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| MOPZ006 | Main Magnets Design Studies for the Non-scaling Fixed Field Alternating Gradient Accelerator for a Final Acceleration Stage of the Neutrino Factory | 829 |
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| The International Design Study of the Neutrino Factory (IDS-NF) aims to design the next generation facility for the precision neutrino oscillation searches. The non scaling Fixed Field Alternating Gradient Accelerator was prosed for the final muon beam acceleration in order to reduce the cost of the final acceleration. The superconducting magnet design based on the independent multipole coils approach using the ROXIE code is presented. The feasibility of the magnet construction together with the quench limitations are discussed. | ||
| MOPZ007 | A Non-scaling Fixed Field Alternating Gradient Accelerator for the Final Acceleration Stage of the International Design Study of the Neutrino Factory | 832 |
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Funding: This manuscript has been authored by employees of Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The International Design Study of the Neutrino Factory (IDS-NF) has recently completed its Interim Design Report (IDR), which presents our current baseline design of the neutrino factory. To increase the efficiency and reduce the cost of acceleration, the IDR design uses a linear non-scaling fixed field alternating gradient accelerator (FFAG) for its final acceleration stage. We present the current lattice design of that FFAG, including the main ring plus its injection and extraction systems. We describe parameters for the main ring magnets, kickers, and septa, as well as the power supplies for the kickers. We present a first pass at an engineering layout for the ring and its subsystems. |
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| WEPS103 | Design of a Rapid Cycling Synchrotron for the Final Stage of Acceleration in a Common Proton Driver for a Neutrino Factory and a Spallation Neutron Source Based on Megawatt Upgrades to ISIS | 2751 |
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| Potential upgrades to the ISIS accelerators at RAL in the UK to provide proton beams in the few GeV and few MW range could be envisaged as the starting point for a proton driver shared between a short pulse spallation neutron source and the Neutrino Factory. The accelerator chain for the spallation neutron source, consisting of an 800 MeV H− linac and a 3.2 GeV rapid cycling synchrotron (RCS), is currently being designed and optimised. The design of the RCS for the final stage of acceleration, which would increase the final beam energy of the dedicated pulses to feed the Neutrino Factory pion production target is presented. The feasibility of the final bunch compression to the necessary nanosecond range is also discussed. | ||
| WEPS105 | A Common Proton Driver for a Neutrino Factory and a Spallation Neutron Source Based on Megawatt Upgrades to ISIS | 2757 |
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| The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) is home to ISIS, the world’s most productive spallation neutron source. Potential upgrades of the ISIS accelerators to provide beam powers of 2 – 5 MW in the few GeV energy range could be envisaged as the starting point for a proton driver shared between a short pulse spallation neutron source and the Neutrino Factory. The concept of sharing a proton driver between other facilities and the Neutrino Factory is an attractive, cost-effective solution which is already being studied in site-specific cases at CERN and FNAL. Although in the RAL case the requirements for the Neutrino Factory baseline proton energy and time structure are different from those for a spallation neutron source, an additional RCS or FFAG booster bridging the gap in proton energy and performing appropriate bunch compression seems feasible. | ||
| WEPS106 | Status of Injection Upgrade Studies for the ISIS Synchrotron | 2760 |
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| ISIS is the spallation neutron source at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK. Operation centres on a high intensity proton accelerator, consisting of a 70 MeV linac and an 800 MeV rapid cycling synchrotron, which provides a beam power of 0.2 MW. Obsolescence issues are motivating plans to replace the ageing 70 MeV linac, and this paper summarises the status of studies looking at how a new, higher energy linac (~180 MeV) could be used to increase beam power in the existing synchrotron. Reduced space charge and optimized injection might allow beam powers in the 0.5 MW regime, thus providing a very cost effective upgrade. The key areas of study are: design of a practical injection straight and magnets; injection painting and dynamics; foil specifications; acceleration dynamics; transverse space charge; instabilities; RF beam loading; beam loss and activation; diagnostics and possible damping systems. Results from work on most of these topics suggest that beam powers of ~0.5 MW may well be possible, but a number of topics, particularly transverse stability, still look challenging. Conclusions so far are presented, as is progress on R&D on the main intensity limiting issues. | ||
| MOPZ004 | Studies for the PRISM FFAG Ring for the Next Generation Muon to Electron Conversion Experiment | 826 |
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| High intensity and high quality muon beams are needed for the next generation lepton flavour violation experiments. Such beams can be produced by sending a short proton pulse to a pion production target, capturing the pions and performing RF phase rotation on the resulting muon beam in an FFAG ring. Such a solution was proposed for the PRISM project and this paper summarizes its current status. In particular the PRISM task force was created to address the accelerator and detector issues that need to be solved in order to realise the PRISM experiment. Alternative designs for the PRISM FFAG ring are discussed and their performance compared. The injection/extraction systems and matching to the solenoid channels upstream and downstream of the FFAG ring are presented. The future direction for the study will be outlined. | ||
| THPS008 | Bucked Coils Lattice for the Neutrino Factory | 3439 |
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| In the Neutrino Factory muon front end, ionization cooling is used to reduce the very large initial transverse muon beam emittance. The current baseline cooling channel, FSIIA, performs well in simulations with respect to the transmission and cooling. However, recent studies indicate the RF voltage may be limited when external magnetic field is applied and therefore, as the FSIIA lattice has a large magnetic field at the position of the RF cavities, the feasibility of FSIIA may be questioned. Bucked Coils lattice, a new cooling lattice that uses different radius and opposite polarity coils placed at the same position along the beam-axis, aims to achieve low magnetic field at the position of the RF cavities while obtaining comparable transmission to FSIIA. The detailed comparison between FSIIA and different versions of the Bucked Coils configuration with respect to the magnetic field, beam dynamics and transmission are presented in this paper. | ||
| MOPZ004 | Studies for the PRISM FFAG Ring for the Next Generation Muon to Electron Conversion Experiment | 826 |
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| High intensity and high quality muon beams are needed for the next generation lepton flavour violation experiments. Such beams can be produced by sending a short proton pulse to a pion production target, capturing the pions and performing RF phase rotation on the resulting muon beam in an FFAG ring. Such a solution was proposed for the PRISM project and this paper summarizes its current status. In particular the PRISM task force was created to address the accelerator and detector issues that need to be solved in order to realise the PRISM experiment. Alternative designs for the PRISM FFAG ring are discussed and their performance compared. The injection/extraction systems and matching to the solenoid channels upstream and downstream of the FFAG ring are presented. The future direction for the study will be outlined. | ||
| WEPS103 | Design of a Rapid Cycling Synchrotron for the Final Stage of Acceleration in a Common Proton Driver for a Neutrino Factory and a Spallation Neutron Source Based on Megawatt Upgrades to ISIS | 2751 |
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| Potential upgrades to the ISIS accelerators at RAL in the UK to provide proton beams in the few GeV and few MW range could be envisaged as the starting point for a proton driver shared between a short pulse spallation neutron source and the Neutrino Factory. The accelerator chain for the spallation neutron source, consisting of an 800 MeV H− linac and a 3.2 GeV rapid cycling synchrotron (RCS), is currently being designed and optimised. The design of the RCS for the final stage of acceleration, which would increase the final beam energy of the dedicated pulses to feed the Neutrino Factory pion production target is presented. The feasibility of the final bunch compression to the necessary nanosecond range is also discussed. | ||