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Generation of High-Charge Magnetized Electron Beams Consistent With JLEIC Electron Cooling Requirements

The proposed Jefferson Lab Electron-Ion Collider (JLEIC), currently under design, relies on electron cooling in order to achieve the desired luminosity. This includes an electron beam with >55 Mev, 3.2 nC bunches that cools hadron beams with energies up to 100 GeV. To enhance the cooling, the electron beam must be magnetized with a specific eigen-emittance partition. This paper explores the use of the Fermilab Accelerator Science and Technology (FAST) facility to demonstrate the generation of an electron beam with parameters consistent with those required in the JLEIC high-energy cooler. We demonstrate via simulations the generation of the required electron-beam parameters and perform a preliminary experiment to validate FAST capabilities to produce such beams.

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗

Intrabeam Stripping of H- Ions in the JLEIC Ion Linac with PyORBIT

Jefferson Lab is designing an electron-ion collider (JLEIC) to meet the experimental needs of the nuclear physics community. In JLEIC, a potential mechanism for beam loss is intrabeam stripping of the H- ions in the linear accelerator (linac). As the ions interact with each other, there is a chance that electrons will be stripped from the ions. This creates neutral particles that are unaffected by the electromagnetic fields and are thus lost. This project determined whether intrabeam stripping is a relevant form of beam loss for JLEIC. The pyORBIT code was modified to simulate the beam dynamics of the JLEIC linac. Then plots were created of relativistic velocity to determine the likelihood of intrabeam stripping. From these plots, the relativistic velocity values of the ion beam were found to be similar to values from previous studies on other linacs; however, the calculated average power of JLEIC is significantly lower than the powers of other linacs. Previous predictions have shown that intrabeam stripping is negligible below a certain average power value. Our value for average power was many orders of magnitude below this average power value and thus confirmed that intrabeam stripping of the H- ions will have negligible effects on the amount of beam loss in JLEIC ion linac.

Sy, Amy↗

Conceptual Design of the Interaction Region Magnets for Future Electron-Ion Collider at Jefferson Lab

The Jefferson Lab Electron Ion Collider (JLEIC) is a proposed new machine for nuclear physics research. As proposed, it will deliver between 15 and 65 GeV center of mass energy collisions between electrons and nuclei. It uses the existing CEBAF accelerator as a full energy injector to deliver 3 to 10 GeV electrons into a new electron collider ring. An all new ion accelerator and collider complex will deliver up to 100 GeV protons, or 40 GeV/nucleon ions. The machine will have luminosity goals of above 1033 cm-2 sec-1 in the whole energy range with a maximum of a few 1034 cm-2 sec-1. The two collider rings use a unique figure-of eight layout to deliver a high degree of polarization in both beams. The machine will include room for two interaction regions with only one initially installed. The crossing angle in the primary interaction region will be 50 mrad. The whole detector region including forward detection covers about 80 meters of the JLEIC complex. This paper will describe the requirements and preliminary designs for both the ion and electron beam magnets in the most complex 32 m long interaction region (IR) around the interaction point (IP). The interaction region has over thirty-seven superconducting magnets operating at 4.5K; these include dipoles, quadrupoles, skew-quadrupoles, solenoids, horizontal and vertical correctors and higher order multipole magnets. The paper will also discuss the electromagnetic interaction between these magnets.

Wiseman, Mark (ORCID:0000000179110306)↗

Polarized Positron in Jefferson Lab Electron Ion Collider (JLEIC)

The Jefferson Lab Electron Ion Collider (JLEIC) is a proposed new nuclear physics facility designed to deliver high luminosity and high polarization electron-ion collisions. JLEIC employs high repetition rate collisions of short low emittance bunches to achieve the electron ion luminosity goal of 10^{33}-10^{34}cm^{-2}s^{-1} over a wide range of center-of-mass energy. With a growing physics interest, a positron-ion collision scheme is under study for JLEIC. The JLEIC positron-ion scheme will use CEBAF as the positron injector with minimal modification, so the Polarized Electrons for Polarized Positrons (PEPPo) based positron generation scheme is chosen. The major challenge of this scheme is to generate the polarized positron bunch trains with the time structure and peak beam current required for the injection/top-off of the electron collider ring. In this talk, we will address the details of this scheme, with the focus on the positron beam formation, as well as the preliminary collider parameters optimized for positron-ion luminosity.

