Title :
PILAC: a pion linac facility for 1-GeV pion physics at LAMPF
Author :
Thiessen, Henry A.
Author_Institution :
Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA
Abstract :
A design study for a Pion Linac (PILAC) at LAMPF is under way at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The reference design for a system of pion source, linac, and high-resolution beam line and spectrometer that will provide 10/sup 9/ pions/s on target and 200-keV resolution for the ( pi /sup +/, K/sup +/) reaction at 0.92 GeV is presented. A general-purpose beam line that delivers both positive and negative pions in the energy range of 0.4-1.1 GeV is included, thus opening up the possibility of a broad experimental program. A kicker-based beam sharing system allows delivery of beam to both beam lines simultaneously with independent sign and energy control. Because the pion linac acts like an RF particle separator, all beams produced by PILAC will be free of electron (or positron) and proton contamination.<>
Keywords :
beam handling equipment; linear accelerators; particle separators; particle spectrometers; LAMPF; Los Alamos National Laboratory; PILAC; Pion Linac; RF particle separator; design study; energy control; general-purpose beam line; high-resolution beam line; independent sign; kicker-based beam sharing system; pion linac facility; pion physics; pion source; proton contamination; reference design; spectrometer; Control systems; Energy resolution; Laboratories; Linear particle accelerator; Mesons; Particle beams; Particle separators; Physics; Radio frequency; Spectroscopy;
Conference_Titel :
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1991. Accelerator Science and Technology., Conference Record of the 1991 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0135-8
DOI :
10.1109/PAC.1991.165233
