IPAC2011 - List of Authors (Molloy, S.)

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RF Modeling Plans for the European Spallation Source

56

S. Molloy, M. Lindroos, S. Peggs
ESS, Lund, Sweden
R. Ainsworth
Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey, United Kingdom
R.J.M.Y. Ruber
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

The European Spallation Source (ESS) will be the world's most powerful next generation neutron source. The ESS linac is designed to accelerate highly charged bunches of protons to a final energy of 2.5 GeV, with a design beam power of 5 MW, for collision with a target used to produce the high neutron flux. In order to achieve this several stages of RF acceleration are required, each using a different technology. The high beam current and power require a high degree of control of the accelerating RF, and the specification that no more than 1 W/m of losses will be experienced means that the excitation and decay of the HOMs must be very well understood. Experience at other high power machines also implies that an understanding of the generation and subsequent trajectories of any field-emitted electrons should be understood. Thermal detuning of the HOM couplers due to multipacting is a serious concern here. This paper will outline the RF modeling plans - including the construction of mathematical models, simulations of HOMs, and multipacting - during the current Accelerator Design Update phase, and will discuss several of the more important issues for ESS.

Slides MOODB02 [48.641 MB]

MOPC049

Bead-pull Test Bench for Studying Accelerating Structures at RHUL

187

S. Molloy
ESS, Lund, Sweden
R. Ainsworth, G.E. Boorman
Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey, United Kingdom
C. Gabor
STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
A. Garbayo
AVS, Eibar, Gipuzkoa, Spain
A.P. Letchford
STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
A. Lyapin
JAI, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
P. Savage
Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom

A bead-pull test stand has been constructed at Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL) with the ability to provide electric field profile measurements along five degrees of freedom using the perturbation method. In this paper, we present example measurements using the test bench which include a field flatness profile of a 324MHz four vane Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) model designed as part of the Front End Test Stand (FETS) development at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL). Mechanical and operational details of the apparatus will also be described, as well as future plans for the development and usage of this facility.

MOPC050

Multipacting Analysis for the Superconducting RF Cavity HOM Couplers in ESS

190

S. Molloy
ESS, Lund, Sweden
R. Ainsworth
Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey, United Kingdom
R.J.M.Y. Ruber
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

The European Spallation Source (ESS) linac will consist of three families superconducting RF cavities to accelerate protons to the required 5 MW for collision with the target. If it is determined that HOM damping is required to limit the effect of beam induced modes, it is quite likely that HOM couplers will be installed. Multipacting in these couplers is a concern as thermally induced detuning of the fundamental notch filter has limited the achievable gradient in other high power machines. It is therefore important to avoid potential multipacting conditions during the design phase. Presented here are simulations using the Track3P code developed at SLAC. Multipacting regions are highlighted, electron trajectories are shown, and suitability of the proposed HOM coupler design is discussed.

WEPS064

Upgrade Strategies for High Power Proton Linacs

2646

M. Lindroos, H. Danared, M. Eshraqi, D.P. McGinnis, S. Molloy, S. Peggs, K. Rathsman
ESS, Lund, Sweden
R.D. Duperrier
CEA/DSM/IRFU, France
J. Galambos
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

High power proton linacs are used as drivers for spallation neutron sources, and are proposed as drivers for sub-critical accelerator driven thorium reactors. A linac optimized for a specific average pulse current can be difficult, or inefficient, to operate at higher currents, for example due to mis-matching between the RF coupler and the beam loaded cavity, and due to Higher Order Mode effects. Hardware is in general designed to meet specific engineering values, such as pulse length and repetition rate, that can be costly and difficult to change, for example due to pre-existing space constraints. We review the different upgrade strategies that are available to proton driver designers, both for linacs under design, such as the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund, and also for existing linacs, such as the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) in Oak Ridge. Potential ESS upgrades towards a beam power higher than 5 MW preserve the original time structure, while the SNS upgrade is directed towards the addition of a second target station.

TUPC161

Cavity Beam Position Monitor System for ATF2

1410

S.T. Boogert, R. Ainsworth, G.E. Boorman, S. Molloy
Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey, United Kingdom
A.S. Aryshev, Y. Honda, N. Terunuma, J. Urakawa
KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
F.J. Cullinan, N.Y. Joshi, A. Lyapin
JAI, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
J.C. Frisch, D.J. McCormick, J. Nelson, T.J. Smith, G.R. White
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
A. Heo, E.-S. Kim, Y.I. Kim
KNU, Deagu, Republic of Korea

The Accelerator Test Facility 2 (ATF2) in KEK, Japan, is a prototype scaled demonstrator system for the final focus required for a future high energy lepton linear collider. The ATF2 beam-line is instrumented with a total of 41 high resolution C and S band resonant cavity beam position monitors (BPM) with associated mixer electronics and digitizers. In addition 4 high resolution BPMs have been recently installed at the interaction point, we briefly describe the first operational experience of these cavities in the ATF2 beam-line. The current status of the overall BPM system is also described, with a focus on operational techniques and performance.

