beam-transport

Paper	Title	Other Keywords	Page
MOPKF061	Optics Layout for the ERL Prototype at Daresbury Laboratory	linac, electron, extraction, injection	449
	B.D. Muratori, H.L. Owen, J.A. Varley CCLRC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
	The overall optics for the Energy Recovery Linac Prototype (ERLP) at Daresbury Laboratory is summarised. This includes the layout of the injector line, all chicanes used, as well as details of both the outward and return TBA arcs. The tunability in several sections of the machine is examined under different operational modes and starting parameters from the end of the booster to the dump.
MOPKF062	Choice of Arc Design for the ERL Prototype at Daresbury Laboratory	dipole, quadrupole, sextupole, linac	452
	H.L. Owen, B.D. Muratori CCLRC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
	The choice of arc design for the Energy Recovery Linac Prototype (ERLP) to be built at Daresbury Laboratory is investigated. Both the overall merits and disadvantages of a TBA arc and Bates bend are considered, and space restrictions particular to Daresbury Laboratory given. Some magnet parameters are given together with a summary of the layout of the ERLP.
TUPLT021	Heavy Ion Beam Transport in Plasma Channels	plasma, ion, laser, heavy-ion	1183
	S. Neff, D.H. Hoffmann, R. Knobloch TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt C. Niemann, D. Penache, A. Tauschwitz GSI, Darmstadt S. Yu LBNL, Berkeley, California
	The transport of heavy ion beams in high current discharge channels is a promising option for the final beam transport in a heavy ion fusion reactor. The channel provides space-charge neutralization and an azimuthal magnetic field of several tesla, thereby allowing for transporting high current ion beams. The possibility to heat the hohlraum target with only two ion beams simplifies the reactor design significantly. Therefore channel transport is studied as part of the US fusion reactor study as an alternative to neutralized ballistic focusing. We have created 1 m long discharge channels and studied the channel development and stability. In addition, we have carried out proof-of-principle transport experiments using the UNILAC facility at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung. The experiments demonstrate the feasibility of plasma channel transport. Our transport experiments with low current beams are supplemented by simulations for high current beams. These simulations show the possibility of transporting particle currents of up to 60 kA.
TUPLT138	A Fast Beam Chopper for Next Generation High Power Proton Drivers	emittance, proton, linac, ion	1449
	M.A. Clarke-Gayther CCLRC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
	The identification and development of a successful beam chopper design is regarded as key for the European Spallation Source (ESS), and for all next generation high intensity proton driver schemes that adopt the linac-accumulator ring configuration. A description is given of refinements to the beam line design of a 'Tandem' chopper system, developed to address the requirements of the ESS. Particle tracking using the 'General Particle Tracer' (GPT) code has enabled efficient optimisation of beam apertures, and the analysis of beam power density distributions on chopper beam dumps. Preliminary results of 'proof of principle' testing on prototype fast, and slower transition high voltage pulse generators, are presented.
TUPLT166	Beam Invariants for Diagnostics	diagnostics, space-charge, quadrupole	1518
	V.V. Danilov, A.V. Aleksandrov ORNL/SNS, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
	This paper deals with some measurable quantities of beams preserved under symplectic transformations. General beam distributions have no determined area, and rms quantities of the beam do not provide invariants in general nonlinear case. It is shown, though, that in the 1D case there exist some integral and local invariants, directly linked to Liouville's theorem. Beam invariants, related to general properties of symplectic transformations, are also found and presented for 2D and 3D cases. If measured at different locations, they can tell whether the transformation is symplectic or there exist diffusion, friction, or other non-Hamiltonian dynamic processes in the beam.
