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MOPLT174 Electron Acceleration for e-RHIC with the Non-scaling FFAG 932
 
  • D. Trbojevic, M. Blaskiewicz, E.D. Courant, J. Kewisch, T. Roser, A. Ruggiero, N. Tsoupas
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  
  A non-scaling FFAG lattice design to accelerate electrons from 3.2 to 10 GeV is described. This is one of the possible solutions for the future electron-ion collider (eRHIC) at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collier (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). This e-RHIC proposal requires acceleration of the low emittance electrons up to energy of 10 GeV. To reduce a high cost of the full energy super-conducting linear accelerator an alternative approach with the FFAG is considered. The report describes the 1277 meters circumference non-scaling FFAG ring. The Courant-Snyder functions, orbit offsets, momentum compaction, and path length dependences on momentum during acceleration are presented.  
MOPLT175 A Method to Measure the Focusing Properties (R_Matrix) of a Magnet 935
 
  • N. Tsoupas, L. Ahrens, K.A. Brown, D. Gassner, J. Glenn, Y.Y. Lee, T. Roser, P. Thieberger, J. Wei
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  
  We discuss a method that may be used to measure the focusing properties of a magnet. This method may prove valuable when applied to non-conventional magnets that deviate from the usual dipole magnets or other multipole magnets which are commonly used in a synchrotron. In this category of non-conventional magnets, fall special magnets, which come under the name Snakes. Such magnets are being used in synchrotron accelerators[*,**] to introduce artificial spin resonances to help overcome the intrinsic and/or imperfection spin resonances. This method of measuring the focusing properties of a magnet requires the use of low energy and high rigidity heavy-ions which may be obtained from the BNL Tandem accelerator.In brief the method consists on, injecting low emittance beamlets of lightly stripped heavy ions into a magnet and measuring the coordinates, of these narrowbeamlets, at the entrance and exit of the magnet.From the measurement of these coordinates of the narrowbeamlets we can deduce information on the R matrix and higher order matrix elements that define the focusing properties of the magnet.

* T. Roser, AIP Conf. Proc. 187 (1988) 1221** H.Huang, et. al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 73 (1994) 2982

 
TUPLT179 Mini-bunched and Micro-bunched Slow Extracted Beams from the AGS 1544
 
  • K.A. Brown, L. Ahrens, J.M. Brennan, J. Glenn, M. Sivertz, N. Tsoupas
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  • S.R. Koscielniak
    TRIUMF, Vancouver
  
  BNL's AGS has a long history of providing slow extracted proton beams to fixed target experiments. This program of providing high quality high intensity beams continues with two new experiments currently being designed for operation at the AGS; both of these new experiments require slow extracted beam, but with an added requirement of those beams experiments require slow extracted beam, but with an added requirement of those beams experiments and initial tests have been performed. In this report we will describe the beam requirements for the two experiments, and present results of detailed simulations and initial beam tests.  
TUPLT187 SNS Extraction Kicker Power Supply Control 1568
 
  • J.-L. Mi, L. Hoff, R.F. Lambiase, Y.Y. Lee, J. Sandberg, Y. Tan, N. Tsoupas, R. Zapasek, W. Zhang
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  
  There are fourteen PFN power supplies, which will be installed in the SNS Extraction Kicker System. This paper will introduce these fourteen-power supplies arrangement and control schematic. These control instruments and boards are installed into four standard racks. Some of the control boards functions will be list in this paper. Control racks and some control boards pictures will be shown in this paper.  
TUPLT188 SNS Extraction Kicker Power Supply Manufacture Status 1571
 
  • J.-L. Mi, H. Hahn, R.F. Lambiase, Y.Y. Lee, C. Pai, J. Sandberg, Y. Tan, N. Tsoupas, D.S. Warburton, R. Zapasek, W. Zhang
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  
  There are fourteen PFN power supplies, which will be installed in the SNS Extraction Kicker System. The Pulse Forming Network (PFN) power supplies for the SNS Extraction kicker were designed by Brookhaven. The basic configuration of the PFN is a lumped element Blumlein pulse forming network (BPFN). The PFN and power supply are fabricated by an industrial company. The first article of. PFN and power supply has been manufactured and tested with a dummy load at the company and onsite with the prototype magnet. The PFN has been tested beyond its specification and has met all requirements including rise time, pulse flatness, amplitude and pulse repetition rate. Additional heat runs are scheduled. The transverse coupling impedance of the kicker system with attached PFN has been measured. This paper will report on the SNS Extraction Kicker Power Supply engineering status, and will include output waveforms, impedance measurements, and production projections.  
TUPLT192 Transition Crossing for the BNL Super Neutrino Beam 1583
 
  • J. Wei, N. Tsoupas
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  
  The super neutrino beam facility proposed at the Brookhaven National Laboratory requires proton beams to cross the transition energy in the AGS to reach 1 MW beam power at top energy. High intensity beams are accelerated at a fast repetition rate. Upon transition crossing, such high intensity bunches of large momentum spreads suffer from strong nonlinear chromatic effects and self-field effects. Using theoretical and experimental methods, we determine the impact of these effects and the effectiveness of transition-jump compensation schemes, and determine the optimum crossing scenario for the super neutrino beam facility.  
WEODCH01 1.5-GeV FFAG Accelerator as Injector to the BNL-AGS 159
 
