Author: Dahl, L.A.
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MOPS028 An Ion Beam Matching to a Linac Accelerating-focusing Channel 661
 
  • A. Orzhekhovskaya, W.A. Barth, G. Clemente, L.A. Dahl, P. Gerhard, L. Groening, M. Kaiser, M.T. Maier, S. Mickat, B. Schlitt, H. Vormann, S.G. Yaramyshev
    GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
  • U. Ratzinger
    IAP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
 
  Funding: Work supported by HIC for FAIR
A modern linear accelerator of ions is a long chain of different accelerating-focusing structures. The design of new linacs, as well as an upgrade and optimization of operating facilities, requires precise and reliable beam matching with the subsequent sections. Proper matching of the beam to the channel allows to improve the performance of the whole linac and to reduce the specific costs. Additionally it helps to avoide particle loss in high energy high intensity linacs. Generally a matching algorithm combines precisely measured or calculated accelerating-focusing external fields and experimentally obtained details of the beam parameters with an advanced code for beam dynamics simulations including space charge effects. Experimental results are introduced into a code as input data. The described algorithm has already been successfully implemented for several GSI projects: an upgrade of the GSI heavy ion linac UNILAC, an ion linac for the cancer therapy, the proton linac for the FAIR facility, a facility for laser acceleration of ions and others. Measured data and results of beam dynamics simulations leading to an achieved improvement of the linac performance are presented.
 
 
WEPS031 Future Heavy Ion Linacs at GSI 2550
 
  • W.A. Barth, G. Clemente, L.A. Dahl, S. Mickat, B. Schlitt, W. Vinzenz
    GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
 
  The UNILAC-upgrade program for FAIR will be realized in the next three years; the required U28+-beam intensity of 15 emA (for SIS 18 injection). The replacement of the Alvarez-DTL by a new high energy linac is advised to provide a stable operation for the next decades. An additional linac-upgrade option sufficient to boost the beam energy up to 150 MeV/u may help to reach the desired heavy ion intensities in the SIS 100. The SHIP-upgrade program has also to be realized until 2011, such that an enhanced primary beam intensity at the target is available. It is planned to build a new cw-heavy ion-linac behind the present high charge state injector. This linac should feed the GSI flagship experiments SHIP and TASCA, as well as material research, biophysics and plasma physics experiments in the MeV/u-area. The whole injector family is housed by the existing constructions. Different layout scenarios of a multipurpose high intensity heavy ion facility will be presented.