Author: Long, C.D.
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THOAB101 Laser Wire Based Parallel Profile Scan of H Beam at the Superconducting Linac of Spallation Neutron Source 3090
 
  • Y. Liu, A.V. Aleksandrov, D.L. Brown, R. Dickson, C. Huang, C.D. Long
    ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
  • C.C. Peters
    ORNL RAD, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
 
  Funding: ORNL/SNS is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725.
We report on the world’s first experiment of a parallel profile scan of the hydrogen ion (H) beam using a laser wire system. The system was developed at the superconducting linac (SCL) of the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) accelerator complex. The laser wire profile scanner is based on a photo-detachment process and therefore can be conducted on an operational H beam in a nonintrusive manner. The parallel profile scanning system makes it possible to simultaneously measure profiles of the 1-MW neutron production H beam at 9 different locations (corresponding to energy levels of 400 – 950 MeV) of the superconducting linac using a single light source. The entire measurement process takes less than 5 minutes to complete. Together with the hardware modification, we have also upgraded our user interface to visualize the 9-pairs of H beam profiles in a real-time fashion, which presents a highly intuitive and informative picture of the H beam propagation along the acceleration path. The laser wire based parallel profile scanning system provides a powerful tool for accelerator operators and physicists to study the SCL modelling, monitor and/or tune the beam parameters.
 
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