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Chen, C.

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TUPLT156 Progress in Ideal High-intensity Unbunched Beams in Alternating Gradient Focusing Systems 1494
 
  • R. Bhatt, C. Chen, J. Zhou
    MIT/PSFC, Cambridge, Massachusetts
 
  A persistent challenge in high-intensity accelerator design is the optimization of matching conditions between a beam injector and a focusing system in order to minimize non-laminar flows, envelope oscillations, emittance growth, and halo production. It has been shown [*] that the fluid motion of a thin space-charge dominated beam propagating through a linear magnetic focusing channel consisting of any combination of uniform or periodic solenoidal fields and alternating gradient quadrupole fields can be solved by a general class of corkscrewing elliptic beam equilibria. The present work extends this discussion to asymmetric PPM focusing and derives conditions under which a uniform density elliptical beam can be matched to such a focusing channel by considering the fluid equilibrium in the paraxial limit. Methods of constructing such a beam are also discussed, with particular attention devoted to analytic electrode design for Pierce-type gun diodes of elliptical cross-section. Several applications are discussed, including heavy-ion fusion and a high-efficiency ribbon beam microwave amplifier for accelerator applications.

* C. Chen, R. Pakter, R. Davidson, "Ideal Matching of Heavy Ion Beams," Nucl. Inst. And Methods, A 464 (2001) p. 518-523

 
WEPLT149 Image-charge Effects on the Beam Halo Formation and Beam Loss in a Small-aperture Alternating-gradient Focusing System 2185
 
  • J. Zhou, C. Chen
    MIT/PSFC, Cambridge, Massachusetts
 
  The image-charge effects on an intense charged-particle beam propagating through an alternating-gradient focusing channel with a small aperture, circular, perfectly conducting pipe are studied using a test-particle model. For a well-matched elliptical beam with the Kapchinskij-Vladimirskij (KV) distribution, it is found that halo formation and beam loss is induced by nonlinear fields due to image charges on the wall. The halo formation and chaotic particle motion dependent sensitively on the system parameters: filling factor of the quadrupole focusing field, vacuum phase advance, beam perveance, and the ratio of the beam size to the aperture. Furthermore, the percentage of beam loss to the conductor wall is calculated as a function of propagating distance and aperture. The theoretical results are compared with PIC code simulation results.