ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Experience and lessons with the SNS superconducting linac over the first 5 years of commissioning and operation are reviewed. As the beam power was ramped up to 1 MW, the linac beam loss has been maintained below 1 W/m and residual activation has been held to a safe level. This can be attributed mainly to a robust accelerator design as well as to dedicated beam dynamics studies during this period. In addition to a review of both transverse and longitudinal beam phase-space measurements, we will review several hardware lessons learned with this high-power proton linac − such as nonlinear multipole components of the linac quadrupoles, beam collimators, high-order-mode couplers of the superconducting cavities, and cavity piezo tuners.
NSRRC, Hsinchu
Taiwan Photon Source (TPS) is a low emittance third-generation light source which is currently under construction in the NSRRC site in Taiwan. TPS consists of 24 double-bend cells and its circumference is 518.4 m. A 496.8-m booster with multi-bend structure is designed. The alternative lattices, such as high/low betax, chicanes with double-vertical-waists in the long straights, and short bunches with low momentum compactions, etc., are investigated. Orbit and coupling corrections and stability issues are studied. Touschek lifetime and effects due to insertion devices are simulated. Works on impedance estimation and instability simulations are performed.
CLASSE, Ithaca, New York
The development of high current, high brightness electron guns is critically important for FEL and ERL light source facilities. In this talk we will review the technical requirements of such projects and the status of on-going research throughout the community including results of emittance measurements and high current beam performance.
GSI, Darmstadt
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
CNAO Foundation, Milan
INFN/LNL, Legnaro (PD)
The Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica (CNAO) presently under commissioning in Pavia, Italy, will be the first Italian facility for the treatment of deeply seated tumours with proton and carbon ion beams. The CNAO accelerator comprises a 7 MeV/u injector linac and a 400 MeV/u synchrotron. The 216.8 MHz linac is a copy of the linac at the Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Centre (HIT) and consists of a 400 keV/u 4-rod type RFQ and of a 20 MV IH type drift tube linac. In 2004, a collaboration between CNAO and GSI was established for construction and commissioning of the linac. GSI supervised the manufacturing of the linac and of its technical systems, performed copper-plating, assembly, and tuning (together with IAP Frankfurt), and delivered complete beam diagnostics systems. The RFQ was tested at GSI with proton beams together with the BD systems prior to delivery to CNAO. Installation and commissioning in Pavia were performed in collaboration by CNAO, GSI, and INFN. RFQ and thereafter IH linac were successfully commissioned in two steps in 2009, both with (H3)+ and carbon ion beams. The results of the linac commissioning will be reported as well as a comparison to the HIT linac.
CNAO Foundation, Milan
The National Centre for Oncological Hadrontherapy (CNAO) will be the first Italian facility for the treatment of deep located tumours with proton and carbon ion beams and active scanning technique. The accelerator complex consists of an injection system, a synchrotron and 5 extraction lines. By the end of 2009 the ECR sources, Low Energy Transfer Line (LEBT), RFQ and LINAC where fully commissioned; in December injection and first turns in the synchrotron were also successfully achieved. Full installation of machine and extraction lines was completed in early 2010. The recent advances in the commissioning and performance of the CNAO complex are being reported in this contribution.
Kyoto ICR, Uji, Kyoto
A compact neutron source using Li(p,n) or Be(p,n) reaction is proposed. The proton linac consists of ECR ion source, LEBT(Low Energy Beam Transport), RFQ linac and post accelerator. We assume that energy of the proton beam is 3MeV and its peak current is 40 mA operated at the repetition rate is 25Hz with the pulse width of 1ms. The beam from the ion source should be matched to the RFQ, where solenoid coils can handle the large current beam in this LEBT section. To reduce energy consumption in LEBT we're trying to design the Hybrid Electromagnet that consists of solenoid coils and permanent magnets. We use PANDIRA, TRACE-2D, and PBGUNS computer codes in order to simulate the magnetic field and the beam transport through LEBT. In this paper the design of this magnet and the result of its beam matching based on simulation will be presented.
Muons, Inc, Batavia
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
YBCO superconductors originally developed for high temperature operation carry significant critical current even in the presence of extremely high magnetic field when operated at low temperature. The final stage of phase space cooling for a muon collider uses a solenoid magnet with fields approaching 50 T. As part of an R&D effort we present measurements of mechanical and electromechanical properties of the YBCO conductor. We examine the critical current verses magnet field angle at 4.2 K in a magnetic field. Quench properties of the conductor such as minimum quench energy threshold and quench propagation velocity will be measured to establish safe operational conductions for the muon cooling magnets. In this paper we describe a conceptual picture for a high field solenoid to be used for muon phase space cooling that incorporates these low temperature properties of YBCO.
LBNL, Berkeley, California
The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE), an international collaboration sited at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in the UK, will demonstrate ionization cooling in a section of a realistic cooling channel using a muon beam. A five-coil superconducting spectrometer solenoid magnet will provide a 4 tesla uniform field region at each end of the cooling channel. Scintillating fiber trackers within the 400 mm diameter magnet bore tubes measure the emittance of the beam as it enters and exits the cooling channel. Each of the identical 3 meter long magnets incorporates a three-coil spectrometer magnet section and a two-coil section that matches the solenoid uniform field into the MICE cooling channel. The cold mass, radiation shield and leads are kept cold by means of three two-stage cryocoolers and one single-stage cryocooler. After incorporating several design changes to improve the magnet cooling and reliability, the fabrication and acceptance testing of the spectrometer solenoids has been completed. The key features of the spectrometer solenoid magnets are presented along with the details of a finite element model used to predict the thermal performance of the magnets.
University of Fukui, Faculty of Engineering, Fukui
KURRI, Osaka
As for BNCT (boron neutron capture therapy) medical applications, an accelerator-based intense thermal or epithermal neutron source has been strongly requested recently. A scaling type of FFAG accelerator with ERIT (energy/emittance recovery internal target) scheme has been developed for this purpose. In this scheme, the beam emittance degradation caused by the neutron production target are cured by ionization cooling method. In this presentation, recent beam study of ionization cooling and neutron production will be described.
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken
KEK/JAEA, Ibaraki-Ken
In J-PARC, Materials and Life Science experimental Facility (MLF) is aimed at promoting experiments using the world highest intensity pulsed neutron and muon beams which are produced at a thick mercury target and a thin carbon graphite target by 3-GeV proton beams, respectively. The first beam was achieved at the target without significant beam loss in May 2008. It is succeeded stable operation with beam power of larger than 300 kW. After beam irradiation, the residual dose of radiation on the beam transport line is remarkably small where the highest dose is 20 microSv/h. In order to confirm stable operation of the facility, especially for the wellness of the target, it is important to obtain the beam profile at the target. We developed new technique by using imaging plate which is attached on the target vessel by remote handling technique via master slave manipulators. It is found that the beam profile shows good agreement with the calculation. It is also found that the beam scattering effect on the muon production target shows good agreement with the simulation calculation.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
LBNL, Berkeley, California
CERN, Geneva
CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette
Lancaster University, Lancaster
We present results from the measurement of the 3-D luminosity distribution with the ATLAS Inner Detector during early running. The spatial distribution of pp interactions is reconstructed by a dedicated algorithm in the High-Level Trigger that fits tracks and primary event vertices in real time, and by an offline algorithm that takes full advantage of the high tracking efficiency and resolution. The number of vertices provides online monitoring of the instantaneous luminosity, while luminous-centroid motion mirrors IP-orbit and RF-phase drifts. The x, y and z luminous widths reflect the evolution of the transverse and longitudinal emittances. The length scales of the IP orbit bumps, which directly impact the accuracy of the transverse convolved beam sizes measured during van der Meer scans, are calibrated offline against the measured displacement of the luminous centroid; this significantly improves the accuracy of the absolute luminosity calibration. The simultaneous determination, during such scans, of the transverse convolved beam sizes (from the luminosity variation) and of the corresponding luminous sizes can be used to disentangle the transverse IP sizes of the two beams.
CERN, Geneva
The mechanical aperture of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a critical parameter for the operation of the machine due to the high stored beam intensities in the superconducting environment. Betatron and momentum apertures must be therefore precisely measured and optimized. In this paper, we present the results of beam-based measurements of the LHC aperture. The experimental results are compared with the expectations from the as-built model of the LHC aperture, taking into account the optics imperfections of the superconducting magnets. The impact of these measurements on various aspects of the LHC operation are also discussed.
CERN, Geneva
Once circulating beams have been established in the LHC the first step towards collisions is to remove the physical separation used to avoid collisions during injection and ramp. A residual separation can remain after the collapsing of the separation bumps. The so-called Van Der Meer method allows for a minimization of this unwanted separation by transversally scanning one beam through the other. The beam sizes at the IP can also be determined by this method and used to give an absolute measurement of the luminosity. We report on how this measurement was implemented and performed in the LHC to optimize and calibrate luminosity.
Fermilab, Batavia
Synchro-betatron resonances can lead to emittance growth and the loss of luminosity. We consider the detailed dynamics of a bunch near such a low order resonance driven by crossing angles at the collision points. We characterize the nature of diffusion and find that it is anomalous and sub-diffusive. This affects both the shape of the beam distribution and the time scales for growth. Predictions of a simplified anomalous diffusion model are compared with direct simulations.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
Since the last successful RHIC Au+Au run in 2007 (Run7), the RHIC experiments have made numerous detector improvements and upgrades. In order to benefit from the enhanced detector capabilities and to increase the yield of rare events in the acquired heavy ion data a significant increase in luminosity is essential. In Run7 RHIC achieved an average store luminosity of <L>=12x1026 cm-2 s-1 by operating with 103 bunches (out of 110 possible), and by squeezing to β*=0.8 m. Our goal for this year's run, Run10, was to achieve an average of <L>=27x1026 cm-2 s-1. The measures taken were decreasing β* to 0.6 m, and reducing longitudinal and transverse emittances by means of bunched-beam stochastic cooling. In addition we introduced a lattice to suppress intra-beam scattering (IBS) in both RHIC rings, upgraded the RF system, and separated transition crossings in both rings while ramping. We present an overview of the changes and the results in terms of Run10 increased instantaneous luminosity, luminosity lifetime, and integrated luminosity.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
Long range beam-beam experiments were conducted during the Run 2009 in the yellow and the blue beams of the RHIC accelerator with DC wires. The effects of a long-range interaction with a DC wire on colliding and non-colliding bunches with the aid of orbits, tunes, and losses were studied. Results from distance and currents scans and an attempt to compensate a long-range interaction with a DC wire is presented.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
During the second half of Run-9, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) provided polarized proton collisions at two interaction points with both longitudinal and vertical spin direction. Despite an increase in the peak luminosity by up to 40%, the average store luminosity did not increase compared to previous runs. We discuss the luminosity limitations and polarization performance during Run-9.
JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region
In order to decrease the energy of an ion accelerated in a cyclotron on value of some MeV/eau it is possible to run an ion beam through a thin metal foil (degrader). One can calculate the final ion energy, angular and energy stragglings, which the beam attains in the degrader, for example, by means of code LISE++. The formulae for calculation of the beam second order moments after degrader were obtained. The formulae for calculation of final beam momentum spread, new values of rms beam emittances, Twiss parameters and the dispersion functions were also obtained. The new ion beam parameters allow one to calculate the beam transportation along the beam line after degrader.
UCL, London
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
EMMA (Electron Machine with Many Applications) is a prototype non-scaling Fixed Field Alternating Gradient (NS-FFAG) accelerator presently under construction at Daresbury Laboratory, UK. The energy recovery linac ALICE will serve as an injector for EMMA within the energy range of 10 to 20 MeV. The injection line consists of a symmetric 30° dogleg to extract the beam from ALICE, a matching section and a tomography section for transverse emittance measurements. This is followed by a transport section to the injection point of the EMMA ring. Commissioning of the EMMA injection line started in early 2010. A number of different injection energy and bunch charge regimes are planned; for some of the regimes the effects of space charge will be significant. It is therefore necessary to model the electron beam transport in this line using a code capable of both calculating the effect of, and compensating for, space charge. Therefore the General Particle Tracer (GPT) code has been used. A range of injection beam parameters have been modelled for comparison with experimental results.
UMAN, Manchester
Accelerator Driven Subcritical Reactors require a high currents of energetic protons. We compute the limits imposed by space charge, and explore what can be achieved using various proposed FFAG lattices. Limitations due to beam losses and reliability are also discussed
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken
KEK, Ibaraki
We have recently demonstrated 300-kW output in the J-PARC 3-GeV RCS. In this paper we will discuss beam dynamics issues in such a high intensity beam operation together with the corresponding beam simulation results.
STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London
Fundación TEKNIKER, Eibar (Gipuzkoa)
University of Warwick, Coventry
Bilbao, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bilbao
ESS-Bilbao, Zamudio
University of the Basque Country, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bilbao
STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
ESS Bilbao, Bilbao
Fermilab, Batavia
STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
The Front End Test Stand (FETS) under construction at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is the UK's contribution to research into the next generation of High Power Proton Accelerators (HPPAs). HPPAs are an essential part of any future Spallation Neutron Source, Neutrino Factory, Muon Collider, Accelerator Driven Sub-critical System, Waste Transmuter etc. FETS will demonstrate a high quality, high intensity, chopped H-minus beam and is a collaboration between RAL, Imperial College and the Universtity of Warwick in the UK and the Universidad del Pais Vasco in Spain. This paper describes the current status and future plans of FETS.
CERN, Geneva
Since the CERN PS Booster cannot simultaneously provide the beam brightness and intensity required, the nominal (25ns bunch spacing) proton beam for the LHC involves double-batch filling of the PS machine. Linac 4, which is under construction, will eventually remove this restriction. In the meantime, the request for 50 and 75ns bunch spacings to mitigate electron cloud effects has lowered the intensity demand such that the Booster can meet this in a single batch without compromising beam brightness. Single-batch transfer means providing two bunches from each of three Booster rings and, in turn, that the bunch spacing is modified by the addition of an h=1 rf component to the h=2 in the Booster in order to fit the h=7 rf buckets waiting in the PS (whilst leaving one bucket empty for kicker purposes). Following the first experiments performed in 2008, the rf manipulations in the Booster have been refined and those in the PS have been modified to cope with single-batch beams. This latest work is presented for both the 50 and 75ns variants.
GSI, Darmstadt
IAP, Frankfurt am Main
The super heavy element research is one of the outstanding projects at GSI. At SHIP* six new elements have been discovered; moreover, nuclear chemical experiments with transactinides were recently performed at TASCA**. This experimental program strongly benefits from high average beam intensities. In the past beam currents were raised significantly by a number of improvements. The present upgrade program comprises the installation of a superconducting (sc) 28 GHz ECR ion source, a new frontend (low energy beam transport and RFQ), and, in the long term, an sc cw Linac. For the short term, the new RFQ will raise the duty factor by a factor of two (50%), limited by the following accelerator only. This bottleneck will be resolved by the applied cw Linac. Beam tests with a newly developed sc CH cavity are scheduled for 2012. The setup of the RFQ as the major upgrade of the 20 year old HLI*** is in progress, the commissioning will be finished in March 2010. Besides a higher duty factor, improved longitudinal beam quality and transmission are expected. This paper reports on the challenging rf and beam commissioning.
* Separator for Heavy Ion Reaction Products
** TransActinide Separator and Chemistry Apparatus
*** High charge state injector, a part the UNILAC
IAP, Frankfurt am Main
The goal of the Frankfurt Funneling Experiment is to multiply beam currents by merging two low energy ion beams. In an ideal case this would be done without any emittance growth. Our setup consists of two ion sources, a Two-Beam-RFQ accelerator and a multi cell deflector which bends the beams to one common beam axis. The end section of the RFQ electrodes are designed to achieve a 3d focus at the crossing point of the two beam axis. New simulations with the RFQSIM-Code for a matching system with extended electrodes will be presented.
IAP, Frankfurt am Main
Funneling is a method to increase low energy beam currents in multiple stages. The Frankfurt Funneling Experiment is a model of such a stage. The experiment is built up of two ion sources with electrostatic lens systems, a Two-Beam-RFQ accelerator, a funneling deflector and a beam diagnostic system. The two beams are bunched and accelerated in a Two-Beam RFQ. A funneling deflector combines the bunches to a common beam axis. Current work is beam tests with the new beam matching section. First funneling beam and energy measurements with the improved Two-Beam-RFQ will be presented.
IAP, Frankfurt am Main
EUROTRANS is a EUROpean Research Programme for the TRANSmutation of High Level Nuclear Waste in an Accelerator-Driven System. Frankfurt University is responsible for the development of the 352MHz injector which mainly consists of a 3MeV RFQ and a 3-17MeV CH-DTL. Based on the beam dynamics design, the CH-cavities were designed with the concern to optimize the RF properties. In the cavity design, the tube-gap configurations were modified, so the beam dynamics has been adjusted to fit the new effective gap voltage profiles accordingly. A comparison of the beam dynamics results before and after the RF optimization is presented.
KEK, Ibaraki
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-mura
JAEA, Ibaraki-ken
The user operation of J-PARC linac was started in December 2008, and it has been operated with the limited beam power of less than 1.2 kW making efforts at improving hardware availability. Since November 2007, the beam power from the linac has been increased to 7.2 kW that corresponds to 120 kW from the downstream 3-GeV synchrotron. We also performed a high-power demonstration run with 18 kW (or 300 kW from the synchrotron) that corresponds to the design beam power for the present configuration. In the course of the beam power ramp-up, we have suffered from significant beam losses in the beam transport line after the linac. Accordingly, the emphasis of the beam tuning has been shifted to the mitigation of the uncontrolled beam losses. Some of the loss mechanisms are identified in the beam studies, and we have succeeded in mitigating them. In this paper, we present recent progress in the beam commissioning of J-PARC linac with emphasis on the effort to mitigate the beam losses.
KAERI, Daejon
The 20MeV proton accelerator has been operating since 2007 when it got an operational license at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) by Proton Engineering Frontier Project (PEFP). Beam property such as an emittnace was measured at the low energy beam transport (LEBT) to characterize the beam into the RFQ. In addition, several parts were modified to test the adaptability of those which would be used for the 100MeV linac. The modulator for the 100MeV linac was installed and tested in the 20MeV linac test bench. In addition, low level RF (LLRF) system was modified in the overall configuration and the operator interface (OPI) with EPICS. In this paper, the beam property measurement results and modification of the linac are presented.
ITEP, Moscow
The new heavy ion high current injector for ITEP-TWAC Facility is now under construction at ITEP for acceleration of ions with 1/3 charge to mass ratio up to energy of 7 MeV/u and beam current of 100 mA. The 81.5 MHz RFQ section based on 4 vane resonator with magnetic coupling windows is constructed for the beam energy of 1.566 MeV/u. The RF tuning of RFQ section has been presently completed and basically confirms the expected parameters calculated by 3D OPERA codes. The windows improve both azimuthal and longitudinal stabilization of the operating mode by increasing the separation from parasitic modes. The second section of 163 MHz H-type resonator is designed and in progress for construction. Status of machine construction activity and beam dynamics calculation are presented.
STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London
The front end test stand (FETS) [1] is entering the next stage of construction and commissioning, with the three-solenoid magnetic low energy beam transport (LEBT) line being installed. A thorough characterization of the beam leaving the Penning H- ion source has been performed. This includes measurements of the beam current using toroids and of the transverse emittance using slit-slit scanners. These measurements are performed over a wide range of source discharge and extraction parameters in order to understand how the transmission may be improved. Comments on the quality of the beam to be injected into the FETS radio frequency quadrupole (RFQ) are given.
STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
The Medium Energy Beam Transport (MEBT) line for the Front End Test Stand (FETS) at RAL will transport a 60 mA, 2ms, 50 pps H- beam at 3 MeV. It uses a number of quadrupoles, re-bunching cavities and a fast-slow chopping system. In this paper we present the underlying MEBT design philosophy, beam dynamics simulations and implementation details.
National Technical University of Athens, Zografou
A compact ring with an internal target for the production of Li-8 or B-8 as neutrino or antineutrino emitters has been proposed*, to enhance the flux of radioactive isotopes for a beta-beam facility. The circulating beam is expected to survive for thousands of turns and, according to this scheme, the ionization cooling provided by the target itself and a suitable RF system will be enough to keep the beam transverse and longitudinal emittances under control. The ionization cooling potential for a preliminary ring design is here investigated by means of tracking simulations and analytical considerations, keeping in mind that a correct modeling of the beam-target interactions is fundamental for these studies. Technological issues for such a ring and possible show-stoppers are also briefly discussed.
* C.Rubbia et al, NIM-A 2006..
Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Niigata
FZJ, Jülich
GSI, Darmstadt
A small momentum spread of proton beam has to be realized and kept in a storage ring during an experiment with a dense internal target such as a pellet target. A stochastic cooling alone does not compensate the mean energy loss by the internal target. Barrier bucket operation will cooperate effectively the energy loss. In addition, the further small momentum spread can be realized with use of an electron cooling. In the present study, the simulation results on the simultaneous use of stochastic cooling and electron cooling at COSY are presented.
Fermilab, Batavia
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia
Muons, Inc, Batavia
Fast muon beam six dimensional (6D) phase space cooling is essential for muon colliders. The Helical Cooling Channel (HCC) uses hydrogen-pressurized RF cavities imbedded in a magnet system with solenoid, helical dipole, and helical quadrupole components that provide the continuous dispersion needed for emittance exchange and effective 6d beam cooling. A series of HCC segments, each with sequentially smaller aperture, higher magnetic field, and higher RF frequency to match the beam size as it is cooled, has been optimized by numerical simulation to achieve a factor of 105 emittance reduction in a 300 m long channel with only a 40% loss of beam. Conceptual designs of the hardware required for this HCC system and the status of the RF studies and HTS helical solenoid magnet prototypes are described.
