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MOPOST012 High Current Heavy Ion Beam Investigations at GSI-UNILAC emittance, operation, brilliance, target 78
 
  • H. Vormann, W.A. Barth, M. Miski-Oglu, U. Scheeler, M. Vossberg, S. Yaramyshev
    GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
  • W.A. Barth, M. Miski-Oglu, S. Yaramyshev
    HIM, Mainz, Germany
 
  The GSI Universal Linear Accelerator UNILAC and the synchrotron SIS18 will serve as injector for the upcoming FAIR-facility. The UNILAC-High Current Injector will be improved and modernized until FAIR is commissioned and the Alvarez poststripper accelerator is replaced. The reference heavy ion for future FAIR-operation is uranium, with highest intensity requirements. To re-establish uranium beam operation and to improve high current beam operation, different subjects have been explored in dedicated machine investigation campaigns. After a beam line modification in 2017 the RFQ-performance had deteriorated significantly; new rods have been installed and the RF-working point has been redefined. Also the Superlens-performance had become unsatisfactory; improved with a modified RF-coupler. With a pulsed hydrogen gas stripper target the uranium beam stripping efficiency could be increased by 65%. Various work has already been carried out to establish this stripper device in routine operation. With medium heavy ion beams a very high beam brilliance at the end of transfer line to SIS18 was achieved. Results of the measurement campaigns and the UNILAC upgrade activities will be presented.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-MOPOST012  
About • Received ※ 19 May 2022 — Revised ※ 10 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 17 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 02 July 2022
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MOPOST015 Beam Dynamics Simulations for the Superconducting HELIAC CW Linac at GSI cavity, linac, SRF, cryomodule 86
 
  • M. Schwarz, T. Conrad, H. Podlech
    IAP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • K. Aulenbacher, F.D. Dziuba, S. Lauber, J. List
    IKP, Mainz, Germany
  • K. Aulenbacher, W.A. Barth, M. Basten, C. Burandt, F.D. Dziuba, V. Gettmann, T. Kürzeder, S. Lauber, J. List, M. Miski-Oglu, S. Yaramyshev
    HIM, Mainz, Germany
  • K. Aulenbacher, W.A. Barth, M. Basten, C. Burandt, F.D. Dziuba, V. Gettmann, M. Heilmann, T. Kürzeder, S. Lauber, J. List, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Rubin, S. Yaramyshev
    GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
  • W.A. Barth
    KPH, Mainz, Germany
  • H. Podlech
    HFHF, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
 
  Funding: Work supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF, contract no. 05P21RFRB2)
The superconducting (SC) continuous wave (CW) heavy ion linac HELIAC (HElm\-holtz LInear ACcelerator) is a common project of GSI and HIM under key support of IAP Frankfurt. It is intended for future experiments with heavy ions near the Coulomb barrier within super-heavy element (SHE) research and aims at developing a linac with multiple CH cavities as key components downstream the High Charge State Injector (HLI) at GSI. The design is challenging due to the requirement of intense beams in CW mode up to a mass-to-charge ratio of 6, while covering a broad output energy range from 3.5 to 7.3 MeV/u with minimum energy spread. In 2017 the first superconducting cavity of the linac has been successfully commissioned and extensively tested with beam at GSI. In the light of experience gained in this research so far, the beam dynamics layout for the entire linac has been updated and optimized in the meantime. This contribution will provide a brief overview of the recent progress on the project, as well as a potential modification to the linac layout.
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-MOPOST015  
About • Received ※ 08 June 2022 — Revised ※ 09 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 03 July 2022 — Issue date ※ 10 July 2022
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MOPOPT010 Status of Diamond and LGAD Based Beam-Detectors for the mCBM and CBM Experiments at GSI and FAIR detector, experiment, monitoring, proton 247
 
  • A. Rost, P.-A. Loizeau
    FAIR, Darmstadt, Germany
  • I. Deppner, N. Herrmann, E. Rubio
    Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
  • J. Frühauf, T. Galatyuk, M. Kis, J. Pietraszko, M. Träger, F. Ulrich-Pur
    GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
  • T. Galatyuk, V. Kedych, W. Krüger
    TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
 
