LINAC2014 - List of Authors (Vormann, H.)

Paper	Title	Page
MOPP060	Status of the GSI Poststripper - HE-Linac	190
	S. Mickat, W.A. Barth, G. Clemente, X. Du, L. Groening, A. Orzhekhovskaya, B. Schlitt, H. Vormann, C. Xiao, S.G. Yaramyshev GSI, Darmstadt, Germany M. Droba, H. Hähnel, U. Ratzinger, R. Tiede IAP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
	The High-Energy (HE) Linac is proposed to substitute the existing UNILAC post-stripper section. The post-stripper is an Alvarez DTL, which is in operation over four decades successfully. A quasi Front-to-End simulation along the UNILAC shows, that by taking future upgrade options into account already, with the existing Alvarez section the Fair requirements are not reached. Even by substituting the Alvarez section by the HE Linac the aim is not reached per se regarding the existing boundary conditions. Currently workpackages are defined together with the Institute of Applied Physics at Frankfurt University. Starting from the Ion sources to the SIS18 transfer channel every section is reinvestigated for improvements in beam quality and intensity.

TUPP056	High Current Proton Beam Operation at GSI UNILAC	550
	W.A. Barth, A. Adonin, P. Gerhard, M. Heilmann, R. Hollinger, W. Vinzenz, H. Vormann GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
	A significant part of the experimental program at FAIR is dedicated to pbar physics requiring a high number of cooled pbars per hour. The primary proton beam has to be provided by a 70 MeV proton linac followed by two synchrotrons. The new FAIR Proton LINAC will deliver a pulsed proton beam of up to 35 mA of 36 μs duration at a repetition rate of 4 Hz. The current GSI heavy ion linac (UNILAC) is able to deliver world record uranium beam intensities for injection into the synchrotrons, but it is not dedicated for FAIR relevant proton beam operation. In an advanced machine investigation program it could be shown, that the UNILAC is able to provide for sufficient high intensities of CH3-beam, cracked (and stripped) in a supersonic nitrogen gas jet into protons and carbon ions. This advanced operational approach results in up to 2 mA of proton intensity at a maximum beam energy of 20 MeV, 100 μs pulse duration and a rep. rate of 4 Hz. Recent linac beam measurements will be presented, showing that the UNILAC is able to serve as a proton FAIR injector for the first time, while the performance is limited to 17% of the FAIR requirements.

TUPP059	Advanced Beam Matching to a High Current RFQ	559
	S.G. Yaramyshev, W.A. Barth, L.A. Dahl, P. Gerhard, L. Groening, M.T. Maier, S. Mickat, A. Orzhekhovskaya, B. Schlitt, H. Vormann GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
	The High Current Injector (HSI) of the heavy ion linac UNILAC at GSI comprises the transport lines, the RFQ and two DTL tanks. Beam matching to the RFQ acceptance with a magnetic quadrupole quartet has been worked out manually during commissioning and operation of the machine. Due to a strong overlapping of the field from neighboring quadrupole lenses, a standard optics calculation does not provide for the required reliability. Advanced beam dynamics simulations have been done with the macroparticle code DYNAMION. The superposition of the measured magnetic fields of each quadrupole was taken into account. The quadrupole settings were optimized using the Monte-Carlo method. Two solutions have been found in accordance with the general theory of particle optics. Beam dynamics simulations with new quadrupole settings show an increased particle transmission through the RFQ. The results of numerical study have been confirmed during experimental campaigns. An improved performance of the whole HSI has been demonstrated. The proposed algorithm and a comparison of the measured data with result of simulations are presented.

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Status of the GSI Poststripper - HE-Linac

190

S. Mickat, W.A. Barth, G. Clemente, X. Du, L. Groening, A. Orzhekhovskaya, B. Schlitt, H. Vormann, C. Xiao, S.G. Yaramyshev
GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
M. Droba, H. Hähnel, U. Ratzinger, R. Tiede
IAP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

The High-Energy (HE) Linac is proposed to substitute the existing UNILAC post-stripper section. The post-stripper is an Alvarez DTL, which is in operation over four decades successfully. A quasi Front-to-End simulation along the UNILAC shows, that by taking future upgrade options into account already, with the existing Alvarez section the Fair requirements are not reached. Even by substituting the Alvarez section by the HE Linac the aim is not reached per se regarding the existing boundary conditions. Currently workpackages are defined together with the Institute of Applied Physics at Frankfurt University. Starting from the Ion sources to the SIS18 transfer channel every section is reinvestigated for improvements in beam quality and intensity.

TUPP056

High Current Proton Beam Operation at GSI UNILAC

550

W.A. Barth, A. Adonin, P. Gerhard, M. Heilmann, R. Hollinger, W. Vinzenz, H. Vormann
GSI, Darmstadt, Germany

A significant part of the experimental program at FAIR is dedicated to pbar physics requiring a high number of cooled pbars per hour. The primary proton beam has to be provided by a 70 MeV proton linac followed by two synchrotrons. The new FAIR Proton LINAC will deliver a pulsed proton beam of up to 35 mA of 36 μs duration at a repetition rate of 4 Hz. The current GSI heavy ion linac (UNILAC) is able to deliver world record uranium beam intensities for injection into the synchrotrons, but it is not dedicated for FAIR relevant proton beam operation. In an advanced machine investigation program it could be shown, that the UNILAC is able to provide for sufficient high intensities of CH3-beam, cracked (and stripped) in a supersonic nitrogen gas jet into protons and carbon ions. This advanced operational approach results in up to 2 mA of proton intensity at a maximum beam energy of 20 MeV, 100 μs pulse duration and a rep. rate of 4 Hz. Recent linac beam measurements will be presented, showing that the UNILAC is able to serve as a proton FAIR injector for the first time, while the performance is limited to 17% of the FAIR requirements.

TUPP059

Advanced Beam Matching to a High Current RFQ

559

S.G. Yaramyshev, W.A. Barth, L.A. Dahl, P. Gerhard, L. Groening, M.T. Maier, S. Mickat, A. Orzhekhovskaya, B. Schlitt, H. Vormann
GSI, Darmstadt, Germany

The High Current Injector (HSI) of the heavy ion linac UNILAC at GSI comprises the transport lines, the RFQ and two DTL tanks. Beam matching to the RFQ acceptance with a magnetic quadrupole quartet has been worked out manually during commissioning and operation of the machine. Due to a strong overlapping of the field from neighboring quadrupole lenses, a standard optics calculation does not provide for the required reliability. Advanced beam dynamics simulations have been done with the macroparticle code DYNAMION. The superposition of the measured magnetic fields of each quadrupole was taken into account. The quadrupole settings were optimized using the Monte-Carlo method. Two solutions have been found in accordance with the general theory of particle optics. Beam dynamics simulations with new quadrupole settings show an increased particle transmission through the RFQ. The results of numerical study have been confirmed during experimental campaigns. An improved performance of the whole HSI has been demonstrated. The proposed algorithm and a comparison of the measured data with result of simulations are presented.