DESY, Hamburg
The problem of errors, arising due to finite BPM resolution in the reconstructed orbit parameters, is one of the standard problems of the accelerator physics. Even so for the case of uncoupled motion the covariance matrix of reconstruction errors can be calculated "by hand", the usage of the obtained solution, as a tool for designing of a "good measurement system", is not straightforward. A better understanding of this problem is still desirable. We make a step in this direction by introducing dynamics into this problem, which seems to be static. We consider a virtual beam obtained as a result of the application of a reconstruction procedure to ‘‘all possible values'' of BPM reading errors. This beam propagates along the beam line according to the same rules as any real beam and has all beam dynamical characteristics, such as emittances, dispersions, betatron functions, and all these values describe the properties of the BPM measurement system. As an application we formulate requirements for the BPM measurement system of high-energy intra-bunch-train feedback system of the European XFEL Facility in terms of the introduced concepts of error emittance and error Twiss parameters.
DESY, Hamburg
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
TUD, Dresden
DESY Zeuthen, Zeuthen
PETRA III is the new 3rd generation hard X-ray synchrotron light source at DESY, operating at a beam energy of 6 GeV. Machine commissioning began in April 2009 and user operation starts in 2010. In order to achieve a high brilliance, damping wigglers with a total length of 80 m are installed to reduce the horizontal emittance down to an extremely low value of 1 nm rad. For a precise emittance online control, a dedicated diagnostics beamline was built up to image the beam profile with synchrotron radiation from a bending magnet in the X-ray region. The beamline is equipped with two interchangeable X-ray optical systems, a pinhole optic for standard operation and a high resolution compound refractive lens optic. In addition, the synchrotron radiation angular distribution can be exploited at high photon energies. In this presentation, first experience with the system will be reported.
KIT, Karlsruhe
A new 90 kV e-gun had been installed at the 50 MeV microtron at ANKA. The emittance of the gun has been measured in long pulse mode (1 us, 200 mA) with a pepper-pot, resulting in 5 u.rad RMS normalised emittance. The single pulse width is less than 1 ns, resulting in a bunch purity in the storage ring of better 0.5 %. The old timing system for gun and injection elements based on 4 Stanford delay generator has now been replaced by an event driven system from Micro-Research Finland (MRF). This consists of one event generator and one event receiver. Visualisation and programming is achieved with PVSS from ETM Austria. The e-gun trigger can be adjusted in 10 ps steps. The entire system is phase locked to the 499.69 MHz RF signal.
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
INFN-Roma II, Roma
Rome University La Sapienza, Roma
ENEA C.R. Frascati, Frascati (Roma)
Ultra-short electron bunch production is attractive for a large number of applications ranging from short wavelength free electron lasers (FEL), THz radiation production, linear colliders and plasma wake field accelerators. SPARC is a test facility able to accelerate high brightness beam from RF guns up to 150 MeV allowing a wide range of beam physics experiments. Those experiments require detailed beam measurements and careful data analysis. In this paper we discuss the techniques currently used in our machine; by combining quadrupoles, RF deflector, spectrometer dipole and reliable data analysis codes, we manage to characterize the 6D phase space and the beam slice properties. We focus on the ongoing studies on the emittance compensation in the velocity bunching regime.
JAEA/TARRI, Gunma-ken
It is important to match the injection beam emittance to the acceptance of an accelerator for high beam transmission A system to evaluate transverse beam matching has been developed in the JAEA AVF cyclotron facility. In this presentation, concepts of an apparatus for transverse acceptance measurement will be reported. The apparatus consists of a phase-space collimator in the injection beam line and beam current monitor after the cyclotron. The collimator consists of two pairs of position defining slits and angle defining slits to inject an arbitrarily small portion of transverse phase-space into the cyclotron. Measurement of the acceptance is made by testing every portion in the whole phase-space, which should large enough to cover the acceptance. The acceptance can be estimated from the sum of the portions of the beam which passes through the system.
RIKEN/SPring-8, Hyogo
JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken
We report the design, performance, and installation of the beam diagnostic system of XFEL/SPring-8. The electron beam bunches of an XFEL accelerator are compressed from 1 ns to 30 fs by bunch compressors without emittance growth and peak-current fluctuation which directly cause SASE fluctuation. To maintain the stable bunch compression process, the accelerator requires rf caivty beam position monitors (BPM) with 100 nm resolution, OTR screen monitors (SCM) with a few micro-meter resolution, fast beam current monitors (CT) and temporal structure measurement systems with resolution under picosecond. The performance of the developed monitor instruments, such as the BPM, the SCM, and the CT, was tested at the SCSS test accelerator and satisfied with the requirements. To measure the temporal structure of the electron bunch, three type measurement systems, which are a streak camera, an EO sampling measurement, and a transverse deflecting cavity with a resolution of few-tens femtosecond, are being prepared. The streak camera and EO sampling shows the resolution of sub-picosecond. The installation of these beam diagnostic systems is going on smoothly.
KEK, Ibaraki
CLASSE, Ithaca, New York
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
UH, Honolulu, HI
An x-ray beam size monitor based on coded aperture imaging* has been developed at CesrTA, for the purpose of making bunch-by-bunch, turn-by-turn measurements of low emittance beams. Using low-emittance beam (~44 pm, or 16 microns at the x-ray source point) we have been able to make detailed comparisons between the measured mask response and that predicted by theory, validating our simulations of the mask response. In turn, we demonstrate the ability to measure both integrated and single-bunch turn-by-turn beam sizes and positions for monitoring the progress of the low-emittance tuning of the machine, and for electron-cloud instability-related beam dynamics studies.
* J.W. Flanagan et al., EPAC08, 1029 (2008).
KEK, Ibaraki
Some of the improvement were done for an SR interferometer with the Herschelian reflective optics*. Previously, the measured vertical beam size was limited to around 5μm with a double slit separation of 40mm and wavelength of 400nm at the ATF damping ring. Double slit separation was mainly limited to the effective aperture of the optical path between the source point and interferometer. This time, we re-aligned the optical path, and as a result, the effective aperture was increased. Using this re-alignment we can have a double slit separation of up to 60mm. To reduce air turbulence, the optical path was covered with a tight air duct. After these improvements were made, we succeeded in measuring a vertical beam size of 3.4μm with double slit separation of 60mm and wavelength of 550nm, which corresponds to 5pm of the vertical emittance assuming 3m of the beta function.
* T. Naito et. al. "Very Small Beam Size Measurement by Reflective SR Interferometer at KEK-ATF", Proc. of EPAC06, pp2772-2274.
KEK, Ibaraki
MELCO SC, Tsukuba
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken
J-PARC, KEK & JAEA, Ibaraki-ken
To maintain the beam orbit of beam transport line from RCS to MR in J-PARC (3-50BT), 14 beam position monitors (BPMs) were installed. Their signals gathered in the local control building (D01) have been measured by using 14 digitizing oscilloscopes. The data acquisition system have a performance of shot-by-shot measurement.
Osaka University, Osaka
The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) is an accelerator and particle physics experiment aimed at demonstrating the technique of ionization cooling on a beam of muons. The transverse phase space will be measured by two identical trackers comprised of 5 measurement stations of scintillating fibre inside a 4T solenoid. Both trackers have been assembled and tested using cosmic rays and will be installed in the MICE hall at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in 2010. The design, construction and results from cosmic ray testing of both trackers are presented.
Tohoku University, School of Scinece, Sendai
Tohoku University, Research Center for Electron Photon Science, Sendai
A thermionic RF gun has been developed to generate very short electron bunch for a THz light source at Tohoku University. Bunch compression scheme requires, in general, linear momentum distribution of the particles with respect to the longitudinal position, so that measurement of longitudinal phase space is significant for better bunch compression. However, such measurement for the low energy electrons is difficult because space charge effect is so strong that longer drift space should not be included. Consequently, we have performed deliberation for employing energy dependent angular distribution of Cherenkov radiation. Though the energy dependence of emission angle of Cherenkov radiation is rapidly getting small as increasing the beam energy, it is still 25 deg/MeV at an energy around 2.0 MeV when we use radiator having refractive index of 1.035. Thus the beam energy distribution can be measured if we observe Cherenkov ring with sufficient angular resolution. Since this method needs only thin radiator, the drift space length will be minimized. We will discuss limitation for resolutions of both the time and the energy as well.
USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui
The energy spread measurement by use the energy spectrum analysis system at HLS LINAC now is an intercepting measurement which can't measure the real injection beam. To achieve the non-intercepting measurement, a new Beam position monitor (BPM) with eight stripline electrodes in four-axis symmetry is designed, which can measure the energy spread at HLS LINAC in real time. This paper has introduced the physical structure of this new BPM which include eight 20 degree opening angle, 1/4 wavelength (26.2mm) length Stripline electrodes in detail, analyzed and calculated the electrode response and picking up the quadrupole component, and got the theoretical sensitivities of different methods. The BPM is simulated and calculated by CST Microwave Studio Program. The results shows the parameters such as characteristic impedance, electrode coupling degree, time-domain response and frequency-domain response etc are all meet the requirement of HLS LINAC and transfer line.
USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui
GigE Vision (Gigabit Ethernet vision standard) is a new interface standard for the latest vision of cameras with higher performance compared to analogue vision standard and other digital vision standard. In recent years, the market of industrial vision components is evolving towards GigE Vision. This paper presents applications of digital camera comply with GigE Vision standard for the measurement of beam profile and emittance at the storage ring of HLS (Hefei Light Source). These cameras provide low distortion for image transmission over long distance with high image rate. Using the image of beam profile transmitted by GigE Vision digital camera, we calculated the horizontal and vertical center positions, and then we calibrated these center positions by BPM (Beam Position Monitor) system. According to the result of calibration and the pixel size of CCD sensor, transverse sizes of beam profile were calculated, further more the transverse emittance and coupling factor were calculated as well.
POSTECH, Pohang, Kyungbuk
PAL, Pohang, Kyungbuk
At Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, a femto-second THz facility was constructed for the experiments using femto-second THz radiation. The fs-THz radiation is generated from 60-MeV electron linac which consists of a photocathode RF gun, two accelerating columns, and two magnetic-chicane bunch compressors. The coherent transition radiation (CTR) is used for THz radiation generation. To generate high intensity THz radiation, the electron bunch length should be smaller than 200 fs. We report THz image obtained using IR-CCD camera and measured beam parameters including bunch length, energy spread, charge, emittance, and transverse beam size.
ITEP, Moscow
Application of a plasma lens to focusing of ion beams has a number of essential advantages. It is important that the focusing capabilities of the lens depend on the stage of plasma development. Under certain conditions a magnetic field is linear, that allow to focus the beam to a very small spot. In other conditions, the magnetic field is nonlinear, that allow formation of hollow and other beam structures. Hollow cylinder-shaped beams of high energetic heavy ions are efficient drivers for implosion targets to create matter in a highly compressed state. The work deals with the study the possibility of using a plasma lens to transformation the density distribution of ions in the beam. Calculations and measurements were performed for a C6+ and Fe26+ beams of 200 MeV/a.u.m. energy. The obtained results and analysis are reported.
IFIC, Valencia
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
In this paper we describe the design, installation and first calibration tests of a Multi Optical Transition Radiation (OTR) monitor system in the beam diagnostic section of the Extraction (EXT) line of ATF2, close to the multi wire scanner system. This system will be a valuable tool for measuring beam sizes and emittances from the ATF Damping Ring (DR). With an optical resolution of about 2 um an original OTR design demonstrated the ability to measure a 5.5um beam size in one beam pulse and to take many fast measurements. This gives the OTR the ability to measure the beam emittance with high statistics, giving a low error and a good understanding of emittance jitter. Furthermore the near by wire scanners will be a definitive test of the OTR as a beam emittance diagnostic device. The muti-OTR system design proposed here is based on the existing OTR1X, located after the septums at the entrance of the EXT line.
CERN, Geneva
LINAC4 is the first step in the upgrade of the injector chain for the LHC and will accelerate H- ions to 160 MeV. The ion source has initially been installed in a laboratory setup where its commissioning started at the end of 2009. A slit-grid system is used to monitor the transverse emittance at the exit of the source. Measurement results have been compared to analytical and numerical predictions of the system performance, addressing the system resolution, accuracy and sensitivity. This information has been used to improve the design of a new slit-grid system required for commissioning the linac at higher energies.
PSI, Villigen
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Operation and upgrade of very intense proton beam accelerators like the PSI facility and the SNS spallation source at ORNL is typically constrained by potentially large machine activation. Besides the standard beam diagnostics, beam tomography techniques provide a reconstruction of the beam transverse phase space distribution, giving insights to potential loss sources like irregular tails or halos. Unlike more conventional measurement approaches (pepper pot, slits) beam tomography is a non destructive method that can be performed at high energies and, virtually, at any beam location. Results from the application of the Maximum Entropy Tomography (MENT) algorithm to different beam sections at PSI and SNS will be shown. In these reconstructions the effect of nonlinear forces is made visible in a way not otherwise available through wire scanners alone. These measurements represent a first step towards the design of a beam tomography implementation that can be smoothly employed as a reliable diagnostic tool.
USTRAT/SUPA, Glasgow
University of Dundee, Nethergate, Dundee, Scotland
TUE, Eindhoven
UAD, Dundee
The Advanced Laser-Plasma High-Energy Accelerators towards X-rays (ALPHA-X) programme at the University of Strathclyde is developing laser-plasma wakefield accelerators to produce high energy, ultra-short duration electron bunches as drivers of radiation sources. Coherent emission will be produced in a free-electron laser by focussing the electron bunches into an undulator. To achieve net gain, a high peak current, low energy spread and low emittance are required. A high intensity ultra-short pulse from a 30 TW Ti:sapphire laser is focussed into a helium gas jet to produce femtosecond duration electron bunches in the range of 80 - 200 MeV. Beam transport is monitored using a series of Lanex screens positioned along the beam line. We present measurements of the electron beam energy spread as low as 0.7% (at 90 MeV) obtained using a high resolution magnetic dipole spectrometer. We also present pepper-pot measurements of the normalised transverse emittance of the order of 1 pi mm mrad. With further acceleration to 1 GeV, the beam parameters indicate the feasibility of a compact X-ray FEL with a suitable undulator.
JAI, Oxford
CERN, Geneva
Pepper-pot based transverse emittance measurement has the advantage of providing a fast (single shot) measurement with a relatively simple hardware. We report on Pepper-pot based transverse emittance measurements made at the CERN Linac 4 test stand.
JAI, Oxford
Although the pepper-pot method has been used for decades at low energy to measure the transverse emittance of particles sources, it has only been extended to high energy very recently. We report on some of the recent measurements done at high energy (several hundred MeVs) and discuss the practical consideration of such measurements. We show demonstrate that an extended pepper-pot does not significantly affect the phase space of the beam and thus provides a valid transverse emittance measurement.
OXFORDphysics, Oxford, Oxon
INFN MIB, MILANO
The international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) will carry out a systematic investigations of ionization cooling of a muon beam. As the emittance measurement will be done on a particle-by-particle basis, a sophisticated beam instrumentation is needed to measure particle coordinates and timing vs RF. A PID system based on three time-of-flight detectors, two Aerogel Cerenkov counters and a KLOE-like calorimeter has been constructed in order to keep beam contamination (e, π) well below 1 %. The MICE TOF system will measure timing with a resolution better than 60 ps per plane, in a harsh environment due to high particle rates, fringe magnetic fields and RF backgrounds. Performances in beam of all detectors will be shown, as also future upgrades.
Diamond, Oxfordshire
University of Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford
JAI, Oxford
Single shot emittance measurement is essential to assess the performance of new generation light sources such as linac based X-ray FELs or laser plasma wakefield accelerators. To this aim, we have developed a single shot emittance measurement using at least 3 screens inserted in the beam at the same time, measuring the beam size at different positions in a drift space in one shot. We present here test measurements performed at Diamond in the transfer line from the Booster to the Storage Ring, using thin OTR and also YAG screens. We also compare these measurements with results from the more conventional quadrupole scan method and also measurements using an OTR screen and an assembly of two cameras imaging the beam size and the beam divergence at a point near the waist of the beam. The validity and limits of the new method are discussed in the paper.
CLASSE, Ithaca, New York
CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, CA
The beam position monitor (BPM) system at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) has been upgraded for use in both CESR Test Accelerator (CesrTA) and Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) operations. CesrTA operates with electron and positron bunch trains with as little as 4ns bunch spacing. CHESS operates with simultaneous counter-rotating electron and positron trains with 14ns bunch spacing. The upgraded BPM system provides high resolution measurement capability as is needed for the CesrTA ultra low emittance operations, turn-by-turn digitization of multiple bunches for beam dynamics studies, and the capability for real-time dual beam monitoring in CHESS conditions. In addition to standard position measurement capability, the system is also required to measure betatron phase by synchronous detection of a driven beam for optics diagnosis and correction. This paper describes the characteristics of the BPM hardware upgrade, performance figures of the electronics designed for this purpose and the overall status of the upgrade effort. Examples of key measurement types and the analysis of data acquired from the new instruments will also be presented.
CLASSE, Ithaca, New York
KEK, Ibaraki
We report on the design and operation of the CesrTA x-ray beam size monitor (xBSM). The xBSM resolution must be sufficient to measure vertical beam sizes of order 10um by imaging 2-4keV synchrotron radiation photons onto a one-dimensional photodiode array. Instrumentation in the evacuated x-ray beam line includes upstream interchangeable optics elements (slits, coded apertures, and Fresnel zone plates), a monochromator and an InGaAs photodiode detector. The readout is a beam-synchronized FADC that is capable of parallel measurement of consecutive bunches with 4ns spacing. The xBSM has been used to measure beam sizes during the August 2009, November 2009, and April 2010 runs. Single turn measurements are fit to characteristic image shapes to extract beam sizes independent of position variations. The turn-averaged beam size provides feedback for low-emittance tuning.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
CERN, Geneva
The 3rd LHC Crab Cavity workshop (LHC-CC09) took place at CERN in October 2009. It reviewed the current status and identified a clear strategy towards a future crab-cavity implementation. Following the success of crab cavities in KEK-B and the strong potential for luminosity gain and leveling, CERN will pursue crab crossing for the LHC upgrade. We present the summaries of the various workshop sessions which have led to the LHC crab-cavity strategy, covering topics like layout, cryomodule design, construction, integration, validation, and planning.
CLASSE, Ithaca, New York
CERN, Geneva
Carleton University, College of Natural Sciences, Ottawa, Ontario
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
LBNL, Berkeley, California
Grove City College, Grove City, Pennsylvania
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
ASCo, Clayton, Victoria
KEK, Ibaraki
Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
ANL, Argonne
CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, CA
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
Fermilab, Batavia
Technion, Haifa
Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois
The Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) has been reconfigured as a test accelerator (CesrTA) for a program of electron cloud (EC) research at ultra low emittance. The instrumentation in the ring has been upgraded with local diagnostics for measurement of cloud density and with improved beam diagnostics for the characterization of both the low emittance performance and the beam dynamics of high intensity bunch trains interacting with the cloud. Finally a range of EC mitigation methods have been deployed and tested. Measurements of cloud density and its impact on the beam under a range of conditions will be presented and compared with simulations. The effectiveness of a range of mitigation techniques will also be discussed.
DESY, Hamburg
PETRA III is a new hard x-ray synchrotron radiation source at DESY in Hamburg operating at 6 GeV with an extremely low horizontal emittance of 1 nmrad. The new light source is the result of a conversion of the former storage ring PETRA II. The conversion was carried out from middle of 2007 till March 2009. One eighth of the 2304 m long storage ring was completely rebuild and houses now 14 undulator beam lines as well as the optical and experimental hutches. The remaining seven eighths have been modernized and refurbished and in addition twenty 4 m long damping wigglers have been installed. These are required to achieve the small design emittance. Commissioning of the new light source started at the end of March 2009. In this paper we present the results that have been achieved during commissioning and the experience gained during the first user runs.
RIKEN/SPring-8, Hyogo
SASE based X-ray free-electron laser is now under construction at the SPring-8 site. This project is aiming at realization of SASE FEL of 1 angstrom initially and approaches to seeded XFEL in the second stage. For this future extension, a very unique system was adopted, composed of a low emittance SHB-based injector with CeB6 cathode thermionic gun, normal conducting high gradient C-band acceleration system and high performance in-vacuum undulators. This presentation will provide a comprehensive project review and recent project progress.
ELETTRA, Basovizza
Uni LJ, Ljubljana
The FERMI@Elettra injector, comprised of a high-gradient, s-band, photo-cathode rf gun, the PC gun driven laser, the first two accelerating sections, controls, and suite of diagnostics has been commissioned in 2009. The electron beam has been characterized in terms of charge, energy, energy spread and transverse emittance, and results are provided in this paper. In early 2010 linac commissioning up to 250MeV continued, and by using the RF deflecting cavity, the slice parameters of the beam have been measured. Moreover, studies on the laser pulse shaping and the relative optimization of the longitudinal ramp profile required by the nominal bunch configuration are presented in this paper.
