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Zhang, Yuhong

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DOE OSTI2025

A Beamdump facility at Jefferson Lab

The potential of the intense secondary muon, neutrino, and (hypothetical) light dark matter beams at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) is explored. These are produced in the high-power dumps with high-current electron beams. Light dark matter searches with the approved Beam Dump eXperiment (BDX) are driving the realization of a new underground vault behind Hall A that could be extended to a Beamdump Facility with little additional installations. High-energy muons created via the Bethe–Heitler process uniquely do not proceed through the more common pion production and decay channels. Several possible muon physics applications are highlighted. Neutrino detector technologies and experiments suitable for a beamdump facility are outlined.

Accelerator Physics↗
DOE OSTI2023

JSPEC: A Program for IBS and Electron Cooling Simulation

JSPEC (JLab Simulation Package on Electron Cooling) is an open-source C++ program developed at Jefferson Lab to simulate the evolution of the ion beam under the intrabeam scattering effect and/or the electron cooling effect. JSPEC includes various models of the ion beam, the electron beam, and the friction force, aiming to reflect the latest advances in the field and to provide a useful tool to the community. JSPEC has been benchmarked against other cooling simulation codes and experimental data. It has been used to support the cooler design for JLEIC, an earlier JLab design for the Electron-Ion Collider. A Python wrapper of the C++ code, pyJSPEC, for Python 3.x environment has also been developed and released. It allows users to run JSPEC simulations in a Python environment and makes it possible for JSPEC to collaborate with other accelerator and beam modeling programs, as well as plentiful Python tools in data visualization, optimization, machine learning, etc. In this report, we introduce the features of JSPEC, with a focus on the latest development, and demonstrate how to use JSPEC and pyJSPEC with sample codes and numerical examples.

Accelerator Physics↗
DOE OSTI2023

Perspective of a Dual Energy Electron Storage Ring Cooler for a Hadron Beam Cooling

A dual energy electron storage ring cooler was proposed and explored to maintain a good hadron beam quality against intra-beam scattering and all heating sources in a collider. The unique configuration of this concept is that electron beam in the low energy section extracts heat away from the hadron beam through Coulomb interaction while electron beam in the high energy section releases heat through its intrinsic synchrotron radiation damping. The early design employs a magnetized electron beam for achieving a high cooling efficiency. Recently, a non-magnetized cooling electron beam was explored in this dual energy cooler. It could meet the same cooling requirements while lowering the risks. This paper presents study results on design and optimization of a dual energy storage ring cooler and describes the trade-offs between using magnetized and non-magnetized cooling for this approach.

Lin, Fanglei↗
DOE OSTI2022

High-Field Design Concept for Second Interaction Region of the Electron-Ion Collider

Efficient realization of the scientific potential of the Electron Ion Collider (EIC) calls for addition of a future second Interaction Region (2nd IR) and a detector in the RHIC IR8 region after the EIC project completion. The second IR and detector are needed to independently cross-check the results of the first detector, and to provide measurements with complementary acceptance. The available space in the existing RHIC IR8 and maximum fields achievable with NbTi superconducting magnet technology impose constraints on the 2nd IR performance. Since commissioning of the 2nd IR is envisioned in a few years after the first IR, such a long time frame allows for more R&D on the Nb₃Sn magnet technology. Thus, it could provide a potential alternative technology choice for the 2nd IR magnets. Presently, we are exploring its potential benefits for the 2nd IR performance, such as improvement of the luminosity and acceptance, and are also assessing the technical risks associated with use of Nb₃Sn magnets. In this paper, we present the current progress of this work.

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗
DOE OSTI2022

ERL-BASED COMPACT X-RAY FEL

We propose to develop an energy-recovery-linac (ERL)- based X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL). Taking advantage of the demonstrated high-efficiency energy recovery of the beam power in the ERL, the proposed concept offers the following benefits: i) recirculating the electron beam through high-gradient superconducting RF (SRF) cavities shortens the linac, ii) energy recovery in the SRF linac saves the klystron power and reduces the beam dump power, iii) the high average beam power produces a high average photon brightness. In addition, such a concept has the capability of delivering optimized high-brightness CW X-ray FEL performance at different energies with simultaneous multipole sources. In this paper, we will present the preliminary results on the study of feasibility, optics design and parameter optimization of such a device.

