J.-L. Biarrotte IPN, Orsay, France S. Henderson Fermilab, Batavia, USA A. Hutton JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA J. Kelly Thor Energy, Oslo, Norway M. Lindroos ESS, Lund, Sweden P.M. McIntyre Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA A. Norlin IThEO, Sweden H.L. Owen STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom G.T. Parks University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
	The potential for thorium as an alternative or supplement to uranium in fission power generation has long been recognised, and several reactors, of various types, have already operated using thorium-based fuels. Accelerator Driven Subcritical (ADS) systems have benefits and drawbacks when compared to conventional critical thorium reactors, for both solid and molten salt fuels. None of the four options – liquid or solid, with or without an accelerator – can yet be rated as better or worse than the other three, given today's knowledge. We outline the research that will be necessary to lead to an informed choice.
	Slides MOOBA01 [3.887 MB]

THPPR053	A CW FFAG for Proton Computed Tomography	4094
	C. Johnstone, D.V. Neuffer Fermilab, Batavia, USA H.L. Owen STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom P. Snopok IIT, Chicago, Illinois, USA
	Funding: Work supported by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC, under contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy An advantage of the cyclotron in proton therapy is the continuous (CW) beam output which reduces complexity and response time in the dosimetry requirements and beam controls. A CW accelerator requires isochronous particle orbits at all energies through the acceleration cycle and present compact isochronous cyclotrons for proton therapy reach only 250 MeV (kinetic energy) which is required for patient treatment, but low for full Proton Computed Tomography (PCT) capability. PCT specifications need 300-330 MeV in order for protons to transit the human body. Recent innovations in nonscaling FFAG design have achieved isochronous performance in a compact (~3 m radius) design at these higher energies. Preliminary isochronous designs are presented here. Lower energy beams can be efficiently extracted for patient treatment without changes to the acceleration cycle and magnet currents.

MOEPPB003	Status of the PRISM FFAG Design for the Next Generation Muon-to-Electron Conversion Experiment	79
	J. Pasternak, A. Alekou, M. Aslaninejad, R. Chudzinski, L.J. Jenner, A. Kurup, Y. Shi, Y. Uchida Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom R. Appleby, H.L. Owen UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom R.J. Barlow University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom K.M. Hock, B.D. Muratori Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom D.J. Kelliher, S. Machida, C.R. Prior STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom Y. Kuno, A. Sato Osaka University, Osaka, Japan J.-B. Lagrange, Y. Mori Kyoto University, Research Reactor Institute, Osaka, Japan M. Lancaster UCL, London, United Kingdom C. Ohmori KEK, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan T. Planche TRIUMF, Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Vancouver, Canada S.L. Smith STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom H. Witte BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA T. Yokoi JAI, Oxford, United Kingdom
	The PRISM Task Force continues to study high intensity and high quality muon beams needed for next generation lepton flavor violation experiments. In the PRISM case such beams have been proposed to be produced by sending a short proton pulse to a pion production target, capturing the pions and performing RF phase rotation on the resulting muon beam in an FFAG ring. This paper summarizes the current status of the PRISM design obtained by the Task Force. In particular various designs for the PRISM FFAG ring are discussed and their performance compared to the baseline one, the injection/extraction systems and matching to the solenoid channels upstream and downstream of the FFAG ring are presented. The feasibility of the construction of the PRISM system is discussed.

MOPPC080	Modeling Space Charge in an FFAG with Zgoubi	322
	S.C. Tygier, R. Appleby, H.L. Owen UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom R.J. Barlow University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom
	The Zgoubi particle tracker uses a ray tracing algorithm that can accurately track particles with large offset from any reference momentum and trajectory, making it suitable for FFAGs. In high current FFAGs, for example an ADSR driver, space charge has a significant effect on the beam. A transverse space charge model was added to Zgoubi using the interface pyZgoubi. The magnets are sliced and a space charge kick is applied between each slice. Results are presented for an ADSR driver lattice.

MOPPD021	An Experimental Investigation of Slow Integer Tune Crossing in the EMMA Non-scaling FFAG	412
	J.M. Garland, H.L. Owen UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom D.J. Kelliher, S. Machida STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom B.D. Muratori STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
	Funding: Student STFC grant number: ST/G004277/1. Results are presented from a slow integer tune crossing experiment performed in the EMMA accelerator. Under nominal conditions EMMA accelerates an electron beam from 10–20 MeV rapidly in 5–10 turns in a novel “serpentine” channel causing several transverse integer tunes to be crossed. During this rapid acceleration it has been shown that the betatron amplitude of the beam does not grow. If the potential of non-scaling FFAGs were to be realized in such fields as high-current proton acceleration then tune space would be crossed slower with acceleration in an RF bucket. The crossing speed in a non-scaling FFAG is in a previously unstudied intermediate region and hence conventional crossing theory may not apply. It was proposed to observe the effects on betatron amplitude when a beam crosses integer tunes by the variation of tune with momentum over a range of crossing speeds derived from different acceleration rates. This method can be realized by synchrotron acceleration inside a stable RF bucket. Betatron amplitude growth and beam loss as a function of turn are explored when crossing an integer tune and a relationship between crossing speed and these quantities is established.

TUPPD020	An EMMA Racetrack	1452
	B.D. Muratori, J.K. Jones STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom H.L. Owen UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
	EMMA (Electron Machine for Many Applications) is the world’s first prototype non-scaling electron FFAG hosted at Daresbury Laboratory. Several upgrade possibilities for EMMA are explored, from creating a dispersion-free region in the ring to facilitate injection and extraction to making an insertion in EMMA by turning it into a racetrack-style machine. Alternative methods of injection and extraction into the EMMA ring are explored together with their feasibility and implications. The option of developing nested racetracks to achieve a particular desired energy is also explored.

WEOAB01	New Results from the EMMA Experiment	2134
	B.D. Muratori, J.K. Jones STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom C.S. Edmonds, K.M. Hock, M.G. Ibison, I.W. Kirkman The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom J.M. Garland, H.L. Owen UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom D.J. Kelliher, S. Machida STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom J. Pasternak Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
	EMMA (Electron Model for Many Applications) is a prototype non-scaling electron FFAG hosted at Daresbury Laboratory. After demonstration of acceleration in the serpentine channel in April 2011, the beam study with EMMA continues to explore the large transverse and longitudinal acceptance and effects of integer tune crossing with slower rate on the betatron amplitude. Together with a comparison of detailed models based on measured field maps and the experimental mapping of the machine by relating the initial and final phase space coordinates. These recent results together with more practical improvements such as injection orbit matching with real-time monitoring of the coordinates in the transverse phase space will be reported in this paper.
	Slides WEOAB01 [2.120 MB]