UFPel, Pelotas
UDESC, Joinville
IF-UFRGS, Porto Alegre
Although undesired in many applications, the intrinsic spurious spatial inhomogeneity that permeates real systems is the forerunner instability which leads high-intensity charged particle beams to its equilibrium. In general, this equilibrium is reached in a particular way, by the development of a tenuous particle population around the original beam, conventionally known as the halo. In this way, the purpose of this work is to analyze the influence of the magnitude of initial inhomogeneity over the dynamics and over the equilibrium characteristics of initially quasi-homogeneous mismatched beams. For that, all beam constituent particles, which are initially disposed in an equidistant form, suffer a progressive perturbation through random noise with a variable amplitude. Dynamical and equilibrium quantities are quantified as functions of the noise amplitude, which indirectly is a consistent measure of the initial beam inhomogeneity. The results have been obtained by the means of full self-consistent N-particle beam numerical simulations and seem to be an important complement to the investigations already carried out in prior works.
UFPel, Pelotas
IF-UFRGS, Porto Alegre
Beams of charged particles usually reach their stationary state by the development of a halo. Halo formation in charged beams is in fact a macroscopic transcription of microscopic instabilities acting inside the beam and upon its constituent particles. In previous works, investigations have been carried out to understand the role of the initial envelope mismatch and of magnitude of inhomogeneity in the beam route to the equilibrium. Although in that works the action of the mentioned instabilities has been studied individually, it is clear that in real implemented beams both act together. In this sense, the main purpose of this work is to generalize previous models, considering now concomitantly the effects of the envelope mismatch and of the inhomogeneity. As a final product of the investigation, a particle-core model for beam constituent particles is presented. The agreement with full self-consistent N-particle beam numerical simulations is satisfactory and the results provided by the model seem to be more compatible with that would be expected experimentally.
KEK, Ibaraki
One of the most important issues for ERL injectors is to generate electron beams with ultra-low emittance and to accelerate the beams through the injector without emittance growth. For this purpose, we have developed an efficient simulation code to investigate the mechanism of emittance growth due to space charge effect and to exploit its suppression method. In this code, the longitudinal motion is treated by the one-dimensional difference equations for macro-particles, while the radial motion is solved by the envelope equations for the pieces of sliced bunch. We find that the total emittance takes a minimum when all ellipses of sliced envelope have the same direction on the a-a' plane, where a is the amplitude of sliced envelope and a' its derivative along the longitudinal direction. The parameters of a 5 MeV injector were optimized by this code, assuming that the voltage of the DC electron gun is 330 kV and the initial particle distribution at the exit of the gun has a uniform ellipse. Even for such a low voltage gun, we obtained a minimum value of the rms normalized emittance, 0.10 mm, and the rms bunch length, 0.83 mm, the values of which were calculated by using PARMELA.
MEPhI, Moscow
The undulator linear accelerator using electrostatic undulator (UNDULAC-E) is suggested as an initial part of high intensity ion linac*. In UNDULAC ion beam accelerating and focusing are realized by of the combined field of two non-synchronous harmonics. Indeed, the main factor limiting beam intensity in ion accelerator is a space charge force. There exist, at least, two ways to increase ion beam intensity: to enlarge the beam cross section and to use the space charge neutralization. The ribbon ion beam dynamics in UNDULAC-E was discussed in**. Accelerating force value in UNDULAC is proportional to squared particle charge and oppositely charged ions with the identical charge-to-mass ratio can be accelerated simultaneously within the same bunch and the beam space charge neutralization can be realized. These methods will be studied analytically and verified by numerical simulation for UNDULAC-RF in this paper.
*E.S. Masunov, Sov. Phys. ' Tech. Phys., 1990, v. 35 (8), pp. 962-965. **Masunov, S.M. Polozov. NIM A, 558 (2006), pp. 184-187.
St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg
New approach to define geometry of the radial matching section in RFQ accelerator is suggested. Approach is based on the application methods of the control theory. In paper special functionals are introduced which allow optimize radial section parameters with taking into account space charge. This approach gives wider opportunities for the design of the radial matching section because it does not have certain prescribed laws of variation of focusing strength along the section.
Fermilab, Batavia
University of Delhi, Delhi
Results of analysis are presented for the longitudinal and transverse effects of High-Order Mode (HOM) excitation in the acceleration RF system of the CW proton linac of the Project X facility. Necessity of HOM dampers in the SC cavities of the linac is discussed.
PPPL, Princeton, New Jersey
To achieve high focal spot intensities in ion-beam-driven high energy density physics and heavy ion fusion applications, the ion beam must be compressed longitudinally by factors of ten to one hundred before it is focused onto the target. The longitudinal compression is achieved by imposing an initial velocity profile tilt on the drifting beam, and allowing the beam to compress longitudinally until the space-charge force or the internal thermal pressure stops the longitudinal compression of the charge bunch. In this paper, the problem of longitudinal drift compression of intense charged particle beams is analyzed analytically and numerically for the two important cases corresponding to a cold beam, and a pressure-dominated beam, using a one-dimensional warm-fluid model describing the longitudinal beam dynamics. The hodograph transformation is used to transform the nonlinear fluid equations into a single, second-order, linear partial differential equation (PDE). The general solution of this equation describing the intense beam system with stagnation point is analyzed and illustrated with several examples.
KEK, Ibaraki
Hitachi Haramachi Electronics Co. Ltd., Hitachishi, Ibaraki
KFG, NEUSS
Kikusui Chemical Industries Co. Ltd, Kagamihara Shiga
KYOCERA Corporation, Higashiomi-city, Shiga
Pulsed Power Japan Laboratory Ltd., Kusatsu-shi Shiga
New beam abort system designed for KEKB upgrade, consists of horizontal and vertical kicker magnets, pulsed quadrupole magnets, a Lambertoson septum magnet and a beam dump. Water-cooling ceramic chambers are used for the kicker and pulsed quadrupole magnets. At the KEKB upgrade project, the beam abort gap is required to be less than 200 nsec. The beam currents are increased and their emittance is supposed to be much smaller than KEKB. In order to avoid melting the extraction Ti window, the pulsed quadrupole magnets will be installed. They enlarge the beam cross section at the extract window. The components for the SuperKEKB abort system are developed. The compact water-cooling ceramic chambers are developed to reduce the gap of kicker magnets and bore radius of the pulsed quadrupole magnets. The power supply for the kicker magnet is also developed to satisfy the 200 nsec rise time requirement.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
CERN, Geneva
Radio Frequency (RF) accelerating system noise and non-idealities can have detrimental impact on the LHC performance through longitudinal motion and longitudinal emittance growth. A theoretical formalism has been developed to relate the beam and RF loop dynamics with the bunch length growth [1]. Measurements were conducted at LHC to validate the formalism, determine the performance limiting RF components, and provide the foundation for beam diffusion estimates for higher energies and intensities. A brief summary of these results is presented in this work.
[1] T. Mastorides et. al., "RF system models for the LHC with Application to
Longitudinal Dynamics", prepared for submission to Physical Review ST-AB.
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
LPSC, Grenoble
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
CERN, Geneva
IN2P3-LAPP, Annecy-le-Vieux
LAL, Orsay
INFN-Pisa, Pisa
CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette
IN2P3 IPNL, Villeurbanne
BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk
University of Pisa and INFN, Pisa
The SuperB project is an international effort aiming at building in Italy a very high luminosity e+e- (1036 cm-2 sec-1) asymmetric collider at the B mesons cm energy. The accelerator design has been extensively studied and changed during the past year. The present design, - based on the new collision scheme, with large Piwinski angle and the use of 'crab' sextupoles, which has been successfully tested at the DAPHNE Phi-Factory at LNF Frascati, - provides larger flexibility, better dynamic aperture and in the Low Energy Ring spin manipulation sections, needed for having longitudinal polarization of the electron beam at the Interaction Point. The Interaction Region has been further optimized in terms of apertures and reduced backgrounds in the detector. The injector complex design has been also updated. A summary of the design status, including details on lattice and spin manipulation will be presented in this paper.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk
The Super-B asymmetric e+e- collider is designed for 1036 cm-2sec-1 luminosity and beam energies of 6.7 and 4.18 GeV for e+ and e-, respectively. The machine will have the High and Low Energy Rings (HER and LER), and one Interaction Point (IP) with 60 mrad crossing angle. The INFN-LNF at Frascati is one of the proposed sites, and a lattice for short 1.3 km rings fitting to this site has been designed. The two rings are radially separated by 2 m except near the IP and in the dogleg on the opposite side of the rings. The injection sections and RF cavities are included. The lattice is optimized for a low emittance required for the desired high luminosity. Final Focus chromaticity correction is optimized for large transverse and energy acceptance. The "crab waist" sextupoles are included for suppression of betatron resonances induced at the IP collisions with large Piwinski angle. The LER spin rotator sections provide longitudinal polarization for the electron beam at IP. The lattice is flexible for tuning the design parameters and compatible with reusing the PEP-II magnets, RF cavities and other components. Design criteria and details on the lattice implementation are presented.
University of Pisa and INFN, Pisa
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
SuperB is an international project for an asymmetric 2 rings collider at the B mesons cm energy to be built in the Rome area in Italy. The two rings will have very small beam sizes at the Interaction Point and very small emittances, similar to the Linear Collider Damping Rings ones. In particular, the ultra low vertical emittances, 7 pm in the LER and 4 pm in the HER, need a careful study of the misalignment errors effects on the machine performances. Studies on the closed orbit, vertical dispersion and coupling corrections have been carried out in order to specify the maximum allowed errors and to provide a procedure for emittance tuning. A new tool which combines MADX and Matlab routines has been developed, allowing for both corrections and tuning. Results of these studies are presented.
KEK, Ibaraki
Using a weak-strong beam-beam code, in which the symplectic maps for the linear coupling and chromatic aberrations were implemented, the luminosity degradation caused by the linear and chromatic X-Y couplings at the interaction point (IP) were evaluated for the SuperKEKB project under design. The linear and chromatic X-Y couplings were estimated through modeling the machine errors using random seeds, based on a baseline design of the SuperKEKB rings. It was found that the linear and chromatic X-Y couplings can potentially degrade the luminosity performance.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
We present an approach for compensating adverse effects of the detector solenoid in the SuperB Interaction Region (IR). We place compensating solenoids around the IR quadrupole magnets to reduce the magnetic fields nearly to zero. This allows more operational headroom for superconducting IR magnets and avoids saturation of ferric IR magnets. We place stronger compensating solenoids between IR magnets to reverse the magnetic field direction. This allows adjusting the total integrated solenoid field to zero, which eliminates coordinate plane rotation and reduces vertical beam displacements in the IR.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
CERN, Geneva
University of Pisa and INFN, Pisa
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk
A final focus magnet design that uses super-ferric magnets is introduced for the Super-B interaction region. The baseline design has air-core super-conducting quadrupoles. This idea instead uses super-conducting wire in an iron yoke. The iron is in the shape of a Panofsky quadrupole and this allows for two quadrupoles to be side-by-side with no intervening iron as long as the gradients of the two quads are equal. This feature allows us to move in as close as possible to the collision point and minimize the beta functions in the interaction region. The super-ferric design has advantages as well as drawbacks and we will discuss these in the paper.
MPI-P, München
IHEP Beijing, Beijing
Muon colliders would open new frontiers of investigation in high energy particle physics, allowing precision measurements to be made at the TeV energy frontier. One of the greatest challenges to constructing a muon collider is the cooling of a beam of muons on a timescale comparable to the lifetime of the muon. Frictional cooling holds promise for use in a muon collider scheme. By balancing energy loss to a gas with energy gain from an electric field, a beam of muons is brought to an equilibrium energy in 100s of nanoseconds. A frictional cooling scheme for producing high-luminosity beams for a muon collider is presented.
CERN, Geneva
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool
LPNHE, Paris
We consider three different scenarios for the recirculating electron linear accelerator (RLA) of a linac-ring type electron-proton collider based on the LHC (LHeC): i) a basic version consisting of a 60 GeV pulsed, 1.5 km long linac, ii) a higher luminosity configuration with a 60 GeV 4 km long cw energy-recovery linac (ERL), and iii) a high energy option using a 140 GeV pulsed linac of 4 km active length. This paper describes the footprint, optics of linac and return arcs, emittance growth from chromaticity and synchrotron radiation, a set of parameters, and the performance reach for the three scenarios.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
Beam-beam effects in eRHIC have a number of unique features, which distinguish them from both hadron and lepton colliders. Due to beam-beam interaction, both electron and hadron beams would suffer quality degradation or beam loss from without proper treatments. Those features need novel study and dedicate countermeasures. We study the beam dynamics and resulting luminosity of the characteristics, including mismatch, disruption and pinch effects on electron beam, in additional to their consequences on the opposing beam as a wake field and other incoherent effects of hadron beam. We also carry out countermeasures to prevent beam quality degrade and coherent instability.
KEK, Ibaraki
Super-KEKB, an upgrade plan of the present KEKB collider, has recently changed its scheme from 'high current' option to 'nano-beam' scheme. In the latter the current is relatively low(4A/2.3A for LER/HER ring) compared to that of the high-current option(9.4A/4.1A), while the vertical beam size is squeezed to 60 nm at the interaction point to get the high luminosity. The emittance of the injected beam should be low and, since the Tousheck lifetime is very short(600 sec), the intensity of the positron beam is as high as 8 nC/pulse. For the electron beam a low-emittance high-intensity RF gun is adopted. For the positron beam a damping ring has been proposed. The design of the damping ring has been performed for the high-current option*. In this paper an updated design for the nano-beam scheme is presented.
* Nucl. Instr. Meth. A 556 (2006) 13-19
CERN, Geneva
The LHC ACS RF system is composed of 16 superconducting cavities, eight per ring, housed in a total of four cryomodules each containing four cavities. Each cavity is powered by a 300 kW klystron. The ACS RF power control system is based on industrial Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), but with additional fast RF interlock protection systems. Operational performance and reliability are described. A full set of user interfaces, both for experts and operators has been developed, with user feedback and maintenance issues as key points. Operational experience with the full RF chain, including the low level system, the beam control, the synchronisation system and optical fibres distribution is presented. Last but not least overall performance and reliability based on experience with beam are reviewed and perspectives for future improvement outlined.
KEK, Ibaraki
The carbon stripping foil is the key element for the high-intensity proton accelerator. At KEK, the foil test system using the 650keV H- Cockcroft-Walton accelerator is in operation, which can simulate the energy depositions to the foil with the same amount in the J-PARC. In order to quantatively observe the foil degradations (such as foil thinning, pin-hole production) during irradiation, online energy and particle analyzing system is under construction. This report outlines the design detail of the analyzing system including the detectors.
CERN, Geneva
The beam profile screens in the long SPS to LHC transfer lines were used to measure with high precision the emittance growth arising from scattering. The effective thickness of the scatterer could be varied by adding thick Al2O3 fluorescent screens, with the emittance measurement made using very thin Ti OTR screens. The technique allows the intrinsic variation in the emittance from the injector chain to be factored out of the measurement, and was applied to Pb82+ and protons, both with 450 GeV rigidity. The results are presented and the possible applications to the accurate benchmarking of nuclear interaction codes discussed.
CERN, Geneva
The tilt mismatch between the LHC and its transfer lines arises from the use of combined horizontal and vertical bends. The mismatch gives rise to several subtle optical effects, including a coupling at injection into the LHC which depends on the phase of the oscillation amplitude at the injection point. This coupling was observed for the first time in 2008, and in 2009 dedicated measurements were made. The results are described and compared with the expectations, and the operational implications detailed.
FZD, Dresden
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Elektronen-Speicherring BESSY II, Berlin
MBI, Berlin
As the first superconducting rf photo-injector (SRF gun) in practice, the FZD 3+1/2 cell SRF gun is successfully connected to the superconducting linac ELBE. This setting will improve the beam quality for ELBE users. It is the first example for an accelerator facility fully based on superconducting RF technology. For high average power FEL and ERL sources, the combination of SRF linac and SRF gun provides a new chance to produce beams of high average current and low emittance with relative low power consumption. The main parameters achieved from the present SRF gun are the final electron energy of 3 MeV, 16 μA average current, and rms transverse normalized emittances of 3 mm mrad at 77 pC bunch charge. A modified 3+1/2 cell niobium cavity has been fabricated and tested, which will increase the rf gradient in the gun and thus better the beam parameters further. In this paper the status of the integration of the SRF gun with the ELBE linac will be presented, and the latest results of the beam experiments will be discussed.
INFN/LASA, Segrate (MI)
The production of Cs2Te photoemissive films used as laser driven electron sources in the high brightness photoinjectors at FLASH and PITZ, is a well established activity at INFN Milano since the '90s. Our total production is of more than 100 photocathodes, with an average QE of 8% (@ 254 nm) for fresh films and an operative lifetime that increased up to some months at FLASH. In the last two years, we have improved the standard diagnostic used during the cathode growth to better understand the material properties of the films. This activity is motivated by the need to improve the photocathode properties, mainly the energy distribution of the photoemitted electrons that influences the thermal emittance. The multiwavelengths diagnostic, i.e. the on-line measurements of the photocurrent and reflectivity from the film during its growth in the 239 nm ~ 436 nm range, has been deeply applied on several cathodes and the potentiality of this technique are discussed in this paper.
JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken
RIKEN/SPring-8, Hyogo
The injector of the 8 GeV linac generates an electron beam of 1 nC, accelerates it up to 30 MeV, and compresses its bunch length down to 20 ps. Even slight RF instability in its multi-stage bunching section fluctuates the bunch width and the peak current of an electron beam and it accordingly results in unstable laser oscillation in the undulator section. The acceptable instabilities of the RF fields in the cavities, which permit 10% rms variation of the peak beam current, are only about 0.01% rms in amplitude and 120 fs rms in phase according to beam simulation. The long-term RF variations can be compensated by feedback control of the RF amplitude and phase, the short-term or pulse-to-pulse variations, however, have to be reduced as much as possible by improving RF equipment such as amplifiers. Thus we have carefully designed and manufactured the RF cavities, amplifiers and control systems, giving the highest priority to the stabilization of the short-term variations. Components of the injector will be completed by the end of the April 2010, and the injector will be perfected in the summer 2010. We will present the performance of the completed devices in the conference.
TUB, Beijing
In this paper, we present the preliminary structure design and optimization of a C-band photocathode RF gun for a compact electron diffraction facility. It will work at 5.712GHz. A dual coupler and elliptical iris between half-cell and full-cell are adopt in this gun for lower emittance and larger mode separation. A detailed 3D simulation of the C-band RF gun with coupler is performed. This paper likewise presents the beam dynamics parameters and analysis of this gun.
USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui
Recently, great attention has been paid to short electron pulses because of requirement for FEL project. Our aim is a 0.2nC, 5ps, 2MeV electron bunch with a normalized emittance less than 10 mm mrad without compensation coil. To create such beams, an External Cathode Independently Tunable Cells RF gun (EC-ITCRF Gun) was advanced, which consists of two independent cavities and a diode gun. The RF power and its phase fed to the two cavities can be independently adjustable. The paper described simulating results of the beam dynamic in the gun and a test facility. After RF power exercising a week, the electric field in the cavities surface was reached 100MV/m and dark current was disappearance. Main parameters measured are as following: energy is of 1.98MeV, pulse bean current of 20A, beam width of 5ps and energy spread of 0.5% so on. Keyword: EC-ITC RF Gun, emittance, energy spread, external cathode
POSTECH, Pohang, Kyungbuk
PAL, Pohang, Kyungbuk
A Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) type S-band photocathode RF gun is used at Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (PAL) to produce femtosecond tera hertz (fs-THz) radiation. In order to upgrade the fs-THz Facility at PAL, we need to develop the performance of the RF gun. The requirements for new RF gun are following: 1 nC beam charge, 60 Hz repetition frequency and 1 mm mrad normalized rms transverse emittance. A dual feed photocathode RF gun is designed satisfy these requirements. Two additional pumping ports are used to remove the field asymmetry. A large radius and short length of the iris increases the mode separation. The coupling scheme is changed to make the fabrication simpler. The RF gun structure had been modeled using 3D field solver to provide the desired RF parameters and to obtain the field profile. In this paper the new RF gun design and the cold test results will be presented.
PSI, Villigen
As part of the SwissFEL project at Paul Scherrer Institute, an electron gun test stand has been built and operated. The goal is to achieve an exceptionally low emittance beam with a charge of 200pC for XFEL application. The electron gun consists of a High Gradient (HG) pulsed diode followed by an RF acceleration structure. The diode has an adjustable gap and the cathode is pulsed at up to 500 kV. The electrons were extracted either from a near-flat cathode surface or a dedicated photo-source recessed in a hollow cathode surface. For the diode electrtodes, many metals, geometries and surface treatments were studied for their HG and photo emission suitability. Polished metal electrodes, single tips, field emitter arrays and electrodes coated with different Diamond Like Carbon (DLC) types were tested. In particular, we found that DLC coating had useful properties. Surface electric fields over 250MV/m (350 ~ 400kV, in pulsed mode) with negligible parasitic electron emission were achieved; when UV laser illumination was applied to DLC electrodes, it was possible to extract electron bunches of over 60pC at gradients up to 150MV/m.
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
The injector for the UK's New Light Source project is required to deliver low emittance 200 pC electron bunches at a repetition rate of up to 1 MHz. Initial design of a photoinjector based around a 1' cell L-band superconducting RF gun able to meet these requirements is presented, including beam dynamic simulations of the injector up to the end of the first linac module.
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
The injector for the UK's New Light Source project is required to deliver low emittance 200 pC electron bunches at a repetition rate of up to 1 MHz. A possible solution to these requirements is an injector based around a normal conducting VHF RF gun. The injector design and results of beam dynamics simulations are presented for cases with and without an independent buncher cavity.
