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MOPC086 IFMIF-EVEDA Accelerator: Beam Dump Design linac, vacuum, quadrupole, shielding 259
 
  • B. Brañas, F. Arranz, G. Barrera, J. M. Gómez, A. Ibarra, D. Iglesias, C. Oliver
    CIEMAT, Madrid
  The IFMIF-EVEDA accelerator will be a 9 MeV, 125 mA cw deuteron accelerator prototype for verifying the validity of the accelerator design for IFMIF. A beam stop will be used for the RFQ and DTL commissioning as well as for the EVEDA accelerator tests. Therefore, this component must be designed to stop 5 MeV and 9 MeV deuteron beams with a maximum power of 1.12 MW. The first step of the design is the beam-facing material selection. The criteria used for this selection are low neutron production, low activation and good thermomechanical behavior. A thermomechanical analysis with ANSYS has been performed for a few materials which show good behavior from the radiological point of view. The input data are the expected beam shape and divergence at the beam dump entrance produced by the high energy beam line quadrupoles, a conical beam stop shape and the preliminary design of the cooling system. As a conclusion of the previous studies a conceptual design of the beam stop will be presented.  
 
MOPC105 Activities of Hitachi Relating to Construction of J-PARC Accelerator power-supply, synchrotron, linac, injection 310
 
  • Y. Chida, S. Koseki
    Hitachi Ltd., Ibaraki-ken
  • M. Abe
    Hitachi, Ltd., Power & Industrial Systems R&D Laboratory, Ibaraki-ken
  • K. Nakamura, M. Watanabe, T. Watanabe, T. Watanuki
    Hitachi. Ltd., Hitachi Works, Hitachi-shi
  The Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) consists of a 330-m-long linac, a 3-GeV rapid cycle synchrotron with a circumference of 350 m, and a 50-GeV synchrotron with a circumference of 1,570 m. Owing to a collaboration between the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) and the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), the accelerators will be commencing operations at the site of JAEA Tokai Research and Development Center. The beam commissioning of the entire accelerator system is planned to take place before the end of 2008. Along with the JAEA and KEK, Hitachi has contributed to the construction of the system by manufacturing some major equipment with specifications that are of the highest level in the world.  
 
MOPD024 RF Power System for the IFMIF-EVEDA Prototype Accelerator power-supply, controls, radio-frequency, linac 496
 
  • I. Kirpitchev, M-A. Falagán, A. Ibarra, P. Méndez, M. Weber
    CIEMAT, Madrid
  • M. Desmons, A. Mosnier
    CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette
  The IFMIF-EVEDA accelerator will be a 9 MeV, 125 mA cw deuteron accelerator prototype for verifying the validity of the accelerator design for IFMIF. The RFQ, matching section and DTL resonant cavities must be fed with continuous RF power at 175 MHz frequency with an accuracy of 1% in amplitude and ± 1° in phase. Currently two possible solutions for the DTL design are considered. The first option consists of normal conducting (NC) Alvarez type cavities and the second option consists of superconducting (SC) Half Wave Resonator cavities. Both options impose different demands on the RF system which are analyzed in this paper. The RF power system will be made of several amplification stages and will be based on vacuum tube amplifiers. The main characteristics of RF system including those of the high voltage power sources required to feed the anodes of the high power tubes will be presented in this paper.  
 
MOPP091 Upgrade of Input Power Coupling System for the SNS RFQ vacuum, coupling, linac, klystron 763
 
  • Y. W. Kang, A. V. Aleksandrov, P. E. Gibson, T. W. Hardek, C. Luck, R. C. Peglow, A. V. Vassioutchenko
    ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
  A RF input power coupler system has been developed for upgrade of input coupling to the RFQ in the SNS linac front-end. The design employs two coaxial loop couplers for 402.5 MHz operation. Two couplers are used in parallel to power the accelerating structure with up to 800 kW total peak power at 8% duty cycle. Each coupler loop has a coaxial ceramic window that is connected to each output of a magic-T waveguide hybrid splitter through a coaxial to waveguide transition. The coaxial loop couplers have been designed, manufactured, and high power processed. This paper presents the following: RF and mechanical designs of the couplers and system, procedure and result of high power RF conditioning, and test and operation results of the upgraded system.  
 
