IHEP Beijing, Beijing
Work on the Chinese Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) has been progressing well, including successful prototyping of some of the key components of the facility. The source incorporates an H- linac, with an output energy upgradable from 81 to 250 MeV. The status of the project will be described.
IHEP Beijing, Beijing
Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, Bejing
China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) is determined to be constructed in Dongguan, Guangdong province of south China. Now its design and R&D are in progress in IHEP, Beijing. The 324 MHz rf linac is designed with beam energy of 81 MeV and a peak current of 30 mA. In the klystron gallery, five klystron power sources will be used to power the RFQ and the four DTL tanks, and three solid state RF amplifiers will drive two MEBT bunchers and a LRBT debuncher. Now we have already made some progress with some key technologies for linac RF system. The digital low level RF control prototype was already developed and successfully applied in beam commissioning of the ADS (Accelerator Driven Sub-critical system) 3.5MeV RFQ accelerator at peak beam 44.5mA, beam duty 7.15%. A proposed new type of power supply, 100Hz ac series resonance high voltage power supply, passed acceptance test and a satisfactory test results was obtained. R&D of crowbar and modulator has gotten preliminary performance test data.
TUB, Beijing
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico
NUCTECH, Beijing
CERN, Geneva
We present, in this paper, the physics and mechanical design of a Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) accelerator for the Compact Pulsed Hadron Source (CPHS) at Tsinghua University. The 3-meter-long RFQ will accelerate protons from 50 keV to 3 MeV at an RF frequency of 325 MHz. In the physics design we have programmed the inter-vane voltage as a function of beam velocity, to optimize the performance of the RFQ, by tailoring the cavity cross section and vane-tip geometry as a function of longitudinal position while limiting the peak surface electric field to 1.8 Kilpatrick. There will be no Medium-Energy-Beam-Transport (MEBT) following the RFQ. The focusing at the high energy end of the RFQ and at the entrance of the DTL have been tailored to provide continuous restoring forces independent of the beam current. In simulations of the proton beam in the RFQ, using the code PARMTEQM, we observe transmission exceeding 97%. The RFQ is mechanically separated into three sections to facilitate machining and brazing. We have machined a test section and the final RFQ accelerator is now under construction. We will describe the status of the RFQ system in this paper.
* K. R. Crandall et al., RFQ Design Codes, LA-UR-96-1836.
TUB, Beijing
TechSource, Santa Fe, New Mexico
NUCTECH, Beijing
CIAE, Beijing
CERN, Geneva
IHEP Beijing, Beijing
The CPHS project in Tsinghua University plans to construct a 13 MeV linear accelerator to deliver a pulsed proton beam having an average beam current of 2.5 mA. A Drift Tube Linac (DTL), following a Radio Frequency Quadrupole accelerator(RFQ), will accelerate protons from 3 to 13MeV. The accelerating field and phase will be ramped to match the longitudinal restoring forces at the end of the RFQ. Likewise, the transverse focusing forces, provided by permanent-magnet quadrupole lenses (PMQs) will be programmed to match the transverse restoring forces at the end of the RFQ to avoid missmatch and avoid parametric resonances. We will present the main physics design parameters of CPHS DTL and describe the properties of the resonant cavity. We plan to apply electron beam welding technology exclusively in the fabrication of the drift tubes and will present the test results from our engineering prototyping program.