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DOE OSTI2021

Real-Time Longitudinal Profile Measurement of Operational H⁻ Beam at the SNS Linac Using a Laser Comb

We demonstrate a novel technique to measure the longitudinal profile of an operational hydrogen ion (H⁻) beam in a non intrusive, real-time fashion. The measurement is conducted based on the photo-ionization of the ion beam with a phase modulated laser comb pico-second laser pulses with controllable temporal structure. The measurement technique has been applied to a 1-GeV, 1.4-MW H⁻ beam at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) high energy beam transport (HEBT). A stroboscopic photo-graph of H⁻ beamμbunch can be obtained by using a phase modulated laser comb. The entire measurement takes only 700 us.

Liu, Yun↗
DOE OSTI2016

RF Design of Normal Conducting 704 MHz and 2.1 GHz Cavities for LEReC Linac

To improve RHIC luminosity for heavy ion beam energies below 10 GeV/nucleon, the Low Energy RHIC electron Cooler (LEReC) is currently under development at BNL. Two normal conducting cavities, a single cell 704 MHz cavity and a 3 cell 2.1 GHz third harmonic cavity, will be used in LEReC for energy spread correction. Currently these two cavities are under fabrication. In this paper we report the RF design of these two cavities.

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗
DOE OSTI2018

Beam Phase Space Tomography at Fast Electron Linac at Fermilab

FAST linear accelerator has been commissioned in 2017. Experimental program of the facility requires high quality beams with well-defined properties. Solenoidal fields at photoinjector, laser spot shape, space charge forces and other effects can distort beam distribution and introduce coupling. This work presents results of a beam phase space tomography for a coupled 4D case. Beam was rotated in two planes with seven quads by 180 degrees and images from YaG screen were used to perform SVD based reconstruction of the beam distribution.

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DOE OSTI2021

Built-in Thermionic Electron Source for an SRF Linacs

The design of a thermionic electron source connected directly to a superconducting cavity, the key part of an SRF gun, is described. The results of beam dynamics optimization are presented which allow lack of beam current intercepting in the superconducting cavity. The electron source concept is presented including the cathode-grid assembly, thermal insulation of the cathode from the cavity, and the gun resonator design. The cavity thermal load caused by the gun is analyzed including the static heat load, black body radiation, backward electron heating, etc.

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗
DOE OSTI2023

Artificial Intelligence for improved facilities operation in the FNAL LINAC

The energy consumption in accelerator structures during beam downtimes is a significant fraction of the overall energy budget. Accurate prediction of downtime duration could inform actions to reduce this energy consumption. The LCAPE project started in 2020 and develops artificial intelligence to improve operations in the FNAL control room by reducing the time to identify the cause of a beam outage, improving the reproducibility of labeling it, predicting their duration and forecasting their occurrence. We present our solution for incorporating information from ~2.5k monitored devices in near-real time to distinguish between dozens of different causes of down time. We discuss the performance of different techniques for modeling the state of health of the facility and we compare unsupervised clustering techniques to distinguish between different causes of down time.

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗
DOE OSTI2024

Nb$^{3}$Sn Technology for Low-beta linacs

Nb3Sn is the most advanced potential successor for niobium in superconducting RF accelerator cavities. Nb3Sn has a significantly higher critical temperature (18.3 K) compared to that of niobium (9.2 K). This has a large effect on the BCS surface resistance, and therefore, on the dynamic RF losses at 4.5 K. The higher critical temperature allows two important changes for cavity and cryomodule design. First, the lower BCS losses allow the designer to use a higher frequency, translating to physically smaller cavities and cryomodules. Second, the low dynamic losses allow the use of stand-alone cryocoolers instead of complex helium refrigerators and distribution systems. Fabrication of a prototype 218 MHz cavity, test results, and continuing challenges are discussed.

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗
DOE OSTI2019

Characterization of SSR1 Cavities for PIP-II Linac

A cryomodule of 325 MHz Single Spoke Resonator type 1 (SSR1) superconducting RF cavities is being built at Fermilab for the PIP-II project. Twelve SSR1 cavities were manufactured in industry in USA (10 cavities) and India (2 cavities) and delivered to Fermilab. In this paper we present results of characterization of fully integrated jacketed cavities with high power coupler and tuner at the Fermilab Spoke Test Cryostat (STC).

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗
DOE OSTI2015

RF Linac Driven X-ray FEL [Slides]

X-rays are a form of high-energy (300 eV – 30 keV) electromagnetic waves. In X-ray tubes, broadband X-rays (and a few narrow K lines) are generated by ramming electrons at a target to produce Bremsstrahlung (braking radiation).

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗
DOE OSTI2013

Selected Topics in Microwave Instabilities and Linacs

The Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) is embarking on its first X-ray free-electron laser (FEL) project. It is a cascading high-gain harmonic generation FEL. Microwave instabilities driven by various effects, especially the space-charge force, will degrade the quality of the electron beam before entering into the undulator. However, inside the undulator, the occurrence of microbunching becomes an utmost important ingredient for the generation of coherent radiation. In short, controlled and uncontrolled microwave instabilities must be fully understood in such a project. These are the slides of a series of eight-hour lectures given at the SINAP in June of 2013, with the intention of a fully understanding of the microbunching phenomenon. The sections of wake field and impedance theory are added as an introduction for those who are not familiar with the subject.

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DOE OSTI2018

Testing of 90° beam-line prototype at 55 MeV electron linac

Argonne National Laboratory, in cooperation with NorthStar Medical Technologies and Los Alamos National Laboratory, is developing a technology for the production of Mo-99 via photonuclear reaction on a Mo-100 target. The new facility will utilize electron accelerators with high beam power.

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