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| MOPCH108 |
Error Study of LINAC 4
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- M.A. Baylac, J.-M. De Conto, E. Froidefond
LPSC, Grenoble
- E.Zh. Sargsyan
CERN, Geneva
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Within the framework of the Joint Research Activity HIPPI (High Intensity Pulsed Proton Injector) of the CARE program, the conception study of the LINAC 4 accelerator which aims to intensify the proton flux available for the CERN injection line is pursued. The linac, operating in pulsed mode at 352 MHz, is designed to accelerate a 65 mA beam of H- ions up to an energy of 160 MeV. The requirements on acceptable beam emittance growth and particle loss are extremely tight. In order to determine the Drift Tube Linac tolerances, we examined the sensitivity of the LINAC 4 DTL to errors on the accelerating field and the focusing quadrupoles. Simulations were performed with the transport code TRACEWIN (CEA-Saclay, France). We will present results on individual sensitivities to a single error as well as the global impact of alignment and RF errors on the beam quality. Similarly, accelerating structures following the DTL in the LINAC4 design (CCDTL, SCL) have been studied.
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| TUPLS057 |
Linac4, a New Injector for the CERN PS Booster
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- R. Garoby, G. Bellodi, F. Gerigk, K. Hanke, A.M. Lombardi, M. Pasini, C. Rossi, E.Zh. Sargsyan, M. Vretenar
CERN, Geneva
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The first bottle-neck towards higher beam brightness in the LHC injector chain is due to space charge induced tune spread at injection in the CERN PS Booster (PSB). A new injector called Linac4 is proposed to remove this limitation. Using RF cavities at 352 and 704 MHz, it will replace the present 50 MeV proton Linac2, and deliver a 160 MeV, 40 mA H beam. The higher injection energy will reduce space charge effects by a factor of 2, and charge exchange will drastically reduce the beam losses at injection. Operation will be simplified and the beam brightness required for the LHC ultimate luminosity should be obtained at PS ejection. Moreover, for the needs of non-LHC physics experiments like ISOLDE, the number of protons per pulse from the PSB will increase by a significant factor. This new linac constitutes an essential component of any of the envisaged LHC upgrade scenarios, which can also become the low energy part of a future 3.5 GeV, multi-megawatt superconducting linac (SPL). The present design has benefited from the support of the French CEA and IN2P3, of the European Union and of the ISTC (Moscow). The proposed machine and its layout on the CERN site are described.
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