MOPP111 Beam Tests with the MAFF IH-RFQ at the IAP-Frankfurt ion-source, ion, emittance, quadrupole 817
 
  • H. Z. Zimmermann, D. Habs
    LMU, Garching
  • A. Bechtold, P. Kolb, A. Schempp
    IAP, Frankfurt am Main
  The IH-type RFQ for the MAFF project at the LMU Munich is integrated into a test bench at the IAP in Frankfurt. The existing IH-RFQ set-up is the second after the HIS at GSI and the first one that can be directly compared to a very similar 4-rod type machine, the REX-ISOLDE RFQ at CERN. The test bench consists of an ionsource, an electrostatic quadrupole lens system with implemented steerers, and several beam diagnostic like a two dimensional emittance scanner, bending magnet and a fast faraday cup. Experimental results will be presented. These tests accompanied with theoretical investigations will be done with special respect to the applicability of such normal conducting RFQ accelerators to the EURISOL post accelerator.  
 
TUZG01 IFMIF: Status and Developments target, beam-transport, plasma, radio-frequency 974
 
  • P. Garin
    CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette
  On the way to the fusion demonstrator (DEMO), ITER is designed to tackle the physics properties of thermonuclear plasmas in relevant conditions, as well as the key technologies. But because of its experimental character, the amount of neutrons produced by ITER all along its life will be about two orders of magnitude below what is expected in a fusion Power Plant. A dedicated facility, called IFMIF (International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility), is thus mandatory to study and analyse the behaviour of materials under a high flux of energetic neutrons (14 MeV). The Engineering Validation and Engineering Design Activities (EVEDA), launched in the framework of a bilateral agreement between Euratom and the Government of Japan in 2007, with a duration of 6 years, aims at producing the detailed design file enabling the construction of IFMIF. The key systems will be also tested during this phase. One of the most important one is the accelerator, bringing a deuteron beam of 125 mA to an output energy of 40 MeV. The whole facility will be described, including the detail of the accelerator, as well as the organisational framework of the project.  
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TUOBM02 The Development of the Separated Function RFQ Accelerator in Peking University simulation, focusing, impedance, acceleration 1007
 
  • X. Q. Yan, J.-E. Chen, J. X. Fang, S. L. Gao, Z. Y. Guo, Y. R. Lu, Z. Wang, K. Zhu
    PKU/IHIP, Beijing
  The progress of the Separated Function RFQ (SFRFQ) accelerator, which can raise the field gradient of acceleration while maintaining the transverse focusing power sufficient for high current beam, is presented. In order to demonstrate the feasibilities of the novel accelerator, a prototype cavity was designed and constructed. Correspondingly, a code SFRFQCODEV1.0 was developed specially for cavity design and beam dynamics simulation. The prototype cavity will be verified as a post-accelerator for ISR RFQ-1000 (Integral Split Ring RFQ) and accelerate O+ from 1 MeV to 1.6 MeV. To inject a higher current oxygen beam for the prototype cavity, the beam current of ISR RFQ-1000 was upgraded to 2 mA. The status of high power and beam test of the prototype cavity are presented in this paper.  
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TUOBM03 High-Intensity Polarized H- (Proton), Deuteron and 3He++ Ion Source Development at BNL polarization, ion, injection, proton 1010
 
  • A. Zelenski, J. G. Alessi, A. Kponou, D. Raparia
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  New techniques for production of polarized H- (protons), deuteron and 3He++ ion beams (based on optical pumping polarization method) will be discussed. Feasibility studies of these techniques are in progress at BNL. The depolarization factors in the multi-step spin-transfer polarization technique and basic limitations on maximum polarization in the OPPIS (Optically-Pumped Polarized H- Ion Source) will be discussed. Detailed studies of polarization losses in the RHIC OPPIS and the source parameters optimization resulted in the OPPIS polarization increase to 86-90%. This contributed to AGS and RHIC polarization increase to 65-70%.  
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TUPD032 RFQ Vacuum Brazing at CERN vacuum, alignment, linac, radio-frequency 1494
 