UCLA, Los Angeles, California
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
Rome University La Sapienza, Roma
A unique SW/TW hybrid photoinjector are being developed under the collaboration of UCLA, LNF/INFN, and University of Rome. It can produce 240-fs (rms) bunch with 500 pC at 21 MeV. The bunch distribution has a strong spike (54 fs FWHM) and the peak current is over 2kA. As the bunch form factor at 1 THz is 0.43, it can produce coherent radiation at 1 THz. We are considering three types of way to generate it; coherent Cherenkov radiation (CCR), superradiant FEL, and coherent transition/edge radiation (CTR/CER). CCR used hollow dielectric with the outer surface metallic-coated. OOPIC simulation showed 21 MW of the peak power (5 mJ) at 1 THz. For FEL and CTR/CER simulation, QUINDI, which was written at UCLA to solve the Lienard-Wiechert potential, was used to calculate the radiation properties. In the contrast to CCR, their spectra were broad and their pulse lengths were short. They will be useful for fast pumping.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
SLAC is studying the feasibility of using an X-band RF photocathode gun to produce low emittance bunches for applications such as an MeV gamma source (in collaboration with LLNL) and an injector for a compact FEL. Systematic beam dynamics study are being done for a 5.5 cell X-band gun followed by several 53 cm long high-gradient X-band accelerator structures. A fully 3D program, ImpactT*, is used to track particles taking into account space charge forces, short-range longitudinal and transverse wakefields and the 3D rf fields in the structures, including the quadrupole component of the couplers. The effect of misalignments of the various elements (drive-laser, gun, solenoid and accelerator structures) are being evaluated. This paper presents these results and estimates of the expected bunch emittance versus bunch charge and cathode gradient.
*Ji Qiang, LBNL-62326, January 25, 2007.
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
ENEA C.R. Frascati, Frascati (Roma)
Rome University La Sapienza, Roma
LBNL, Berkeley, California
The effects of microbunching instability for the SPARX accelerator have been analyzed by means of different numerical simulation codes and analytical approach. The laser heater counteracting action has been also addressed in order to optimize the parameters of the compression system, either hybrid RF plus magnetic chicane or only magnetic, and possibly enhance the FEL performance.
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire
JAI, Oxford
Diamond, Oxfordshire
We present progress in the design of the recirculating linac option for the UK New Light Source. Improvements in all accelerator sections have been made such that the output meets the required specifications to drive the seeded NLS FELs. Full start-to-end simulations and tolerance studies are presented together with a comparison to the baseline, single pass linac design.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
Injection into a ring requires that the injected beam be optimally matched to the storage ring lattice. For on axis injection this requires that the twiss functions of the transfer line match the twiss functions of the lattice. When injection off axis, as is done in light sources for top off injection, the goal is to use the minimum phase space area in the storage ring. A. Streun* has given an analytical method to compute the twiss functions for top off injection into the SLS where injection occurs at a beam waist. We have extended his theory to include cases where there is no beam waist. A simple analytical formula is not possible in this case, however we give an algorithm to compute the twiss parameters of the injected beam given the storage ring lattice. We also compute the twiss functions for a variety of cases for the NSLS-II storage ring.
* A. Streun. "SLS booster-to-ring transfer line optics for optimum injection effciency". Technical Note SLS-TME-TA-2002-0193. May 27, 2005.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
The National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) is a state of the art 3 GeV third generation light source currently under construction at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The NSLS-II injection system consists of a 200 MeV linac and a 3 GeV booster synchrotron. The injection system needs to deliver 7.5 nC in 80 - 150 bunches to the storage ring every minute to achieve current stability goals in the storage ring. This is a very stringent requirement that has not been demonstrated at an operating light source, though it should be achievable. To alleviate the charge requirement on the linac, we have designed a scheme to stack two bunch trains in the booster. In this paper we discuss this stacking scheme. The performance of the stacking scheme is studied in detail at injection and through a full booster ramp. We show the the ultimate performance of the stacking scheme is similar to a single bunch train in the booster if the linac emittance meets the requirements. Increasing the emittance of the linac beam degrades the performance, but still allows an overall increase of train charge vs. one bunch train.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
Booster extraction presents a number of problems that include strengths and waveforms of the pulsed magnets and design of the vacuum chamber. Instabilities in the booster extraction may compromise the extracted beam quality deteriorating value of high-performance injector design. Here we discuss requirements and tolerances for the extraction system components and methods of increasing its performance.
PSI, Villigen
IFH, Zurich
Laser induced field emission has become an enabling technology for building ultra-low emittance electron sources for particle accelerators, such as the x-ray free-electron laser (SwissFEL) under development at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI). One approach consists of a sharp pyramidal tip with lateral dimensions of a few nanometers, illuminated by a laser to increase the extracted electron current. Another approaches uses conventional cathodes. In both cases, there are structural details on the nanometer scale, that determine the interaction between the laser and the cathode and thus directly the quantum efficiency of the emitter. We use a 3-d full-wave finite element time domain electromagnetic approach* to understand the nano-optical interaction between structure and laser pulse. For example, the lightning rod effect of sharp tips enhances the electric field in the vicinity. Also, optical antenna concepts have been proposed to enhance the electric field at the field emitter's tip so that higher currents can be extracted. We use dispersive material models for the metals in the optical region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
*Benedikt Oswald and Patrick Leidenberger, Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Vol 6(3), 2009, pp. 784-794. doi 10.1166/jctn.2009.1109
PSI-LRF, Villigen, PSI
PSI, Villigen
ETH, Zurich
The X-ray Free Electron Laser (SwissFEL) under development at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) will employ a special type of a deflecting cavity, LOLA*, for beam diagnostics. Since this cavity's design breaks the symmetry, a complete 3-dimensional eigenmodal analysis is indispensable. The 3-dimensional eigenmodal solver femaxx employs the finite element method and has been developed in a collaboration between PSI and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH). The femaxx code uses the graphical frontend program heronion for the application of boundary conditions, including symmetry, and generates a tetrahedral mesh. We use femaxx to analyze the existing LOLA cavity design**, compute electromagnetic eigenmodes with their corresponding eigenfrequencies, and associated performance figures. Since these are large computational problems femaxx has been optimized for distributed memory parallel compute clusters. For the further usage in the beam dynamics code OPAL we sample the eigenmodal fields on a 3-dimensional Cartesian grid.
* A. Falone, et al: RF deflector for bunch length measurement at low energy at PSI. Proceedings of PAC2009.
** P. Arbenz et al., Parallel Computing, 32: 157-165 (2006).
JAI, Oxford
CERN, Geneva
Fermilab, Batavia
We present the current status of the beam tracking simulations of the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) from the exit of the damping ring to the interaction point, including the ring to main linac (RTML) section, main linac, beam delivery system (BDS) and beam-beam interactions. This model introduces realistic alignment survey errors, dynamic imperfections and also the possibility to study collective effects in the main linac and the BDS. Special emphasis is put on low emittance transport and beam stabilization studies, applying beam based alignment methods and feedback systems. The aim is to perform realistic integrated simulations to obtain reliable luminosity predictions.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
We present our studies on various aspects of the beam dynamics in 'racetrack' design of the first stage electron-ion collider at RHIC (eRHIC), including transverse beam break up instabilities, electron beam emittance growth and energy loss due to synchrotron radiation, electron beam losses due to Touschek effects and residue gas scattering, beam-beam effects at the interaction region and emittance growth of ion beam due to electron bunch to bunch noises. For all effects considered above, no showstopper has been found.
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
At an age of twelve years, the collective beam dynamics particle tracking code, ORBIT, is considered mature. Even so, we continue to enhance ORBIT's capabilities. Two such enhancements are reported here. The first enhancement allows for the use of time dependent waveforms for the strengths of all magnetic elements, a capability that previously was limited to kickers and to RF cavities. This capability should prove very useful for applications to synchrotrons, in which tunes are often manipulated during acceleration. The second enhancement provides an internal calculation of the lattice functions. Previously, these had to be read from an external file, but given the capability of dynamically programming the lattice magnet strengths, it is extremely useful to be able to calculate the lattice functions on demand. Examples illustrating these new ORBIT capabilities will be presented.
IAP, Frankfurt am Main
GSI, Darmstadt
For high current synchrotrons and for the SIS18 operation as booster of the projected SIS100 it is important to improve the multi-turn injection efficiency. This can be achieved by coupling the transverse planes with skew quadrupoles, which can move the particles away from the septum. Linear betatron coupling by skew quadrupole components in SIS18 including space charge effect was studied in an experiment using different diagnostic methods during the crossing of the difference coupling resonance. The beam loss was measured using a fast current transformer, the transverse emittance exchange was observed using a residual gas monitor and the coupled tunes were obtained from the Schottky noise spectrum. We compared the experimental results with simulation using PARMTRA which is a code developed at GSI.
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken
KEK, Ibaraki
The Longitudinal emittance in J-PARC RCS should be controlled to accelerate a high intensity proton beam with minimal beam loss. In order to study and minimize the beam loss during acceleration, the optimized way to add the 2nd higher harmonic rf has been calculated by a particle tracking code. Furthermore, the bunch shape at RCS extraction should be controlled and optimized for the MR injection. For this purpose, the optimum RCS acceleration pattern has been calculated. We describe the simulation results and the comparison with the beam test.
CERN, Geneva
PSI, Villigen
The performance of the CERN PS Booster (PSB) synchrotron is believed to be limited mainly by direct space charge effects at low energy. The main motivation to construct Linac4 is to raise the PSB injection energy to mitigate direct space charge effects. At present, simulation of the injection and the ow energy part of the cycle aim at defining Investigations on the influence of parameters of the injected beam on the performance of the PSB are described.
LBNL, Berkeley, California
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
Fermilab, Batavia
CERN, Geneva
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
A new proton synchrotron, the PS2, is under design study to replace the the current proton synchrotron at CERN for the LHC upgrade. Nonlinear space charge effects could cause significant beam emittance growth and particle losses and limit the performance of the PS2. In this paper, we report on studies of the potential space-charge effects at the PS2 using three-dimensional self-consistent macroparticle tracking codes, IMPACT, MaryLie/IMPACT, and Synergia. We will present initial benchmark results among these codes. Effects of space-charge on the emittance growth, especially due to synchrotron coupling, and the aperture sizes will also be discussed.
MPI-P, München
SINAP, Shanghai
SSRF, Shanghai
Fast ion instability has been observed in the early commissioning and operation of the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF) storage ring. In this paper, a weak-strong code is used to simulate the fast ion instability in SSRF storage ring. Various fill patterns and gas pressures are investigated. The results show that the mini-train fill patterns are very effective to suppress the growth of the fast ion instability. By employing a fast feedback system, it is possible to damp the growth of beam oscillation amplitude below the beam size.
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
Some collective effects have been studied for the SuperB* high luminosity collider. Estimates of the effect of Intra Beam Scattering on the emittance and energy spread growths have been carried up for both the High Energy (HER, positrons) and the Low Energy (LER, electrons) rings. Electron cloud build up simulations for HER were performed with the ECLOUD code, developed at CERN**, to predict the cloud formation in the arcs, taking into account possible remediation techniques such as clearing electrodes. The new code CMAD, developed at SLAC***, has been used to study the effect of this electron cloud on the beam and assess the thresholds above which the electron cloud instability would set in.
* M. E. Biagini, proceedings of PAC'09.
** F. Zimmermann, CERN, LHC-Project-Report-95, 1997.
*** M. Pivi, proceedings of PAC'09.
EPFL, Lausanne
CERN, Geneva
Transition crossing in the CERN PS is critical for the stability of high intensity beams, even with the use of a second order gamma jump scheme. The intense single bunch beam used for the neutron Time-of-Flight facility (n-ToF) needs a controlled longitudinal emittance blowup at flat bottom to prevent a fast single-bunch vertical instability from developing near transition. This instability is believed to be of Transverse Mode Coupling (TMCI) type. A series of measurements taken throughout 2008 and 2009 aim at using this TMCI observed on the ToF beam at transition, as a tool for estimating the transverse global impedance of the PS. For this purpose, we compare the measurement results with the predictions of the HEADTAIL code and find the matching parameters. This procedure also allows a better understanding of the different mechanisms involved and can suggest how to improve the gamma jump scheme for a possible intensity upgrade of the n-ToF beam.
Fermilab, Batavia
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
In order to avoid the effects of long-range beam-beam interactions which produce beam blow-up and deteriorate beam life time, a compensation scheme with current carrying wires has been proposed. Two long-range beam-beam compensators were installed in RHIC rings in 2006. The effects of the compensators have been experimentally investigated. An indication was observed that the compensators are beneficial to beam life time in measurements performed in RHIC during 2009. In this paper, we report the effects of wire compensator on beam loss and emittance for proton-proton beams at collision energy.
Fermilab, Batavia
We investigate the dynamics of longitudinally flat bunches created with a second harmonic cavity in a high energy collider. We study Landau damping in a second harmonic cavity with analytical and numerical methods. The latter include particle tracking and evolution of the phase space density. The results are interpreted in the context of possible application to the LHC.
LBNL, Berkeley, California
CERN, Geneva
One of the options under consideration for a future upgrade of the LHC injector complex includes the replacement of PS with PS2 (a longer circumference and higher energy ring). Efforts are currently underway to design the new machine and characterize the beam dynamics. Electron cloud effects represent a potentially serious limitation to the achievement of the upgrade goals. We report on ongoing numerical studies aiming at estimating the e-cloud density threshold for the occurrence of single bunch instabilities or significant degradation of the beam emittance. We present selected results obtained in the more familiar quasi-static approximation and/or in the Lorentz-boosted frame.
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
Tech-X, Boulder, Colorado
Terahertz (THz) radiation has generated much recent interest due to its ability to penetrate deep into many organic materials without the damage associated with ionizing radiations. The generation of copious amounts of narrow-band THz radiation using a Smith-Purcell FEL operating as a backward wave oscillator is being pursued by several groups. In this paper we present start-to-end simulations of a Smith-Purcell FEL operating in the superradiant regime. Our concept incorporates a double grating configuration to efficiently bunch the electron beam, followed by a single grating to produce Smith-Purcell radiation. We demonstrate the capabilities and performances of the device, including initial beam properties (emittance and energy spread), with the help of numerical simulations using the conformal finite-difference time-domain electromagnetic solver VORPAL.
KEK, Ibaraki
Sokendai, Ibaraki
RISE, Tokyo
Okayama University, Okayama
We have developed a compact X-ray source based on inverse Compton scattering of an electron beam and a laser pulse, which is stacked in an optical super-cavity, at LUCX accelerator in KEK. The accelerator consists of a photo-cathode rf-gun and an S-band accelerating tube and produces the multi-bunch electron beam with 100 bunches, 0.5nC bunch charge and 40MeV beam energy. It is planned to upgrade the accelerator and the super-cavity in order to increase the number of X-rays. A new RF gun with high mode separation and high Q value and a new klystron for the gun will be installed to provide good compensation with a high-intensity multi-bunch electron beam. A new optical super-cavity consisting of 4 mirrors is also being developed to increase the stacking power in the cavity and to reduce the laser size at the focal point. The first targets are to produce a multi-bunch electron beam with 1000 bunches, 0.5 nC bunch charge and 5 MeV beam energy in low energy mode and 100bunches, 2 nC and 40 MeV in high energy mode to generate X-rays by inverse Compton scattering. In this paper, the status and future plan of the accelerator will be reported.
NSC/KIPT, Kharkov
KEK, Ibaraki
CERN, Geneva
Compton sources are capable to produce intense beams of gamma-rays necessary for numerous applications, e.g. production of polarized positrons for ILC/CLIC projects, nuclear waste monitoring. These sources need high current of electron beams of GeV energy. Storage rings are able to accumulate a high average current and keep it circulating for a long time. The dynamics of circulating bunches is affected by large recoils due to emission of energetic photons. We report results of both an analytical study and a simulation on the dynamics of electron bunches circulating in storage rings and interacting with the laser pulses. The steady-state transverse emittances and energy spread, and dependence of these parameters on the laser pulse power and dimensions at the collision point were derived analytically and simulated. It is shown that the transverse and longitudinal dimensions of bunches are dependent on the power of laser pulses and on their dimensions as well. Conditions of the laser cooling were found, under which the electron bunches shrink due to scattering off the laser pulses. The beam behavior in rings with the longitudinal strong focusing lattices is discussed.
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Elektronen-Speicherring BESSY II, Berlin
The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH (HZB) proposes to construct an ERL test facility. To provide different operational modes for different scientific applications is one of the advantages of these new, linac-driven radiation sources. In contrast to the linear machine layouts of FELs, new challenges arise from incorporating the linac into a circular machine. One of them is the so called merger, a magnetic chicane that threads the low energy, low emittance, but high current bunch from the gun into the recirculator. The preservation of the ambitious gun parameters, the optimal collimation of dark current and flexibility to suit all user demands are the dominant design goals. Different design criteria and possible layouts are discussed and a preliminary merger design is proposed.
CANDLE, Yerevan
DESY, Hamburg
The options for an extremely low bunch charge regime (20 pC) of the European XFEL project are studied. The parameter study (saturation length and power) is performed for a wide range of the beam normalized emittance, bunch length and energy spread. The study is based both on analytical scaling of the SASE FEL performance and numerical simulations.
DESY Zeuthen, Zeuthen
DESY, Hamburg
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Berlin
Uni HH, Hamburg
The PITZ facility is established for the development and testing of electron sources for FELs like FLASH and the European XFEL. The facility has been upgraded during the shutdown starting in summer 2007 to extend the capability of the facility to produce and characterize low emittance electron beams. The upgraded setup mainly includes a photo cathode L-band RF gun with solenoid magnets for space charge compensation, a post acceleration booster cavity and several diagnostic systems. The diagnostic systems consist of charge and beam profile monitors, emittance measurement systems and spectrometers with related diagnostics in dispersive arms after the gun and the booster cavities. RF gun operation with an accelerating gradient of 60 MV/m at the cathode is realized with this setup. A new photo cathode laser system with broader spectral bandwidth was installed for optimizing the temporal distribution of the laser pulses regarding to electron beam properties. Experimental results with this setup demonstrated very high electron beam quality as required for the photoinjector source of the European XFEL. In this contribution, the PITZ facility setup in year 2008-2009 will be presented.
*for the PITZ Collaboration
DESY Zeuthen, Zeuthen
INRNE, Sofia
DESY, Hamburg
YerPhI, Yerevan
JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region
UCLA, Los Angeles, California
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Berlin
MEPhI, Moscow
NSC/KIPT, Kharkov
MBI, Berlin
At the Photo Injector Test facility at DESY, Zeuthen site (PITZ), high brightness electron sources for linac based Free Electron Lasers (FELs), like FLASH and the European XFEL are developed and characterized. The electrons are generated via the photoeffect at a cesium telluride (Cs2Te) cathode and are accelerated by a 1.6-cell L-band RF-gun cavity with an accelerating gradient at the cathode of about 60 MV/m. The profile of the cathode laser pulse has been optimized yielding small emittances using laser pulse shaping methods. The transverse projected emittance is measured by a single slit scan technique. The measurement program in the last run period at PITZ concentrated on emittance measurements for the nominal 1 nC beam and emittance optimization for lower bunch charges. The recent results show that normalized projected emittances of about 1 mm-mrad for 1 nC charge and below 0.5 mm-mrad for 250 pC bunch charges can be realized at PITZ. The facility setup and measurement results including the uncertainty of the measured values will be reported and discussed in this contribution.
ELETTRA, Basovizza
University of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica
The commissioning of the first stage (FEL-1) of FERMI@Elettra has started in the summer 2009. During the first year of operation, the efforts will mainly concentrate on the optimization of the gun performance, as well as on electron-beam acceleration and transport through the LINAC. By fall 2010, it is planned to generate out of the LINAC an electron beam that may be injected into the FEL-1 undulator chain and used to get the first FEL light. In this paper, we present the requirements for FEL-1 commissioning, both in terms of hardware and electron beam properties.
PAL, Pohang, Kyungbuk
POSTECH, Pohang, Kyungbuk
Due the field asymmetry in RF gun due the holes in full cell cavity, the emittance of electron beam can be increased. To generate the low emittance electron beam for XFEL, the elimination of the each field components is very important. The RF field can be decomposed as dipole and quadrupole components. The effect on the emittance increase of each component is studied in this presentation by numerical method. The 3D field map is constructed by MATLAB code as input of PARMELA code with each component distribution of the RF field. In this paper the emittance increase of electron beam by the each component of the RF field will be presented.
PSI, Villigen
In the framework of the SwissFEL project, an alternative electron source to an RF photo-gun was investigated. It consists of a high voltage (up to 500 kV), high gradient pulsed diode system followed by single stage RF acceleration at 1.5 GHz. The electrons are produced from photo-cathodes or from field emitter arrays. The final goal of this accelerator is to produce a 200 pC electron beam with a projected normalized emittance below 0.4 mm.mrad and a bunch length of less than 10 ps. We present comparisons between beam dynamic simulations and measurements, as well as thermal emittance and quantum efficiency (QE) measurements obtained by producing photo-electrons from various metal cathodes.
