Conventional and superconducting rf linac designs for the APT project

Conference · Wed Aug 21 00:00:00 EDT 1996

OSTI ID:378448

Lawrence, G; Barlow, D; Billen, J ^[1]

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The proton linac for APT (Accelerator Production of Tritium) will produce a nominal CW beam power of 130 MW at 1300 MeV. Two designs are currently under consideration. Reference design is composed entirely of normal-conducting (NC) copper accelerating structures, while an advanced-technology design employs superconducting Nb cavities above 217 MeV. Front-end accelerator for both concepts is a 100-mA NC linac. In this paper, the two APT linac designs are described and compared in terms of key factors, including power efficiency, beam loss control, machine availability and flexibility, and construction and operating costs.

• 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: 378448
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-96-2928; APT-DOC-003; CONF-9608123-16; ON: DE96014815
• Resource Relation: Conference: 18. international linac conference, Geneva (Switzerland), 26-30 Aug 1996; Other Information: PBD: 21 Aug 1996
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
66 PHYSICS
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION
TRITIUM
PRODUCTION
LINEAR ACCELERATORS
DESIGN
SUPERCONDUCTING CAVITY RESONATORS