Author: Prior, C.R.
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WEPC041 Conceptual Design of a New 800 MeV H Linac for ISIS Megawatt Developments 2100
 
  • D.C. Plostinar, C.R. Prior, G.H. Rees
    STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
 
  Several schemes have been proposed to upgrade the ISIS Spallation Neutron Source at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL). One scenario is to develop a new 800 MeV, H linac and a ~3 GeV synchrotron, opening the possibility of achieving several MW of beam power. In this paper the design of the 800 MeV linac is outlined. It consists of a 3 MeV Front End similar to the one now under construction at RAL (the Front End Test Stand -FETS). Above 3 MeV, a 324 MHz DTL will be used to accelerate the beam up to ~75 MeV. At this stage a novel collimation system will be added to remove the halo and the far off-momentum particles. To achieve the final energy, a 648 MHz superconducting linac will be employed using three families of elliptical cavities with transition energies at ~196 MeV and ~412 MeV. Alternative designs are also being investigated.  
 
MOPZ004 Studies for the PRISM FFAG Ring for the Next Generation Muon to Electron Conversion Experiment 826
 
  • J. Pasternak
    STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
  • M. Aslaninejad, L.J. Jenner, A. Kurup, J. Pasternak, Y. Shi, Y. Uchida
    Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
  • R.J. Barlow
    UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
  • K.M. Hock, B.D. Muratori
    Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • D.J. Kelliher, S. Machida, C.R. Prior
    STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
  • Y. Kuno, A. Sato
    Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
  • J.-B. Lagrange, Y. Mori
    KURRI, Osaka, Japan
  • M. Lancaster
    UCL, London, United Kingdom
  • C. Ohmori
    KEK, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan
  • T. Planche
    TRIUMF, Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Vancouver, Canada
  • S.L. Smith
    STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • H. Witte, T. Yokoi
    JAI, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
  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.  
 
WEPS106 Status of Injection Upgrade Studies for the ISIS Synchrotron 2760
 
  • C.M. Warsop, D.J. Adams, D.J.S. Findlay, I.S.K. Gardner, S.J.S. Jago, B. Jones, R.J. Mathieson, S.J. Payne, B.G. Pine, A. Seville, H. V. Smith, J.W.G. Thomason, R.E. Williamson
    STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
  • J. Pasternak
    Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
  • C.R. Prior, G.H. Rees
    STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
 
  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.