Design concept and beam optics for a pulsed beam chopper at LAMPF

Conference · Sat Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1994

OSTI ID:199708

Nath, S; Wangler, T P ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)

There has been a recent study at Los Alamos of an upgrade to the LAMPF-PSR linac/accumulator-ring facility for a next generation pulsed neutron spallation source providing 1 MW of average beam power. The 800 MeV H{sup {minus}} beam from the linac must have a chopped structure with approximately 200 ns beam-free segments every 600 ns. This is necessary so that the stacked beam in the ring will not be lost, producing high radioactivation, when the fast extraction magnet is turned on. The required chopping is most easily done at sufficiently low energies, where the beam is easily deflected, and beam powers are not too large, but high enough so that space-charge blow-up of the beam can be controlled with adequate focusing. LAMPF presently uses a traveling-wave beam chopper at 750 keV, before injection into the drift-tube linac. In the new linac design a radio frequency quadrupole (RFQ) linac will bunch and accelerate the high-intensity H{sup {minus}} beam from 100 keV to 7 MeV. A new low-energy chopper must be designed to operate either at the 100 keV injection energy, or at the 7 MeV extraction energy to the IGQ. In this paper the authors present a concept for a three-stage 7 MeV, beam-chopper system that deflects, collimates, and restores the high-intensity beam from the RFQ to the nominal beam axis. The beam-optics design is presented, together with numerical simulations of the beam bunches, corresponding to different conditions with respect to the deflecting waveform.

• OSTI ID: 199708
• Report Number(s): CONF-941129--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
BEAM OPTICS
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DESIGN
HYDROGEN 1 MINUS BEAMS
LAMPF LINAC