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MOPMA17 | Design Requirements and Expected Performance of the New LANSCE H+ RFQ | 336 |
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LANSCE provides H− and H+ beams to several user facilities for fundamental and applied research, including a 100-MeV, 250-μA proton beam to the Isotope Production facility (IPF). Each beam species is initially accelerated to 750 keV in separate Cockcroft-Walton (C-W) accelerators. Due to the age and possible failure modes of the C-W’s and the potential impact of a C-W failure to the IPF program, we have begun the process of replacing the aging H+ C-W with a modern Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) accelerator-based system. In addition, the complexity of combined species operations imposes further restrictions on the beam performance and configuration that must be incorporated into the design process. This paper will cover the physics design requirements of this new RFQ and the expected performance based upon the results of PARMTEQM simulations. | ||