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MOPRC004 Beam Orbit Analysis and Correction of the FRIB Superconducting Linac linac, quadrupole, simulation, operation 71
 
  • Y. Zhang, Z.Q. He
    FRIB, East Lansing, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science under Cooperative Agreement DE-SC0000661
Beam based alignment (BBA) techniques are important tools for precise beam orbit correction of a high power linac, and supplement to the model based or orbit response matrix (ORM) based correction methods. BBA will be applied to beam orbit analysis and correction of the FRIB linac arcs where a beam orbit offset within 0.1 mm is required to the second order achromatic beam tuning. In this paper, we first introduce the study of model based beam orbit correction of the arc, and then a more precise orbit correction with BBA. Realistic misalignment of beam elements and beam position monitors (BPMs) are included in the simulation studies.
 
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MOP106015 Commissioning Status of the Chopper System for the MAX IV Injector electron, linac, radiation, storage-ring 316
 
  • D. Olsson, J. Andersson, F. Curbis, L. Isaksson, L. Malmgren, E. Mansten, S. Thorin
    MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
 
  The MAX IV facility in Lund, Sweden consists of two storage rings for production of synchrotron radiation. The two rings are designed for 1.5 GeV and 3 GeV, respectively, where the former is under construction, and the latter is undergoing beam commissioning. Both rings will be operating with top-up injections delivered by a full-energy injector that consists of 39 traveling-wave S-band LINAC structures. In order to reduce losses of high-energy electrons along the injector and in the rings during injection, only electrons that are within an allowed time structure are accelerated. This time structure depends on several parameters such as the available RF voltage and the radiation losses in the ring that is about to be injected, but also on the momentum acceptance of the transport lines in the injector. The electrons that are outside the allowed time structure are dumped when they have energies below 3 MeV by a chopper system that is located between a thermionic RF gun and the first LINAC structure. Basically, the chopper system consists of two planar striplines and a variable aperture, and the first stripline is fed with a superposed RF signal and the second one with HV pulses. The performance of the chopper system during commissioning of the 3 GeV ring is presented in this article.  
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TUPRC005 Source and LEBT Beam Preparation for IFMIF-EVEDA RFQ rfq, emittance, solenoid, simulation 420
 
  • L. Bellan, M. Comunian, E. Fagotti, F. Grespan, A. Pisent
    INFN/LNL, Legnaro (PD), Italy
  • P.-Y. Beauvais, B. Bolzon, N. Chauvin
    CEA/DSM/IRFU, France
  • L. Bellan
    Univ. degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy
  • P. Cara
    Fusion for Energy, Garching, Germany
  • H. Dzitko
    F4E, Germany
  • R. Gobin, F. Senée
    CEA/DRF/IRFU, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • R. Ichimiya, A. Kasugai, M. Sugimoto
    JAEA, Aomori, Japan
  • A. Marqueta, F. Scantamburlo
    IFMIF/EVEDA, Rokkasho, Japan
 
  The commissioning phase of the IFMIF-EVEDA RFQ requires a complete beam characterization with simula-tions and measurements of the beam input from the IFMIF-EVEDA ion source and LEBT, in order to reach the RFQ input beam parameters. In this article, the simula-tions results of the complex source-LEBT with the corre-sponding set of measurements and their impact on the commissioning plan will be reported.  
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TUPLR066 High Current Beam Injector for Cancer Therapy ion, linac, cavity, acceleration 604
 
  • L. Lu, Y. He, C.X. Li, W. Ma, L.B. Shi, L.P. Sun, X.B. Xu, L. Yang, H.W. Zhao
    IMP/CAS, Lanzhou, People's Republic of China
  • T.L. He
    USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui, People's Republic of China
 
  A hybrid single cavity (HSC) linac, which is formed by combining a radio frequency quadrupole (RFQ) and a drift tube (DT) structure into one interdigital-H (IH) cavity, is fabricated and assembled as a proof of principle injector for cancer therapy synchrotron, based on the culmination of several years of research. The HSC linac adopts a direct plasma injection scheme (DPIS), which can inject a high intensity heavy ion beam produced by a laser ion source (LIS). The input beam current of the HSC is designed to be 20 mA C6+ ions. According to numerical simulations, the HSC linac can accelerate a 6-mA C6+ beam, which meets the requirement of the needed particle number for cancer therapy (108~9 ions/pulse). The HSC injector with the DPIS method makes the existing multi-turn injection system and stripping system unnecessary, and can also bring down the size of the beam pipe in existing synchrotron magnets, which could reduce the whole cost of synchrotron. The radio frequency (RF) measurements show excellent RF properties for the resonator, with a measured Q equal to 91% of the simulated value. A C6+ ion beam extracted from the LIS was used for the HSC commissioning. In beam testing, we found the measured beam parameters agreed with simulations. More details of the measurements and the results of the high power test are reported in this paper.  
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TUPLR068 Progress and Design Studies for the ATLAS Multi-User Upgrade booster, kicker, ECR, linac 610
 
  • B. Mustapha, P.N. Ostroumov
    ANL, Argonne, USA
  • A. Perry
    Soreq NRC, Yavne, Israel
 
  Funding: This work was supported by the U.S. DOE Office of Nuclear Physics, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. This research used resources of ANL's ATLAS facility, a DOE Office of Science User Facility.
The motivations and the concept for the multi-user upgrade of the ATLAS facility at Argonne were presented at recent conferences. With the near completion of the integration of the CARIBU-EBIS for more pure and efficient charge breeding of radioactive beams, more effort is being devoted to study the design options for a potential ATLAS mutli-user upgrade. The proposed upgrade will take advantage of the pulsed nature of the EBIS beams and the cw nature of ATLAS, in order to simultaneously accelerate beams with very close charge-to-mass ratios. In addition to enhancing the nuclear physics program, beam extraction at different points along the linac will open up the opportunity for other possible applications. Different beam injection and extraction schemes are being studied and will be presented.
 