NSC/KIPT, Kharkov
Simulation results of subpicosecond bunch formation due to phase motion of electrons in traveling wave are presented. It has been shown that at satisfying phase conditions of electron injection that are necessary for velocity bunching, relative phase velocity of the total wave excited both by RF generator and particles becomes different from unit increasing bunch compression. Simulation of transportation of obtained 8.5 MeV bunches through undulator with a period of 90.6 mm and estimation of bunch form-factor at 446 harmonic of bunch repetition rate of 2797.15 MHz also was carried out. The data obtained allow to expect coherent radiation from undulator at wave-length of 240 um.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
LBNL, Berkeley, California
In addition to its normal operation at 250pC, the LCLS has operated with 20pC bunches delivering X-ray beams to users with energies between 800eV and 2 keV and with bunch lengths below 10 fs FWHM. A bunch arrival time monitor and timing transmission system provide users with sub 100 fs synchronization between a laser and the X-rays for pump / probe experiments. We describe the performance and operational experience of the LCLS for short bunch experiments.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
LBNL, Berkeley, California
EPFL, Lausanne
In this paper we describe the technical design of an on-going proof-of-principle echo-enabled harmonic generation (EEHG) FEL experiment in the Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator (NLCTA) at SLAC. The experiment was designed through late 2009 and built and installed between October 2009 and January 2010. We present the design considerations, the technical realization and the expected performances of the EEHG experiment.
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Milano
INFN-Roma II, Roma
ENEA C.R. Frascati, Frascati (Roma)
University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome
INFN-Roma, Roma
UCLA, Los Angeles, California
JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken
PSI, Villigen
The primary goal of the SPARC project is the commissioning of the SASE FEL operating at 500 nm driven by a 150-200 MeV high brightness photoinjector. Additional experiments are foreseen also in the HHG Seeded configuration at 266, 160 and 114 nm. A second beam line hosting a THz source has been recently commissioned. The recent successful operation of the SPARC injector in the Velocity Bunching (VB) mode has opened new perspectives to conduct advanced beam dynamics experiments with ultra-short electron pulses able to extend the THz spectrum and to drive the FEL in the SASE Single Spike mode. Moreover a new technique called Laser Comb, able to generate a train of short pulses with high repetition rate, as the one required to drive coherent plasma wake field excitation, has been tested in the VB configuration. The energy/density modulation produced by an infrared laser pulse interacting with the electron beam near the cathode has been also investigated. In this paper we report the experimental results obtained so far and the comparison with simulations.
ISSP/SRL, Chiba
JAEA/ERL, Ibaraki
KEK, Ibaraki
In ERLs, superconducting cavities accelerate low-emittance beams with high-gradient standing-wave RF fields. If alignment error of the cavities is considerable, they can harmfully affect the beam trajectory and quality because the cavities have strong transverse focusing. Achieving high alignment accuracy of the cavities is difficult compared with the other ERL elements such as magnets because the cavities are contained in cryomodules. Therefore we studied effects of the alignment error of main superconducting cavities with analytical approaches and simulations, using a one-loop model of the compact ERL as an example. In this paper, we present the effects of alignment error of main superconducting cavities on ERLs and their correction.
ISSP/SRL, Chiba
JAEA/ERL, Ibaraki
KEK, Ibaraki
In ERL-based light sources, higher accuracy is expected to be required for RF control and timing, because the ERL beam has much shorter bunch length (less than 100 fs at minimum) compared with that of the existing SR sources. We studied effects of RF amplitude and phase variation of main superconducting cavities and effects of timing jitter of beam injection from an injector, using a simulation code 'elegant'. In this paper, we present the simulation results and discuss tolerances for the RF amplitude and phase and the injection timing.
ISSP/SRL, Chiba
KEK, Ibaraki
Orbit correction in an ERL is more complicated than those of an ordinary linac and a transport line, because the ERL beam passes a straight section containing main superconducting cavities at least two times with different energies. A corrector in this section gives a different kick angle to the beam in a different turn. Therefore a sophisticated orbit correction method is required for ERLs and ERL-based light sources. The eigenvector method with constraints (EVC)* can perform global orbit correction under constraint conditions and has been proposed and used for uniting global and exact local orbit corrections mainly in storage-ring based SR sources**. We applied this EVC method to orbit correction in an ERL. In this paper, we present how to use the EVC method for an ERL and simulation results of orbit correction for the compact ERL.
* N. Nakamura et al., Nucl. Instr. Meth. A 556 (2006) 421-432.
** K. Harada et al., Nucl. Instr. Meth. A 604 (2009) 481-488.
JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken
Multiturn circulation of a beam from an energy recovery linac (ERL) in a light source with bunch-by-bunch switching devices with RF cavities can reduce the output current of the ERL by a factor of the number of turns of the circulation, keeping the average current of the light source*. This scheme eases the requirement of an electron gun and an ERL, and lead to the possibility of cost-effective multi-pass ERL scheme. In previous work*, the scheme to increase the number of circulation with a ring shaped beam transport was proposed. In this work we propose a scheme without ring-shaped transport and it can be applied to various shapes of ERLs and light sources. As an example, we show a nine-turn circulation light source with the combination of newly proposed three-turn circulation system. The detail of the system, the brightness including the growth of emittance and energy spread by radiation excitation, and the effect of round-to-flat beam conversion which is a possible method for the reduction of the growth of the horizontal emittance are discussed.
* T. Nakamura, Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 11, 032803 (2008).
KEK, Ibaraki
UVSOR, Okazaki
JAEA/ERL, Ibaraki
JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken
HU/AdSM, Higashi-Hiroshima
ISSP/SRL, Chiba
Yamaguchi University, Ube-Shi
Nagoya University, Nagoya
Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Science, Higashi-Hiroshima
Tohoku University, School of Scinece, Sendai
AIST, Tsukuba
Future synchrotron light source using a 5-GeV-class energy recovery linac (ERL) is under proposal by our Japanese collaboration team, and we are conducting active R&D efforts for that. We are developing super-brilliant DC photocathode guns, two types of cryomodules for both injector and main superconducting linacs, 1.3 GHz high CW-power rf sources, and other important components. We are also constructing a compact ERL for demonstrating the recirculation of low-emittance, high-current beams using those key components. We present our recent progress in this project.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
IHEP Beijing, Beijing
LAL, Orsay
IN2P3-LAPP, Annecy-le-Vieux
ICEPP, Tokyo
University of Tokyo, Tokyo
KEK, Ibaraki
CERN, Geneva
The primary aim of the ATF2 research accelerator is to test a scaled version of the final focus optics planned for use in next-generation linear lepton colliders. ATF2 consists of a 1.3 GeV linac, damping ring providing low-emittance electron beams (<12pm in the vertical plane), extraction line and final focus optics. The design details of the final focus optics and implementation at ATF2 are presented elsewhere* . The ATF2 accelerator is currently being commissioned, with a staged approach to achieving the design IP spot size. It is expected that as we implement more demanding optics and reduce the vertical beta function at the IP, the tuning becomes more difficult and takes longer. We present here a description of the implementation of the overall tuning algorithm and describe operational experiences and performances
* Beam-Based Alignment, Tuning and Beam Dynamics Studies for the ATF2 Extraction Line and Final Focus System. Glen R. White , S. Molloy, M. Woodley, (SLAC). EPAC08-MOPP039, SLAC-PUB-13303.
JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken
This presentation will cover the topics of synchrotron radiation monitors for light sources, including transverse beam profile measurement, longitudinal bunch profile measurement, and bunch purity measurement. It will also cover developments of beam diagnostics based on observation of x-rays from a dedicated insertion device.
KEK, Ibaraki
This presentation will cover the development of the tuning methods, beam stabilization and reliability, and instrumentation including laser wires, high resolution BPMs and fast feedback, to achieve the beam of a few nano meters size required for the ILC final focus.
PAL, Pohang, Kyungbuk
In 1994, ESRF in Grenoble opened the era of third-generation light sources, and the first batch of third-generation machines immediately followed with ALS, Elettra, TLS, PLS, and Spring-8 in hard and soft X-ray regimes. For high brightness, these machines adopted a low-emittance storage-ring lattice and many straight sections for advanced undulators. With ever-growing user demands from materials science to life science research, many more facilities followed in this decade. The machine operations dramatically improved for more effective user services, along with technological advances in advanced diagnostics and controls, survey and alignments, top-up injections, super-conducting cavities, and in-vacuum undulators. There are now about 70 light sources in the world, and important scientific discoveries are driven from these facilities, including research resulting in a few Nobel Prizes. In this paper, we review the advancement of these third-generation machines.
SINAP, Shanghai
The Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF), a 3.5GeV storage ring based third generation light source, started its user operation with 7 beamlines in May 2009. During the passed year, the facility reliably operated about 4000 hours for user experiments. This paper presents the operational status of the SSRF in the first year and its future performance improvement plans.
LBNL, Berkeley, California
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
Electron clouds impose limitations on current accelerators that may be more severe for future machines, unless adequate measures of mitigation are taken. Recently, it has been proposed to use feedback systems operating at high frequency (in the GHz range) to damp single-bunch transverse coherent oscillations that may otherwise be amplified during the interaction of the beam with ambient electron clouds. We have used the simulation package WARP-POSINST to study the growth rate and frequency patterns in space-time of the electron cloud driven transverse instability in the CERN SPS accelerator with, or without, an idealized feedback model for damping the instability. We will present our latest simulation results, contrast them with actual measurements and discuss the implications for the design of the actual feedback system.
LNLS, Campinas
We report on the status of SIRIUS (BR), the new 3 GeV synchrotron light source currently being designed at the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS) in Campinas, Brazil. The new light source will consist of a low emittance storage ring based on the use of permanent magnet technology for the dipoles. An innovative approach is adopted to enhance the performance of the storage ring dipoles by combining low field (0.5 T) magnets for the main beam deflection and a short slice of high field magnet. This short slice will create a high bending field (2.0 T) only over a short longitudinal extent, generating high critical photon energy with modest energy loss from the complete dipole. There are several attractive features in this proposal, including necessity for lower RF power, less heating of the vacuum chambers and possibility to reduce the beam emittance by placing the longitudinal field gradient at a favorable place.
ESRF, Grenoble
After 15 years of highly successful user operation, the Council of the ESRF are funding an ambitious 7 year upgrade programme (2009-2015) of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility. In this context the accelerator complex will benefit from a number of upgrades. Several insertion device straight sections will be lengthened from five to six meters. The beamline scientific capacities will be increased by operating some straight sections in the canting geometry. New insertion devices will be built to fulfill the requirements of the scientific programme. The RF system also faces a major reconstruction with the replacement of some klystron based transmitters by high power solid state amplifiers and the development of HOM damped cavities operating at room temperature. The orbit stabilisation system system will be renovated. This paper reports on the present operation performances of the source, highlighting the recent development, as well as the advancement of the upgrade projects.
IPM, Tehran
An overview of the 3 GeV Synchrotron radiation source, which is under design in Iran will be presented with emphasis on site location studies, user demands and general parameters of the machine. The background to the proposed facility and different aspects of the machine design also is reported. Operating this third generation light source with 3 GeV storage ring and beam currents of up to 400mA, will result in a source of very intense light over a broad range of photon energies from the IR to hard X-rays to a community that is expected to exceed 500 users a few years after the start of operation in 2015 .
IPM, Tehran
Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood
NSTRI, Tehran
The effects of utilizing a third harmonic RF cavity in the lengthening mode have been investigated on quality of the electron beam and the emitted photons in the deflecting RF structures for TPS. For the obtained optimum synchronous and relative harmonic phases and harmonic voltage of 0.7 MV, the equilibrium horizontal and vertical emittances blow up as much as 13% and 97%, respectively. In addition, the intensity of the emitted X-ray pulses with 0.54 ps FWHM reduces by 30%.
IPM, Tehran
NSRRC, Hsinchu
NSTRI, Tehran
A pair of superconducting crab cavities has been studied in the QBA low emittance lattices of the 3 GeV TPS for generating ultra short X-ray pulses. Three configurations with different locations for the two cavities in a super-period of the TPS ring are investigated. The configuration with positioning the RF deflectors between the QBA cells in each super-period as an optimum arrangement gives rise to better quality electron bunches and radiated photon pulses. The FWHM of the radiated photon pulses of about 540 fs with an acceptable intensity is attained by optimizing the compression optical elements of the TPS photon beam line.
JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken
The SPring-8 storage ring has been operated for more than ten years and provided brilliant hard X-ray radiation to users. In recent years there are some discussions on upgrade plans of existing synchrotron radiation facilities and proposals of new facilities. In these the target brilliance of photons is set to be comparable or even higher, in some energy range, than that of the present value of SPring-8. At SPring-8 a design study of a new storage ring is now in progress for the future upgrade plan. The lattice structure will be changed from the present double-bend type to the multi-bend one, keeping the source position of all insertion devices unchanged. The emittance will be lowered from the present value of 3.4nmrad at 8GeV to 0.4nmrad at 6GeV (or 0.8nmrad at 8GeV) in the case of triple-bend lattice and 0.2nmrad at 6GeV (or 0.3nmrad at 8GeV) in the case of quadruple-bend lattice. We will report the present state of our preliminary work on lattice design. Nonlinear resonance correction to enlarge the dynamic aperture for on- and off-momentum electrons will also be discussed.
JASRI/SPring-8, Hyogo-ken
We indicated that a storage ring with picometer-order emittance is possible with realistic parameters and is promising as a next generation synchrotron radiation source* and applied it to the SPring-8 storage ring**. The storage ring had the same circumference as that of the SPring-8 storage ring, but had not four long straight sections that SPring-8 storage ring has. Accordingly, the storage ring beam line is slightly different from that of the SPring-8 and the positions of photon beam lines are also different from the existing one. To avoid this, a storage ring with four long straight sections has been studied and was found that the storage ring with the same beam line positions as the existing one is possible. The storage ring consists of twenty ten-bend achromat cells, four five-bend achromat cells and four long straight sections. The long straight section length is 34.0 m and the short one is 6.6 m. The natural emittance is 108 pm-rad. The maximum brightness is 2.5×1022 photons/s/mm**2/mrad**2 in 0.1% BW with 200 mA beam current, about 160 times brighter than SPring-8. In the end I mention that this ultra-low emittance storage ring is only a result of personal design study.
* K. Tsumaki and N. Kumagai, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 565 (2006) 394.
** K. Tsumaki and N. Kumagai, EPAC'06, 3362.
USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui
Hefei Advanced Light Source(HALS) will be a high brightness light source with about 0.2nmrad emittance at 1.5GeV and about 400m circumference. To enhance brilliance, very low beam emittance is required. High brightness demand and relative low energy will make emittance a critical issue in ring design. Intra-beam scattering(IBS) is usually thought a fundamental limitation to achieve low emittance. Here we preliminarily estimate the emittance growth due to IBS for the temporary lattice design of HALS based on Piwinski and Bjorken-Mtingwa theories, and discuss the effect of implementation of damping wiggler and harmonic cavity to lower the emittance.
USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui
HLS (Hefei Light Source) is a dedicated synchrotron radiation research facility, whose emittance is relatively large. In order to improve performance of the machine, especially getting higher brilliance synchrotron radiation and increasing the number of straight sections for insertion devices, an upgrade project is on going. A new low emittance lattice, which keeps the circumference of the ring no changing, has been studied and presented in this paper. For the upgrade project, a new ring will be installed on current ground settlement of HLS and all of the magnets will be reconstructed. After optimization, two operation modes have been chosen for different users. Nonlinear dynamics shows that dynamic aperture for on-momentum and off-momentum particle is large enough. Beam lifetime has also been studied. Calculation results proves that expected beam lifetime about 8.5 hours can be obtained with a fourth harmonic cavity operation.
USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui
The Hefei Light Source is composed of an 800 MeV storage ring, a 200 MeV electron linac and transfer line, which was designed and constructed twenty years ago. Several factors limit the performance of HLS, for example, less number of insertion devices and large beam emittance. To meet the requirements of synchrotron radiation users, an upgrade project of HLS will be carried out in the next two years. Several sub-systems will be renewed, such as magnet system, power supply, beam diagnostics, vacuum system, etc. The upgrade scheme is described in this paper, including magnet lattice design, nonlinear performance, collective effects,beam injection, orbit detection and correction, injector, etc.
SINAP, Shanghai
Beam optics design is a crucial issue in modern synchrotron radiation facility. A design approach of the beam optics is presented here. It provides much convenience for effectively exploring achievable linear optics and globally investigating flexibility of a complex lattice with super-periodicity. Low-ε optics and low-αC optics are emphasized, and the SSRF storage ring is taken as a test lattice.
NSRRC, Hsinchu
Touschek scattering is an important beam lifetime limiting effect for the TPS storage ring due to several challenges such as low emittance, small physical aperture and large second-order momentum compaction factor (nonlinear longitudinal motion). The Touschek relevant energy acceptance is determined by these challenges, therefore a reliable estimate of the Touschek lifetime is essential. We obtained Touschek induced betatron oscillation amplitudes in three sections (LS, SS and ARC) and RF bucket acceptance analytically and with simulations. In this paper, we present the energy acceptance and Touschek lifetime calculations for the TPS storage ring in the cases for different chromaticity settings, ID chamber limitations, magnet multipole field errors and optics correction effects.
LBNL, Berkeley, California
The Advanced Light Source is one of the earliest 3rd generation light sources. With an active upgrade program it has remained competitive over the years. The latest in a series of upgrades is a lattice upgrade project that was started in 2009. When it will be completed, the ALS will operate with a horizontal emittance of 2.2 nm and an effective emittance of 2.6 nm. Combined with the high current of 500 mA and the small vertical emittance the ALS already operates at this upgrade will keep it competitive for years to come. The presentation will present the status of the upgrade, including beam dynamics studies and lattice optimizations as well as the magnet design and status.
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
CLASSE, Ithaca, New York
The proposed Cornell Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) is designed for bunches of 77pC and 100mA whose energy is recovered. However, the ERL linac can also be used for larger bunch charges of reduced average current whose energy does not have to be recovered. The proposed Cornell ERL lightsource currently uses a split linac arrangement connected by a turnaround arc. In order to avoid the detrimental effects of Coherent Synchrotron Radiation (CSR) in this arc, a high charge (1nC) bunch must remain relatively long (2ps), and be compressed at high energy (5GeV). An appropriate bunch compressor must take second order effects into account, which adds complications for the large energy spread associated with compression to 100fs or less. We have therefore designed a very simple four dipole bunch compressor at high energy, which uses second order time of flight terms in the turnaround arc rather than in the bunch compressor itself. This design is tested using particle tracking simulations incorporating CSR, as well as magnetic field errors and misalignments.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
Design of PEP-X high brightness light source machine is under development at SLAC. The PEP-X is a proposed replacement of the PEP-II in the existing 2.2 km tunnel. Two of the PEP-X six arcs contain DBA type lattice providing 30 dispersion free straights suitable for 3.5 m long undulators. The lattice contains TME cells in the other four arcs and a 90 m wiggler in a long straight section yielding an ultra low horizontal emittance of ~0.1 nm-rad at 4.5 GeV for a high brightness. The recent lattice modifications further increase the predicted brightness and improve beam dynamic properties. The standard DBA cells are modified into supercells for providing low beta undulator straights. The DBA and TME lattice parameters are better optimized. Harmonic sextupoles are added into the DBA arcs to minimize the sextupole driven resonance effects and amplitude dependent tune shift. Finally, the injection scheme is changed from vertical to horizontal plane in order to avoid large vertical amplitudes of injected beam within small vertical aperture of undulators.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
Over the past year, we have worked out a baseline design for PEP-X, as an ultra-low emittance storage ring that could reside in the existing 2.2-km PEP-II tunnel. The design features a hybrid lattice with double bend achromat cells in two arcs and theoretical minimum emittance cells in the remaining four arcs. Damping wigglers reduce the horizontal emittance to 86 pm-rad at zero current for a 4.5 GeV electron beam. At a design current of 1.5 A, the horizontal emittance increases, due to intra-beam scattering, to 164 pm-rad when the vertical emittance is maintained at a diffraction limited 8 pm-rad. The baseline design will produce photon beams achieving a brightness of 1022 (ph/s/mm2/mrad2/0.1% BW) at 10 keV in a 3.5-m conventional planar undulator. Our study shows that an optimized lattice has adequate dynamic aperture, while accommodating a conventional off-axis injection system. In this paper, we will present the study of the lattice properties, nonlinear dynamics, intra-beam scattering and Touschek lifetime, and collective instabilities. Finally, we discuss the possibility of partial lasing at soft X-ray wavelengths using a long undulator in a straight section.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
TRIUMF, Vancouver
The low beam emittance requirement in the NSLS-II storage ring imposes a very tight constraint on its acceptance. This requires the injected beam emittance to be very small, for which a reliable scheme of measurement to determine the phase space and momentum characteristics of the beam coming out the booster is necessary. The original scheme based on the booster-to-dump transport line was hampered by the difficulty in decoupling betatron oscillation from dispersion, due to high concentration of dipoles and limited number of quads after the booster. This paper will describe the alternative method being planned to use the booster extraction line to measure the beam emittance and energy spread, as well as the associated errors.
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
Rome University La Sapienza, Roma
The SuperB project has the goal to build in the Frascati or Tor Vergata area, an asymmetric e+/e- Super Flavor Factory to achieve a peak luminosity > 1036 cm-2 s-1. The SuperB design is based on collisions with extremely low vertical emittance beams. A source of emittance growth comes from the bunch by bunch feedback systems producing high power correction signals to damp the beams. To limit any undesirable effect, a large R&D program is in progress, partially funded by the INFN Fifth National Scientific Committee through the SFEED (SuperB feedback) project approved within the 2010 budget. One of the first steps of the R&D program consists in the upgrade and test of new 12-bit feedback systems in the vertical plane of the DAΦNE main rings. The systems are the direct evolution of the previous 8-bit system design by a KEK/SLAC/LNF collaboration, yielding a good compatibility with the powerful diagnostics and analysis programs developed in the past. Studies on their effects in the longitudinal plane are also in progress.
