ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
The latest modifications of the MEBT emittance scanner and the test results are presented. The scanner consists of a slit and harp placed in the MEBT section of SNS Linac with H- energy of 2.5 MeV. It was initially commissioned during the early days of SNS. The initial design allowed to get information about beam core but was incapable of getting precise data about halo. Several improvements in hardware and software were performed recently. They significantly increased signal to noise ratio, reduced harp wires electron coupling and increased scan speed. The latest measurements with the new system show a good agreement with the simulation results from simple models.
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
This talk will give an overview of future demands of fast choppers with fast rise/fall time to reduce the beam extinction ratio further.
Fermilab, Batavia
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
A beam loss in the superconducting part of the SNS linac has been observed during its commissioning and operation. Although this loss does not prevent the SNS high power operation it results in an almost uniform irradiation of linac components and increased radiation levels in the tunnel. A multi-particle tracking could not explain the beam loss and its dependence on the machine parameters. It was recently found that the loss is related to the intrabeam particle collisions resulting in a stripping of one of two H- ions. The paper describes experimental observations and corresponding calculations of the intrabeam stripping.