GSI, Darmstadt
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
IAP, Frankfurt am Main
CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette
Funding: We acknowledge the support of the European Community-Research Infrastructure Activity under the FP6 ‘‘Structuring the European Research Area’’ program (CARE, Contract No. RII3-CT-2003-506395).
Beam dynamics experiments with high intensity beams have been conducted at the GSI UNILAC in 2006-2008 with the goal of benchmarking four major simulation codes, i.e. DYNAMION, PARMILA, TraceWin/PARTRAN and LORASR with respect to transverse emittance growth along a DTL. The experiments comprised measurements of transverse phase space distributions in front of as well as behind the DTL. Additional longitudinal bunch length measurements at the DTL entrance allowed for estimate and control of mismatch in all three planes. Measured effects of mismatch and of theoretically predicted space charge resonances (equipartitioning and others) are compared with simulations for a wide range of transverse phase advance along the DTL. This contribution is the first report on the successful measurement of a space charge driven fourth order resonance in a linear accelerator.
GSI, Darmstadt
The prediction of beam loss for long term storage of a high intensity beam is a challenging task essential for the SIS100 design. On this ground an experimental campaign using a high intensity beam has been performed at GSI on the SIS18 synchrotron with the purpose of extending a previous benchmarking experiment made at the CERN-PS in the years 2002-2003. We report here the results of this experimental campaign and the benchmarking with the simulation predictions.