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Shor, A.

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THPP041 Beam Dynamics Simulation of the 1.5 MeV/u Proton/Deuteron Beams Measured at the SARAF RFQ Exit 3458
 
  • J. Rodnizki, B. Bazak, D. Berkovits, G. Feinberg, A. Shor, Y. Yanay
    Soreq NRC, Yavne
  • K. Dunkel, C. Piel
    ACCEL, Bergisch Gladbach
 
  The Soreq Applied Research Accelerator Facility (SARAF) accelerator's front-end is composed of a 20 keV/u protons and deuterons ECR ion source, a 5 mA low energy beam transport and a 1.5 MeV/u, 4 mA, 176 MHz, 4-rod RFQ. In this work, beam dynamics simulations of the SARAF accelerator front-end is compared to the first beam measurements taken during commissioning. Beam transmission, ion energy and bunch width as a function of the RFQ power have been measured in the medium energy beam transport diagnostics and using a dedicated diagnostic plate. The simulations and measurements show similar trends. This agreement allows calibrating the RFQ power to its electrodes voltage, in the low electric field range, where the common x-ray measurement method is not feasible. The benchmark between simulation and measurement shows that the RFQ model in our simulation can well predict the measured values. The simulation is covering the beam tail as well and is used to find the optimal operating voltage by minimizing the low energy tail and hence the beam loss downstream the accelerator.