GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
HIJ, Jena, Germany
An impressive advantage of Laser Ion Sources is an extremely high beam brilliance. The LIGHT project (Laser Ion Generation, Handling and Transport) is dedicated to the production of protons (ions), accelerated up to 10 MeV by using the GSI PHELIX laser at GSI, and injected into a conventional accelerator. A successful experimental campaign stimulated further investigation of the focusing, transport and collimation of the high energy and high brilliance proton beam. In addition to the advanced codes, describing the very early expansion phase of the proton-electron cloud, the versatile multiparticle code DYNAMION was implemented to perform beam dynamics simulations for different possible transport lines. Potentially transport lines compraises magnetic quadrupole lenses and/or solenoids for transverse beam focusing. A bunch rotation rf cavity decreasing the energy spread of the protons was included into the simulations. The results of the beam dynamics simulations are presented, as well as benchmarking activities with other codes. Further developments of the experimental test stand and the different possibilities of its integration to the GSI accelerators chain are discussed.
