AN RFQ DIRECT INJECTION SCHEME FOR THE ISODAR HIGH INTENSITY H+₂ CYCLOTRON
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Hamm, Robert
Winklehner, Daniel
Alonso, Jose Ramon
Conrad, Janet Marie
Date Issued
July 2015
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Proceedings of IPAC2015
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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Winklehner, D., R. Hamm, J. Alonso and J. Conrad. "An RFQ direct injection scheme for the isodar high intersity H+₂ cyclotron." In Proceedings of IPAC2015, Richmond, VA, July 26 2015, p. WEPTY048.
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Abstract
IsoDAR is a novel experiment designed to measure neutrino oscillations through e disappearance, thus providing a definitive search for sterile neutrinos. In order to generate the necessary anti-neutrino flux, a high intensity primary proton beam is needed. In IsoDAR, H+2 is accelerated and is stripped into protons just before the target, to overcome space charge issues at injection. As part of the design, we have refined an old proposal to use an RFQ to axially inject bunched H+2 ions into the driver cyclotron. This method has several advantages over a classical low energy beam transport (LEBT) design: (1) The bunching efficiency is higher than for the previously considered two-gap buncher and thus the overall injection efficiency is higher. This relaxes the constraints on the H+2 current required from the ion source. (2) The overall length of the LEBT can be reduced. (3) The RFQ can also accelerate the ions. This enables the ion source platform high voltage to be reduced from 70 kV to 30 kV, making underground installation easier. We are presenting the preliminary RFQ design parameters and first beam dynamics simulations from the ion source to the spiral inflector entrance.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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