Author: Stockli, M.P.
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WEP038 Physics Design of a Prototype 2-Solenoid LEBT for the SNS Injector 1564
 
  • B. Han, D.J. Newland
    ORNL RAD, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
  • T. Hunter, M.P. Stockli
    ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
 
  To mitigate the operational risks associated with the SNS electrostatic LEBT, an R&D effort is underway to develop a 2-solenoid magnetic LEBT, which should improve the reliability while matching or exceeding the beam dynamic capabilities of the present electrostatic LEBT. This paper discusses the physics design of a prototype 2-solenoid magnetic LEBT.  
 
WEP254 Simulation of H Beam Chopping in a Solenoid-Based Low-Energy Beam Transport (LEBT) 1957
 
  • D.T. Abell, D.L. Bruhwiler, Y. Choi, S. Mahalingam, P. Stoltz
    Tech-X, Boulder, Colorado, USA
  • B. Han
    ORNL RAD, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
  • M.P. Stockli
    ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
 
  Funding: This work is supported by the US DOE Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, including grant No. DE-SC0000844.
The H- linac for the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) includes an electrostatic low-energy beam transport (LEBT) subsystem. The ion source group at SNS is developing a solenoid-based LEBT, which will include MHz frequency chopping of the partly-neutralized, 65~keV, 60~mA H- beam. Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations using the parallel VORPAL framework are being used to explore the possibility of beam instabilities caused by the cloud of neutralizing ions generated from the background gas, or by other dynamical processes that could increase the emittance of the H- beam before it enters the radio-frequency quadrupole (RFQ) accelerator.
 
 
WEP273 Saddle RF Antenna H Ion Source Progress 1987
 
  • V.G. Dudnikov, R.P. Johnson
    Muons, Inc, Batavia, USA
  • S. Murray, T.R. Pennisi, M. Santana, M.P. Stockli, R.F. Welton
    ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
 
  Funding: Supported in part by USDOE Contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 and STTR Grant DE-SC0002690
In this project we are developing an RF H surface plasma source (SPS) with saddle (SA) RF antenna which will provide better power efficiency for high pulsed and average current, higher brightness with longer lifetime and higher reliability. Several versions of new plasma generators with a small AlN test chamber and different antennasandmagneticfieldconfigurationsweretestedin the SNS ion source Test Stand. A prototype SA SPS was installed in the Test Stand with a larger, normal-sized SNS AlN chamber that achieved unanalyzed peak currents of up to 67 mA with an apparent efficiency of 1.6 mA/kW. Control experiments with H beam produced by SNS SPS with internal and external antennas were conducted. A new version of the RF triggering plasma source (TPS) has been designed. A Saddle antenna SPS with water cooling is being fabricated for high duty factor testing.
 
 
WEP275 Highly-Persistent SNS H Source Fueling 1-MW Beams with 7-9 kC Service Cycles 1993
 
  • M.P. Stockli, T.W. Hardek, Y.W. Kang, S.N. Murray, T.R. Pennisi, M.F. Piller, M. Santana, R.F. Welton
    ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
  • B. Han
    ORNL RAD, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
 
  Funding: SNS is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 for the U.S. Department of Energy.
Running routinely with ~40-mA, 1-MW beams, the SNS linac is fed from the ion source with ~1ms long, ~50-mA H beam pulses at 60 Hz. This requires the daily extraction of ~230 C of H ions, which exceeds the routine daily production of other H accelerator sources by almost an order of magnitude. The source service cycle has been extended from 2, to 3, to 4, and up to 5.6 weeks without age-related failures. The 7-9 kC of H ions delivered in single service cycles exceed the service cycle yields of other accelerator sources. The paper discusses the findings as well as the issues and their mitigations, which enabled the simultaneous increase of the beam current, the duty factor, the availability, and the service cycle.