  • S. J. Mathot
    CERN, Geneva
  The aim of this paper is to describe the vacuum brazing procedure used at CERN for the brazing of Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ). The RFQ is made of high precision machined OFE copper pieces assembled together. Vacuum brazing is one of the most promising techniques used to join the individual components leading to vacuum tightness and high precision alignment. The RFQ's brazed at CERN are made of four 100 or 120 cm long vanes (two majors and two minor vanes). Our brazing procedure consists of two steps. The first step involves the brazing of the four vanes in a horizontal position. The second step consists of brazing the vacuum stainless steel flanges to the copper structure in a vertical position. The paper describes the problems encountered with the alignment and the vacuum tightness. The difficulties related to the stress relaxation of the machined copper pieces during the brazing heat treatment are discussed. In addition, the solutions developed to improve the alignment of the brazed RFQ's are also presented.  
 
TUPP099 Improvement of RFQSIM simulation, focusing, acceleration, multipole 1762
 
  • J. M. Maus, A. Schempp
    IAP, Frankfurt am Main
  RFQSIM has constantly been developed at IAP to simulate multiple particles dynamic of RFQs which include simulations of high current applications, decelerators, debuncher and rebuncher e.g. for the medical application. The latest work to improve RFQSIM include the option to change the modulation and or the aperatur of the simulated RFQ to produce the same acceleration and or focusing efficiency than the two term potential gives for different electrode geometries. Additional work was done to improve the graphical analysis during runtime as well as the change of all routines to be compatible with the Fortran F95 standard. The maximum number of particles to be simulated was increased to 200k. The paper shows examples of results for the high current application like the of the p-linac and the new HLI injector for GSI and for transition sections.  
 
TUPP113 Intensity Upgrade Programme for the HIT Injector Linac ion, linac, ion-source, heavy-ion 1788
 
  • R. Cee, T. Haberer, A. Peters, S. Scheloske, T. Winkelmann
    HIT, Heidelberg
  The Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Centre (HIT) is a worldwide unique radiation therapy facility and the first installation of its kind in Europe. It is equipped with three treatment rooms and has the potential to irradiate over 1000 patients per year. To guarantee such a high patient throughput, i.e. based on short irradiation times, and in order to prepare upcoming clinical requirements the currently limited beam intensity (particles per spill) needs to be increased. In an endeavour to provide optimum conditions for the patient treatment an intensity upgrade programme for the injector linac has been initiated. It affects primarily the ion source and the RFQ but also other linac components. The largest influence on the linac transmission is expected by a new RFQ design with optimised electrodes, which is currently commissioned on a test bench. The update programme is accompanied by beam dynamics simulations and machine studies. First improvements are presented and the status of the programme is given.  
 
TUPP126 Advanced Concepts for Particle-therapy Accelerators ion, injection, proton, linac 1821
 
  • Th. Strodl
    ATI, Wien
  • J. Murin, M. Pavlovic, R. Seemann
    STU, Bratislava
  Presently in Europe the first generation of particle-therapy accelerators is on the way from construction into operation. Each layout typically consists of two ion sources, a single injection line, a main synchrotron and beam transfer lines to several treatment rooms, one of them equipped with or foreseen for an ion gantry. The paper presents some possible enhancements for the next facility generation still based on existing layouts and design studies. The focus lies on an improved injection line and gantry concepts. A simplified injection line using a different configuration of ion sources and low-energy beam-transport line is described. It is based on combination of particle species with identical charge-to-mass ratio. Optimized gantry constructions are shown with mechanical designs driven by ion-optical demands, especially by the accuracy of the beam position at the isocentre. The enhancements presented in the paper may influence upgrades of existing centres or may be implemented in the design of newly developed next generation of particle- therapy accelerators.  
 
