03 Particle Sources and Alternative Acceleration Techniques
A21 Secondary Beams
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MOPRI002 Design, Manufacture and Operation of the Beam Spoiler for Positron Target Protection 573
 
  • L. Zang, K. Kakihara, T. Kamitani, K. Mikawa, F. Miyahara, T. Suwada
    KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
 
  In order to produce positrons, intensive pulsed electron beam is used to strike on a tungsten target. The energy deposition is distributed non-uniformly over the target, leading to a mechanical stress. As a result of large thermal gradient, the target could be potentially damaged. To avoid the target destruction, the peak energy deposition density (PEDD) in the target should be well below the critical limit (35J/g) based on the SLAC operational experience. With an expected primary electron spot size on the target of the SuperKEKB positron source, the PEDD will exceeds the limit. We will introduce a beam spoiler to enlarge the spot size by multiple scattering in thin beam screen and aluminum plate. It reduces the PEDD down to half of the limit. This paper describes the design of the spoiler and the beam screen system used in the positron beam commissioning of the SuperKEKB positron source started in 2014.  
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MOPRI003 Positron Yield Optimization by Adjusting the Components Offset and Orientation 576
 
  • L. Zang, M. Akemoto, S. Fukuda, K. Furukawa, T. Higo, N. Iida, K. Kakihara, T. Kamitani, T. Miura, F. Miyahara, Y. Ogawa, H. Someya, T. Takatomi, K. Yokoyama
    KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
  • S. Ushimoto
    Mitsubishi Electric System & Service Co., Ltd, Tsukuba, Japan
 
  In order to keep high luminosity beam collision condition at SuperKEKB, low emittance electron/positron injection and flexible pulse-to-pulse switching of these beam modes are essential requirements. While a primary electron beam strikes on a target to generate positrons, an injection electron beam passes through a small hole besides the target. Since the injection electron orbit should be on axis to avoid emittance growth, the target and the flux concentrator for positron focusing have a few millimeters offset from the axis. This offset positron generation gives significant degradation in the positron yield. In this paper, we will discuss positron yield improvement by proper orientation of the cut-in slit of the flux concentrator which yields un-symmetric field distribution and primary electron incident point. With particle tracking simulation taking three dimensional field distribution into account, an ideal positron trajectory giving optimum yield was found.  
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MOPRI004 SuperKEKB Positron Source Construction Status 579
 
  • T. Kamitani, M. Akemoto, D.A. Arakawa, Y. Arakida, A. Enomoto, S. Fukuda, Y. Funakoshi, K. Furukawa, T. Higo, H. Honma, N. Iida, M. Ikeda, E. Kadokura, H. Kaji, K. Kakihara, H. Katagiri, M. Kikuchi, H. Koiso, M. Kurashina, S. Matsumoto, T. Matsumoto, H. Matsushita, S. Michizono, K. Mikawa, T. Mimashi, T. Miura, F. Miyahara, T. Mori, A. Morita, H. Nakajima, K. Nakao, T. Natsui, Y. Ogawa, Y. Ohnishi, S. Ohsawa, M. Sato, T. Shidara, A. Shirakawa, M. Suetake, H. Sugimoto, T. Suwada, T. Takatomi, T. Takenaka, M. Tanaka, M. Tawada, Y. Yano, K. Yokoyama, M. Yoshida, L. Zang, X. Zhou
    KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
  • D. Satoh
    TIT, Tokyo, Japan
 
  The KEKB positron source is under the upgrade for SuperKEKB. The previous positron production target and capture section have been removed and the new system is constructed at a location forty meters upstream to have sufficient energy margin for beam injection to the newly introduced damping ring. A flux concentrator is introduced in the new capture section to make an adiabatic matching system. Large aperture (30mm in diameter) S-band accelerating structures are introduced in the capture section and in the subsequent accelerator module to enlarge the transverse phase space acceptance. The beam focusing system of quadrupoles is also upgraded for a comparable beam acceptance to that of the capture section. This paper reports on the status of the SuperKEKB positron source construction and the preliminary positron beam commissioning.  
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MOPRI005 The AWAKE Experimental Facility at CERN 582
 
  • E. Gschwendtner, T. Bohl, C. Bracco, A.C. Butterworth, S. Cipiccia, S. Döbert, V. Fedosseev, E. Feldbaumer, C. Heßler, W. Höfle, M. Martyanov, M. Meddahi, J.A. Osborne, A. Pardons, A.V. Petrenko, H. Vincke
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  AWAKE, an Advanced Wakefield Experiment is launched at CERN to verify the proton driven plasma wakefield acceleration concept. Proton bunches at 400 GeV/c will be extracted from the CERN SPS and sent along a 750m long proton line to the plasma cell, a Rubidium vapour source, where the proton beam drives wakefields reaching accelerating gradients at the order of gigavolt per meter. A high power laser pulse will co-propagate within the proton bunch creating the plasma by ionizing the (initially) neutral gas. An electron beam will be injected into the plasma cell to probe the accelerating wakefield. The AWAKE experiment will be installed in the CNGS facility. First proton beam to the plasma cell is expected by end 2016. The design of the experimental area and the integration of the new beam-lines as well as the experimental equipment will be shown. The needed modifications of the infrastructure in the facility will be presented.  
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MOPRI006 Possible Uses of Gamma-rays at Future Intense Positron Sources 586
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  • A.O. Alrashdi, I.R. Bailey
    Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
  • A.O. Alrashdi, I.R. Bailey, D. Newton
    Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • A.O. Alrashdi
    KACST, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  • D. Newton
    The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
 
  Funding: This research is funded in part by STFC grant ST/G008248/1
The baseline design of the ILC (International Linear Collider) positron source requires the production of an intense flux of gamma rays. In this paper we present an investigation of using the gamma ray beam of the ILC for additional applications, including nuclear physics. As a result of changing the collimator shape, as well as the parameters of the undulator magnets, we obtained spectra from numerical simulations using the HUSR/GSR software package. We present results from simulations and a discussion of possible future investigations in this paper.
 
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MOPRI007 Design and Simulation of a High Intensity Muon Beam Production for Neutrino Experiments. 589
 
  • H. K. Sayed, H.G. Kirk, R.B. Palmer, D. Stratakis
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  • K.T. McDonald
    PU, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
  • D.V. Neuffer
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
 
  The production process of pions which then decay into muons, yields a muon beam with large transverse and longitudinal emittances. Such beam requires phase space manipulation to reduce the total 6D emittance before it could go through any acceleration stage. The design of the muon beam manipulation is based on Neutrino Factory front end design. In this study we report on a multi objective - multivariable global optimization of the front end using parallel genetic algorithm. The parallel optimization algorithm and the optimization strategy will be discussed and the optimized results will be presented as well.  
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