Development of a commissioning plan for the APT linac

Author

Schulze, M.E. ; Blind, B. ; Chan, K.C.D. ; Gilpatrick, J.D. ; Lawrence, C. ; Nath, Sabrata ; Regan, A.H. ; Rybarcyk, L.J. ; Wangler, T.P. ; Young, L. ; Browman, A. ; Crandall, K.R. ; Funk, L.W.

Author_Institution

Gen. Atomics, San Diego, CA, USA

Volume

5

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

3582

Abstract

The Accelerator Production of Tritium (APT) facility utilizes a high-intensity CW linear accelerator consisting of both normal-conducting and superconducting (SC) RF structures to accelerate a 100-mA CW proton beam to an energy of between 1030 and 1700 MeV depending upon tritium production needs. The accelerator will be commissioned in stages defined by these different normal and superconducting modules. Different commissioning modes developed to set the transverse and longitudinal beam parameters, require pulsed operation of the accelerator over a wide range of beam currents. These stages and modes and the different techniques utilized to tune the phase and amplitude of the modules are described. Beam dynamics simulations of the tuning process for the phase and amplitudes of the RF structures in the low energy (LE) linac will be presented

Keywords

accelerator RF systems; linear accelerators; particle beam dynamics; proton accelerators; superconducting cavity resonators; 1030 to 1700 MeV; APT; Accelerator Production of Tritium; amplitude; beam dynamics; commissioning; linac; linear accelerator; longitudinal beam parameters; low energy linac; phase; superconducting RF structure; transverse beam parameters; Iron; Laboratories; Large Hadron Collider; Lattices; Linear particle accelerator; Production; Radio frequency; Rivers; Testing; US Department of Energy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the 1999

Conference_Location

New York, NY

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5573-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1999.792377

Filename

792377