Paper	Title	Page
MOODB02	RF Modeling Plans for the European Spallation Source	56
	S. Molloy, M. Lindroos, S. Peggs ESS, Lund, Sweden R. Ainsworth Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey, United Kingdom R.J.M.Y. Ruber Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
	The European Spallation Source (ESS) will be the world's most powerful next generation neutron source. The ESS linac is designed to accelerate highly charged bunches of protons to a final energy of 2.5 GeV, with a design beam power of 5 MW, for collision with a target used to produce the high neutron flux. In order to achieve this several stages of RF acceleration are required, each using a different technology. The high beam current and power require a high degree of control of the accelerating RF, and the specification that no more than 1 W/m of losses will be experienced means that the excitation and decay of the HOMs must be very well understood. Experience at other high power machines also implies that an understanding of the generation and subsequent trajectories of any field-emitted electrons should be understood. Thermal detuning of the HOM couplers due to multipacting is a serious concern here. This paper will outline the RF modeling plans - including the construction of mathematical models, simulations of HOMs, and multipacting - during the current Accelerator Design Update phase, and will discuss several of the more important issues for ESS.
	Slides MOODB02 [48.641 MB]

MOPC049	Bead-pull Test Bench for Studying Accelerating Structures at RHUL	187
	S. Molloy ESS, Lund, Sweden R. Ainsworth, G.E. Boorman Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey, United Kingdom C. Gabor STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom A. Garbayo AVS, Eibar, Gipuzkoa, Spain A.P. Letchford STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom A. Lyapin JAI, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom P. Savage Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
	A bead-pull test stand has been constructed at Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL) with the ability to provide electric field profile measurements along five degrees of freedom using the perturbation method. In this paper, we present example measurements using the test bench which include a field flatness profile of a 324MHz four vane Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) model designed as part of the Front End Test Stand (FETS) development at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL). Mechanical and operational details of the apparatus will also be described, as well as future plans for the development and usage of this facility.

MOPC050	Multipacting Analysis for the Superconducting RF Cavity HOM Couplers in ESS	190
	S. Molloy ESS, Lund, Sweden R. Ainsworth Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey, United Kingdom R.J.M.Y. Ruber Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
	The European Spallation Source (ESS) linac will consist of three families superconducting RF cavities to accelerate protons to the required 5 MW for collision with the target. If it is determined that HOM damping is required to limit the effect of beam induced modes, it is quite likely that HOM couplers will be installed. Multipacting in these couplers is a concern as thermally induced detuning of the fundamental notch filter has limited the achievable gradient in other high power machines. It is therefore important to avoid potential multipacting conditions during the design phase. Presented here are simulations using the Track3P code developed at SLAC. Multipacting regions are highlighted, electron trajectories are shown, and suitability of the proposed HOM coupler design is discussed.

WEPS064	Upgrade Strategies for High Power Proton Linacs	2646
	M. Lindroos, H. Danared, M. Eshraqi, D.P. McGinnis, S. Molloy, S. Peggs, K. Rathsman ESS, Lund, Sweden R.D. Duperrier CEA/DSM/IRFU, France J. Galambos ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
	High power proton linacs are used as drivers for spallation neutron sources, and are proposed as drivers for sub-critical accelerator driven thorium reactors. A linac optimized for a specific average pulse current can be difficult, or inefficient, to operate at higher currents, for example due to mis-matching between the RF coupler and the beam loaded cavity, and due to Higher Order Mode effects. Hardware is in general designed to meet specific engineering values, such as pulse length and repetition rate, that can be costly and difficult to change, for example due to pre-existing space constraints. We review the different upgrade strategies that are available to proton driver designers, both for linacs under design, such as the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund, and also for existing linacs, such as the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) in Oak Ridge. Potential ESS upgrades towards a beam power higher than 5 MW preserve the original time structure, while the SNS upgrade is directed towards the addition of a second target station.

TUPC161	Cavity Beam Position Monitor System for ATF2	1410
	S.T. Boogert, R. Ainsworth, G.E. Boorman, S. Molloy Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey, United Kingdom A.S. Aryshev, Y. Honda, N. Terunuma, J. Urakawa KEK, Ibaraki, Japan F.J. Cullinan, N.Y. Joshi, A. Lyapin JAI, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom J.C. Frisch, D.J. McCormick, J. Nelson, T.J. Smith, G.R. White SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA A. Heo, E.-S. Kim, Y.I. Kim KNU, Deagu, Republic of Korea
	The Accelerator Test Facility 2 (ATF2) in KEK, Japan, is a prototype scaled demonstrator system for the final focus required for a future high energy lepton linear collider. The ATF2 beam-line is instrumented with a total of 41 high resolution C and S band resonant cavity beam position monitors (BPM) with associated mixer electronics and digitizers. In addition 4 high resolution BPMs have been recently installed at the interaction point, we briefly describe the first operational experience of these cavities in the ATF2 beam-line. The current status of the overall BPM system is also described, with a focus on operational techniques and performance.