DIPAC2011 - List of Authors (Reggiani, D.)

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The Beam Safety System of the PSI UCN Source

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D. Reggiani, B. Blarer, P.-A. Duperrex, G. Dzieglewski, F. Heinrich, A.C. Mezger, U. Rohrer, K. Thomsen, M. Wohlmuther
PSI, Villigen, Switzerland

At PSI, a new and very intensive Ultra-Cold Neutron (UCN) source based on the spallation principle was commissioned in December 2010 and will start production in 2011. From then on, two neutron spallation sources, the continuous wave SINQ and the macro-pulsed UCN source, both furnished with a solid state target, will be operating concurrently at PSI. The 590 MeV, 1.3 MW proton beam will be switched towards the new spallation target for about 8 s every 800 s. Safe operation of the UCN source is guaranteed by two independent interlock systems. In fact, beside the well established accelerator protection system, a new fast interlock system has been designed following the experience gathered with the MEGAPIE (Megawatt Pilot Target Experiment) project. The goal of this additional system is to preserve the UCN target and the complete beam line installation by ensuring correct beam settings and, at the same time, to avoid any accidental release of radioactive material. After a brief introduction of the PSI UCN source, this paper will focus on the motivations as well as the principle of operation of the UCN beam safety system.

Poster MOPD03 [3.046 MB]

TUPD91

Comparative Studies of Reconstruction Methods to Achieve Multi-Dimensional Phase Space Information

521

C. Gabor
STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
A.P. Letchford
STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
D. Reggiani, M. Seidel
PSI, Villigen, Switzerland

High Intensity Proton Accelerators like SNS, PSI or future machines like ESS or Isis upgrade cannot tolerate high losses due to activation. Standard beam diagnostics may not provide enough information about potential loss sources like beam filamentation or halo. Moreover, the application of interceptive methods like slits or pepperpot can be seriously discouraged by either high power deposition or explicit requirements for non-destructive methods like on-line diagnostics near superconducting cavities. Reconstruction of the beam distribution with a tomography method based on Maximum Entropy could help to overcome those problems and is easily to integrate in already existing facilities because the algorithm does not depend on the experimental profile measurement technique. Furthermore beam tomography can be employed on both spatial and phase-space reconstruction. The paper compares results from two different software packages from PSI (Maximum Entropy Tomography MENT) with the code used at RAL (MemSys 5).

Paper	Title	Page
MOPD03	The Beam Safety System of the PSI UCN Source	35
	D. Reggiani, B. Blarer, P.-A. Duperrex, G. Dzieglewski, F. Heinrich, A.C. Mezger, U. Rohrer, K. Thomsen, M. Wohlmuther PSI, Villigen, Switzerland
	At PSI, a new and very intensive Ultra-Cold Neutron (UCN) source based on the spallation principle was commissioned in December 2010 and will start production in 2011. From then on, two neutron spallation sources, the continuous wave SINQ and the macro-pulsed UCN source, both furnished with a solid state target, will be operating concurrently at PSI. The 590 MeV, 1.3 MW proton beam will be switched towards the new spallation target for about 8 s every 800 s. Safe operation of the UCN source is guaranteed by two independent interlock systems. In fact, beside the well established accelerator protection system, a new fast interlock system has been designed following the experience gathered with the MEGAPIE (Megawatt Pilot Target Experiment) project. The goal of this additional system is to preserve the UCN target and the complete beam line installation by ensuring correct beam settings and, at the same time, to avoid any accidental release of radioactive material. After a brief introduction of the PSI UCN source, this paper will focus on the motivations as well as the principle of operation of the UCN beam safety system.
	Poster MOPD03 [3.046 MB]

TUPD91	Comparative Studies of Reconstruction Methods to Achieve Multi-Dimensional Phase Space Information	521
	C. Gabor STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom A.P. Letchford STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom D. Reggiani, M. Seidel PSI, Villigen, Switzerland
	High Intensity Proton Accelerators like SNS, PSI or future machines like ESS or Isis upgrade cannot tolerate high losses due to activation. Standard beam diagnostics may not provide enough information about potential loss sources like beam filamentation or halo. Moreover, the application of interceptive methods like slits or pepperpot can be seriously discouraged by either high power deposition or explicit requirements for non-destructive methods like on-line diagnostics near superconducting cavities. Reconstruction of the beam distribution with a tomography method based on Maximum Entropy could help to overcome those problems and is easily to integrate in already existing facilities because the algorithm does not depend on the experimental profile measurement technique. Furthermore beam tomography can be employed on both spatial and phase-space reconstruction. The paper compares results from two different software packages from PSI (Maximum Entropy Tomography MENT) with the code used at RAL (MemSys 5).