TUPLT168	SNS Beam Commisioning Status	linac, emittance, proton, target	1524
	S. Henderson, A.V. Aleksandrov, S. Assadi, W. Blokland, C. Chu, S.M. Cousineau, V.V. Danilov, G.W. Dodson, J. Galambos, M. Giannella, D.-O. Jeon, S. Kim, L.V. Kravchuk, M.P. Stockli, E. Tanke, R.F. Welton, T.L. Williams ORNL/SNS, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
	The Spallation Neutron Source accelerator systems will provide a 1 GeV, 1.44 MW proton beam to a liquid mercury target for neutron production. The accelerator complex consists of an H- injector capable of producing 38 mA peak current, a 1 GeV linear accelerator, an accumulator ring and associated transport lines. The linear accelerator consists of a Drift Tube Linac, a Coupled-Cavity Linac and a Superconducting Linac which provide 1.5 mA average current to the accumulator ring. The staged beam commissioning of the accelerator complex is proceeding as component installation progresses. In three separate beam commissioning runs, the H- injector and Drift Tube Linac tanks 1-3 have been commissioned at ORNL. Several important performance goals have been achieved, namely 38 mA peak beam current, 1 msec beam pulse length and 1 mA average beam current. Results and status of the beam commissioning program will be presented.
WEOBCH02	Design, Construction, and Initial Operation of the SNS MEBT Chopper System	linac, target, rfq, extraction	150
	R.A. Hardekopf, S.S. Kurennoy, J. Power LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico A.V. Aleksandrov, D.E. Anderson ORNL/SNS, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
	The chopper system for the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) provides a gap in the beam for clean extraction from the accumulator ring. It consists of a pre-chopper in the low-energy beam transport (LEBT) and a faster chopper in the medium-energy beam transport (MEBT). We report here on the final design, fabrication, installation, and first beam tests of the MEBT chopper. The traveling-wave deflector is a meander-line design that matches the propagation of the deflecting pulse with the velocity of the beam at 2.5 MeV, after the radio-frequency quadrupole (RFQ) acceleration stage. The pulser uses a series of fast-risetime MOSFET transistors to generate the deflecting pulses of ± 2.5 kV with rise and fall times of 10 ns. We describe the design and fabrication of the meander line and pulsers and report on the first operation during initial beam tests at SNS.
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WEPKF004	Magnetic Quadrupole Lenses for the IFUSP Microtron	quadrupole, microtron, vacuum, simulation	1594
	T.F. Silva, M.L. Lopes, A.A. Malafronte, M.N. Martins, P.B. Rios, J. Takahashi USP/LAL, Bairro Butantan
	The Instituto de Física da Universidade de São Paulo (IFUSP) is building a two-stage 31 MeV continuous wave (cw) racetrack microtron. In this work, we describe the design of the magnetic quadrupole lenses for the IFUSP microtron. The design consists of a laminar structure divided in four equal pieces. Because each piece corresponds to an individual pole, it eases the assembling of the coils and the installation of the quadrupole on the beam transport line without breaking the vacuum. Due to the fact that the quadrupole is laminated along the longitudinal axis, it is possible to change the length of a given lens by adding or subtracting foils. We also present the magnetic field distribution calculated using the POISSON code. A prototype presented good mechanical rigidity and thermal performance, showing that a refrigeration system is not necessary. The magnetic measurements show that the field distribution within the region of interest agrees with the POISSON simulation.
WEPLT151	Using the PBO LAB(TM) Optimization and Transport Modules to Gain an Improved Understanding of the LLUMC Proton Therapy Beamlines	optics, extraction, proton, septum	2191
	G.H. Gillespie, O.V. Voronkova G.H. Gillespie Associates, Inc., Del Mar, California G. Coutrakon, J. Hubbard, E. Sanders LLU/MC, Loma Linda, California
	The Particle Beam Optics Laboratory (PBO Lab) has an advanced Optimization Module that works in concert with beam optics codes (also modules in PBO Lab) to solve optimization and fitting problems that are difficult or impossible to address with optics code alone. The PBO Lab Optimization Module has been used in conjunction with the TRANSPORT Module to study the beamlines of the proton therapy center at the Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC). The primary goal of the study was to establish a fast, efficient and reliable procedure for determining the parameters of the beam extracted from the synchrotron accelerator that best fit the extensive wire scanner profile data used to monitor the LLUMC proton therapy beamlines. This paper summarizes how the PBO Lab Optimization Module is applied to this problem and presents selected results from the LLUMC proton therapy beamline study.
