Alignment and steering scenarios for the APT linac
- Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
- Amparo Corp., Santa Fe, NM (United States)
The Accelerator for the Production of Tritium (APT) requires a very high proton beam current (100 mA cw). Requirement for hands-on maintenance limits the beam spill to less than 0.2 nA/m along most of the linac. To achieve this, it is important to understand the effects of fabrication, installation and operational errors, establish realistic tolerances, and develop techniques for mitigating their consequences. A new code, PARTREX, statistically evaluates the effects of alignment, quadrupole field, and rf phase and amplitude errors in the linac. This paper reviews the effects of quadrupole misalignments and present two steering algorithms that minimize the potential for particle loss from the beam halo. These algorithms were tested on the 8-to-20 MeV portion of the APT linac.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 378234
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-96-2968; CONF-9608123-20; ON: DE96014802; TRN: 96:025583
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 18. international linac conference, Geneva (Switzerland), 26-30 Aug 1996; Other Information: PBD: [1996]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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