  • A. Ruggiero, M. Blaskiewicz, T. Roser, D. Trbojevic, N. Tsoupas, W. Zhang
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  
  A 1.5-GeV Fixed-Field Alternating-Gradient (FFAG) Accelerator has been recently proposed as a new injector to the Alternating-Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) of Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). It is being considered as a replacement of the present 1.5-GeV AGS Booster. The substitution will enhance the performance of the AGS accelerator facility in a variety of ways. It would still allow acceleration of all hadronic particles: protons, and heavy-ions. The major benefit is that it would considerably shorten the typical combined AGS acceleration cycle, and, consequently, may yield to an improvement of beam stability, intensity and size. The AGS-FFAG will also facilitate the proposed upgrade of the AGS facility toward a 1-MW average proton beam power. The paper describes a compact FFAG design for acceleration of protons from 200 MeV to 1.5 GeV. The circumference is about 250 m. The lattice is a periodic sequence of FDF triplets of combined-function magnets. An adjusted field profile has been calculated to compensate the variation of the main lattice functions with momentum. At injection, a beam pulse 130 μs long of negative-ions (H?) is stacked with the charge-exchange method. Acceleration of one pulse with 2.5 x 1013 protons takes about 130 μs, if harmonic-jump scheme is used in conjunction with the choice of 201.25 MHz. Four of such beam pulses are required to fill entirely the AGS. The entire filling process thus takes less than one millisecond.  
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WEPKF087 SNS Extraction Fast Kicker Pulsed Power System 1810
 
  • W. Zhang, H. Hahn, J.-L. Mi, C. Pai, J. Sandberg, Y. Tan, N. Tsoupas, J. Tuozzolo, D.S. Warburton, J. Wei
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  • R. Cutler, K. Rust
    ORNL/SNS, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
  
  The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) is a next generation high intensity beam facility. Its Accumulator Ring Extraction Fast Kicker System is a very high peak power, high average power, high precision pulse-waveform, ultra-low beam impedance, and high repetition rated pulsed power system. It has been successfully design and developed at Brookhaven National Laboratory. This system will consist of fourteen identical high voltage modulators and fourteen extraction magnet sections located inside of the SNS accumulator ring. The overall system output will reach multiple GW peak power with 60 Pulse-per-second repetition rates. The techniques of reducing impedance, improving rise time, and minimizing ripples will be discussed. The lifetime considerations, issues of the system design, development and construction are presented in this paper.  
THPLT183 Results from the Commissioning of the NSRL Beam Transfer Line at BNL 2876
 
  • N. Tsoupas, S. Bellavia, R. Bonati, K.A. Brown, I.-H. Chiang, C. Gardner, D. Gassner, S. Jao, I. Marneris, A. McNerney, D. Phillips, P. Pile, R. Prigl, A. Rusek, L. Snydstrup
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  
  The NASA SPACE RADIATION LABORATORY (NSRL) has started operations at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in 2003. The NSRL facility will be used by NASA to study radiation effects. The NSRL facility utilizes proton and heavy-ion beams of energies from 50 to 3000 MeV/n which are accelerated by the AGS_Booster synchrotron accelerator. The beams were extracted[1] ,and transported to a sample which is located 100 m downstream. To date, protons, 12C, 56Fe, 48Ti ion beams of various magnetic rigidities have been transported to the sample location. The NSRL beam transport line has been designed to employ octupole magnetic elements[2] which transform the normal (Gaussian) beam distribution on the sample into a beam with rectangular cross section, and uniformly distributed over the sample. No beam-collimation is applied along any point of the NSRL beam transport line and the beam focusing on the sample is purely magnetic. The experimental and theoretical horizontal and vertical beam envelopes of the first order optics will be presented. The theoretical beam profiles and uniformities at the location of the sample, when the magnetic octupoles are excited (third order optics), will be compared with the experimentally measured ones.  
MOPLT165 Luminosity Increases in Gold-gold Operation in RHIC 917
 
  • W. Fischer, L. Ahrens, J. Alessi, M. Bai, D. Barton, J. Beebe-Wang, M. Blaskiewicz, J.M. Brennan, D. Bruno, J. Butler, R. Calaga, P. Cameron, R. Connolly, T. D'Ottavio, J. DeLong, K.A. Drees, W. Fu, G. Ganetis, J. Glenn, T. Hayes, P. He, H.-C. Hseuh, H. Huang, P. Ingrassia, U. Iriso, R. Lee, Y. Luo, W.W. MacKay, G. Marr, A. Marusic, R. Michnoff, C. Montag, J. Morris, T. Nicoletti, B. Oerter, C. Pearson, S. Peggs, A. Pendzick, F.C. Pilat, V. Ptitsyn, T. Roser, J. Sandberg, T. Satogata, C. Schultheiss, A. Sidi-Yekhlef, L. Smart, S. Tepikian, R. Tomas, D. Trbojevic, N. Tsoupas, J. Tuozzolo, J. Van Zeijts, K. Vetter, K. Yip, A. Zaltsman, S.Y. Zhang, W. Zhang
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  
  After an exploratory phase, during which a number of beam parameters were varied, the RHIC experiments now demand high luminosity to study heavy ion collisions in detail. Presently RHIC operates routinely above its design luminosity. In the first 4 weeks of its current operating period (Run-4) the machine has delivered more integrated luminosity that during the 14 weeks of the last gold-gold operating period (Run-2). We give an overview of the changes that increased the instantaneous luminosity and luminosity lifetime, raised the reliability, and improved the operational efficiency.  
TUPLT180 Results of the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory Beam Studies Program at BNL 1547
 