THPLT033	The Heavy Ion Gantry of the HICAT-facility	ion, heavy-ion, light-ion, dipole	2550
	U. Weinrich, R. Fuchs GSI, Darmstadt P. Emde MAN Technologie AG, Mainz
	The Heavy Ion Cancer Therapy Project HICAT at the University Hospital of Heidelberg is under construction. One unique feature of the treatment facility is the first heavy ion gantry in the world. The Gantry will allow the patient treatment with different ion species up to 430 MeV/u with full geometrical flexibility. This functionality has to be maintained for up to 300 000 rotations over the envisaged life cycle of 15 years. GSI has taken the responsibility to coordinate the design and construction of all the different required components. At the time of the conference the design will be finished and the construction started. The contribution will report on challenging construction items like the survey and alignment strategy, safety aspects, flexibility of the ion optics. In order to gain confidence on the principle a test bench with the last part of the gantry was already mounted in a fixed manner at GSI and beam measurements were performed. The results of these tests will also be reported.
THPLT183	Results from the Commissioning of the NSRL Beam Transfer Line at BNL	octupole, target, optics, ion	2879
	N. Tsoupas, S. Bellavia, R. Bonati, K.A. Brown, I.-H. Chiang, C. Gardner, D. Gassner, S. Jao, I. Marneris, A. McNerney, D. Phillips, P. Pile, R. Prigl, A. Rusek, L. Snydstrup BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
	The NASA SPACE RADIATION LABORATORY (NSRL) has started operations at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in 2003. The NSRL facility will be used by NASA to study radiation effects. The NSRL facility utilizes proton and heavy-ion beams of energies from 50 to 3000 MeV/n which are accelerated by the AGS_Booster synchrotron accelerator. The beams were extracted[1] ,and transported to a sample which is located 100 m downstream. To date, protons, 12C, 56Fe, 48Ti ion beams of various magnetic rigidities have been transported to the sample location. The NSRL beam transport line has been designed to employ octupole magnetic elements[2] which transform the normal (Gaussian) beam distribution on the sample into a beam with rectangular cross section, and uniformly distributed over the sample. No beam-collimation is applied along any point of the NSRL beam transport line and the beam focusing on the sample is purely magnetic. The experimental and theoretical horizontal and vertical beam envelopes of the first order optics will be presented. The theoretical beam profiles and uniformities at the location of the sample, when the magnetic octupoles are excited (third order optics), will be compared with the experimentally measured ones.
FRYACH01	HICAT - The German Hospital-Based Light Ion Cancer Therapy Project	ion, synchrotron, extraction, injection	290
	H. Eickhoff, T. Haberer, B. Schlitt, U. Weinrich GSI, Darmstadt
	At the University Clinics at Heidelberg /Germany the realization of a cancer Therapy facility using light and medium ions (from protons up to oxygen) has started. This facility will be capable to treat about 1000 patients per year by means of the 'intensity controlled rasterscan technique', that has been already successfully applied to about 200 patients since 1998 at the GSI therapy pilot project. The presentation will give an overview of the facility layout and especially the accelerator- and beam transport systems, capable to provide 3 treatment places with light ions between 50 and 430 MeV/u. Two treatment places are located after horizontal beam lines and one after an isocentric gantry. A further horizontal beam line for research and development activities is foreseen. Besides the technical description and the status and schedule for the project realization organizational aspects of this project will be discussed with the project leadership at the University Clinics, the strong technical assistance of GSI and the role of industrial partners.
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