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MOPP025 |
Longitudinal Beam Profile Measurements in Linac4 Commissioning |
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- G. Bellodi, V.A. Dimov, J.-B. Lallement, A.M. Lombardi, U. Raich, F. Roncarolo, F. Zocca
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- M. Yarmohammadi Satri
IPM, Tehran, Iran
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Linac4, the future 160 MeV H− injector to the CERN Proton Synchrotron Booster, is presently under construction at CERN as a central step of the planned upgrade of the LHC injectors. The Linac front-end, composed of a 45 keV ion source, a Low Energy Beam Transport (LEBT), a 352.2 MHz Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) and a Medium Energy Beam Transport (MEBT) housing a beam chopper, has been installed and commissioned. Precise measurements of the longitudinalμbunch profiles of ion beams were possible with the help of a Bunch Shape Monitor (BSM) developed at INR Moscow. These were crucial for the successful commissioning of the three RF buncher cavities mounted along the MEBT and well complemented with higher precision the information provided in parallel by spectrometer measurements.
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TUPP038 |
Transverse Beam Profile Measurements in the Linac4 Medium Energy Beam Transport |
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- M. Yarmohammadi Satri, G. Bellodi, V.A. Dimov, J.-B. Lallement, A.M. Lombardi, U. Raich, F. Roncarolo, F. Zocca
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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Linac4 is a 160 MeV H− linear accelerator presently under construction at CERN. It will replace the present 50 MeV proton Linac2 as injector of the proton accelerator complex as part of a project to increase the LHC luminosity. The Linac4 front-end, composed of a 45 keV ion source, a Low Energy Beam Transport (LEBT), a 352.2 MHz Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) which accelerates the beam to 3 MeV and a Medium Energy Beam Transport (MEBT) housing a beam chopper, has been commissioned in the Linac4 tunnel. The MEBT is composed of three buncher cavities and 11 quadrupole magnets to match the beam from the RFQ to the next accelerating structure (DTL) and it includes two wire scanners for beam profile measurement. In this paper we present the results of the profile measurements and we compare them with emittance measurements taken with a temporary slit-and-grid emittance measurement device located after the MEBT line.
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THPP033 |
Linac4 Transverse and Longitudinal Emittance Reconstruction in the Presence of Space Charge |
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THPOL10 |
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- J.-B. Lallement, G. Bellodi, V.A. Dimov, A.M. Lombardi, M. Yarmohammadi Satri
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- M. Yarmohammadi Satri
IPM, Tehran, Iran
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Linac4 is a pulsed, normal-conducting 160 Mev H− linear accelerator presently under construction at CERN. It will replace the present 50 MeV Linac2 as injector of the proton accelerator complex as part of a project to increase the LHC luminosity. The 3 MeV front end, composed of a 45 keV ion source, a Low Energy Beam transport (LEBT), a 352 MHz Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) at 3 MeV and Medium Energy Beam Transport (MEBT) housing a beam chopper, and the first Drift Tube Linac (DTL) tank at 12 MeV have been commissioned during the first half of 2014. The transverse and longitudinal emittance reconstruction technique in the presence of space charge, that will be used for the next commissioning stages and permanently during the Linac operation, was successfully tested and validated. The reconstruction method and the results obtained at 3 and 12 MeV are presented in this paper.
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THPP040 |
A Compact High-Frequency RFQ for Medical Applications |
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- M. Vretenar, A. Dallocchio, V.A. Dimov, M. Garlaschè, A. Grudiev, A.M. Lombardi, S.J. Mathot, E. Montesinos, M.A. Timmins
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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In the frame of a new program for medical applications, CERN has designed and is presently constructing a compact 750 MHz Radio Frequency Quadrupole to be used as injector for hadron therapy linacs. The RFQ reaches an energy of 5 MeV in only 2 meters; it is divided into four standardized modules of 500 mm, each equipped with 12 tuner ports and one RF input. The inner quadrant radius is 46 mm and the RFQ has an outer diameter of 134 mm; its total weight is only 220 kg. The beam dynamics and RF design have been optimized for reduced length and minimum RF power consumption; construction techniques have been adapted for future industrial production. The multiple RF ports are foreseen for using either 4 solid-state units or 4 IOT’s as RF power sources. Although hadron therapy requires only a low duty cycle, the RFQ has been designed for 5% duty cycle in view of other uses. This extremely compact and economical RFQ design opens several new perspectives for medical applications, in particular for PET isotopes production in hospitals with two coupled high-frequency RFQs reaching 10 MeV and for Technetium production for SPECT tomography with two RFQs followed by a DTL.
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