CERN, Geneva
UMIT, Hall in Tirol
One of the major challenges of the CLIC main linac is the preservation of the ultra-low beam emittance. The dynamic effect of ground motion would lead to a rapid emittance increase. Orbit feedback systems (FB) have to be optimized to efficiently attenuate ground motion (disturbance), in spite of drifts of accelerator parameters (imperfect system knowledge). This paper presents a new FB strategy for the main linac of CLIC. It addresses the above mentioned issues, with the help of an adaptive control scheme. The first part of this system is a system identification unit. It delivers an estimate of the time-varying system behavior. The second part is a control algorithm, which uses the most recent system estimate of the identification unit. It uses H2 control theory to deliver an optimal prediction of the ground motion. This approach takes into account the frequency and spacial properties of the ground motion, as well as their impact on the emittance growth.
ANL, Argonne
A bunch-by-bunch feedback system was installed at the APS in 2008. Close-loop tests were conducted and improvements have been made to the system that include two 500-watt amplifiers, a new location for the horizontal drive stripline, a two-blade new horizontal stripline, and upgrade of front-end electronics. With these improvements we are able to stabilize beam with a reduced chromaticity of 0.45 in the horizontal plane and 2.5 in the vertical plane for the 24-singlet bunch pattern. Beam lifetime has increased from 8.5 hours to 15 hours. We did not observe any obvious increase in the effective beam emittance and rms beam motion. More studies will be performed to explore the potential of improving beam performance of the hybrids fill pattern, which has a 16-mA leading bunch. We report the system improvements and the results of our test results.
cyao@aps.anl.gov
CERN, Geneva
Fermilab, Batavia
Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey
Over the last months the general layout of the CLIC main beam RTML has stabilized and most important lattices are existing. This allowed us to perform detailed studies of tolerances on magnetic stray fields and on magnet misalignment. Additionally, beam lines could be improved in terms of performance and flexibility. We discuss the overall layout as will be described in the CLIC conceptual design report, highlight the improvements which have been made and show results of tolerance studies.
CERN, Geneva
IMFD, Freiberg
KIT, Karlsruhe
FZK, Karlsruhe
Two damping rings (e+, e-) are foreseen for the CLIC injection chain. In each damping ring 76 two meter long wigglers will be installed. The short period (40-50 mm), combined with a gap larger than 14 mm and a requested field in the mid-plane BPeak > 2 T requires the usage of superconducting technologies to meet these requirements. To demonstrate the feasibility of this wiggler design a short-model vertical racetrack wiggler (40 mm period; 16 mm gap) was built and successfully tested at CERN. The wiggler carries a current of 730 A and 910 A and reaches a mid-plane peak field of Bpeak = 2 T and Bpeak = 2.5 T at 4.2 K and 1.9 K, respectively. The results show that the wiggler model meets the magnetic requirements of the CLIC damping rings at 1.9 K. The paper will also discuss the improvements we propose to enhance the performance in order to meet the CLIC specifications also at 4.2 K.
PSI, Villigen
In the framework of the SwissFEL activities at PSI we developed a powerful UV laser system delivering wavelength-tunable pulses at a central wavelength varying from 260 to 283 nm. The laser system based on a ultra-stable frequency-trippled Ti:sapphire amplifier delivers mJ pulse energy within a duration of 1-10 ps with 1.5 nm spectral width. Temporal flattop pulses are achieved by direct UV shaping with a UV Dazzler and a prism-based stretcher. The system is used to explore thermal emittance and quantum efficiency dependence on photon energy from metallic photo-cathode (Cu and Mo). With pepperpot techniques we have measured the predicted theoretical limit for thermal emittance (0.4 mm.mrad / mm rms laser spot size at 283 nm and 0.6 mm.mrad / mm at 263 nm) for metallic photocathodes.
OXFORDphysics, Oxford, Oxon
JAI, Oxford
We present the results of the development of a high power fibre laser system for the laserwire project to measure very low emittance electron beams. We use the output of a commercial 1uJ, 6.49MHz laser system and amplify it in rod type photonic crystal fibre. This is a novel form of optical fibre which has a large core diameter (70um) but still supports only a single Gaussian spatial mode, essential for focusing the beam to the smallest spot size and achieving the highest resolution. We amplify the seed pulses in a burst mode suitable for use in a linear accelerator, which has the advantage of decreasing the pump power required and thus reducing the running cost and heat loading of the laser system. The amplified pulses have energies of ~ 100uJ in the near infrared and excellent beam quality, as specified in the original design, and are frequency converted to the green to give sub-micron spatial resolution.
CERN, Geneva
Proton and ion beams will be injected into LHC at 450 GeV by two kicker magnet systems, producing magnetic field pulses of up to 7.8 μs flat top duration with rise and fall times of not more than 900 ns and 3 μs, respectively. Both systems are composed of four traveling wave kicker magnets, powered by pulse forming networks. One of the stringent design requirements of these systems is a field flat top and post pulse ripple of less than ±0.5 %. A carefully matched high bandwidth system is required to obtain the stringent pulse response. Screen conductors are placed in the aperture of the kicker magnet to provide a path for the image current of the, high intensity, LHC beam and screen the ferrite against Wake fields: these conductors affect the field pulse response. Recent injection tests provided the opportunity to directly measure the shape of the kick field pulse with high accuracy using a pilot beam. This paper details the measurements and compares the results with predictions and laboratory measurements.
KEK, Ibaraki
IHEP Beijing, Beijing
For preserving low emittance beam in the ILC (International Linear Collider) main linacs, Dispersion Matching Steering (DMS) is planed to be used as a main correction method. The linacs are following the earth's curvature and the designed vertical dispersion in the linacs should not be zero. For this reason, the orbit difference due to beam energy difference will have to be measured accurately and tolerance of scale error of beam position monitors (BPM) can be tight. Here, the tolerance of the scale error are estimated by tracking simulations. Choice of optics design for relaxing the tolerance is also discussed.
CERN, Geneva
University of Oslo, Oslo
The physics experiments at CLIC will require that the machine scans lower than nominal centre-of-mass energy. We present different options to achieve this and discuss the implications for luminosity and the machine design.
CERN, Geneva
The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) accelerator has strong precision requirements on the position of the beam. The beam position will be sensitive to external dynamic magnetic fields (stray fields) in the nanotesla regime. The impact of these fields on the CLIC main beam has been studied by performing simulations on the lattices and tolerances have been determined. Several mitigation techniques will be discussed.
CERN, Geneva
Beam-Beam background is one of the main issues of the CLIC MDI at 3 TeV CM. The background level have a significant impact on the interaction region design. This paper presents a study of the background expected rates versus luminosity according to different beam parameters and considering different machine conditions, using an integrated simulation of the Main LINAC and BDS sub-systems.
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
It is proposed to investigate the option of moving the positron source to the end of the main linac as a part of the central integration in the International Linear Collider project. The positron source incorporates an undulator at the end of the main linac and the photons generated in the undulator are transported to the target, located at a distance of around 400m. The dogleg design has been optimised to provide the required transverse off-set at the location of the target and to give minimum emittance growth at 500 GeV. The design of the dogleg and the tolerances on beam tuning as a result of locating this dogleg in the beginning of the beam delivery system are presented.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
SLAC is developing a long-range plan to transfer the evolving scientific programs at SSRL from the SPEAR3 light source to a much higher performing photon source that would be housed in the 2.2-km PEP-II tunnel*,**. The proposed PEP-X storage ring is one of the possibilities. The goal of the PEP-X design is to develop an optimal light source design with horizontal emittance less than 100 pm at 4.5 GeV and vertical emittance of 8 pm corresponding to the diffraction limit of 1-Å X-ray. The low emittance design requires a lattice with strong focusing leading to high natural chromaticity and therefore to strong sextupoles. The latter cause reduction of dynamic aperture. The horizontal dynamic aperture required at PEP-X injection point is about 10 mm. In order to achieve the desired dynamic aperture, transverse non-linearities of PEP-X are studied. The program LEGO*** is used for particle tracking simulations. The technique of frequency map is used to analyze the nonlinear behavior. The effects of the non-linearities are tried to minimize. The details and results of dynamic aperture optimization are discussed in this paper.
*,** R. Hettel et al., 'IDEAS FOR A FUTURE PEP-X LIGHT SOURCE', EPAC08, 'CONCEPTS FOR THE PEP-X LIGHT SOURCE', PAC09.
*** Y. Cai et al., 'LEGO: A Modular accelerator design code', PAC97, 1997.
Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London
Muon ionization cooling provides the only practical solution to prepare high brilliance beams necessary for a neutrino factory or muon colliders. The muon ionization cooling experiment (MICE)* is under development at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK). It comprises a dedicated beam line to generate a range of input emittance and momentum, with time-of-flight and Cherenkov detectors to ensure a pure muon beam. A first measurement of emittance is performed in the upstream magnetic spectrometer with a scintillating fiber tracker. A cooling cell will then follow, alternating energy loss in liquid hydrogen and RF acceleration. A second spectrometer identical to the first one and a particle identification system provide a measurement of the outgoing emittance. In May 2010 it is expected that the beam and most detectors will be commissioned and the time of the first measurement of input beam emittance closely approaching. The plan of steps of measurements of emittance and cooling, that will follow in the rest of 2010 and later, will be reported.
This abstract is submitted by the chear of the MICE speaker bureau. A member of the collaboration will be soon identified to present the poster and added a co-author.
Osaka University, Osaka
FFAG lattices with racetrack-shape has been studied to cool muon beams. The ring has straight sections with FFAG magnets, which makes enough space to install kicker magnets to inject and extract the muon beam. Wedge absorbers using superfluid helium and RF cavities are installed to the ring. This paper reports progress of the study.
Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London
STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
The Neutrino Factory is a planned particle accelerator complex that will produce an intense, focused neutrino beam, using neutrinos from muon decay. Such high neutrino intensities can only be achieved by reducing the muon beam emittance using an ionization cooling system. The G4MICE software is used to study the performance of various cooling cell configurations. A comparison is drawn between the cooling in the FS2 cells, the baseline Neutrino Factory and doublet cells. The beam dynamics in each of cooling channels are presented. The lattices are compared with respect to the equilibrium emittance, muon transmission, acceptance and evolution of emittance along the channel. Conclusions for a possible optimisation of the future muon cooling channel of the Neutrino Factory are presented.
Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London
OXFORDphysics, Oxford, Oxon
In the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) at RAL muons are produced and transported in a dedicated beamline connecting the production point (target) to the diffuser, a mechanism inside the first spectrometer solenoid designed to inflate the initial normalized emittance up to 10 mm rad in a controlled fashion. In order to match the incoming muons to the downstream experiment, covering all the possible values of the emittance-momentum matrix, an optimisation procedure has been devised which is based upon a genetic algorithm coupled to the tracking code G4Beamline. Details of beamline tuning and initial measurements are discussed.
OXFORDphysics, Oxford, Oxon
The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment is one lattice section of a cooling channel suitable for conditioning the muon beam at the front end of a Neutrino Factory or Muon Collider. Scintillating fibre spectrometers and 50 ps resolution timing detectors provide the unprecedented opportunity to measure the initial and final six-dimensional phase space vectors of individual muons. The capability of MICE to study the evolution of muon beams through a solenoidal lattice will be described.
Sheffield University, Sheffield
The MICE experiment requires a beam of low energy muons to demonstrate muon cooling. A target mechanism has been developed that inserts a small titanium target into the circulating ISIS beam during the last 2ms before extraction. The target mechanism has been in operation in the ISIS beam during 2009 and a large set of useful data has been obtained describing the target's operational parameters. This has allowed the commissioning of the initial section of the MICE beam line and instrumentation, and the close monitoring of target performance. This work describes these target parameters and presents some of the results from operational shifts.
LBNL, Berkeley, California
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
A Neutrino Factory requires an intense and highly cooled (in transverse phase space) muon beam. We discuss a hybrid approach for a linear 4D cooling channel consisting of high-pressure gas-filled RF cavities –potentially allowing high gradients without breakdowns– and discrete LiH absorbers to provide the necessary energy loss that results in the needed muon beam cooling. We report simulations of the channel performance and its comparison with the vacuum case; we also discuss the various technical and safety issues associated with cavities filled with high-pressure hydrogen gas. Even with additional windows that might be needed for safety reasons, the channel performance is comparable to that of the original, all-vacuum Feasibility Study 2a channel on which our design is based. If tests demonstrate that the gas-filled RF cavities can operate properly with an intense beam of ionizing particles passing through them, our approach would be an attractive way of avoiding possible breakdown problems with a vacuum RF channel.
UCLA, Los Angeles, California
RadiaBeam, Marina del Rey
One of the challenges of the proposed muon collider is the beam size at the interaction region. The current target for the beta function (beta-star) is 10mm for the 1.5TeV scenario with a beam emittance of 25mm-mrad. In this paper, we describe the design and development of a final focusing scheme that attempts to reach these parameters. The final focus scheme is based on the use of permanent magnet quadrupoles (PMQ) in a triplet configuration. Initial simulations show that the PMQs reach gradients as high as ~990T/m using Praseodymium based magnets in a Halbach style arrangement. Possible methods for tuning the PMQs at the interaction region, via temperature control and high-resolution movers, are also described.
UCR, Riverside, California
Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London
Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Faculty of Physics, Sofia
The Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) is being built at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) to test ionization cooling of a muon beam. Successful demonstration of cooling is a necessary step along the path toward creating future high intensity muon beams in either a Neutrino Factory or Muon Collider. Production of particles in the MICE beamline begins with a titanium target dipping into the ISIS proton beam. The resulting pions are captured, momentum-selected, and fed into a 5T superconducting decay solenoid which contains the pions and their decay muons. Another dipole then selects the final particles for propagation through the rest of the MICE beamline. Within the last year, the MICE target has been redesigned, rebuilt, and has begun operating in ISIS. The decay solenoid has also become operational, dramatically increasing the number of particles in the MICE beamline. In parallel, particle identification detectors have also been installed and commissioned. In this paper, the commissioning of the improved MICE beamline and target will be discussed, including the use of Time-of-Flight detectors to understand the content of the MICE beam between 200 and 444 MeV/c.
UCR, Riverside, California
A significant reduction in the six-dimensional emittance of the initial beam is required in any proposed Muon Collider scheme. Two lattices based on the original RFOFO ring design representing different stages of cooling are considered. One is the so-called open cavity lattice addressing the problem of the 201.25 MHz RF cavities running in a magnetic field, the other one is the 805 MHz RF lattice that is used for smaller emittances. The details of the acceptance analysis and tracking studies of both channels are presented and compared to the independent ICOOL implementation.
UCR, Riverside, California
Fermilab, Batavia
STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
In the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE), muons are cooled by ionization cooling. Muons are passed through material, reducing the total momentum of the beam. This results in a decrease in transverse emittance and a slight increase in longitudinal emittance, but overall reduction of 6D beam emittance. In emittance exchange, a dispersive beam is passed through wedge-shaped absorbers. Muons with higher energy pass through more material, resulting in a reduction in longitudinal and transverse emittance. Emittance exchange is a vital technology for a Muon Collider and may be of use for a Neutrino Factory. Two ways to demonstrate emittance exchange in the straight solenoidal lattice of MICE are discussed. One is to let a muon beam pass through a wedge shaped absorber; the input beam distribution must be carefully selected to accommodate chromatic aberrations in the solenoid lattice. Another approach is to use the input beam for MICE without beam selection. In this case no polynomial weighting is involved; however, a more sophisticated shape of the absorber is required to reduce longitudinal emittance.
National Technical University of Athens, Zografou
CERN, Geneva
Due to the high bunch density, the output emittances of the CLIC Damping Rings (DR) are strongly dominated by the effect of Intrabeam Scattering (IBS). In an attempt to optimize the ring design and using classical IBS formalisms and approximations, the scaling of the extracted emittances and IBS growth rates is being studied, with respect to several ring parameters including energy, bunch charge, optics and wiggler characteristics. Results from the simulations using a multi-particle tracking code are also presented.
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
A new baseline parameter set has been proposed for the ILC with a reduction by a factor 2 in the number of bunches. This option will allow for a corresponding factor 2 decrease in the Damping Ring circumference, with significant cost savings. A low emittance lattice for a 3.2 km long damping ring has been designed, with the same racetrack layout of the present reference 6.4 km long lattice and similar straight sections. The technical work done for the longer ring can be easily applied to the shorter one. The lattice is based on an arc cell design adopted for the SuperB collider and allows some flexibility in tuning emittance and momentum compaction.
CERN, Geneva
BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk
The CLIC damping rings should produce the ultra-low emittance necessary for the high luminosity performance of the collider. This combined to the high bunch charge present a number of beam dynamics and technical challenges for the rings. Lattice studies have been focused on low emittance cells with optics that reduce the effect Intra-beam scattering. The final beam emittance is reached with the help of super-conducting damping wigglers. Results from recent simulations and prototype measurements are presented, including a detailed absorption scheme design. Collective effects such as electron cloud and fast ion instability can severely limit the performance and mitigation techniques have been identified and tested. Tolerances for alignment and technical system design such as kickers, RF cavities, magnets and vacuum have been finally established.
CERN, Geneva
The CLIC 3 TeV nominal design requires very low emittance of the electron and positron beams to be reached in the damping rings. Due to low energy and to relatively high bunch charge and ultra-low emittance, Intra-Beam Scattering (IBS) effect is very strong and an accurate calculation is needed to check if the required emittance is effectively reached. For this reason it is being developed at CERN a new Software for IBS and Radiation Effects (SIRE), which simulates the evolution of the beam particle distribution in the damping rings, taking into account radiation damping, IBS and quantum excitation. In this paper we present the results of our simulations performed with SIRE on the current lattice of the CLIC damping rings.
PSI, Villigen
The application of various optics correction techniques at the SLS allows to reduce the vertical emittance to <3 pm.rad corresponding to an emittance coupling of <0.05 %. Beam sizes can be measured with a resolution of ~0.5 um allowing to resolve vertical beam sizes close to the quantum radiation limit of 0.55 pm.rad. The application of beam-based alignment/ calibration techniques on magnet girders (remotely controlled), quadrupoles and sextupoles can be used to center the beam in all relevant optical elements at a minimum expense of vertical dipole corrector strength. Furthermore a fast orbit feedback based on a high resolution digital BPM system allows to stabilize the closed orbit up to ~90 Hz and to perform precise orbit manipulations within this bandwidth. Furthermore the top-up operation mode guarantees very stable conditions for the various beam-based measurements. These conditions make the SLS an excellent "test-bed" for future damping ring optimization.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
LBNL, Berkeley, California
CLASSE, Ithaca, New York
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
ANL, Argonne
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire
KEK, Ibaraki
CERN, Geneva
As part of the International Linear Collider (ILC) collaboration, we have compared the electron cloud effect for different Damping Ring designs respectively with 6.4 km and 3.2 km circumference and investigated the feasibility of a shorter damping ring with respect to the electron cloud build-up and related beam instability. These studies were carried out with beam parameters of the ILC Low Power option. A reduced damping ring circumference has been proposed for the new ILC baseline design and would allow to considerably reduce the number of components, wiggler magnets and costs. We also briefly discuss the plans for future studies including the luminosity upgrade option with shorter bunch spacing, the evaluation of mitigations and the integration of the CesrTA results into the Damping Ring design.
STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
EMMA is the world's first non-scaling fixed field alternating gradient accelerator and is being constructed at the STFC Daresbury Laboratory. Experience from the initial commissioning phases (from early 2010) will be reported and lessons for future machines of a similar type will be discussed. The present experimental status and future plans will also be reported.
HU/AdSM, Higashi-Hiroshima
Hiroshima University, Faculty of Science, Higashi-Hirosima
An ion plasma confined in a compact trap system is Coulomb crystallized near the absolute zero temperature. The emittance of the crystallized ion plasma is close to the ultimate limit, far below those of any regular ion beams. This implies that, if we can somehow accelerate a crystal without serious heating, an ion beam of extremely low emittance becomes available*. Such ultra-low emittance beams, even if the current is low, can be used for diverse purposes including precise single ion implantation to various materials and for systematic studies of radiation damage effects on semiconductors and bio-molecules. We performed proof-of-principle experiments on the extraction of Coulomb crystals from a linear Paul trap system developed at Hiroshima University. A string crystal of 40Ca+ ions is produced with the Doppler laser cooling technique and then extracted by switching DC potentials on the trap electrodes. We demonstrate that it is possible to transport the ultra-low temperature ion chain keeping its ordered configuration.
* M. Kano et al., J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 73, No.3, 760 (2004).
TUB, Beijing
Since being introduced to accelerator physics, I have had the privilege to study and work with some of the best physicists on some of the most exciting projects. My first assignment was to simulate transition-crossing in RHIC in which a shocking 86% beam loss led to a redesign of its RF system which later earned me a Ph.D. Participation in the design, R&D, construction, and the commissioning of RHIC, not only was I introduced to the fascinating world of accelerator physics but was also trained as a physicist for accelerator projects. Since then, I have had the opportunity to work and lead teams of physicists and engineers on accelerator projects: US-LHC/AP at BNL, SNS/AP at ORNL, SNS ring, CSNS in China, and now CPHS at Tsinghua. The accelerator profession is uniquely rewarding in that ideas and dreams can be turned into reality through engineering projects, through which one experiences endless learning in physics, technology, teamwork and friendship. An example of enjoying the fun and friendship is the work on crystalline beams as a hobby for the past 18 years.
