AGS upgrade to 1-MW with a superconducting linac injector

Author

Ruggiero, A.G. ; Alessi, J. ; Raparia, D. ; Roser, T. ; Weng, W.

Author_Institution

Brookhaven Nat. Lab., Upton, NY, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2003

fDate

12-16 May 2003

Firstpage

2793

Abstract

It has been proposed to upgrade the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) accelerator complex at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) to provide an average proton beam power of 1 MW at the energy of 28 GeV. The facility is to be primarily used as a proton driver for the production of intense neutrino beams. This paper reports on the feasibility study of a proton superconducting linac (SCL) as a new injector to the AGS. The linac beam energy is 1.2 GeV. The beam intensity is adjusted to provide the required average beam power of 1 MW at 28 GeV. The repetition rate of the SCL-AGS facility is 2.5 beam pulses per second.

Keywords

linear accelerators; neutrino production; particle beam injection; proton accelerators; synchrotrons; 1 MW; AGS accelerator complex; Alternating Gradient Synchrotron; Brookhaven National Laboratory; SCL-AGS facility; average proton beam power; beam intensity; intense neutrino beam production; linac beam energy; proton driver; proton superconducting linac injector; repetition rate; Acceleration; Helium; Ion sources; Laboratories; Linear particle accelerator; Particle beam injection; Particle beams; Proton accelerators; Pulsed power supplies; Synchrotrons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2003. PAC 2003. Proceedings of the

ISSN

1063-3928

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7738-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2003.1289270

Filename

1289270