Author: Schulte-Urlichs, K.
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TUPAB200 Status of the Electron Lens for Space Charge Compensation in SIS18 1880
 
  • K. Schulte-Urlichs, S. Artikova, D. Ondreka, P.J. Spiller
    GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
  • P. Apse-Apsitis, I. Steiks
    Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia
  • M. Droba, O. Meusel, H. Podlech, K.I. Thoma
    IAP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
 
  At GSI a project has been initiated to investigate the option of space charge compensation (SCC) by use of an electron lens in order to overcome space charge (SC) limits in the synchrotrons SIS18 and SIS100 for the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR). The repeated crossing of resonance lines due to the synchrotron motion in bunched beams is considered one of the main drivers of SC induced beam loss in the synchrotrons. Electron lenses provide a compensation of ion beam SC by virtue of their negative charge interacting with the ions in the overlap region while a time-varying compensation can be achieved by the modulation of the electron beam. In order to demonstrate space charge compensation of bunched ion beams, an electron lens is under development for the application in SIS18. In this contribution, the status of the electron lens design will be reported putting special emphasis on its main components: the RF modulated electron gun, that is being developed within an ARIES collaboration, and the magnet system.  
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-TUPAB200  
About • paper received ※ 19 May 2021       paper accepted ※ 23 June 2021       issue date ※ 17 August 2021  
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WEPAB384 Design and Beam Dynamics of the Electron Lens for Space Charge Compensation in SIS18 3614
 
  • S. Artikova, D. Ondreka, K. Schulte-Urlichs, P.J. Spiller
    GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
 
  An electron lens for space charge compensation is being developed at GSI to increase the ion beam intensities in SIS18 for the FAIR project. It uses an electron beam of 10A maximum current at 30keV. The maximum magnetic field on-axis is 0.6T, considerably higher than the field of the existing electron cooler. The magnetic system of the lens consists of solenoids and toroids. The toroids’ vertical field component creates a significant horizontal orbit deflection in the circulating low rigidity ion beam. To correct this deflection, four correction dipoles have been introduced. As common for electron lenses, the high-power electron beam is not dumped at ground potential, but rather in a collector with a small bias potential with respect to the cathode. The present design foresees a collector at -27kV, leading to a power dissipation of 30kW, distributed over a large surface area by placing the collector in an appropriately shaped magnetic field of a pre-collector solenoid. This contribution reports on the design of the lens and presents the results of beam transport simulations for the electron beam (with space charge) and a representative ion beam, performed using the 3D CST STUDIO.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-WEPAB384  
About • paper received ※ 20 May 2021       paper accepted ※ 05 July 2021       issue date ※ 31 August 2021  
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