Recent studies of linac for production of radioactive beams in the INR

Author

Birukov, I.N. ; Gonin, I.V. ; Gorelov, D.V. ; Iljinov, A.N. ; Moiseev, V.A. ; Ostroumov, P.N. ; Tiunov, A.V.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Nucl. Phys., Moscow, Russia

Volume

2

fYear

1995

fDate

1-5 May 1995

Firstpage

1119

Abstract

Accelerators for the production of radioactive ion beams have been proposed by many laboratories. A wide range of research in nuclear physics can be carried out with a 6-10 MeV/n radioactive beam. For the ion source to produce high intensity beams, the initial charge-to-mass ratio must be as low as possible, 1/60, for instance; but the cost of a linac for these beams becomes high. Recently at TRIUMF a 1.5 MeV/n linear accelerator accepting ions with q/A=1/30 has been proposed. Possessing the feature of variable energy, this linac can provide for various experiments in astrophysics. A similar project is under consideration at INR. Below we describe the optimized design of the linac for the energy range 2 keV/n to 1.76 MeV/n, calculation of the RF power consumption in the accelerating structures by the MAFIA code and end-to-end beam dynamics simulation in the realistic RF field distribution

Keywords

accelerator RF systems; accelerator cavities; ion accelerators; ion beams; particle beam dynamics; INR; MAFIA code; RF power consumption; accelerating structures; charge-to-mass ratio; end-to-end beam dynamics simulation; ion source; linac; linear accelerator; nuclear physics; optimized design; radioactive ion beams; realistic RF field distribution; Costs; Ion accelerators; Ion beams; Ion sources; Laboratories; Linear particle accelerator; Nuclear physics; Particle beams; Production; Radio frequency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1995., Proceedings of the 1995

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2934-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1995.505148

Filename

505148