Author: Shiltsev, V.D.
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WEPWA072 Feasibility of Continuously Focused TeV/m Channeling Acceleration with CNT-Channel 2670
 
  • Y.-M. Shin
    Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA
  • A.H. Lumpkin, V.D. Shiltsev, R.M. Thurman-Keup
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
 
  Funding: This work was supported by the DOE contract No. DEAC02-07CH11359 to the Fermi Research Alliance LLC.
Atomic channels in crystals are known to consist of 10 – 100 V/Å potential barriers capable of guiding and collimating a high energy beam and continuously focused acceleration with exceptionally high gradients (TeV/m)*,**,***. However, channels in natural crystals are only angstrom-size and physically vulnerable to high energy interactions. Carbon-based nano-crystals such as carbon-nanotubes (CNTs) and graphenes have a large degree of dimensional flexibility and thermo-mechanical strength, which could be suitable for channeling acceleration of MW beams. Nano-channels of the synthetic crystals can accept a few orders of magnitude larger phase-space volume of channeled particles with much higher thermal tolerance than natural crystals****. Our particle-in-cell simulations with 100 um long effective CNT model indicated that a beam-driven self-acceleration produces 1 – 2 % net energy gain in the quasi-linear regime (off-resonance beam-plasma coupling, np = 1000 nb) with ASTA 50 MeV injector beam parameters. This paper presents current status of CNT-channeling acceleration experiment planned at the Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator (ASTA) in Fermilab.
* T. Tajima, PRL 59, 1440 (1987)
** P. Chen and R. Noble, slac-pub-4187
*** Y. M. Shin, APL 105, 114106 (2014)
**** Y.M. Shin, D. A. Still, and V. Shiltsev, Phys. Plasmas 20, 123106 (2013)
 
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THPF128 Accelerator Physics and Technology Research Toward Future Multi-MW Proton Accelerators 4019
 
  • V.D. Shiltsev, P. Hurh, A. Romanenko, A. Valishev, R.M. Zwaska
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
 
  Funding: Fermi Research Alliance, LLC operates Fermilab under contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy
Recent P5 report indicated the accelerator-based neutrino and rare decay physics research as a centrepiece of the US domestic HEP program. Operation, upgrade and development of the accelerators for the near-term and longer-term particle physics program at the Intensity Frontier face formidable challenges. Here we discuss accelerator physics and technology research toward future multi-MW proton accelerators.
 
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