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| MOPP149 | Recent Developments of the Superconducting CH-Cavities | 901 |
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| The Crossbar-H-mode (CH)-structure which has been developed at the IAP in Frankfurt is a multi-cell drift tube structure for the efficient acceleration of low and medium energy protons and ions. The superconducting low energy CH-prototype cavity has reached gradients of up to 7 MV/m, corresponding to an effective voltage gain of 5.6 MV. This shows that high real estate gradients can be achieved in superconducting low energy multi-cell cavities. Additionally, microphonics and tuning measurements have been performed at room temperature and at 4K. Optimized cavity geometry for high power beam projects and plans for the construction of a new superconducting cavity will be presented. | ||
| TUPP131 | Status of the Linac Components for the Italian Hadrontherapy Centre CNAO | 1833 |
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| The IH-DTL for the Linac in the Italian National Center for Hadron Therapy in Oncology CNAO will accelerate different ion species (C4+, O6+,3He+, H2+) to an energy of 7 MeV/u. The combined rebunching and accelerating beam dynamic concept ("KONUS", "Kombinierte Null Grad Struktur", combined zero degree structure) requires a real voltage distribution in all 56 accelerator gaps (distributed in 4 sections) matching very close to the design voltage distribution. The tuning of the mechanically finished and copper plated cavity started in January 2007, based on the experience from the similar IH-DTL for the HIT linac ("Heidelberger Ionenstrahl-Therapiezentrum", the Heidelberg ion beam therapy center). Very small differences in mechanical measures caused modified starting conditions, resulting in varying number and shape of fixed tuners, but nevertheless accurate field distribution. The CNAO Linac is at presently under commissioning, all linac components except the IH-DTL have been delivered to the center in November 2007. | ||
| WEPP053 | Beam Transport in Toroidal Magnetic field | 2641 |
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| The concept of a storage ring with toroidal magnetic field was presented in the two previous EPAC conferences. Here we report the first results of experiments performed with beam transport in toroidal magnetic fields and details of the injection system. The beam transport experiments were carried out with 30 degree toroidal segments with an axial magnetic field of 0.6T. The space charge force and dynamics of a proton beam near the brillouin flow limit are presented here. The multiturn injection system relies on a specified injection coil together with an electric kicker system. The scaling law for the complete storage ring is discussed. The advantages and disadvantages for such a stellarator type storage ring on the 5T level will be reviewed. | ||
| WEPP079 | Beam Dynamics Layout and Loss Studies for the FAIR P-Injector | 2701 |
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| The development of coupled CH-DTL cavities represents a major achievement in the development of the 325 MHz, 70 MeV FAIR P-Injector. This coupled-cavity solution has important consequencies on the beam dynamics design which has to be adapted to this new kind of resonator. In combination with the KONUS beam dynamics, this solution allows to achieve all the requirements of the FAIR project in terms of beam intensity and quality reducing at the same time the number of focusing elements along the machine. A layout based on 6 CH coupled modules is presented and compared with a solution composed of three coupled modules up to 35 MeV followed by three long single resonators up to the energy of 70 MeV. A redesigned 35 MeV intertank section became necessary to avoid beam losses and emittance growth. Finally, the effect of random mistakes such as quadrupole misalignments and phase as well as voltage setting errors have been investigated to determine the tolerances of mechanical construction and rf controls during operation. | ||
| THPC104 | Optical Diagnostic on Gabor Plasma Lenses | 3221 |
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| Gabor lenses have been built and successfully been used for the focussing of particle beams. In the case of a positive ion beam the space charge of the confined electron cloud may cause an over compensation of the ion beam space charge force and consequently focus the beam. The nonneutral plasma (NNP) is influenced by the external fields and its current state can be determined by the beam emittance growth. Experiments using a high field Gabor lens have shown a correlation between the thermalization of the enclosed electron cloud and the focussing quality. A three segmented Gabor lens was constructed recently for a more detailed investigation of the plasma parameters as a function of the external fields. The commissioning of the lens has been finished successfully and the light emitted by the interaction between the electron cloud and the residual gas has been observed. In a next step the experiments will concentrate on the spectral analyses of the emitted light to evaluate the temperature and density distribution of the confined NNP. Experimental results will be presented in comparison with numerical simulation. | ||
| THPC112 | KONUS Dynamics and H-mode DTL Structures for EUROTRANS and IFMIF | 3239 |