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TH2A01 The Linac Laser Notcher for the Fermilab Booster laser, linac, booster, cavity 710
 
  • D.E. Johnson, K.L. Duel, M.H. Gardner, T.R. Johnson, D. Slimmer
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
  • S. Patil
    PriTel, Inc., Naperville, USA
  • J. Tafoya
    Optical Engines, Inc., Colorado Springs, USA
 
  In synchrotron machines, the beam extraction is accomplished by a combination of septa and kicker magnets which deflect the beam from an accelerator into another. Ideally the kicker field must rise/fall in between the beam bunches. However, in reality, an intentional beam-free time region (aka "notch") is created on the beam pulse to assure that the beam can be extracted with minimal losses. In the case of the Fermilab Booster, the notch is created in the ring near injection energy by the use of fast kickers which deposit the beam in a shielded collimation region within the accelerator tunnel. With increasing beam power it is desirable to create this notch at the lowest possible energy to minimize activation. The Fermilab Proton Improvement Plan (PIP) initiated an R&D project to build a laser system to create the notch within a linac beam pulse at 750 keV. This talk will describe the concept for the laser notcher and discuss our current status, commissioning results, and future plans.  
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THOP02 Investigation of Nitrogen Absorption Rate and Nitride Growth on SRF Cavity Grade RRR Niobium as a Function of Furnace Temperature niobium, SRF, cavity, ion 744
 
  • A.D. Palczewski, C.E. Reece
    JLab, Newport News, Virginia, USA
  • M.J. Kelley
    The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
  • J. Tuggle
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA
 
  Funding: Notice: Authored by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC under U.S. DOE Contract No. DE-AC05-06OR23177.
The current state of the art processing of niobium superconducting radio frequency cavities with nitrogen diffusion is performed at 800C in a furnace with a partial pressure of approximately ~20 mtorr of nitrogen. Multiple studies have shown the bulk of the nitrogen absorbed by the niobium forms a thick (1-3 microns) non-superconducting nitride layer which must be removed to produce optimal RF results. The depth profiling of interstitial nitrogen and surface nitrides has already been probed using SIMS measurements. These measurements have also been modeled by extrapolating data from nitride growth studies performed at atmospheric pressure and temperatures above 1000 C (**). One open question is whether there is a diffusion zone at lower temperature in which the niobium will absorb nitrogen but not create a non-superconducting nitride layer; or is the absorption of nitrogen only possible by first forming a nitride buffer layer which then frees up nitrogen for absorption. A systematic study of absorption rate vs. temperature and correlated SIMS measurements needs to be performed to answer this question. We report on the absorption rate vs. temperature from 400 C to 900 C of cavity grade niobium with metallurgically flat witness samples. The witness samples surface depth profile of NbN via SIMS's will be presented and correlated to the absorption.**
* Gonnella et al., Proceedings of SRF2015 Pre-release MOPB042 (2015)
** Tuggle et al., Investigation of Low-Level Nitrogen in Niobium by Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry, these proceedings (2016)
 
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THOP05 Status and Operation of the ALBA Linac linac, klystron, operation, storage-ring 754
 
  • R. Muñoz Horta, D. Lanaia, F. Pérez
    ALBA-CELLS Synchrotron, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
 
  The pre-injector of the ALBA Light Source is a Linac that delivers electrons up to a maximum energy of 125 MeV. It consist in a pre-bunching, a bunching and two accelerating sections feed by two 35 MW klystrons. Since July 2014, ALBA is operating in top-up mode, and the Linac is delivering 110 MeV electrons in multibunch mode every 20 minutes. Recently, new injection modes have been implemented and successfully tested. For one side, injection to the ALBA Booster is now also available with only one of the two klystrons in operation, and the Linac delivering a 67 MeV beam. On the other hand, the Linac single bunch mode has been integrated to the top-up operation application. By means of an algorithm, single bunch mode operation provides any kind of filling pattern in the ALBA storage ring, with single bunch shots injected to those buckets with lowest current. The performance of the Linac beam operated in these different modes is reported.  
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THPLR047 The Beam Energy Feedback System in Beijing Electron Positron Collider II Linear Accelerator feedback, electron, positron, controls 962
 
  • S.Z. Wang, Y.L. Chi, X. Huang
    IHEP, Beijing, People's Republic of China
 
  The beam energy feedback system in Beijing electron positron collider II (BEPCII) linear accelerator consists of three parts. They are the beam energy measurement In-put/Output Controller (BEM IOC), the Graphical User Interface (GUI) based on Qt platform and the phasing system. This article describes the implementation of this system and the online testing which has been passed on March 16th, 2016. By using this feedback system, the injection rate and the energy fluctuation of the injection beam has been improved a lot. Now this system is steady running in the control room of BEPCII linear accelerator.  
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