Paper | Title | Page |
---|---|---|
MOPEC078 | Commissioning of the Low Energy Beam Transport of the Front End Test Stand | 648 |
|
||
The Front End Test Stand (FETS) at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is intended to demonstrate the early stages of acceleration (0-3 MeV) and beam chopping required for high power proton accelerators, including proton drivers for pulsed neutron spallation sources and neutrino factories. A Low Energy Beam Transport (LEBT), consisting of three solenoids and four drift sections, is used to transport the H- beam from the ion source to the FETS Radio Frequency Quadrupole. We present the status of the installation and commissioning of the LEBT, and compare particle dynamics simulations with preliminary measurements of the H- beam transport through the LEBT. |
||
MOPD057 | Assessing the Transmission of the H- Ion Beam on the Front End Test Stand | 813 |
|
||
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. |
||
MOPEC075 | Status of the RAL Front End Test Stand | 642 |
|
||
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. |