  Funding: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 871072.
The Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment* is currently under construction at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Darmstadt. The aim of the experiment is the exploration of the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) phase diagram of matter at high net-baryon densities and for moderate temperatures. In this contribution a beam monitoring (BMON) system will be presented which will include a high-speed time-zero (T0) detector. The detector system must meet the requirements of the CBM time-of-flight (ToF) measurement system for proton and heavy-ion beams and should also allow for beam monitoring. The detector technology is planned to be based on chemical vapor deposition (CVD) diamond basis but also new Low Gain Avalanche Detector (LGAD) developments are evaluated. In this contribution the beam detector concept will be presented and the results of first prototype tests in the mini-CBM setup will be shown.
*P. Senger, Exploring Cosmic Matter in the Laboratory - The Compressed Baryonic Matter Experiment at FAIR, Particles, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 499-510, 2019.
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-MOPOPT010  
About • Received ※ 08 June 2022 — Revised ※ 10 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 16 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 25 June 2022
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TUPOTK008 Cavity Designs for the Ch3 to Ch11 and Bellow Tuner Investigation of the Superconducting Heavy Ion Accelerator Heliac cavity, SRF, simulation, niobium 1204
 
  • T. Conrad, M. Busch, H. Podlech, M. Schwarz
    IAP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • K. Aulenbacher
    IKP, Mainz, Germany
  • K. Aulenbacher, W.A. Barth, F.D. Dziuba, V. Gettmann, T. Kürzeder, S. Lauber, J. List, M. Miski-Oglu
    HIM, Mainz, Germany
  • W.A. Barth, M. Basten, F.D. Dziuba, M. Heilmann, A. Rubin, A. Schnase, S. Yaramyshev
    GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
 
  New CH-DTL cavities designs of the planned Helmholtz Linear Accelerator (HELIAC) are developed in collaboration of HIM, GSI and IAP Frankfurt. The linac, operated in cw-mode with a final energy of 7.3 MeV/u, is intended for various experiments, in particular with heavy ions at energies close to the Coulomb barrier for research on SHE. Twelve sc CH cavities are foreseen, divided into four different cryostats. Each cavity will be equipped with dynamic bellow tuner. After successful beam tests with CH0, CH3 to CH11 are being designed. Based on the experience gained so far, optimization will be made, which will lead to both an increase in performance in terms of reducing the peak fields limiting superconductivity and a reduction in manufacturing costs and time. In order to optimize manufacturing, attention was paid to design many parts of the cavity, such as lids, spokes, tuner and helium shell, with the same geometrical dimensions. In addition, a tuner test rig was developed, which will be used to investigate the mechanical properties of the bellow tuner. For this purpose, different simulations were made in order to realize conditions as close as possible to reality in the test rig.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-TUPOTK008  
About • Received ※ 08 June 2022 — Revised ※ 13 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 16 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 17 June 2022
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TUPOMS041 High Power RF-Cavity Development for the HBS-Driver LINAC cavity, neutron, linac, operation 1516
 
  • M. Basten, K. Aulenbacher, W.A. Barth, C. Burandt, F.D. Dziuba, V. Gettmann, T. Kürzeder, S. Lauber, J. List, M. Miski-Oglu, M. Vossberg, S. Yaramyshev
    GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
  • K. Aulenbacher, W.A. Barth, M. Basten, C. Burandt, F.D. Dziuba, V. Gettmann, T. Kürzeder, S. Lauber, J. List, M. Miski-Oglu
    HIM, Mainz, Germany
  • K. Aulenbacher, W.A. Barth, F.D. Dziuba, S. Lauber, J. List
    KPH, Mainz, Germany
  • T. Gutberlet
    JCNS, Jülich, Germany
  • H. Podlech
    IAP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • H. Podlech
    HFHF, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
 