TUPP131 Status of the Linac Components for the Italian Hadrontherapy Centre CNAO linac, vacuum, ion, controls 1833
 
  • H. Vormann, C. M. Kleffner, A. Reiter, B. Schlitt
    GSI, Darmstadt
  • G. Clemente, U. Ratzinger
    IAP, Frankfurt am Main
  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.  
 
THPC088 Beam Dynamics Simulation of Superconducting HWR Option for the IFMIF Linac linac, simulation, beam-losses, emittance 3194
 
  • N. Chauvin, A. Mosnier, P. A.P. Nghiem, D. Uriot
    CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette
  One of the requirements of the International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF) is a 250 mA, 40 MeV cw deuteron beam provided by two 125 mA linacs. In this paper, a design based on superconducting half-wave resonators (HWR) for the 5 to 40 MeV section of the IFMIF driver accelerator is presented. Multi particle beam dynamics simulations have been performed in order to validate the linac design in such a high charge space regime. A Monte Carlo error analysis has been carried out to study the effects of misalignments or field variations. The results of the simulations are presented and the final specifications of the HWR linac are summarized.  
 
THPC112 KONUS Dynamics and H-mode DTL Structures for EUROTRANS and IFMIF focusing, beam-losses, simulation, linac 3239
 
  • C. Zhang, M. Busch, H. Klein, H. Podlech, U. Ratzinger, R. Tiede
    IAP, Frankfurt am Main
  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.  
 
THPP021 Status of the Unilac-upgrade Programme for the Heavy Element Research at GSI-Ship ion, ion-source, heavy-ion, extraction 3416
 
  • P. Gerhard, W. Barth, L. A. Dahl, K. Tinschert
    GSI, Darmstadt
  • A. Schempp
    IAP, Frankfurt am Main
  For more than 30 years the heavy-element research using the velocity separator SHIP is one of the major experiments at GSIs heavy ion linear accelerator UNILAC. On of the major contributions which led to the discovery of six new elements since 1981 is the perpetual effort to increase the beam intensity. Since the early 1990's the beam current available was raised significantly by a number of improvements concerning the source, the LEBT and the accelerator. The next steps are scheduled for 2009 and include an upgrade of the Radio Frequency Quadrupole-accelerator (RFQ) and a new superconducting 28 GHz-ECR ion source. The new RFQ will allow higher duty factors up to 100% and improve the longitudinal beam quality as well as the beam transmission. The new ion source will provide an increase in beam intensity and simultaneously higher charge states. The new source will be installed in addition to the existing one, therefore a second LEBT-system has to be designed and integrated into the High Charge State Injector. This paper presents the status quo of both the RFQ and the ion source upgrade and will provide technical data.  
 
THPP024 Detailed Study of the RF Properties of the FETS RFQ Cold Model simulation, quadrupole, coupling, ion-source 3422
 
  • S. Jolly, A. Kurup, D. A. Lee, J. K. Pozimski, P. Savage
    Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London
  • Y. Cheng
    IHEP Beijing, Beijing
  • A. P. Letchford
    STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
  A 324MHz four vane RFQ cold model has been built, as part of the development of a proton driver Front End Test Stand (FETS) at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in the UK. Previous measurements to determine the electric field profile were made using the bead-pull perturbation method: these measurements have been refined and expanded. New measurements of the electric field profile, Q-value and resonant modes are presented. Measurements of the fundamental frequency and Q-value of the RFQ as a result of modifications to the profile of the end flange inserts are also given. Finally, an experiment is outlined to determine the beam transmission properties of the cold model based on beam transport simulations with the General Particle Tracer package (GPT).  
 
