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- S. Henderson, S. Assadi, R. Cutler, V.V. Danilov, G.W. Dodson, R.E. Fuja, J. Galambos, J.A. Holmes, N. Holtkamp, D.-O. Jeon, S. Kim, L.V. Kravchuk, M.P. McCarthy, G.R. Murdoch, D.K. Olsen, T.J. Shea, M.P. Stockli
ORNL/SNS, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
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The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) accelerator systems, which consist of an H- injector, a 1 GeV linear accelerator, an accumulator ring and associated transport lines, will provide a 1 GeV, 1.44 MW proton beam to a liquid mercury target for neutron production. The SNS is presently under construction at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and will begin operations in 2006. Even in the baseline design, many of the accelerator subsystems are capable of supporting higher beam intensities and higher beam energy. We report on upgrade scenarios for the SNS accelerator systems which increase the 1.44 MW baseline beam power to at least 3 MW, and perhaps as high as 5 MW. The increased SNS beam power can be achieved primarily by increasing the H- ion source current, installing additional superconducting cryomodules to increase the final linac beam energy to 1.3-1.4 GeV, and modifying injection and extraction hardware in the ring to handle the increased beam energy. The upgrade beam parameters will be presented, the required hardware modifications will be described, and the beam dynamics implications will be discussed.
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