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Web Based Beamline Control System (Bluesky Web) v0.1.0

Bluesky Web is a web based interface that provides beam line controls to the end user. It allows users to issue commands to various physical devices at a beam line end station like motors and cameras. It utilizes an open source Python library (Bluesky) as the controller. It uses Bluesky to also allow for running "plans" or a sequence of device operations that can be used when running an experiment. This program is different from other controls technologies because it is intended to be open source and can be accessed from a web browser, as opposed to other paid software that is run as a stand-alone application on a computer.

De Leon, Seij↗

EIC Hadron Beamline Vacuum Studies

Ninety percent of the EIC hadron ring vacuum chamber consists of cold-bore sections running through and interconnecting 4.55 K RHIC superconducting (SC) magnets. The EIC operating specification requires shorter bunches and 3x higher intensity beams which are not appropriate for the present RHIC stainless steel cold-bore beam tube. The intensity and emittance of the hadron beams will degrade due to interactions with residual gas or vacuum instabilities arising from the expected resistive-wall (RW) heating, electron clouds, and beam-induced desorption mechanisms. Without strategies to limit RW heating, major cryogenic system modifications are needed to prevent SC magnet quenches. The SC magnet cold-bore beam tubes will be equipped with a high RRR copper-clad stainless steel screen to significantly reduce RW heating and so the effect on the SC magnet cryogenic heat load and temperature. A thin amorphous carbon film applied to the beam-facing copper surface will suppress electron cloud formation. This paper discusses the vacuum requirements imposed by the EIC hadron beams and the plans to achieve the necessary vacuum and thermal stability that ensure acceptable beam quality and lifetime.

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗

Design update on the transition beamline for the CEBAF Energy Upgrade

For Jefferson Lab’s 22GeV upgrade, two new permanent-magnet Fixed-Field Alternating Gradient (FFA) arcs will be integrated to serve the accelerator’s six highest-energy recirculation passes. Connecting these FFA arcs to the existing linear accelerator (linac) requires a carefully engineered transition section. The current design has two parts where the first part adiabatically matches the beam dispersion and orbit trajectories, while the second part aligns the Twiss parameters (alpha and beta functions) with those at the linac entrance. Given the tight spatial constraints and multiple matching requirements, a genetic algorithm is being explored to optimize the beam optics matching. This paper presents the current progress in developing and optimizing this transition.

Accelerator Physics↗

Start-to-end self-consistent simulation of the UEM beamline

Addressing the preliminary design review report of the ultrafast electron microscope (UEM), start-to-end self-consistent simulations were carried out to explore fundamental aspects affecting the resolution (space-charge effects, energy spread, shot-to-shot energy jitter, contrast formation, etc.). The electron beam energy spread in the single-shot mode and the effective energy spread in the accumulation mode, equivalent to the convolution of the single-shot energy spread and shot-to-shot energy jitter, have been identified as the ultimate limits of the instrument resolution. A full self-consistent simulation from the photocathode to the detector is being performed using the GPT code to find out what resolution can be achieved. Preliminary results of the start-to-end simulations are reported in this note and the plan of further simulations is presented.

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗

PARMELA simulation of Line-A beamline

This is a short re-work of the previously accomplished simulations, using PARMELA code package. This exercise was done primarily for increase of fidelity and re-formulating the given task for a different beam dynamics (BD) code. The performed simulations showed very good agreement with the abovementioned simulations and confirm the previously produced results with the BEAMPATH code.

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗

Alternative Source Verification for the NB5 Beamline

This report details the calculation and comparison of secondary neutron sources for the purpose of performing NB5 velocity selector shielding calculations without relying on the primary HB4 source and the use of a modified MCNP code to run the full model.

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