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| During the last two decades, the combination of the KONUS beam dynamics and H-mode DTL structures has been developed as an efficient solution for accelerating low- and medium-energy proton and ion beams. EUROTRANS is a EUROpean Research Programme for the TRANSmutation of High Level Nuclear Waste in an Accelerator Driven System. IFMIF is a planned International Fusion Material Irradiation Facility to test materials for fusion reactors. For the driver linacs of both projects, two H-DTLs have been proposed to cover the energy ranges of 3–17MeV and 5–40MeV, respectively. The beam dynamics designs as well as the error studies of the H-DTLs are presented in this paper. | ||
| THPP037 | A Decelerator for Heavy Highly Charge Ions at HITRAP | 3449 |
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| The heavy highly charged ion trap (HITRAP) project at GSI is in the commissioning phase. Highly charged ions up to U92+ provided by the GSI accelerator facility will be decelerated and subsequently injected into a large Penning trap for further cooling almost to rest. A combination of an IH- and an RFQ-structure decelerates the ions from 4 MeV/u down to 6 keV/u. In front of the decelerator a double drift-buncher-system provides for phase focusing and a final de-buncher integrated in the RFQ-tank reduces the energy spread in order to improve the efficiency for beam capture in the cooler trap. This contribution concentrates on the beam dynamics simulations and corresponding measurements in the first commissioning beam times. | ||
| THPP080 | A Superconducting CH-Linac for IFMIF | 3548 |
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| The IFMIF accelerator which has to provide a 40 MeV 250 mA Deuteron beam requires a duty cycle of 100%. The IAP Frankfurt has proposed 175 MHz H-type drift tube linac consisting of an IH-cavity and a chain of superconducting CH-cavities. A superconducting CH-prototype cavity has been tested very successfully and reached effective gradients of 7 MV/m. Two rf power couplers are necessary to feed one CH-cavity. The maximum rf power per cavity is approximately 500 kW. As amplifiers the originally foreseen 1 MW tubes or 300 kW tubes can be used. The focusing scheme in the CH-linac is based on superconducting solenoids. Beam dynamics simulations have been performed with an error analysis using the LORASR code based on the KONUS dynamics. An updated and improved linac design will be presented. A contribution of IAP for the EVEDA phase could consists of the construction and the test of the room temperature IH-cavity and the first complete CH cryo-module. A study together with industry has been already performed regarding the production process and the system integration of auxiliary equipment like couplers and tuner. | ||
| THPP091 | One Nano-second Bunch Compressor for High Intense Proton Beam | 3578 |
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About ten bunches of 2MeV proton rf-linac with an average current of 150mA at 175 MHz will be deflected by kicker on different paths into a magnetic bending system. Passing this optimized geometry they approach each other longitudinaly (βλ = 0.114m) and arrive at the same time at the focus of the dipole system. For longitudinal focussing of the merged bunches a rebuncher cavity is included in the bending system. The motivation and the layout of the whole project, "Frankfurter Neutronen Quelle am Stern-Gerlach Zentrum" (FRANZ), were presented in details in previous conferences*,**. More accurate investigation results in a revision of the preliminary concept. For a theoretical proof of principle one trajectory with the biggest path length of a new geometry is calculated by a multi particle beam dynamics program (LORASR). Preliminary investigations showed, that magnetic fringing fields and bunch-bunch interactions have to be included as detailed as posible in the beam simulations. In this paper the beam dynamics results from LORASR-simulations, the new geometry and the code development for the bunch compressor are discussed in details.
*L. P. Chau et al. Proc. of the Eur. Part. Acc. Conf., Edinburgh (2006), 1690-1692. |
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| THPP111 | A 250 kHz Chopper for Low Energy High Intensity Proton Beams | 3623 |
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| A neutron pulse with 1 ns pulse length and a repetition rate of 250 kHz is needed for the experiments on nuclear astrophysics using the Frankfurter Neutron source at the Stern-Gerlach-Zentrum. The time structure of the neutron flux is given by the primary proton beam witch hits a 7Li target. The creation of the required time structure on an intense proton beam of 200 mA dc with respect to emittance growth and beam losses is demanding. The pulsing of the ion source depends on the rise time of the plasma whereas the pulsing of the extraction voltage leads into high power deposition into the multi aperture extraction system. On the other hand a chopper system downstream of the RFQ results in rf power consumption due to beam loading and the problem of beam dumping at a beam power of several kW. Therefore it is planed to install a chopper as part of a resonant circuit in the LEBT – section consisting of four solenoids. Two different methods, magnetic and electric deflection, will be discussed with respect to emittance growth, beam losses and the influence on space charge compensation processes. Numerical simulations and preliminary results of experiments will be presented and compared. |