Author: Lombardi, A.M.
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WEPS102 Latest News on the Beam Dynamics Design of SPL 2748
 
  • P.A. Posocco, M. Eshraqi, A.M. Lombardi
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  SPL is a superconducting H− LINAC under study at CERN. The SPL is designed to accelerate the 160 MeV beam of LINAC4 to 5 GeV, and is composed of two fami¬lies of 704.4 MHz elliptical cavities with geometrical betas of 0.65 and 1.0. Two families of cryo-modules are considered: the low-beta cryo-module houses 3 low-beta cavities, whereas the high-beta one houses 8 cavities. The transverse focusing is performed with normal-conducting quadrupoles arranged in 2 different lattices: FD0 at lower and F0D0 at higher energies. The regular lattices are in-terrupted at the transition between low beta and high beta cryo-modules and for extracting medium energy beams at 1.4 and 2.5 GeV, where the change of the transverse lattice is performed. In this paper the latest beam dynamics studies will be presented together with the sensitivity of the SPL performance to RF errors, alignment tolerances and quadrupole high order components.  
 
TUOAA03 The Linac4 Project at CERN 900
 
  • M. Vretenar, L. Arnaudon, P. Baudrenghien, C. Bertone, Y. Body, J.C. Broere, O. Brunner, M.C.L. Buzio, C. Carli, F. Caspers, J.-P. Corso, J. Coupard, A. Dallocchio, N. Dos Santos, R. Garoby, F. Gerigk, L. Hammouti, K. Hanke, M.A. Jones, I. Kozsar, J.-B. Lallement, J. Lettry, A.M. Lombardi, L.A. Lopez Hernandez, C. Maglioni, S.J. Mathot, S. Maury, B. Mikulec, D. Nisbet, C. Noels, M.M. Paoluzzi, B. Puccio, U. Raich, S. Ramberger, C. Rossi, N. Schwerg, R. Scrivens, G. Vandoni, J. Vollaire, S. Weisz, Th. Zickler
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  As the first step of a long-term programme aiming at an increase in the LHC luminosity, CERN is building a new 160 MeV H linear accelerator, Linac4, to replace the ageing 50 MeV Linac2 as injector to the Proton-Synchrotron Booster (PSB). Linac4 is an 86-m long normal-conducting linac made of an H source, a Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ), a chopping line and a sequence of three accelerating structures: a Drift-Tube Linac (DTL), a Cell-Coupled DTL (CCDTL) and a Pi-Mode Structure (PIMS). The civil engineering has been recently completed, and construction of the main accelerator components has started with the support of a network of international collaborations. The low-energy section up to 3 MeV including a 3-m long 352 MHz RFQ entirely built at CERN is in the final construction phase and is being installed on a dedicated test stand. The present schedule foresees beam commissioning of the accelerator in the new tunnel in 2013/14; the moment of connection of the new linac to the CERN accelerator chain will depend on the LHC schedule for long shut-downs.  
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