Lin, Fanglei↗
DOE OSTI2022

ERL-Based Compact X-Ray FEL

We propose to develop an energy-recovery-linac (ERL)-based X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL). Taking advantage of the demonstrated high-efficiency energy recovery of the beam power in the ERL, the proposed concept offers the following benefits: i) recirculating the electron beam through high-gradient superconducting RF (SRF) cavities shortens the linac, ii) energy recovery in the SRF linac saves the klystron power and reduces the beam dump power, iii) the high average beam power produces a high average photon brightness. In addition, such a concept has the capability of delivering optimized high-brightness CW X-ray FEL performance at different energies with simultaneous multipole sources. In this paper, we will present the preliminary results on the study of feasibility, optics design and parameter optimization of such a device.

Lin, Fanglei↗
DOE OSTI2021

JSPEC – An Open Source Program for IBS and Electron Cooling Simulation

The intrabeam scattering can affect the accumulation, the lifetime, and the property of a high-intensity beam. Electron cooling is a method to mitigate the intrabeam scattering effect. JSPEC (JLab Simulation Package on Electron Cooling) is an open-source program developed at Jefferson Lab, which includes various numerical models and friction force formulas for intrabeam scattering and electron cooling simulations. JSPEC has been benchmarked with BETACOOL and experimental data. In this report, we will introduce what features JSPEC provides to the users and how it carries out the computations. Numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the performance and the validity of JSPEC.

Zhang, He↗
DOE OSTI2021

Detector Solenoid Compensation for the Electron-Ion Collider

The central detector in the present EIC design includes a 4 m long solenoid with an integrated strength of up to 12 Tm. The electron beam passes on-axis through the solenoid, but the hadron beam has an angle of 25 mrad. Thus the solenoid couples horizontal and vertical betatron motion in both electron and hadron storage rings, and causes a vertical closed orbit excursion in the hadron ring. The solenoid also couples the transverse and longitudinal motions of both beams, when crab cavities are also considered. In this paper, we present schemes for closed orbit correction and coupling compensation at the IP, including crabbing.

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗
DOE OSTI2020

High Energy ERLs for Electron Cooling

Future electron-ion colliders such as the recently approved eRHIC collide high-intensity ion beams with high current electron beams. The electron beams take advantage of synchrotron radiation to damp emittances but the ion beams must be cooled via some beam-cooling mechanism, including electron cooling. The ion energies are typically a few hundreds of GeV per nucleon. At this energy, a DC cooler powered by an electrostatic accelerator, the preferred cooling approach on existing machines, is not feasible. An ERL, in principle, can provide the high current and brightness to cool these high-brightness ion beams. The beam quality requirements are much different from previous ERLs designs used for FELs. The cooling bunch must be very long to match the ion beam and the relative energy spread must be very small. Incoherent cooling can be enhanced with magnetized beams, but the magnetization must be maintained throughout the ERL. An alternate cooling mechanism, the so-called Coherent Electron Cooling, is, in principle, stronger and can be done with non-magnetized beams. We will present two applications of an ERL to high energy electron cooling and describe some of the technical challenges that must be overcome to operate such an ERL

Benson, Stephen↗
DOE OSTI2018

Beam formation in the alternative JLEIC ion complex

The proposed alternative design approach for the JLab-EIC (JLEIC) ion complex uses a more compact linac and pre-booster, and consolidates the electron storage ring (ering) as a large booster for the ions. Following a parameter study showing the feasibility of this design approach, we have adapted the e-ring lattice by adding RF sections to accelerate ion beams. In this study, we focus on the transverse beam formation for protons and lead ions from the ion source to collision point including the linac, pre-booster, e-ring and collider ring. Effects such as stripping injection, space charge, intra-beam scattering and beam cooling determine the total charge accumulated in each ring and the final luminosity of the collider.

