SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
Simulation of thermal effects in accelerator cavity is normally performed assuming steady state solution where a static thermal solver suffices to evaluate temperature gradients and impacts on mechanical design. However, during the rf pulse ramp up or the machine system cool-down process, when the field in the cavity changes rapidly, transient effects need to be taken into account. A parallel time domain thermal solver has been developed in the finite element multi-physics code suite ACE3P with integrated electromagnetic, thermal and mechanical modeling capabilities. The implementation takes advantage of the parallel computation infrastructure of ACE3P and shares most of the ingredients in mesh generation, matrix assembly, time advancement scheme and postprocessing. In this paper, we will outline the finite element formulation of the transient thermal problem and verify the implementation against analytical solutions and existing numerical results. The thermal solver has also been coupled to ACE3P mechanical solver, allowing stress and strain analysis during the transient stage. Application of the transient thermal solver to realistic accelerator cavities will be presented.
JLab, Newport News, Virginia, USA
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-mura, Japan
KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
Kyoto ICR, Uji, Kyoto, Japan
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
Cornell University (CLASSE), Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences and Education, Ithaca, New York, USA
Following successful prototyping and testing of single- & 5-cell LSF shape cavities *, **, the first 9-cell LSF shape cavity LSF9-1 was successfully constructed using an innovative process at JLab with the in-house facilities. The cavity was then shipped to KEK for post-fabrication mechanical adjustment and ILC TDR style treatment and surface processing. Cold testing was carried out at the JLab VTA facility, instrumented with a suite of Kyoto instruments. Favorable values for the bath pressure detuning sensitivity and Lorentz force detuning coefficient were experimentally measured, validating the design improvement in cell stiffeners. Pass-band measurements indicate 4 out of 9 cells reaching gradient capability of > 45 MV/m, including 2 cells reaching 51 MV/m. Cornell OST detectors identified the cell and location responsible for the current hard quench limit. Multipacting-like barriers observed in end cells are investigated both analytically and numerically. The cavity was shipped to FNAL and received a light EP at the joint ANL/FNAL facility for further cold testing at Jlab. Two new 9-cell LSF cavities are being constructed including one made of large-grain niobium material.
* R. L. Geng et al.,WEPWI013, IPAC15.
** R. L. Geng et al., MOP064, SRF’19.
UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
PBPL, Los Angeles, USA
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
UCLA has recently constructed SAMURAI, a new radiation bunker and laser infrastructure for advanced accelerator research. In its first phase, we will build a 30 MeV photoinjector with an S-band hybrid gun. The beam dynamics simulation for this beamline showed the generation of the beam with the emittance 2.4 um and the peak current 270 A. FIR-FEL experiments are planned in this beamline. The saturation peak power was expected at 170 MW.
UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Producing higher brightness beams at the cathode is one of the main focuses for future electron beam applications. For photocathodes operating close to their emission threshold, the cathode lattice temperature begins to dominate the minimum achievable intrinsic emittance. At UCLA, we are designing a radiofrequency (RF) test bed for measuring the temperature dependence of the mean transverse energy (MTE) and quantum efficiency for a number of candidate cathode materials. We intend to quantify the attainable brightness improvements at the cathode from cryogenic operation and establish a proof-of-principle cryogenic RF gun for future studies of a 1.6 cell cryogenic photoinjector for the UCLA ultra compact XFEL concept (UC-XFEL). The test bed will use a C-band 0.5-cell RF gun designed to operate down to 40K, producing an on-axis accelerating field of 120 MV/m. The cryogenic system uses conduction cooling and a load-lock system is being designed for transport and storage of air-sensitive high brightness cathodes.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Planar polycrystalline synthetic diamond with nitrogen-doping/incorporation was found to be a remarkable field emitter. It is capable of generating a high charge beam and handling moderate vacuum conditions. Integrating it with an efficient RF cavity could therefore provide a compact electron source for RF injectors. Understanding the performance metrics of the emitter in RF fields is essential toward developing such a device. We investigated a test setup of the field emitter at the X-band frequency. The setup included an X-band cavity operating at the TM02 mode. The field emitter material will be plated on the tip of a insertion rod on the cavity back plate. Part of the back plate and the emitter rod are demountable, allowing for exchange of the field emitters. The TM02 mode was chosen such that the design of the demountable back plate does not induce field enhancement at the installation gap. The cavity were optimized to achieve a high surface field at the emitter tip and a maximum energy gain of the emitted electrons at a given input power. We will present the RF and mechanical design of such a TM02 X-band cavity for field emitter testing.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
Pencil beam scanning of charged particle beams is a key technology enabling high dose rate cancer therapy. The potential benefits of high-speed dose delivery include not only a reduction in total treatment time and improvements to motion management during treatment but also the possibility of enhanced healthy tissue sparing through the FLASH effect, a promising new treatment modality. We present here the design of an RF deflector operating at 2.856 GHz for the rapid steering of 150 MeV proton beams. The design utilizes a TE11-like mode supported by two posts protruding into a pillbox geometry to form an RF dipole. This configuration provides a significant enhancement to the efficiency of the structure, characterized by a transverse shunt impedance of 68 MOhm/m, as compared to a conventional TM11 deflector. We discuss simulations of the structure performance for several operating configurations including the addition of a permanent magnet quadrupole to amplify the RF-driven deflection. In addition to simulation studies, we will present preliminary results from a 3-cell prototype fabricated using four copper slabs to accommodate the non-axially symmetric cell geometry.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray free-electron laser at SLAC is being upgraded to LCLS-II with a superconducting linac and 1 MHz bunch repetition rate. The proposed high-energy upgrade (LCLS-II-HE) will increase the beam energy from 4 to 8 GeV, extending the reach of accessible X-ray photon energies. With the increased repetition rate and longer linac of LCLS-II-HE, multi-bunch effects are of greater concern. We use recently introduced capabilities in the beam transport code ELEGANT to study dipole and monopole beam breakup effects for LCLS-II HE beam parameters. The results indicate that resonant dipole kicks have steady-state settle times on the order of 500 bunches or less and appear manageable. We also consider a statistical variation of the cavity frequencies and transverse offsets of cavities and quadrupoles. Resonant emittance growth driven by monopole kicks is found to be disrupted by frequency variation between cavities.
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
Photo injector design is an important consideration in the construction of next-generation accelerators. In current injector optimization, components (e.g. RF cavities) are individually shape-optimized for performance subject to requirements such as peak surface field, shunt impedance, and resonant frequency. Once these component shapes are determined, beam dynamics simulations optimize the injector lattice by adjusting parameters such as the amplitude and phase of the driving fields. However, this form of beam dynamics optimization is restricted by the fixed geometry and field profile of the components. To optimize accelerator design more generally, a coupled optimization of the cavity shape and beam parameters is required. For this coupled optimization problem, we have created an integrated ACE3P-IMPACT workflow. Within this workflow, component geometries are adjusted, field modes are computed with Omega3P (a module in the ACE3P suite), and beam dynamics are simulated with IMPACT-T. This workflow is encapsulated into a multi-objective optimization algorithm using the DEAP* and libEnsemble** Python libraries to yield a Pareto-optimal set of solutions for a simple injector model.
* F.-A. Fortin et al, DEAP: Evolutionary Algorithms Made Easy, J Mach Learn Res, 13, 2171-2175, July 2012
** S. Hudson et al, libEnsemble User Manual, Argonne National Laboratory, Rev 0.7.1, 2020