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Title: Acceleration schedules for a recirculating heavy-ion accelerator

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OSTI ID:822248

Recent advances in solid-state switches have made it feasible to design programmable, high-repetition-rate pulsers for induction accelerators. These switches could lower the cost of recirculating induction accelerators, such as the ''small recirculator'' at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), by substantially reducing the number of induction modules. Numerical work is reported here to determine what effects the use of fewer pulsers at higher voltage would have on the beam quality of the LLNL small recirculator. Lattices with different numbers of pulsers are examined using the fluid/envelope code CIRCE, and several schedules for acceleration and compression are compared for each configuration. For selected schedules, the phase-space dynamics is also studied using the particle-in-cell code WARP3d.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Director, Office of Science (US)
DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00098
OSTI ID:
822248
Report Number(s):
LBNL-51071; HIFAN 1166; R&D Project: Z46010; TRN: US0401207
Resource Relation:
Conference: IEEE Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC 99), New York, NY (US), 03/29/1999--04/02/1999; Other Information: PBD: 1 May 2002
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English