High efficiency laser-assisted H − charge exchange for microsecond duration beams
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Danilov, Viatcheslav
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Demonstration of High Efficiency Laser-Assisted H - Charge Exchange for Microsecond Duration Beams
Laser-assisted stripping is a novel approach to H - charge exchange that overcomes longstanding limitations associated with the traditional, foil-based method of producing high intensity, time structured beams of protons. This paper reports on the first successful demonstration of the laser stripping technique for microseconds duration beams. The experiment represents a factor of one thousand increase in stripped pulse duration compared with the previous proof-of-principle (POP) demonstration. The central theme of the experiment is the implementation of methods to reduce the required average laser power such that high efficiency stripping can be accomplished for microsecond duration beams using conventional laser technology. The experiment was performed on the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) 1 GeV H - beam using a 1 MW peak power UV laser, and resulted in ~ 95% stripping efficiency.
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Rotation number of integrable symplectic mappings of the plane
Symplectic mappings are discrete-time analogs of Hamiltonian systems. They appear in many areas of physics, including, for example, accelerators, plasma, and fluids. Integrable mappings, a subclass of symplectic mappings, are equivalent to a Twist map, with a rotation number, constant along the phase trajectory. In this letter, we propose a succinct expression to determine the rotation number and present two examples. Similar to the period of the bounded motion in Hamiltonian systems, the rotation number is the most fundamental property of integrable maps and it provides a way to analyze the phase-space dynamics.
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First Demonstration of Laser-Assisted Charge Exchange for Microsecond Duration H − Beams
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The Spallation Neutron Source Beam Commissioning and Initial Operations
The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) accelerator delivers a one mega-Watt beam to a mercury target to produce neutrons used for neutron scattering materials research. It delivers ~ 1 GeV protons in short (< 1 us) pulses at 60 Hz. At an average power of ~ one mega-Watt, it is the highest-powered pulsed proton accelerator. The accelerator includes the first use of superconducting RF acceleration for a pulsed protons at this energy. The storage ring used to create the short time structure has record peak particle per pulse intensity. Beam commissioning took place in a staged manner during the construction phase of SNS. After the construction, neutron production operations began within a few months, and one mega-Watt operation was achieved within three years. The methods used to commission the beam and the experiences during initial operation are discussed.
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Suppressing Transverse Beam Halo with Nonlinear Magnetic Fields
Traditional space charge driven resonances, such as beam halo, arise due to the underlying linear nature of accelerator lattices. In this talk, we present initial results on a new class of intrinsically nonlinear lattices, which introduce a large tune spread naturally. The resulting nonlinear decoherence suppresses the onset of beam halo.
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Suppressing Transverse Beam Halo with Nonlinear Magnetic Fields
High intensity proton storage rings are central for the development of advanced neutron sources, drivers for the production of pions in neutrino factories or muon colliders, and transmutation of radioactive waste. Fractional proton loss from the beam must be very small to prevent radioac- tivation of nearby structures, but many sources of beam loss are driven by collective effects that increase with intensity. Recent theoretical work on the use of nonlinear magnetic fields to design storage rings with integrable transverse dynamics is extended here to include collective effects, with numerical results showing validity in the presence of very high beam current. Among these effects is the formation of beam halo, where particles are driven to large amplitude oscillations by coherent space charge forces. The strong variation of particle oscillation frequency with amplitude results in nonlinear decoherence that is observed to suppress transverse halo development in the case studied. We also present a necessary generalization of the Kapchinskij-Vladimirskij equilibrium distribution, which was introduced over 50 years ago for modeling linear dynamics in particle accelerators.
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On Quantum Integrable Systems
Many quantum integrable systems are obtained using an accelerator physics technique known as Ermakov (or normalized variables) transformation. This technique was used to create classical nonlinear integrable lattices for accelerators and nonlinear integrable plasma traps. Now, all classical results are carried over to a nonrelativistic quantum case. In this paper we have described an extension of the Ermakov-like transformation to the Schroedinger and Pauli equations. It is shown that these newly found transformations create a vast variety of time dependent quantum equations that can be solved in analytic functions, or, at least, can be reduced to time-independent ones.
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