  Neutron research in Europe is mainly based on various nuclear reactors that will be successively decommissioned over the next years. This means that despite the commissioning of the European Spallation Source ESS, many neutron research centres, especially in the medium flux regime, will disappear. In response to this situation, the Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS) has begun the development of a scalable, compact, accelerator-based High Brilliance neutron Source (HBS). A total of three different neutron target stations are planned, which can be operated with a 100 mA proton beam of up to 70 MeV and a duty cycle of up to 6%. The driver Linac consists of an Electron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR) ion source followed by a LEBT section, a 2.5 MeV double Radio-Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) and 35 normal conducting (NC) Crossbar H-Mode (CH) cavities. The development of the cavities is carried out by the Institute for Applied Physics (IAP) at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Due to the high beam current, all cavities as well as the associated tuners and couplers have to be optimised for operation under high thermal load to ensure safe operation. In collaboration with the GSI Centre for Heavy Ion Research as the ideal test facility for high power tests, two cavities and the associated hardware are being designed and will be tested. The design and latest status of both cavities will be presented in this paper.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-TUPOMS041  
About • Received ※ 18 May 2022 — Revised ※ 15 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 28 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 06 July 2022
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WEPOST012 Feasibility of Slow-Extracted High-Energy Ions From the CERN Proton Synchrotron for CHARM extraction, proton, controls, operation 1703
 
  • M.A. Fraser, P.A. Arrutia Sota, K. Biłko, N. Charitonidis, S. Danzeca, M. Delrieux, M. Duraffourg, N. Emriskova, L.S. Esposito, R. García Alía, A. Guerrero, O. Hans, G.I. Imesch, E.P. Johnson, G. Lerner, I. Ortega Ruiz, G. Pezzullo, D. Prelipcean, F. Ravotti, F. Roncarolo, A. Waets
    CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
 
  The CHARM High-energy Ions for Micro Electronics Reliability Assurance (CHIMERA) working group at CERN is investigating the feasibility of delivering high energy ion beams to the CHARM facility for the study of radiation effects to electronics components engineered to operate in harsh radiation environments, such as space or high-energy accelerators. The Proton Synchrotron has the potential of delivering the required high energy and high-Z (in this case, Pb) ions for radiation tests over the relevant range of Linear Energy Transfer of ~ 10 - 40 MeV cm2/mg with a > 1 mm penetration depth in silicon, specifically for single event effect tests. This contribution summarises the working group’s progress in demonstrating the feasibility of variable energy slow extraction and over a wide range of intensities. The results of a dedicated 6 GeV/u Pb ion beam test are reported to understand the performance limitations of the beam instrumentation systems needed to characterise the beam in CHARM.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-WEPOST012  
About • Received ※ 02 June 2022 — Revised ※ 14 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 15 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 23 June 2022
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WEPOST018 Power Deposition Studies for Crystal-Based Heavy Ion Collimation in the LHC collimation, simulation, operation, hadron 1726
 
  • J.B. Potoine, R. Bruce, R. Cai, L.S. Esposito, P.D. Hermes, A. Lechner, S. Redaelli, A. Waets
    CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
  • F. Wrobel
    IES, Montpellier, France
 
  The LHC heavy-ion program with 208Pb82+ beams is foreseen to benefit from a significant intensity upgrade in 2022. A performance limitation may arise from ion fragments scattered out of the collimators in the betatron cleaning insertion, which risk quenching superconducting magnets during periods of short beam lifetime. In order to mitigate this risk, an alternative collimation technique, relying on bent crystals as primary collimators, will be used in future heavy-ion runs. In this paper, we study the power deposition in superconducting magnets by means of FLUKA shower simulations, comparing the standard collimation system against the crystal-based one. The studies focus on the dispersion suppressor regions downstream of the betatron cleaning insertion, where the ion fragment losses are the highest. Based on these studies, we quantify the expected quench margin expected in future runs with 208Pb82+ beams.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-WEPOST018  
About • Received ※ 08 June 2022 — Revised ※ 14 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 24 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 03 July 2022
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WEPOST019 Benchmarks of Energy Deposition Studies for Heavy-Ion Collimation Losses at the LHC collimation, simulation, operation, betatron 1730
 
  • J.B. Potoine, R. Bruce, R. Cai, P.D. Hermes, A. Lechner, S. Redaelli, A. Waets
    CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
  • F. Wrobel
    IES, Montpellier, France
 
