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Progress on Dual Harmonic Acceleration on the ISIS Synchrotron
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- A. Seville, D. J. Adams, C. W. Appelbee, D. Bayley, N. E. Farthing, I. S.K. Gardner, M. G. Glover, B. G. Pine, J. W.G. Thomason, C. M. Warsop
STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
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The ISIS facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK is currently the most intense pulsed, spallation, neutron source. The accelerator consists of a 70 MeV H- linac and an 800 MeV, 50 Hz, rapid cycling, proton synchrotron. The synchrotron beam intensity is 2.5·1013 protons per pulse, corresponding to a mean current of 200 μA. The synchrotron beam is accelerated using six, ferrite loaded, RF cavities with harmonic number 2. Four additional, harmonic number 4, cavities have been installed to increase the beam bunching factor with the potential of raising the operating current to 300μA. The dual harmonic system has now been used operationally for the first time, running reliably throughout the last ISIS user cycle of 2006. This paper reports on the hardware commissioning, beam tests and improved operational results obtained so far with dual harmonic acceleration.
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Studies of Space Charge Loss Mechanisms on the ISIS Synchrotron
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- C. M. Warsop
STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
- D. J. Adams, B. G. Pine
STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
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The ISIS Facility is the pulsed neutron and muon source based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK. Operation centres on the 50 Hz Synchrotron, which accelerates ~3·1013 protons per pulse from 70 to 800 MeV, providing a mean power of about 0.2 MW. As commissioning of a second harmonic RF system is completed, it is expected that the main loss mechanisms will be related to transverse space charge forces, which are particularly strong during the multi-turn injection and trapping processes. Here, we describe progress in ongoing studies to understand more about what drives loss and thus limits intensity. Results from simulations and application of relevant theory are presented, concentrating on the effects thought most important for the ISIS ring. Progress on work looking at the half integer resonance and image effects in the rectangular vacuum vessels is reported, along with work for experimental studies.
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