H{sup -} beam transport experiments in a solenoid low energy beam transport

Journal Article · Wed Feb 15 04:00:00 EST 2012 · Review of Scientific Instruments

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3678656· OSTI ID:22066321

Gabor, C ^[1]; Back, J J ^[2]; Faircloth, D C; Lawrie, S R; Letchford, A P ^[3]; Izaola, Z ^[4]

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1. ASTeC Intense Beams Group, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot - Oxfordshire OX11 0QX (United Kingdom)
2. High Energy Physics Department, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL (United Kingdom)
3. ISIS Pulsed Spallation Neutron Source, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot - Oxfordshire OX11 0QX (United Kingdom)
4. ESS Bilbao, Accelerator Physics Group, Edificio Cosimet Paseo Landabarri, 2, 1 Planta. 48940 Leioa (Spain)

The Front End Test Stand (FETS) is located at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and aims for a high current, fast chopped 3 MeV H{sup -} ion beam suitable for future high power proton accelerators like ISIS upgrade. The main components of the front end are the Penning ion source, a low energy beam transport line, an radio-frequency quadrupole (RFQ) and a medium energy beam transport (MEBT) providing also a chopper section and rebuncher. FETS is in the stage of commissioning its low energy beam transport (LEBT) line consisting of three solenoids. The LEBT has to transport an H{sup -} high current beam (up to 60 mA) at 65 keV. This is the injection energy of the beam into the RFQ. The main diagnostics are slit-slit emittance scanners for each transversal plane. For optimizing the matching to the RFQ, experiments have been performed with a variety of solenoid settings to better understand the actual beam transport. Occasionally, source parameters such as extractor slit width and beam energy were varied as well. The paper also discusses simulations based on these measurements.

• OSTI ID: 22066321
• Journal Information: Review of Scientific Instruments, Journal Name: Review of Scientific Instruments Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 83; ISSN 0034-6748; ISSN RSINAK
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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BEAM CURRENTS
BEAM INJECTION
BEAM TRANSPORT
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
HYDROGEN IONS 1 MINUS
ION BEAMS
KEV RANGE
MEV RANGE
OPTIMIZATION
PENNING ION SOURCES
PROTONS
QUADRUPOLE LINACS
RADIOWAVE RADIATION
SOLENOIDS