*Wei, Li, Sessler, Okamoto PRL73(94)3089; 80(98)2606
*Wei, Harrison XVI RCNP Osaka(97)
*Wei et al PAC99 2921
*Wei et al PAC01(01)319
*Wei RMP75(03)1383
*Wei et al NIMA600(09)10
*Wei et al PAC09
CERN, Geneva
I will briefly describe CERN's colliders starting with the ISR, going through LEP, and finishing with the LHC. The common threads will be discussed in terms of people and techniques. I will start by describing the incredible impact on accelerator physics of the almost forgotten, first ever hadron collider, the ISR. I will then present the construction and 12 years of operation of LEP. Finally I will also provide the first results of beam operation in the LHC as well as the plans for the near and far future.
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Milano
Rome University La Sapienza, Roma
ENEA C.R. Frascati, Frascati (Roma)
In the frame of the SPARC-X project, the energy of the Photo-Injector SPARC, in operation at INFN-LNF, will be upgraded from 180 to 250 MeV by replacing a low gradient S-band traveling wave accelerating section with two C-band units, designed and developed at LNF. The new system will consist of a 50 MW klystron, supplied by a pulsed modulator, to feed the high gradient C-band structures through a RF pulse compressor. This paper deals with the design of the full system, the C-band R&D activity and study of the related beam dynamics.
LBNL, Berkeley, California
Normal conducting RF cavities must be used for the cooling section of international Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE) which is currently under construction at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in UK. Eight 201-MHz cavities are needed for the MICE cooling section; fabrication of the first five cavities is nearly complete. This paper reports the cavity fabrication status that includes the cavity design, fabrication techniques and preliminary low power RF measurements of the first five cavities.
LLNL, Livermore, California
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
In support of Compton scattering gamma-ray source efforts at LLNL, a multi-bunch test stand is being developed to investigate accelerator optimization for future upgrades. This test stand will enable work to explore the science and technology paths required to boost the current 10 Hz mono-energetic gamma-ray (MEGa-Ray) technology to an effective repetition rate exceeding 1 kHz, potentially increasing the average gamma-ray brightness by two orders of magnitude. Multiple bunches must be of exceedingly high quality to produce narrow-bandwidth gamma-rays. Modeling efforts will be presented, along with plans for a multi-bunch test stand at LLNL. The test stand will consist of a 5.5 cell X-band rf photoinjector, single accelerator section, and beam diagnostics. The photoinjector will be a high gradient standing wave structure, featuring a dual feed racetrack coupler. The accelerator will increase the electron energy so that the emittance can be measured using quadrupole scanning techniques. Multi-bunch diagnostics will be developed so that the beam quality can be measured and compared with theory. Design will be presented with modeling simulations, and layout plans.
GSI, Darmstadt
The present heavy ion synchrotron SIS-18 will be upgraded to be used as a booster for further synchrotrons being part of the FAIR project underway at GSI. We present a technique to measure the acceptance of an accelerator based on the extension of a previous method by the measurement of particle loss which we have applied to SIS-18. Here, we used an RF voltage to transversally excite a coasting heavy ion beam. The resulting transverse growth of the beam leads to particle loss when the beam width exceeds the limiting aperture. The acceptance has been determined from the time evolution of the beam current measured after particle have started to hit the aperture.
National Technical University of Athens, Zografou
CERN, Geneva
Dispersion and beam optics measurements were carried out in the transfer line between the CERN PS and SPS for the new Multi-Turn Extraction beam. Since the extraction conditions of the four islands and the core are different and strongly dependent on the non-linear effects used to split the beam in the transverse plane, a special care was taken during the measurement campaigns. Furthermore, an appropriate strategy was devised to minimize the overall optical mismatch at SPS injection. All this led to a new optical configuration that will be presented in detail in the paper.
KEK/JAEA, Ibaraki-Ken
J-PARC, KEK & JAEA, Ibaraki-ken
KEK, Ibaraki
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken
The beam commissioning of J-PARC/MR has been started from May 2008 and is in progress*. One key purpose of MR commissioning is the 30 GeV beam fast extraction to Neutrino beam line, which reflect the overall commissioning result. In the MR, the third straight section is assigned for the fast extraction. 5 kickers and 8 septa were installed there, which can give beam a bipolar kick to inside or outside of MR. Inside kick means beam to Neutrino Oscillation Experiment, while outside kick means beam dumped to abort line. However before commissioning, the measured magnetic field distribution of each septa shows non-linear profile along the horizontal direction. In order to find the influence, a simulation with these measured field has been performed. Depends on this study and some OPI (Operation Interface) made by code SAD for orbit modification online, fast extraction of 30 GeV beam to Neutrino line has been achieved on April 23rd 2009. Beam orbit have been tuned to less than 0.5 mm and 0.1 mrad in both horizontal and vertical at the beginning of Neutrino line, which is also the end of MR fast extraction. And so far, 100 kW continual operation to neutrino line have been achieved, too.
* T. Koseki, "Challenges and Solutions for J-PARC Commissioning and Early Operation", in these proceedings
RIKEN Nishina Center, Wako
The RI beam factory at RIKEN Nishina Center needs high intensity of uranium ion beams. We constructed a new injector, RILAC2, which would provide several hundred times higher intensity. As a part of the RILAC2, we designed the low energy beam transport, LEBT, from the superconducting ECR ion source to the RFQ entrance. In this paper we present its requirements and problems, and show our design as the solutions to them. Especially we focus a technique of a pair of two solenoids to treat a rotational operation and a focusing operation independently. Based on this design, the LEBT was completed in March 2010. The RILAC2 will be operational this fall.
RIKEN Nishina Center, Wako
The RI beam factory at RIKEN Nishina Center needs high intensity of uranium ion beams. We have used so far the RFQ pre-injector upstream of the linac system, in which the extraction voltage of the ECR ion source is as low as 5.7 kV for the uranium beam. However, for much higher intensity beams from a newly developed superconducting ECR ion source, such a low voltage was expected to significantly increase their emittance due to the space charge effect. To reduce this effect, we prepared a new pre-injector line of 127 kV for uranium beams by placing the ion source on a high-voltage terminal. In this paper we present the design of the 127 kV medium energy beam transport, MEBT, and show the measured results through the line.
CERN, Geneva
Within the scope of the LHC injector upgrade, it is proposed to replace the present injector chain by new accelerators, Linac4, SPL and PS2, for which new beam transfer lines are required. The beam properties and requirements for each of the lines are summarized. The original design of the beam lines has been fully reconsidered due to the very demanding constraints on the beam line layouts at the PS2 injection / extraction regions and a new straight section of the PS2 which led to a much improved beam line geometry. The relevant modifications and optics designs are described and a preliminary specification of the beam line equipment is also given.
CERN, Geneva
Beam physics considerations for the stripping foil of the 160 MeV PSB H- injection system are described, including the arguments for the foil type, thickness, geometry and positioning. The foil performance considerations are described, including expected stripping efficiency, emittance growth, energy straggling, temperature and lifetime. The different beam loss mechanisms are quantified in the context of the aperture limits, operational considerations and collimation requirements.
Fermilab, Batavia
The Mucool Test Area (MTA) beamline is a dual purpose beamline. The primary purpose is to provide beam for Muon cooling experiments and the secondary purpose is to provide an emittance measuring station for the Linac. A description of the optics for the two different uses of the line will be given and the radiation protection aspects will be discussed.
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
The Muon Ionisation Cooling Experiment (MICE) is being constructed at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK. A muon beam will be cooled through a process of absorption using hydrogen absorbers and acceleration using 200MHz copper RF cavities. This paper describes the RF power source used to accelerate the muon beam, testing of the high voltage power supplies and amplifiers to date and progress on the RF distribution scheme to the accelerating cavities.
University of Michigan, FOCUS Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Recent experimental results will be discussed with regard to the use of the 300 TW, 30 fsec HERCULES laser system at the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science at Michigan to generate GeV range electron beams using Laser Wakefield Acceleration (LWFA). The electron beam quality is shown to be improved substantially using gas mixtures- causing an increase in beam charge and a decrease in emittance. The dynamics of the acceleration process are also determined by measurements of spatially resolved scattered laser radiation and the use of femtosecond optical probing techniques.
Sokendai, Ibaraki
KEK, Ibaraki
RISE, Tokyo
At Laser Undulator Compact Source (LUCX) at KEK, we designed and made a new RF Gun with high mode separation of 8.6 MHz and high Q value as compared to earlier guns. This paper presents fabrication details, low power measurements and tuning procedures followed in making the gun cavity. We also discuss in detail, experimentation done using this gun and show the measurement results. Currently we produce 100 bunch per train but we plan to go for 300 or more bunch per train operation. This will make possible to have higher charge available for laser-beam collisions to generate high flux soft X-rays by Inverse Compton Scattering at our setup.
ISIR, Osaka
Time resolution of pulse radiolysis, which is a stroboscopic measurement technique, depends on electron bunch length. In order to improve the time resolution, femtosecond electron bunch generation at photocathode rf gun was investigated. A 1.6-cell S-band photocathode rf gun, similar to the Gun IV type at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), was used. The rf gun consisted of a half cell and a full cell. A copper cathode was located in the half cell. The rf gun was driven by femtosecond UV laser pulse (266 nm), which was generated with third-harmonic-generation (THG) of Ti:Sapphire femtosecond laser (800 nm). The longitudinal and transverse dynamics of the electron bunch generated by the UV laser was investigated. The bunch length was measured with the dependence of energy spread on acceleration phase in a linac, which was set at the downstream of the rf gun. Transverse emittance at the linac exit was also measured with Q-scan method.
ISIR, Osaka
KEK, Ibaraki
Both ultrafast time-resolved radiolysis and electron diffraction based on photocathode rf electron guns have been developed in Osaka University to reveal the hidden dynamics of intricate molecular and atomic processes in materials. One of the photocathode rf guns has been used successfully to produce a 100-fs high-brightness electron single bunch with a booster linear accelerator and a magnetic bunch compressor. The time resolution of 240 fs was achieved at the first time in the pulse radiolysis. Another photocathode rf gun, which produces directly a near-relativistic 100-fs electron beam, has been developed to construct femtosecond electron diffraction. The megavolt electron diffraction patterns have been observed. The dependences of the emittance, bunch length and energy spread on the radio-frequency (rf) and space charge effects in the rf gun were investigated.
CERN, Geneva
The high charge PHIN photo injector is studied at CERN as an electron source for the CLIC Test Facility (CTF3) drive beam as an alternative to the present thermionic gun. The objective of PHIN is to demonstrate the feasibility of a laser-based electron source for CLIC. The photo injector operates with a 2.5 cell, 3 GHz RF gun using a Cs2Te photocathode illuminated by UV laser pulses generated by amplifying and frequency quadrupling the signal from a Nd:YLF oscillator running at 1.5GHz. The challenge is to generate a beam structure of 1908μbunches with 2.33nC perμbunch at 1.5GHz leading to a high integrated train charge of 4446nC and nominal beam energy of 5.5MeV with current stability below 1%. In the present test stand, a segmented beam dump has been implemented allowing a time resolved measurement of the energy and energy spread of the electron beam. In this paper we report and discuss the measured transverse and longitudinal beam parameters for both the full and time gated train of bunches, and the obtained photocathode quantum efficiency. Laser pointing and amplitude stability results are discussed taking into account correlation between laser and electron beam.
JAEA/TARRI, Gunma-ken
LBNL, Berkeley, California
The construction of the Extra Low ENergy Antiprotons (ELENA) upgrade to the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) ring has been proposed at CERN to produce a greatly increased current of low energy antiprotons for various experiments including, of course, anti-hydrogen studies. This upgrade involves the addition of a small storage ring and electrostatic beam lines. 5.3 MeV antiproton beams from AD are decelerated down to 100 keV in the compact ring and transported to each experiment apparatus. In this paper, we describe an electrostatic beam line from ELENA to ATRAP and magnetic shielding of the low-energy beam line against the ATRAP solenoid magnet. A possible design of this system is displayed.
RIKEN Nishina Center, Wako
The superconducting ECR ion source enabled to use a 28 GHz microwave source had been developed to provide intense beam of highly charged heavy ions like U35+ to the RIKEN RI-beam factory (RIBF) since 2007. The first plasma was lit in May of 2009 and it was succeeded in providing the uranium beam to the RIBF in December. In this operation, uranium ions were supplied with sputter method and two 18 GHz microwave sources were used. The beam intensity of the uranium ion exceeded 14μAmps, which was more than five times larger than that for 18 GHz ECR ion source of a usual type. The extraction system consists of the accel-decel electrode system, a solenoid coil and a 90 degreeanalyzing magnet. We measured the profiles and emittances of the extracted beams for several ion species and compared with the calculated results with 'OPERA-3d' including space charge effect. And we shall discuss the beam dynamics at the extraction region such as the relationship between the beam emittance and the operating parameters.
ESS Bilbao, Bilbao
Bilbao, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bilbao
University of the Basque Country, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bilbao
ESS-Bilbao, Zamudio
Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London
STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon
The main objective of the Bilbao Front End Test Stand (ETORFETS) is to set up a facility to demonstrate experimentally the design ideas for the future ESS LINAC that are being proposed in discussion forums by the technical scientific community. ETORFETS is focused on the first stage of the linear accelerator, namely, that of the Radio-Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) and its pre and post beam transport systems. The RFQ bunches, focuses transverse and longitudinally, and accelerates charged particles in the low-energy range (up to ~ 3 MeV), thus becoming one of the main components of the accelerating structure. The first RFQ simulations, performed in Superfish and GPT software packages, will be presented in this work.
KEK, Ibaraki
SuperKEKB, the upgrade plan of KEKB, aims to boost the luminosity up to 8·1035 /cm2/s. The beam energy of the Low Energy Ring (LER) is 4 GeV for positrons, and that of the High Energy Ring is 7 GeV for electrons. SuperKEKB is designed to produce low emittance beams. The horizontal and vertical emittances of the injection beams are 4nm and 1nm, respectively, which are one or two orders smaller than those of KEKB. The positron injector system consists of the source, capture system, L-band and S-band linacs, collimators, an energy compression system (ECS), a 1-GeV damping ring, a bunch compression system (BCS), S-band and C-band linacs, and a beam transport line into the LER. This paper reports a design of the positron beam transport system from L-band linacs to SuperKEKB.
CERN, Geneva
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
In this paper, we estimate the emittance growth in the LHeC recirculating Linac, the lattice design of which is presented in another paper of IPAC10 proceedings. The possible sources for emittance growth included here are: energy spread from RF acceleration in the SRF (superconducting RF) linac plus large chromatic effects from the lattice, synchrotron radiation (SR) fluctuations in the recirculating arcs. 6-D multi-particle tracking is launched to calculate the emittance from the statistical point of view. The simulation results are also compared with a theoretical estimation.
Fermilab, Batavia
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
We report our experimental demonstration of longitudinal phase space modulation using transverse-to-longitudinal emittance exchange technique. The experiment is carried out at the A0 photoinjector at Fermi National Accelerator Lab. A vertical multi-slit plate is inserted into the beamline prior to the emittance exchange, thus introducing beam horizontal profile modulation. After the emittance exchange, the longitudinal phase space coordinates (energy and time structures) of the beam are modulated accordingly. This is a clear demonstration of the transverse-to-longitudinal phase space exchange. In this paper, we present our experimental results on the measurement of energy and time profile of the electron beam, as well as numerical simulations of the experiment.
Fermilab, Batavia
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
Fermilab is currently constructing a superconducting RF (SRF) test linear accelerator at the New Muon Lab (NML). Besides testing SRF accelerating modules for ILC and Project-X, NML will also eventually support a variety of advanced accelerator R&D experiments. The NML incorporates a 40 MeV photoinjector capable of providing electron bunches with variable parameters. The photoinjector is based on the 1+1/2 cell DESY-type gun followed by two superconducting cavities. It also includes a magnetic bunch compressor, a round-to-flat beam transformer and a low-energy experimental area for beam physics experiments and beam diagnostics R&D. In this paper, we explore, via beam dynamics simulations, the performance of the photoinjector for different operating scenarios.
IKP, Mainz
Siemens AG, Erlangen
The university of Mainz institute for nuclear physics is operating the microtron cascade MAMI (Mainzer Mikrotron) since the late 1970ies. The microtron delivers a cw electron beam to users of the hadron physics community. The recent, fourth stage MAMI-C having a design energy of 1.5 GeV is operated since 2006*. This article deals with the recent developments and operational experiences of MAMI-C, as well as with the energy upgardes to 1.56 GeV** and as final step towards 1.6 GeV. The final increase of beam energy was due to user demands, since it is expected to raise the event rate of the eta prime production by an order of magnitude.
* A.Jankowiak, et al., EPAC08, Genoa, Italy, p.51 (MOZCM01)
** A. Jankowiak, et al., PAC09, Vancouver, Canada (WE6PFP111)
UMAN, Manchester
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
EMMA (Electron Model with Many Applications) is the first proof-of-principle non-scaling FFAG accelerator and is presently under construction at Daresbury Laboratory in the UK. To probe different parts of the bunch phase space during the acceleration from 10 to 20 MeV (which requires rapid resonance crossing), electron bunches are needed with sufficiently small emittance. To understand the phase space painting into the 3000 mm-mrad EMMA acceptance, we have modelled ALICE (Accelerators and Lasers in Combined Experiments) - which acts as an injector for EMMA - using GPT and compared the estimated emittances with measurements made with a variety of screen-based methods. Although the emittances are not yet as small as desired, we obtain reasonable agreement between simulation and measurement.
IAP, Frankfurt am Main
GSI, Darmstadt
The concept of laser acceleration of protons by Target Normal Sheath Acceleration TNSA from thin foils could be used to produce a high intensity proton bunch. This proton bunch could be injected into a linac at energies of ten to several tens MeV. A CH- structure is suggested as the linac structure because of its high gradient. The motivation for such a combination is to deliver single beam bunches with quite small emittance values of extremely high particle number - in the order of 10 billion protons per bunch. Optimum emittance values for linac injection are compared with available, laser generated beam parameters. Options and simulation tools for beam matching by pulsed solenoid and CH- structure using LASIN and LORASR codes are presented.
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
After a short description of the Frequency Multiplication Scheme of the CLIC drive beam we present the impact of beam loading in the RF deflectors. First order scaling laws for the beam loading have been obtained to compare the effects in CLIC with those in the Test Facility CTF3. A dedicated tracking code has been written to study the multi-bunch multi-turn beam dynamics and the results are presented. Possible solutions to mitigate the beam loading effects such as the use of multiple RF deflectors are shown.
Rome University La Sapienza, Roma
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
ENEA C.R. Frascati, Frascati (Roma)
Protons generated by the irradiation of a thin metal foil by a high-intensity short-pulse laser have shown to posses interesting characteristics in terms of energy, emittance, current and pulse duration. They might therefore become in the next future a competitive source to conventional proton sources. Previous theoretical and numerical studies already demonstrated the possibility of an efficient coupling between laser-plasma acceleration of protons with traditional RF based beam-line accelerator techniques. This hybrid proton accelerator would therefore benefit from the good properties of the laser-based source and from the flexibility and know-how of beam handling as given from RF based accelerator structure. The proton beam parameters of the source have been obtained from published laser interaction experimental results and are given as input to the numerical study by conventional accelerator design tools. In this paper we discuss recent results in the optimization and design of the such hybrid schemes in the context of proton accelerators for medical treatments.
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
Bologna University, Bologna
Rome University La Sapienza, Roma
Electron beams produced by laser-plasma interaction are attracting the interest of the conventional accelerator community. In particular Laser-accelerated electrons are particularly interesting as source, considering their high initial energy and their strong beam current. Moreover, the advantages of using laser-plasma electron beam can be expressed in terms of size and cost of the global accelerating infrastructure. However, improvements are still necessary since, currently, the many laser-accelerated beams are characterized by a large energy spread and a high beam divergence that degrades quickly the electron beam properties and makes those sources not suitable as a replacement of conventional accelerators. In this paper, we report on the progress of the study related to capture, shape and transport of laser generated electrons by means of tracking codes. Our study has focused on laser-generated electrons obtained nowadays by conventional multi hundred TW laser systems and on numerical predictions. We analyze different lattice structures, working on the optimization of the capture and transport of laser-accelerated electrons. Results and open problems are shown and discussed.
University of Oslo, Oslo
CERN, Geneva
NTNU, Trondheim
The CLIC Test Facility 3 Test Beam Line is the first prototype for the CLIC drive beam decelerator. Stable transport of the drive beam under deceleration is a mandatory component in the CLIC two-beam scheme. In the Test Beam Line more than 50% of the total energy will be extracted from a 150 MeV, 28 A electron drive beam, by the use of 16 Power Extraction and Transfer structures. A number of experiments are foreseen to investigate the drive beam characteristics under deceleration in the Test Beam Line, including beam stability, beam blow up and the efficiency of the power extraction. General benchmarking of decelerator simulation and theory studies will also be performed. Specially designed instrumentation including precision BPMs, loss monitors and a time-resolved spectrometer dump will be used for the experiments. This paper describes the experimental program foreseen for the Test Beam Line, including the relevance of the results for the CLIC decelerator studies.