  During some periods in its second physics run (2015-2018), the LHC has been operated with 208Pb82+ ion beams at an energy of 6.37 ZTeV. The LHC is equipped with a betatron collimation system, which intercepts the transverse beam halo and protects sensitive equipment such as superconducting magnets against beam losses. However, hadronic fragmentation and electromagnetic dissociation of heavy ions in collimators generate off-rigidity particles, which can be lost in the downstream dispersion suppressor, putting the magnets at risk to quench. An accurate modelling of the beam-induced energy deposition in the collimation system and superconducting magnets is important for quantifying possible performance limitations arising from magnet quenches. In this paper, we compare FLUKA shower simulations against beam loss monitor measurements recorded during the 2018 208Pb82+ run. In particular, we investigate fast beam loss events, which lead to recurring beam aborts in 2018 operation. Based on these studies, we assess the ability of the simulation model to reproduce the observed loss patterns in the collimation region and dispersion suppressor.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-WEPOST019  
About • Received ※ 08 June 2022 — Revised ※ 10 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 14 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 23 June 2022
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WEPOTK018 Simulation of Heavy-Ion Beam Losses with Crystal Collimation* collimation, simulation, proton, coupling 2082
 
  • R. Cai, R. Bruce, R. Bruce, M. D’Andrea, L.S. Esposito, P.D. Hermes, A. Lechner, A. Lechner, D. Mirarchi, J.B. Potoine, S. Redaelli, F. Salvat Pujol, J. Schoofs
    CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
  • J.B. Potoine
    IES, Montpellier, France
  • M. Seidel
    PSI, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
 
  With the higher stored energy envisioned for future heavy-ion runs in the LHC and the challenging fragmentation aspect of heavy-ion beams due to interaction with collimator material, the need arises for even more performing collimation systems. One promising solution is crystal channeling, which is used in the HL-LHC baseline and starts with Run III for heavy-ion collimation. To investigate an optimal configuration for the collimation system, a well-tested simulation setup is required. This work shows the simulations of channeling and other coherent effects in the SixTrack-FLUKA Coupling simulation framework and compares simulated loss patterns with data from previous beam tests.
*Research supported by the HL’LHC project
 
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About • Received ※ 07 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 11 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 15 June 2022  
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WEPOMS020 FAIR SIS100 Laser Cooling Pilot Facility laser, detector, proton, synchrotron 2284
 
  • S. Klammes, T. Kühl, P.J. Spiller, T. Stöhlker, D.F.A. Winters
    GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
  • M.H. Bussmann, U. Schramm, M. Siebold
    HZDR, Dresden, Germany
  • M.H. Bussmann
    CASUS, Görlitz, Germany
  • J. Gumm, B. Langfeld, T. Walther
    TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
  • V. Hannen, K. Ueberholz
    Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
  • X. Ma, W.Q. Wen
    IMP/CAS, Lanzhou, People’s Republic of China
  • U. Schramm
    TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
  • T. Stöhlker
    HIJ, Jena, Germany
  • T. Stöhlker
    IOQ, Jena, Germany
  • T. Walther
    HFHF, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
 
  We present new (preliminary) results from a recent (May 2021) beam experiment for laser cooling of bunched relativistic carbon ion beams at the ESR of the GSI Helmholtz Centre in Darmstadt, Germany. We were able to use the new pulsed UV laser system from the TU Darmstadt, which has a very high repetition rate, a variable pulse duration and high UV power (up to 250 mW @ 257 nm). Using this laser, we have - for the first time - demonstrated laser cooling of bunched relativistic ion beams for different laser pulse durations (166-740 ps) at a ~10 MHz repetition rate. In addition, we could use the moveable in-vacuo (X)UV detection system from Münster University to study the fluorescence from the laser-excited ions. Finally, we have observed clear effects in the amount of detected fluorescence from the ions using our new ion bunch - laser pulse timing scheme. These studies are also highly relevant for the SIS100 laser cooling pilot facility, which is currently being realized at FAIR.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-WEPOMS020  
About • Received ※ 08 June 2022 — Revised ※ 11 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 15 June 2022 — Issue date ※ 13 June 2022
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