WEOBA —  Hadron Accelerators   (07-Sep-11   11:30—12:30)
Chair: R.K. Bhandari, DAE/VECC, Calcutta, India
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WEOBA01 ARIEL: TRIUMF’s Advanced Rare IsotopE Laboratory 1917
 
  • L. Merminga, F. Ames, R.A. Baartman, C.D. Beard, P.G. Bricault, I.V. Bylinskii, Y.-C. Chao, R.J. Dawson, D. Kaltchev, S.R. Koscielniak, R.E. Laxdal, F. Mammarella, M. Marchetto, G. Minor, A.K. Mitra, Y.-N. Rao, M. Trinczek, A. Trudel, V.A. Verzilov, V. Zvyagintsev
    TRIUMF, Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Vancouver, Canada
 
  TRIUMF has recently embarked on the construction of ARIEL, the Advanced Rare Isotope Laboratory, with the goal to significantly expand the Rare Isotope Beam (RIB) program for Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, Nuclear Medicine and Materials Science. ARIEL will use proton-induced spallation and electron-driven photo-fission of ISOL targets for the production of short-lived rare isotopes that are delivered to experiments at the existing ISAC facility. Combined with ISAC, ARIEL will support delivery of three simultaneous RIBs, up to two accelerated, new beam species and increased beam development capabilities. The ARIEL complex comprises a new SRF 50 MeV 10 mA CW electron linac photo-fission driver and beamline to the targets; one new proton beamline from the 500 MeV cyclotron to the targets; two new high power target stations; mass separators and ion transport to the ISAC-I and ISAC-II accelerator complexes; a new building to house the target stations, remote handling, chemistry labs, front-end and a tunnel for the proton and electron beamlines. This report will include overview of ARIEL, its technical challenges and solutions identified, and status of design activities.  
slides icon Slides WEOBA01 [3.676 MB]  
 
WEOBA02 KEK Digital Accelerator and its Beam Commissioning 1920
 
  • K. Takayama, T. Arai, Y. Arakida, M. Hasimoto, T. Iwashita, E. Kadokura, T. Kawakubo, T. Kubo, H. Nakanishi, K. Okamura, H. Someya, A. Takagi, M. Wake
    KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
  • T. Adachi, K.W. Leo
    Sokendai, Ibaraki, Japan
  • K. Okazaki
    Nippon Advanced Technology Co. Ltd., Ibaraki-prefecture, Japan
 
  The digital accelerator (DA), which is a small-scale induction synchrotron no requiring a high-energy injector accelerator and capable of providing a wide variety of ions, has been constructed at KEK*. Since the last winter beam commissioning has been carried out. Preliminary results of the beam commissioning experiment as well as the accelerator itself will be presented at the conference. The KEK-DA consists of a 200 kV high voltage terminal, in which an ECRIS is embedded, 15 m long LEBT, electro-static injection kicker, and a 10 Hz rapid cycle synchrotron, which is the recycle use of the former 500 MeV Booster synchrotron. An ion pulse, which is chopped in 5 μs by the newly developed Marx generator driven chopper**, is guided through the LEBT and injected by the electrostatic kicker, which is turned off before the injected ion pulse completes the first turn. Then the ion pulse is captured with a pair of barrier voltages and accelerated with the induction acceleration voltage through a full acceleration period. Beam commissioning has been started with a He1+ ion beam of 50 micro-ampere. Beam commissioning of other ions such as C, N, O, Ne, and Ar will be expected.
* T. Iwashita et al., “KEK Digital Accelerator”, Phys. Rev. ST-AB, published in 2011.
** T.Adachi et al., “A Solid-State Marx Generator Driven Einzel Lens Chopper”, these proceedings.
 
slides icon Slides WEOBA02 [4.268 MB]  
 
WEOBA03 Non-scaling Fixed Field Alternating Gradient Permanent Magnet Cancer Therapy Accelerator 1923
 
  • D. Trbojevic
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  • V.S. Morozov
    JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
 
  Funding: Work performed under U.S. DOE Contract Number DE-AC02-98CH10886.
We present a design of the proton therapy accelerator from 31 MeV to 250 MeV by using racetrack lattice made of Non-Scaling Fixed Field Alternating Gradient (NS-FFAG) arcs and two parallel straight sections. The magnets in the arcs are separated function Halbach type magnets. The dipole bending field is 2.3 T, while the Neodymium Iron Boron magnetic residual induction is Br=1.3 T. The radial orbit offsets in the NS-FFAG arcs, for the kinetic energy range between 31 MeV < Ek < 250 MeV or momentum offset range -50% < δp/p < 50%, are -11.6 mm < x max < 16.8 mm, correspondingly. The straight sections used for the cavities and single turn injection/extraction kickers and septa are with zero orbit offsets. The permanent magnets accelerator should reduce overall and operating cost. It could fit into 8 x 12 m space.
 
slides icon Slides WEOBA03 [2.789 MB]