THPP028 Beam Tests of the PEFP 20 MeV Accelerator proton, ion-source, ion, dipole 3434
 
  • H.-J. Kwon, Y.-S. Cho, I.-S. Hong, J.-H. Jang, D. I. Kim, H. S. Kim, B.-S. Park, K. T. Seol, Y.-G. Song, S. P. Yun
    KAERI, Daejon
  PEFP (Proton Engineering Frontier Project) 20 MeV proton accelerator has been installed and tested at KAERI (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) site. After the radiation license was issued, some parts were modified to increase a beam current above 1mA. Both an ion source and a LEBT (Low Energy Beam Transport) were modified for better matching of the beam into the 3 MeV RFQ. The field profile of the RFQ was measured to check the dipole field effect. In addition, control mechanisms to improve the RF properties of 20 MeV DTL were newly adopted. In this paper, the modifications of the 20MeV accelerator are summarized and the test results are presented.  
 
THPP029 Status of the RAL Front End Test Stand ion, ion-source, linac, diagnostics 3437
 
  • A. P. Letchford, M. A. Clarke-Gayther, D. C. Faircloth, D. J.S. Findlay, S. R. Lawrie, P. Romano, P. Wise
    STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
  • S. M.H. Al Sari, S. Jolly, A. Kurup, D. A. Lee, P. Savage
    Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London
  • J. Alonso, R. Enparantza
    Fundación Tekniker, Elbr (Guipuzkoa)
  • J. J. Back
    University of Warwick, Coventry
  • F. J. Bermejo
    Bilbao, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bilbao
  • C. Gabor, D. C. Plostinar
    STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
  • J. Lucas
    Elytt Energy, Madrid
  • J. Pasternak, J. K. Pozimski
    STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
  High power proton accelerators (HPPAs) with beam powers in the several megawatt range have many applications including drivers for spallation neutron sources, neutrino factories, waste transmuters and tritium production facilities. The UK's commitment to the development of the next generation of HPPAs is demonstrated by a test stand being constructed in collaboration between RAL, Imperial College London, the University of Warwick and the Universidad del Pais Vasco, Bilbao. The aim of the RAL Front End Test Stand is to demonstrate that chopped low energy beams of high quality can be produced and is intended to allow generic experiments exploring a variety of operational conditions. This paper describes the current status of the RAL Front End Test Stand.  
 
THPP034 Design Study of Alternate Injector at Pelletron Accelerator Facility ion, ion-source, linac, simulation 3443
 
  • N. Mehrotra, P. V. Bhagwat, R. K. Choudhury, A. K. Gupta, S. Kailas, S. Krishnagopal
    BARC, Mumbai
  • R. G. Pillay
    TIFR, Mumbai
  An alternate injector system is contrived under the AIDNP project in the Xth plan to utilize the 150MHz supercond. LINAC to its full capability. This injection system consists of ECR ion source, RFQ Linac and supercond. QWR cavities. This configuration can deliver high current and wider mass range(1/7≤ q/m≤1/2) beam into the S-LINAC with the required velocity acceptance which otherwise is not possible from pelletron. The design study from ion source to exit of RFQ is presented in this paper. Prior to injection to s-linac,the beam needs to be accelerated to an equivalent of 12-14MV/q. Beam from a high frequency(18GHz) ECRsource producing Au30+,U34+ and pre accelerated to 10keV/u will be injected into heavy ion RFQ. The RFQ operating at f/2 i.e.75MHz of the linac frequency, will accept beams with β=0.46% and accelerate upto β=3.5%.These beams would then go through two sets of superconductiong cavities with β=5.0% and β=7.0% respectively. This acceleration is expected to bring all ion beams from carbon to uranium, in the velocity range β=8%-10% which is suitable for linac. After further acceleration in Linac~12 MeV/u light ions and 7 MeV/u uranium beams would be available.  
 
