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| TUP02 | Development of a 352 MHz Cell-Coupled Drift Tube Linac Prototype | 288 |
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| At linac energies above 40 MeV, alternative structures to the conventional Drift Tube Linac can be used to increase efficiency and to simplify construction and alignment. In the frame of the R&D activities for the CERN SPL and Linac4, a prototype of Cell-Coupled Drift Tube Linac (CCDTL) at 352 MHz has been designed and built. This particular CCDTL concept is intended to cover the energy range from 40 to 90 MeV and consists of modules of ~5 m length made of 3 or 4-gap DTL tanks linked by coupling cells. The focusing quadrupoles are placed between tanks, and are aligned independently from the RF structure. The CCDTL prototype consists of two half tanks connected by a coupling cell and requires an RF power of 120 kW to achieve the design gradient. RF tests will be made at low and high power, the latter up to a 20% duty cycle. This paper introduces the main features of this CCDTL design, describes the RF and mechanical design of the prototype and presents the first measurement results. | ||
| TUP03 | Design of the LINAC4, A New Injector for the CERN Booster | 291 |
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| A new H- linac (LINAC4) is presently under study at CERN. This accelerator, based on normal conducting structures at 352 and 704 MHz, will provide a 40 mA 160MeV H- beam to the CERN booster, thus overcoming the present space-charge bottleneck at injection with a 50 MeV proton beam. LINAC4 is conceived as the first stage of a future 2.2 GeV superconducting linac (SPL) and it is therefore designed for a higher duty cycle than required for injection in the booster. This paper discusses the design choices, presents the layout of the facility and illustrates the advantages for the LHC and other CERN users. An R&D and construction strategy mainly relying upon international collaborations is also presented. | ||
| TUP05 | Beam Dynamics for a new 160 MeV H- Linac at CERN (LINAC4) | 297 |
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| LINAC4 is a normal conducting H- linac proposed at CERN to provide a higher proton flux to the CERN accelerator chain. It should replace the existing LINAC2 as injector for the PS booster. The same machine can also operate in the future as the front end of the SPL, a 2.2 GeV superconducting linac with 1.8 mA average current. At present the test set-up for LINAC4 consists of a Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ), a chopper line, a Drift Tube Linac (DTL), and Cell Coupled DTL (CCDTL) operating at 352.2 MHz and finally a Side Coupled Linac (SCL) at 702.2 MHz. This paper discusses the overall beam dynamics concept, presents the optics for the different sections of the machine and compares end-to-end simulations realised with two tracking codes (PATH and IMPACT). Estimates of beam loss due to various error sources are presented and the challenging features in the current design are highlighted. | ||
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| TUP04 | The SPL Front End: A 3 MeV H- Test Stand at CERN | 294 |
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In the frame of the SPL (Superconducting Proton Linac) study at CERN, a new 160 MeV proton injector for the CERN PS Booster is presently under development. This linear accelerator (Linac4) would not only be a first step towards a future, multi-MW superconducting linac, but would also improve in the medium term both the beam availability and beam quality for CERN’s proton users. Within the framework of the Linac 4 study and with the support of the EU funded Joint Research Activity HIPPI*, a 3 MeV test stand is under construction at CERN. This test stand will explore some of the most critical issues of the linac, such as the beam dynamics at low energy, with special emphasis on the Chopper line that has been designed to generate the required time structure of the beam, to clean the beam halo, and to match it to the subsequent RF structures. In this context, a new Beam Shape and Halo Monitor is under construction. The beam acceleration will be performed by an RFQ that is being developed in France within the IPHI collaboration between CEA and CNRS. Moreover, the test stand will be equipped with an additional 1 MW RF klystron to test different RF structures that are being designed at 352 MHz as preliminary studies for the Linac4.
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| TH102 | Overview of High Intensity Linac Programs in Europe | 559 |
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| Recent years have seen a boost in the European Union (EU) engagement for accelerator research in Europe. Laboratories and institutions from member states are invited to combine their efforts and to define common goals and strategies, in order to receive a financial support up to 50% of the total project cost. In the field of High Intensity Linacs, the EU had already supported the EURISOL initiative for nuclear physics, which this year is applying for funding of a Design Study, and the development of linacs for Waste Transmutation. More recently, an initiative for high-energy physics has been approved, which includes a programme for the development of pulsed linac technologies. Together with the ongoing national projects, these European initiatives represent a strong focussed effort towards the development of linac technologies, intended to overcome difficulties coming from decreasing national budgets. This paper presents a summary of the requests coming from the European physics communities and an overview of linac R&D activities sponsored by the EU, together with some information on parallel national projects. The parameter choices as well as the main technical features of the different projects are presented and compared. | ||
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