IN2P3-LAPP, Annecy-le-Vieux
IHEP Beijing, Beijing
KEK, Ibaraki
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
At the first stage of the ATF2 beam tuning, vertical beam size is usually bigger than 3um at the IP. Beam waist measurements using wire scanners and a laser wire are usually performed to check the initial matching of the beam through to the IP. These measurements are described in this paper for the optics currently used (βx=4cm and βy=1mm). Software implemented in the control room to automate these measurements with integrated analysis is also described. Measurements showed that beta functions and emittances were within errors of measurements when no rematching and coupling corrections were done. However, it was observed that the waist in the horizontal (X) and vertical (Y) plane was abnormally shifted and simulations were performed to try to understand these shifts. They also showed that multiknobs are needed in the current optics to correct simultaneously αx, αy and the horizontal dispersion (Dx). Such multiknobs were found and their linearity and orthogonality were successfully checked using MAD optics code. The software for these multiknobs was implemented in the control room and waist scan measurements using the αy knob were successfully performed.
CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette
A main interest in the high intensity ion linacs is the control of the particle loss in the vacuum chamber. A extremely low fraction of the beam (10-4 or 10-7) is sufficient to complicate the hands on maintenance in such accelerator. Beam mismatching being a major source of halo, it is proposed a non invasive technique to adapt the beam to a periodic focusing channel of a linac based on a FDO of FODO lattice. It is demonstrated that only the matched beam can correspond to a particular signature of the quadrupolar moment of the Beam Positions Monitors. This technique allows also to measure the emittance value or evolution along the channel.
LAL, Orsay
KEK, Ibaraki
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
The purpose of ATF2 is to deliver a beam with stable very small spotsizes as required for future linear colliders such as ILC or CLIC. To achieve that, precise controls of the aberrations such as dispersion and coupling are necessary. Theoretically, the complete reconstruction of the beam matrix is possible from the measurements of horizontal, vertical and tilted beam sizes, combining skew quadrupole scans at several wire-scanner positions. Such measurements were performed in the extraction line of ATF2 in May 2009. We present analysis results attempting to resolve the 4X4 beam matrix and discuss the experimental limitations of 4D emittance measurements with wire scanners.
DESY, Hamburg
PETRA III is a 6 GeV third generation light source located at DESY/Hamburg. The former pre-accelerator of HERA has been converted in 2007/2008 into a high brilliance synchrotron light source with an emittance of 1 nm*rad. The commissioning of PETRA III started in 2009. PETRA III is like other third generation light sources very sensitive to errors of the linear optics. Gradient errors reduce the dynamic aperture, increase the emittance and change the beam size. The correction of the optics is based on orbit response matrix data which were analyzed both with the program LOCO and with a fit of the beta-functions and phase-functions at BPMs and correctors. Initial results of the modelling of the machine and the correction of the linear optics functions will be presented.
DESY, Hamburg
PETRA III is a 6GeV positron light source with a design horizontal beam emittance of 1nm.rad and 1% emittance coupling. This low emittance is achieved with proper correction of horizontal dispersion to its theoretical values in the arcs as well as dispersion free sections. The spurious vertical dispersion, arising due to misalignment and rotational errors of the magnets is also duly corrected as this contributes to the vertical beam size of the photon beam. Here we discuss the method taken to correct the horizontal dispersion using a combined orbit and dispersion correction scheme. In the vertical plane the same procedure can be used as that of horizontal plane or only the dispersion can be corrected using dedicated skew quadrupoles to millimeter level after orbit correction has been done. In this paper we present the methods used and results obtained in correction of dispersions in transverse planes.
University of Delhi, Delhi
Fermilab, Batavia
It is well known that insertion of a coupler into a RF cavity breaks the rotational symmetry of the cavity, resulting in an asymmetric field. This asymmetric field results in a transverse RF Kick. This RF kick transversely offsets the bunch from the nominal axis & it depends on the longitudinal position of the particle in the bunch. Also, insertion of coupler generates short range transverse wake field which is independent from the transverse offset of the particle. These effects cause emittance dilution and it is thus important to study their behavior & possible correction mechanisms. These coupler effects, i.e. coupler's RF kick & coupler's wake field are implemented in a beam dynamics program, Lucretia. Simulations are performed for main linac & bunch compressor of International Linear Collider (ILC) like lattices. Results are compared with Placet results & a good agreement has been achieved.
KURRI, Osaka
The acceleration of intense muon beams up to 25 GeV is the challenge of the international design work for a future neutrino factory. The present baseline scenario for muon acceleration is based on linacs, recirculating linear accelerators (RLAs) and non-scaling fixed field alternating gradient (FFAG) rings. However RLAs are one of the most cost driving part. Two new approaches to use zero-chromatic FFAG instead of RLA have been proposed. Detailed lattices parameters and 6D tracking results are presented.
IHEP Beijing, Beijing
KEK, Ibaraki
IN2P3-LAPP, Annecy-le-Vieux
The ATF2 project is the final focus system prototype for ILC and CLIC linear collider projects, with a purpose to reach a 37nm vertical beam size at the interaction point. During initial commissioning, we started with larger than nominal β-functions at the IP, to reduce the effects from higher-order optical aberrations and thereby simplify the optical corrections needed. We report on simulation studies at two different IP locations developed based on waist scan, dispersion, coupling and β function multiknobs correction in the large β optics of ATF2, in the presence of two kinds of magnet inaccuracies (quadrupole gradient and roll errors) to generate all possible linear optics distortions at the IP. A vertical beam size which is very close to the nominal beam size is obtained based on the simulation study.
USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui
Low emittance is a desirable performance for high brightness synchrotron light source and damping ring. The work presented in this paper demonstrates that the lattice of a given electron storage ring, which has fixed circumference and magnet layout, can be optimized to obtain low emittance by using MOGA (Multi-objective Genetic Algorithm). Both dispersion-free and non-dispersion-free lattices of HLS (Hefei Light Source) upgrade project are computed as an illustration. Simulation result shows that this method is fast and straightforward.
USTC/NSRL, Hefei, Anhui
To enhance the performance of Hefei Light Source, an upgrade project is undergoing. The magnet lattice of storage ring will be reconstructed with 4 DBA cells, whose advantages are lower beam emittance and more straight section available for insertion devices. In order to assure smooth beam accumulation process under new low emittance lattice, the injector, which is composed of electron linac and beam transfer line, would be updated. The detail of upgrading Hefei Light Source transport line will be described in this paper. It include the upgrading of lattice, the orbit control of beam transfer line and others. It is hopeful to realize a high transfer efficiency and high injection efficiency for new lower beam emittance storage ring.
Kyungpook National University, Daegu
Pohang Light Source-Ⅱ (PLS-Ⅱ) is an upgrade project of the existing 2.5 GeV PLS. The circumference, beam current and energy of PLS-Ⅱ storage ring are 281.82 m, 400 mA and 3 GeV, respectively. The upgrade project has many issues on beam dynamics. We investigated lattice optimization such as lattice corrections, dynamic aperture, selection of optimized tune & emittance and effects of insertion devices. MAD, SAD and Elegant have been used to the lattice optimization. We investigated the effects of machine errors and 20 IDs to the dynamic aperture. PLS-Ⅱ lattice include twenty insertion devices and their effects on the beam dynamics are investigated. We also investigate possibility to reduce the emittance by increasing horizontal betatron tune and adjusting the dispersion by using of MAD, SAD and Elegant and also examined the required strengths of sextupoles for the various emittances.
PAL, Pohang, Kyungbuk
SINAP, Shanghai
The measurement and the control of the coupling is essential to maximize synchrotron performance. Small coupling is required for small vertical size and high brightness. The Pohang Light Source has a 2.5 GeV storage ring and its coupling constant is measured as about 1%. In addition to errors at quadrupole or sextupole, the condition varying of the insertion device affects the coupling. The coupling for various condition is measured by the resonance and the response matrix and compared with the beam size and the lifetime. The correction and the control of the coupling is presented.
JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region
The main losses of the injected beam are localized at the centre region of the cyclotron. One of the problems is the defocusing action of the spiral inflector. At the present work the method of decreasing of the vertical defocusing effect of the spiral inflector is presented. The decreasing of the vertical defocusing is achieved by means of special form of the inflector electric field. At FLNR, JINR, the new type of the inflector was investigated and manufactured. At the present time the inflector is installed and works at the U400 cyclotron. The experiments with the new inflector have shown the increasing of the beam intensity and more tuneble work of the cyclotron.
JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region
Courant-Snyder invariant and Root Mean Square (RMS) beam emittance are well-known invariants of linear equation of motion. They are connected with the second order moments of a beam distribution function. Other invariants of linear equations of motion generated by second and higher order moments are presented in this report.
CERN, Geneva
LAL, Orsay
KEK, Ibaraki
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
The current ATF2 Ultra-Low beta proposal was designed to achieve 20nm vertical IP beam size without considering the multipolar components of the FD magnets. In this paper we describe different scenarios that avoid the detrimental effect of these multipolar errors in the FD. The simplest approach consists in modifying the optics but other solutions are studied as the introduction of new higher order magnets or the replacement of the FD with SC technology. The practical aspects of such an upgrade are the tuning performance and the compatibility with existing devices and instrumentation. These are fully addressed in the paper.
NSRRC, Hsinchu
In this paper, the simulation techniques of insertion device (ID) were discussed. Piecewise hard-edge model was used to estimate the tune shift and changes of emittance and energy spread, while kick map model was used for particle tracking. Optical functions and tune shifts can also be derived by this model. Frequency maps as well as the beta-beating and its correction of Phase I IDs are demonstrated.
NSRRC, Hsinchu
To evaluate the feasibility for installing two insertion devices in the long straight sections (12 m long) of the TPS storage ring, two different kinds of the double mini-betay optics (symmetric and asymmetric configurations) were proposed to fulfill this purpose. In the symmetric case a quadrupole triplet is located at the center of the long straight, while in the asymmetric case a quadrupole doublet is used. The effects on the beam dynamics, such as the dynamic aperture, injection efficiency, and lifetime, etc., are presented.
Diamond, Oxfordshire
JAI, Oxford
The Diamond storage ring has been operated in low alpha mode providing short-pulse radiation for pump-probe experiments and coherent radiation for THz/IR measurements. Two lattices have been implemented, with both capable of providing a variable alpha in the range ±2x10-5, down to minimum values well below 1x10-6. The second lattice additionally provides a low emittance of 4nm.rad, compared to 35nm.rad for the first lattice. An overview of operation in low alpha mode is given, along with first measurements of coherent emission at long wavelengths under a variety of conditions.
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire
The University of Liverpool, Liverpool
One of the major challenges for the International Linear Collider (ILC) damping rings is the attainment of the 2 pm vertical emittance specification. To achieve such an ultra-low vertical emittance a highly effective diagnostics and correction system is needed. However, since both BPMs and correctors have also negative impacts on the design (cost, complexity, impedance), it is important to understand how the number and locations of both these components affect the correction. In this paper we present the results of simulations for the Technical Design Phase baseline damping rings lattice (DCO4), aimed at understanding the effectiveness of orbit, dispersion, and coupling correction for different design and operation scenarios.
ANL, Argonne
IHEP Beijing, Beijing
Nonuniform dipoles with bending field variation have been studied for reducing storage ring emittance in recent years. According to a new minimum emittance theory, the effects of an arbitrary dipole can be characterized by two parameters. To have a better idea of the potentials of nonuniform dipoles, here we numerically explore the values of these two parameters for optimal emittance reduction.
Fermilab, Batavia
The Project Management Design Team of the International Linear Collider has recently proposed fundamental changes to the published ILC RDR baseline with the goal of presenting a potential alternate design providing a more cost-effective solution. In this framework a new lattice for the Damping Rings has been presented, shortening the exit bunch length from the RDR value of 9 mm down to 6 mm. The shorter bunch length allowed the adoption of a simpler single-stage bunch compressor, instead of the RDR two-stage compressor. The new single-stage compressor has a compression ratio of 20 and still achieves the nominal RDR value of 0.3 mm bunch length at the Interaction Point. The new design has been optimized to generate the required compression while having a small SR emittance growth, and reduced energy spread. The new lattice and its optimization procedure are presented in this paper.
Fermilab, Batavia
Phase space manipulation techniques within two degrees of freedom are foreseen to enhance the performances of next generation accelerators such as high-energy physics colliders and accelerator based light sources. At the Fermilab A0 photoinjector, a proof-of-principle experiment to demonstrate the exchange of the transverse and longitudinal emittances is ongoing. The emittance exchange beamline consists of a 3.9 GHz normal conducting deflecting mode cavity flanked by two doglegs. Electron bunches with charges of 250 pC and energy of 14.3 MeV are routinely sent through the exchanger. In this paper, we report our latest results on the demonstration of emittance exchange obtained with significantly improved beam diagnostics. We also compare our experimental results with a simple numerical model.
CLASSE, Ithaca, New York
We are developing techniques for measuring and correcting emittance diluting optical and alignment errors in the CesrTA storage ring. Our principle measurement method is to resonantly excite the beam at all three normal mode frequencies and then to extract the amplitude and phase of each mode at all 100 beam position monitors. We reconstruct beta-functions, betatron phase advance, coupling parameters, dispersion, and BPM tilts from the data. A complete characterization including data collection and analysis can be done in a few minutes. To measure the emittance, an x-ray beam size monitor capable of measuring the size of a single bunch on a turn by turn basis provides a real time measure with a resolution on the order of a few microns. This resolution corresponds to a few pm emittance. Our ability to identify alignment and optical errors is limited by systematic measurement errors. We report on the status of our efforts to understand and eliminate systematic errors, the accuracy of our characterization of the machine optics, and our success at reducing sources of emittance dilution.
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia
The Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at Jefferson Lab can be described as a series of concatenated beamlines. Methods used to measure the Twiss parameters in closed orbit machines are not applicable in such open ended systems. We are using properly selected sets of real orbits in the accelerator, as one would for numerical analysis. The evolution of these trajectories along the beamline models the behavior of a synthetic beam which deterministically supplements beam profile-based Twiss parameter measurements and optimizes the efficiency of beamline tuning. Examples will be presented alongside a description of the process.
CANDLE, Yerevan
A method of beam energy spread and synchrotron tune measurements based on the analysis of transverse decoherence\recoherence signal of kicked beam is presented. As an illustration the beam energy spread was extracted for the SLS storage ring.
SOLEIL, Gif-sur-Yvette
LAL, Orsay
One advantage of X-ray sources based on Compton Back Scattering (CBS) processes is that such compact machines can produce an intense flux of monochromatic X-rays. CBS results from collisions between laser pulses and relativistic electron bunches. Aiming at high X-ray flux, one possible configuration combining a low emittance linear accelerator with a compact storage ring and a high gain laser cavity has been adopted by the ThomX project. We present here the main ring lattice characteristics in terms of baseline optics, possible other tunings such as low or negative momentum compaction, and orbit correction schemes. In addition, non-linear beam dynamics aspects including fringe field components as well as higher multipole tolerances are presented.
ELETTRA, Basovizza
The 4th Generation Light Source FERMI@ELETTRA, in construction at the ELETTRA Laboratory in Trieste, requires very short electron bunches at the entrance of the undulator chain. To linearize the longitudinal phase space in the presence of the compression process, a 4th harmonic decelerating section (11992 MHz) will be installed before the first magnetic chicane. An X-band structure, with integrated alignment monitors [1], is currently under development in the framework of collaboration between CERN-PSI-ELETTRA. In this paper we will present a full longitudinal and transversal beam dynamics of the electron beam along the X-band structure during linearization process using 3D space charge code TStep [2]. Beam dynamics simulations will also be continued along the whole FERMI linac using elegant code [3].
KEK, Ibaraki
JAEA/J-PARC, Tokai-Mura, Naka-Gun, Ibaraki-Ken
Nonlinear space charge interaction in high intensity proton rings causes beam loss, which limits the performance. Simulations based on particle in cell method has been performed for JPARC-Rapid Cycle Synchrotron and Main Ring. Beam loss estimation during acceleration and resonances analysis are discussed with various simulations using dynamic and frozen models.
KEK, Ibaraki
Synchro-beta resonances enhance beam sizes dynamically. For accelerators aimed for high luminosity, the effect can be more serious since a difference between vertical emittance and longitudinal emittance tends to be larger. Therefore, it is necessary to estimate a tune spread of the synchro-beta resonances properly. Synchro-beta effect is caused by chromatic aberrations, which characterize how optics parameters, including tune, Twiss parameter, X-Y coupling parameter, and other parameters, depend on the momentum deviation. The chromatic aberrations are actually defined by coefficients of an optics parameter in is expansion in terms of momentum deviation. The synchro-beta resonances caused by chromatic aberrations are discussed in this conference. We use 6-dimensional symplectic map which is obtained from measured optics parameters in order to simulate beam motion precisely*.
* Y. Seimiya and K. Ohmi, TH6PFP020, Particle Accelerator Conference PAC09, 4-8 May 2009, Vancouver, Canada.
CERN, Geneva
UMAN, Manchester
The first phase of the HIE-ISOLDE project at CERN consists of a superconducting (SC) linac upgrade in order to increase the energy of post-accelerated radioactive ion beams from 2.8 MeV/u to over 10 MeV/u (for A/q = 4.5). In preparation for the upgrade, we present beam dynamics studies of the booster section of the normal conducting (NC) REX-ISOLDE linac, focused on the longitudinal development of the beam in the 101.28 MHz IH cavity, employing a Combined Zero Degree Structure* (KONUS), pulsing at a high gradient of over 3 MV/m. The evolution of the transverse emittance in the superconducting linac depends critically on the injected phase space distribution of particles from the existing linac and, with a better understanding of the longitudinal beam dynamics upstream, the performance of the upgrade can be optimised. Data taken during the commissioning phase of the REX-ISOLDE linac is analysed to understand the properties of the beam in the booster and combined with beam dynamics simulations which include the realistic fields of the IH structure, determined from both simulation and perturbation measurement. The matching of the NC and SC machines is also discussed.
*Ratzinger, U., "The IH-structure and its capability to accelerate high current beams," Particle Accelerator Conference, 1991.
CERN, Geneva
ESRF, Grenoble
Recently, a novel multi-turn injection technique was proposed. It is based on beam merging via resonance crossing. The various beamlets are successively injected and merged back by crossing a stable resonance generated by non-linear magnetic fields. Space charge is usually a crucial effect at injection in a circular machine and it could have an adverse impact on the phase space topology required for merging the various beamlets. Numerical simulations were performed to assess the stability of the merging process as a function of injected beam charge. The results are presented and discussed in this paper.
CERN, Geneva
MPI-K, Heidelberg
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire
Higher Order Modes (HOMs) can severely limit the operation of superconducting cavities in a linac with high beam current, high duty factor and complex pulse structure. The full HOM spectrum has to be analyzed in order to identify potentially dangerous modes already during the design phase and to define their damping requirements. For this purpose a dedicated beam simulation code focused on beam-HOM interaction was developed, taking into account important effects like the HOM frequency spread, beam input jitter, different chopping patterns, as well as klystron and alignment errors. Here this code is used to investigate in detail the HOM properties of the cavities foreseen in the Superconducting Proton Linac (SPL) at CERN and their potential to drive beam instabilities. A special focus is set to HOM excitation by chopped pulses with high repetition rate and on the influence of HOMs on recirculating electron beams in the high-energy part of the SPL. Finally, the HOM characteristics of similar linac designs are presented and compared to the SPL.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
CERN, Geneva
The adiabaticity of the AC dipole might be compromised by noise or unwanted frequency components in its signal. An effort has been put to characterize and optimize the signal quality of the LHC AC dipoles. The measured signal is used in realistic simulations in order to evaluate its impact on beam dynamics and to ultimately establish safe margins for the operation of the LHC AC dipoles.
Fermilab, Batavia
Beam collisions with a crossing angle at the interaction point are often necessary in colliders to reduce the effects of parasitic collisions which induce emittance growth and decrease beam lifetime. The crossing angle reduces the geometrical overlap of the beams and hence the luminosity. Crab cavity offer a promising way to compensate the crossing angle and to realize effective head-on collisions. Moreover, the crab crossing mitigates the synchro-betatron resonances due to the crossing angle. A crab cavity experiment in SPS is proposed as a proof of principle before deciding on a full crab-cavity implementation in the LHC. In this paper, we investigate the effects of a single crab cavity on beam dynamics in the SPS and life time.
LBNL, Berkeley, California
Frequency Map Analysis has been used successfully to study accelerator lattices for many years, both in simulations and in experiment. We will present a new application to use the quantitative results of frequency maps (namely the diffusion rates) to optimize the nonlinear properties of lattices. The technique is fairly simple but powerful and has already been used to optimize lattices for example for the NLC and ILC damping rings, as well as the ALS lattice upgrade.
MIT/PSFC, Cambridge, Massachusetts
The dynamics of charged particles in a recently-discovered adiabatic thermal beam equilibrium* are studied. In particular, test particle motion is analyzed numerically, assuming the beam equilibrium fields are in a periodic solenoidal focusing channel. Poincare surface-of-section maps are generated to examine the behavior of the test particles in phase space such as nonlinear resonances and chaotic regions. Comparisons are made between the adiabatic thermal and rigid-rotor Vlasov beam equilibria**.
* J. Zhou, K.R. Samokhvalova, and C. Chen, Phys. Plasmas 15, 023102 (2008)
** C. Chen, R. Pakter and R.C. Davidson, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 225 (1997)
KEK, Ibaraki
The KEKB and PEP-II B factories have achieved world record luminosities while doubling or tripling their original design luminosities. The demand now from the physics community is for Super B Factories with orders of magnitude higher luminosities than those achieved by the present generation of machines. This talk will discuss the next-generation B factories, which aim to push back the luminosity frontier in the search for physics beyond the Standard Model.