THPP036 The Superconducting Solution for the EURISOL DS Postaccelerator Injector emittance, ion, bunching, simulation 3446
 
  • P. A. Posocco
    Consorzio RFX, Euratom ENEA Association, Padova
  • G. Bisoffi, A. Palmieri, A. Pisent, P. A. Posocco
    INFN/LNL, Legnaro, Padova
  In the framework of EURISOL design study*, the superconducting solution for the Post-Accelerator injector foresees the use of two RFQs, one Super Conducting and one Normal Conducting, both operating CW at 88 MHz. After the multiple ionization in the ECR breeder on low voltage platform, the rare ions beam (3 ≤ A/q ≤ 7) is bunched at the main frequency by the NC RFQ without both losses and transverse emittance increase and accelerated afterwards through the SC RFQ up to 560 keV/u. A 8.8 MHz pulsed beam can be delivered to experiments placing a 3 harmonic buncher before the NC RFQ with overall beam losses lower than 25%. The beam dynamics results of the study of this solution as well as the main RF design and construction analysis of the main components are presented.

*http://www.eurisol.org

 
 
THPP038 Phase 1 Commissioning Status of the 40 MeV Proton/Deuteron Accelerator SARAF proton, emittance, ion, ion-source 3452
 
  • C. Piel, K. Dunkel, F. Kremer, M. Pekeler, P. vom Stein
    ACCEL, Bergisch Gladbach
  • D. Berkovits, I. Mardor
    Soreq NRC, Yavne
  Since January 2007 all accelerator equipment of the Phase 1 for the 40MeV Proton/Deuteron Accelerator is at the SARAF site and installed for the commissioning. The target of Phase 1 is to get the ECR ion source and RFQ into operation and to perform all relevant test with the cryo module housing 6 super conducting half wave resonators, to show that the design values of the system can be reached. Based on those results the Phase 2 shall start, to reach the final energy of 40MeV with up to 2mA of Protons and Deuterons. The ECR source is in routine operation since June 2006, the RFQ already have been operated with Protons and currently is under characterisation. After the characterisation has been finalised it is anticipated to move the cryo module in the beam line and to perform further beam characterisation. The entire beam characterisation is closely followed by beam dynamics simulations. Recent results of the commissioning will be presented and comparisons made between measurements and beam dynamics calculations.  
 
THPP040 Choice of Accelerating System for Undulator Linear Accelerator simulation, undulator, ion, linac 3455
 
  • E. S. Masunov, N. V. Avreline, V. S. Dyubkov, S. M. Polozov
    MEPhI, Moscow
  • A. L. Sitnikov
    ITEP, Moscow
  The undulator linear accelerators (UNDULAC) were suggested as a new type of high intensity low energy ion linac. Such accelerators can be realized in periodical IH structure. The RF field in UNDULAC has no spatial harmonics in synchronism with the beam*. An accelerating force is to be driven by a combination of two non-synchronous space harmonics. The ratio of first to zero RF field harmonics amplitude must be equal to 0.25-0.4. The effective beam bunching and focusing could be provided in this case. The construction of UNDULAC accelerating channel is discussed to realize such ratio. The first results of IH resonator type choice are also presented.

*E. S. Masunov, Technical Physics, V. 46, 11, 2001, pp. 1433-1436.

 
 
THPP041 Beam Dynamics Simulation of the 1.5 MeV/u Proton/Deuteron Beams Measured at the SARAF RFQ Exit simulation, proton, ion, linac 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.  
 
THPP075 Beam Dynamics of the IFMIF-EVEDA RFQ emittance, focusing, multipole, beam-losses 3536
 
  • M. Comunian, A. Pisent, P. A. Posocco
    INFN/LNL, Legnaro, Padova
  • E. Fagotti
    Consorzio RFX, Euratom ENEA Association, Padova
  The IFMIF project is aimed at the realization of an intense neutron beam facility for testing the irradiation of the materials to be used for fusion reactors. EVEDA (Engineering Validation Engineering Design Activities) is a first step towards the implementation of this challenging project and consists of the construction of prototypes of the main units. In particular INFN-LNL is in charge of the construction of a 5 MeV, 125 mA, deuteron RFQ at 175 MHz. In this article the main aspects of the beam dynamics design of this RFQ are described, namely the optimization of the length and the transmission issues, the main outcomes and comparison of the PARMTEQM and TOUTATIS codes used for the simulations and the basic aspects of the errors studies.  
 