  • K.A. Brown, L. Ahrens, R.H. Beuttenmuller, I.-H. Chiang, D.C. Elliott, D. Gassner, Z. Li, I. Marneris, J. Mead, J. Morris, D. Phillips, V. Radeka, A. Rusek, N. Tsoupas, B. Yu, K. Zeno
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  
  The NASA Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) was constructed in collaboration with NASA for the purpose of performing radiation effect studies for the NASA space program. The NSRL makes use of heavy ions in the range of 0.05 to 3 GeV/n slow extracted from BNL's AGS Booster. The purpose of the NSRL beam studies program is to develop a clear understanding of the beams delivered to the facility, to fully characterize those beams, and to develop new capabilities in the interest of understanding the radiation environment in space. In this report we will describe the first results from this program.  
TUPLT181 Results of the First Run of the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory at BNL 1550
 
  • K.A. Brown, L. Ahrens, J.M. Brennan, J. DeLong, C. Gardner, D. Gassner, J. Glenn, Y. Kotlyar, I. Marneris, A. Rusek, N. Tsoupas, K. Zeno
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  
  The NASA Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) was constructed in collaboration with NASA for the purpose of performing radiation effect studies for the NASA space program. The results of commissioning of this new facility were reported in [*]. In this report we will describe the results of the first run. The NSRL makes use of heavy ions in the range of 0.05 to 3 GeV/n slow extracted from BNL's AGS Booster. Many modes of operation were explored during the first run, demonstrating all the capabilities designed into the system. Heavy ion intensities from 100 particles per pulse up to 2×109 particles per pulse were delivered to a large variety of experiments, providing a dose range up to 70 G/min over a 5x5 cm2 area. Results presented will include those related to the production of beams that are highly uniform in both the transverse and longitudinal planes of motion [**].

* K.A.Brown, et al, ‘‘Commissioning Results of Slow Extraction of Heavy Ions from the AGS Booster‘‘, Proceedings of the 2003 Particle Accelerator Conference, Portland, OR, 2003** N.Tsoupas, et al, ‘‘Commissioning of the Beam Transfer Line of the Booster Application Facility (BAF) at BNL'', These Proceedings

 
TUPLT186 Managing System Parameters for SNS Magnets and Power Supplies 1565
 
  • W.J. McGahern, S. Badea, F.M. Hemmer, H.-C. Hseuh, J.W. Jackson, A.K. Jain, F.X. Karl, R.F. Lambiase, Y.Y. Lee, C.J. Liaw, H. Ludewig, G.J. Mahler, W. Meng, C. Pai, C. Pearson, J. Rank, D. Raparia, J. Sandberg, S. Tepikian, N. Tsoupas, J. Tuozzolo, P. Wanderer, J. Wei, W.-T. Weng
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  • R. Cutler, J.J. Error, J. Galambos, M.P. Hechler, S. Henderson, P.S. Hokik, T. Hunter, G.R. Murdoch, K. Rust, J.P. Schubert
    ORNL/SNS, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
  
  The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), currently under construction at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is a collaborative effort of six U.S. Department of Energy partner laboratories. With over 312 magnets and 251 power supplies that comprise the beam transport lines and the accumulator ring, it is a challenge to maintain a closed loop on the variable parameters that are integral to these two major systems. This paper addresses the input variables, responsibilities and design parameters used to define the SNS magnet and power supply systems.  
TUPLT190 Acceleration of Polarized Beams using Multiple Strong Partial Siberian Snakes 1577
 
  • T. Roser, L. Ahrens, M. Bai, E.D. Courant, J. Glenn, R.C. Gupta, H. Huang, A.U. Luccio, W.W. MacKay, N. Tsoupas, E. Willen
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
  • M. Okamura, J. Takano
    RIKEN, Saitama
  
  Acceleration of polarized protons in the energy range of 5 to 25 GeV is particularly difficult since depolarizing spin resonances are strong enough to cause significant depolarization but full Siberian snakes cause intolerably large orbit excursions. Using a 20 - 30 % partial Siberian snake both imperfection and intrinsic resonances can be overcome. Such a strong partial Siberian snake was designed for the Brookhaven AGS using a dual pitch helical superconducting dipole. Multiple strong partial snakes are also discussed for spin matching at beam injection and extraction.