Author: Plostinar, D.C.
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THPPP046 ESS End-to-End Simulations: a Comparison Between IMPACT and MADX 3841
 
  • E. Laface, R. Miyamoto
    ESS, Lund, Sweden
  • D.C. Plostinar, C.R. Prior
    STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
 
  The European Spallation Source will be a 5 MW superconducting proton linac for the production of spallation neutrons. It is composed of an ion source, a radio frequency quadrupole, a drift tube linac and a superconducting linac as well as the low, medium and high, energy beam transport sections. At present these components of the linac are in the design phase: the optimization of the accelerator parameters requires an intensive campaign of simulations to test the model of the machine under possible operational conditions. In this paper the results of simulations performed with the IMPACT and MADX-PTC codes are presented and a comparison is made between them and independent simulations using TraceWin. The dynamics of the beam envelope and single and multi-particle tracking are reported.  
 
THPPP052 Modelling the ISIS 70 MeV Linac 3859
 
  • D.C. Plostinar, C.R. Prior, G.H. Rees
    STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
  • A.P. Letchford
    STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
  • A.W. Mitchell
    University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
 
  The ISIS linac consists of four DTL tanks that accelerate a 50 pps, 20 mA H beam up to 70 MeV before injecting it into an 800 MeV synchrotron. Over the last decades, the linac has proved to be a stable and reliable injector for ISIS, which is a significant achievement considering that two of the tanks are nearly 60 years old. At the time the machine was designed, the limited computing power available and the absence of modern modeling codes, made the creation of a complex simulation model almost impossible. However, over the last few years, computer tools have became an integral part of any accelerator design, so in this paper we present a beam dynamics model of the ISIS linac. A comparison between the simulation results and machine operation data will be discussed, as well as possible linac tuning scenarios and recommended upgrades based on the new model.  
 
THPPP051 Status of the RAL Front End Test Stand 3856
 
  • A.P. Letchford, M.A. Clarke-Gayther, D.C. Faircloth, S.R. Lawrie
    STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
  • S.M.H. Alsari, M. Aslaninejad, A. Kurup, P. Savage
    Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
  • J.J. Back
    University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
  • G.E. Boorman, A. Bosco
    Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey, United Kingdom
  • C. Gabor, D.C. Plostinar
    STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
  • A. Garbayo
    AVS, Eibar, Gipuzkoa, Spain
  • S. Jolly
    UCL, London, United Kingdom
  • J.K. Pozimski
    STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
 
  The Front End Test Stand (FETS) under construction at RAL is a demonstrator for front end systems of a future high power proton linac. Possible applications include a linac upgrade for the ISIS spallation neutron source, new future neutron sources, accelerator driven sub-critical systems, a neutrino factory etc. Designed to deliver a 60mA H-minus beam at 3MeV with a 10% duty factor, FETS consists of a high brightness ion source, magnetic low energy beam transport (LEBT), 4-vane 324MHz radio frequency quadrupole, medium energy beam transport (MEBT) containing a high speed beam chopper plus comprehensive diagnostics. This paper describes the current status of the project and future plans.