THPP077 The IFMIF-EVEDA Accelerator Activities emittance, linac, diagnostics, simulation 3539
 
  • A. Mosnier
    CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette
  • A. Facco
    INFN/LNL, Legnaro, Padova
  • A. Ibarra
    CIEMAT, Madrid
  The International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF) aims at producing an intense flux of 14 MeV neutrons, in order to characterize materials envisaged for future fusion reactors. This facility is based on two high power CW accelerator drivers, each delivering a 125 mA deuteron beam at 40 MeV to the common lithium target. In the framework of the EU-JA Bilateral Agreement for the Broader Approach for Fusion, the Engineering Validation and Engineering Design Activities (EVEDA) phase of IFMIF has been launched in the middle of 2007. The objectives of EVEDA are to produce the detailed design of the entire IFMIF facility, as well as to build and test a number of prototypes, including a high-intensity CW deuteron accelerator (125 mA @ 9 MeV). The major components and subsystems will be designed and developed in Europe, and will be then assembled and operated at Rokkasho in Japan. The individual components are developed in Spain, Italy and France and an european accelerator team has been settled for the coordination of the accelerator activities. The design and the layout of the accelerator are presented as well as the development schedule.  
 
THPP078 IFMIF-EVEDA RFQ Design coupling, simulation, vacuum, beam-losses 3542
 
  • A. Pisent, M. Comunian, E. Fagotti, A. Palmieri, P. A. Posocco, C. Roncolato
    INFN/LNL, Legnaro, Padova
  • F. Grespan
    Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano
  • A. Pepato
    INFN- Sez. di Padova, Padova
  The RFQ of IFMIF-EVEDA project is characterized by very challenging specifications, with 125 mA of deuteron accelerated up to 5 MeV. After the long period of conceptual and comprehensive design of IFMIF accelerator, the decision of the construction of its low energy part has implied a new analysis of the RFQ design. In particular the beam dynamics design has been optimized, with a consistent reduction of the structure length and power consumption, and improvement of the performances in terms of beam losses. The resonator, of four vanes kind, has been designed taking advantage of the theoretical background and experimental experience gained in Europe with IPHI and TRASCO projects. The mechanical design has been analysed considering different approaches, involving vacuum brazing, laser or e'beam welding.  
 
THPP079 Design of the High Current Linac of SPES Project linac, target, klystron, beam-transport 3545
 
  • A. Pisent, M. Comunian, E. Fagotti, A. Palmieri, P. A. Posocco
    INFN/LNL, Legnaro, Padova
  • F. Grespan
    Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano
  The proposed driver, composed by a four vanes RFQ and an Alvarez DTL, generates a high intensity beam, for an average current of 1.5 mA and an energy of 43 MeV, upgradable to 95 MeV. The high rep rate (50 Hz) is necessary for the correct mechanical behavior of the target. The accelerator is composed by the source TRIPS, built at LNS and now in operation at LNL, by the RFQ of TRASCO research program (5 MeV 30 mA), very advanced in the construction, and by a normal conducting Drift Tube Linac (DTL). This last accelerating structure is the same proposed for LINAC4 at CERN. A prototype of this structure, of interest for both projects, is in construction in Italy with the joint effort of CERN and LNL. The RFQ and the two tanks of the DTL are fed by 3 klystrons; the first one, with a power of 1.3 MW, is already at LNL, while the other two with a power of 2.5 MW each are the same adopted for LINAC4. The power supply of the RF system (50 Hz 0.6 ms) has been evaluated in details on the bases of the system in operation for the Japanese project JPARC. This paper illustrates the physical design and beam dynamics studies of this linac.  
 
THPP080 A Superconducting CH-Linac for IFMIF linac, acceleration, focusing, beam-losses 3548
 
  • H. Podlech, A. Bechtold, M. Busch, F. Dziuba, H. Klein, H. Liebermann, U. Ratzinger, R. Tiede, C. Zhang
    IAP, Frankfurt am Main
  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.  
 