Mustapha, Brahim↗
DOE OSTI2018

Development of a bunched beam electron cooler for the Jefferson Lab electron-ion collider

Jefferson Lab is in the process of designing an electron-ion collider with unprecedented luminosity at a 65 GeV center-of-mass energy. This luminosity relies on ion cooling in both the booster and the storage ring of the accelerator complex. The cooling in the booster will use a conventional DC cooler similar to the one at COSY. The high-energy storage ring, operating at a momentum of up to 100 GeV/nucleon, requires novel use of bunched-beam cooling. We will present a new design for a Circulator Cooler Ring for bunched-beam electron cooling. This requires the generation and transport of very high-charge magnetized bunches, acceleration of the bunches in an energy recovery linac, and transfer of these bunches to a circulating ring that passes the bunches 11 times through the proton or ion beam inside cooling solenoids. This design requires the suppression of the effects of space charge and coherent synchrotron radiation using shielding and RF compensation.

Benson, Stephen V.↗
DOE OSTI2018

STATUS OF THE JLEIC ION COLLIDER RING DESIGN

We present an update on the lattice design and beam dynamics study of the ion collider ring of JLEIC (Jefferson Lab Electron Ion Collider). The collider ring consists of two 261.7 degree arcs connected by two straight sections crossing each other. One of the straights houses an interaction region (IR) and is shaped to make a 50 mrad crossing angle with the electron beam at the interaction point (IP) to meet physics requirements. The forward acceptance requirements downstream of the IP in the ion direction lead to an asymmetric IR lattice design. The detector solenoid effects and the multipole fields of the IR magnets further complicate this picture. In this paper, compensation of the detector solenoid effects is considered together with orbit correction and multipole effects. We also study local compensation of the magnet multipoles using dedicated multipole correctors. And an optimization of the betatron tunes is also presented.

Wei, Guohui↗
DOE OSTI2018

Multi-Stage Electron Cooling Scheme for JLEIC

JLEIC is the future electron ion collider under design at Jefferson Lab, which will provide a luminosity up to 1034 cm-2s-1. Electron cooling is essential for JLEIC to overcome the intrabeam scattering effect, reduce the ion beam emittance and thus achieve the high luminosity. The cooling time is approximately in proportion to the square of the energy and the 6D emittance. To avoid the difficulty of cooling the ion beam with large emittance at high energy, a multi-stage cooing scheme was designed for JLEIC. The ion beam was cooled at the low energy to reduce the emittance. Then it was ramped up to the collision energy. During the collision, electron cooling is implemented to maintain the emittance and the luminosity. Simulations for proton beam and lead ion beam at various stages are presented in this paper.

Zhang, He↗
DOE OSTI2018

Analysis of Spin Response Function at Beam Interaction Point in JLEIC

The spin response function is determined by a collid-er’s magnetic lattice and allows one to account for con-tributions of perturbing fields to spin resonance strengths. The depolarizing effect of an incoming beam depends significantly on the response function value at the interaction point (IP). We present an analytic calcula-tion of the response function for protons and deuterons at the IP of Jefferson Lab Electron Ion Collider (JLEIC) over its whole momentum range. We find a good agreement of the analytic calculation with our numerical modeling results obtained using a spin tracking code, Zgoubi.

Derbenev, Yaroslav S.↗
DOE OSTI2018

JLEIC electron ring dynamic aperture with non-linear field errors

We present results of dynamic aperture study for the updated electron ring lattice of the Jefferson Lab Electron- Ion Collider (JLEIC). The lattice design features low emittance arcs with local compensation of sextupole nonlinear effects, and low emittance non-linear chromaticity correction sections. Dynamic aperture tracking simulations are performed to evaluate the effects of non-linear field errors, the sensitivity to betatron tune, and the impact of momentum error. Dynamic aperture is also evaluated with the measured PEP-II field errors. Preliminary tolerances to the non-linear field errors in the Final Focus quadrupoles are estimated.

Nosochkov, Yuri↗