THPP094 The Development of a Fast Beam Chopper for Next Generation High Power Proton Drivers proton, linac, factory, ion 3584
 
  • M. A. Clarke-Gayther
    STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
  The Front End Test Stand (FETS) project at RAL will test a fast beam chopper, designed to address the requirements of high-power proton drivers for next generation pulsed spallation sources and neutrino factories. The RAL ‘Fast-Slow’ chopping scheme for the 2.5 MeV, 280 MHz, ESS Medium Energy Drift Space (MEBT)* is evolving to address the requirements of the 3.0 MeV, 324 MHz, FETS project. The recent adoption of a more efficient optical design for the FETS MEBT** will result in a useful increase in beam aperture and permit an important reduction in the amplitude of the chopper E-fields. A description is given of a 'state of the art' high voltage pulse generator designed to address the FETS 'Slow' chopper requirement. Measurements of output waveform and timing stability are presented.

*M. Clarke-Gayther, "A Fast Beam Chopper for Next Generation High Power Proton Drivers," EPAC04.
**M. Clarke-Gayther et al. "A fast beam chopper for the RAL Front-End Test Stand," EPAC06.

 
 
THPP098 Simulations on a Beam Transport System for the Frankfurt Funneling Experiment simulation, ion, ion-source, resonance 3593
 
  • P. Kolb, N. Mueller, A. Schempp
    IAP, Frankfurt am Main
  The goal of the Frankfurt Funneling Experiment is to multiply beam currents by mergeing two low energy ion beams. Our setup consists of two ion sources, a two beam RFQ accelerator, a multigap deflector and a beam diagnostics. Current work is the design of a new beam transport between RFQ accelerator and deflector and first simulations will be presented.  
 
THPP100 Development of New Ion Sources for the Frankfurt Funneling Experiment ion, ion-source, emittance, simulation 3596
 
  • N. Mueller, U. Bartz, P. Kolb, A. Schempp
    IAP, Frankfurt am Main
  Funneling is a method to increase beam currents in several stages. The Frankfurt Funneling Experiment is a prototype of such a stage. The experimental setup consists of two ion sources with electrostatic lens systems, a Two-Beam RFQ accelerator, a funneling deflector and a beam diagnostic system. The two beams are bunched and accelerated in a Two-Beam RFQ and the last parts of the RFQ electrodes achieve a 3d focus at the crossing point of the two beam axis. A funneling deflector combines the bunches to a common beam axis. The newly optimized ion sources are adapted to the front end bunching section. First results and measurements will be presented.  
 
THPP111 A 250 kHz Chopper for Low Energy High Intensity Proton Beams kicker, proton, simulation, septum 3623
 
  • C. Wiesner, L. P. Chau, M. Droba, O. Meusel, U. Ratzinger
    IAP, Frankfurt am Main
  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.  
 
THPP115 The Proposed ISAC-III Upgrade at TRIUMF target, ion, proton, electron 3635
 
  • R. E. Laxdal, F. Ames, R. A. Baartman, P. G. Bricault, S. R. Koscielniak, M. Marchetto, M. Trinczek, F. Yan
    TRIUMF, Vancouver
  Presently, the ISAC facility produces radioactive ions by a single driver beam of up to 100microA of 500MeV protons (50kW) impinging on either of two production targets which are configured such that only one radioactive ion beam (RIB) is available for use at any one time; and the experimental hours are shared between several facilities in the low energy and two accelerated beam experimental areas. The ISAC-III upgrade is proposed to increase the number of RIBs simultaneously available to three. The upgrade involves the addition of a high power electron linac, 50MeV/10mA, that would irradiate one of two new independent targets and produce RIBs through photo-fission. A second beamline from the existing cyclotron would deliver an additional 500MeV 200microA proton beam to the new target area to irradiate the second target producing the third simultaneous beam. The proposal includes an additional post-accelerator front-end to augment the existing infrastructure to provide the capability of accelerating two of the RIBs simultaneously. The paper summarizes the upgrade and discusses design choices to optimize nuclide availability across the three experimental areas.