Guo, Jiquan↗

Pulsed Operation of CEBAF for JLEIC Injection

JLab Electron Ion Collider (JLEIC) is planning to use the recently upgraded 12 GeV CEBAF 1497 MHz SRF CW recirculating linac as a full-energy injector for the electron collider ring. The JLEIC electron injection requires 3-4µs long bunch trains with a 20-400ms spacing in between, resulting in uneven beam loading for the CW CEBAF. With the high beam current in JLEIC collider rings, the low duty factor of injection also requires to a very high pulsed beam current from CEBAF, exacerbating the transient beam loading issue. In this paper, we will present CEBAFs detailed pulsed operation scheme for JLEIC injection, as well as some experimental results at CEBAF.

Guo, J.↗

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↗

SPIN FLIPPING SYSTEM IN THE JLEIC COLLIDER RING

The figure-8 JLEIC collider ring opens wide possibilities for manipulating proton and deuteron spin directions during an experiment. Using 3D spin rotators, one can, at the same time, efficiently control the polarization direction as well as the spin tune value. The 3D spin rotators allow one to arrange a system for reversals of the spin direction in all beam bunches during an experiment, i.e. a spin-flipping system. To preserve the polarization, one has to satisfy the condition of adiabatic change of the spin direction. When adjusting the polarization direction, one can stabilize the spin tune value, which completely eliminates resonant beam depolarization during the spin manipulation process. We provide the results of numerical modeling of a spin-flipping system in the JLEIC ion collider ring. The presented results demonstrate the feasibility of organizing a spin-flipping system using a 3D rotator. The figure-8 JLEIC collider provides a unique capability of doing high-precision experiments with polarized ion beams.

Kondratenko, A. M.↗

Simulation Study on JLEIC High Energy Bunched Electron Cooling

In the Jefferson Lab (JLab) Electron Ion Collider (JLEIC) project the traditional electron cooling technique is used to reduce the ion beam emittance at the booster ring, and to compensate the intrabeam scattering effect and maintain the ion beam emittance during the collision at the collider ring. Different with other electron coolers using DC electron beam, the proposed electron cooler at the JLEIC ion collider ring uses high energy bunched electron beam, provided by an ERL. In this paper, we report the new electron cooling simulation program developed at JLab to fulfil specific simulation requirements of JLEIC and some recent simulation study on how the electron cooling rate will be affected by the bunched electron beam properties, such as the correlation between the longitudinal position and momentum, the bunch size, and the Larmor emittance.

Zhang, He↗

Ion bunch formation strategies for the JLEIC collider

An Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) has been proposed and supported as the next major nuclear physics facility in the United States, with very high design luminosities of 10^33 - 10^34 cm^-2 s^-1. The Jefferson Lab EIC concept, JLEIC, includes construction of a new ion beam accelerator complex. To achieve the required luminosity, the JLEIC ion collider requires unprecedentedly short ion bunches of 1 cm length at a high repetition frequency of 476 MHz. However, only much longer ion bunches are formed by the ion injector complex producing beams for the collider ring. Formation of short ion bunches from much longer ion bunches in this collider while limiting beam size growth is a fundamental challenge. This dissertation investigates several methods using longitudinal RF gymnastics to address this bunch formation challenge, including debunch/rebunch with barrier bucket manipulations and adiabatic bunch splitting. We discuss background of both methods, and show results of simulations that indicate that multiple adiabatic bunch splits are best suited to produce ion beam that satisfies the current JLEIC requirements. Adiabatic bunch splitting is also further optimized using genetic algorithms to find the optimum tradeoff between acceptable emittance growth and accelerator time necessary to perform the bunch formation process.

Gamage, Randika P.↗

Acceleration of polarized protons and deuterons in the ion collider ring of JLEIC

The figure-8-shaped ion collider ring of Jefferson Lab Electron-Ion Collider (JLEIC) is transparent to the spin. It allows one to preserve proton and deuteron polarizations using weak stabilizing solenoids when accelerating the beam up to 100 GeV/c. When the stabilizing solenoids are introduced into the collider's lattice, the particle spins precess about a spin field, which consists of the field induced by the stabilizing solenoids and the zero-integer spin resonance strength. During acceleration of the beam, the induced spin field is maintained constant while the resonance strength experiences significant changes in the regions of "interference peaks". The beam polarization depends on the field ramp rate of the arc magnets. Its component along the spin field is preserved if acceleration is adiabatic. We present the results of our theoretical analysis and numerical modeling of the spin dynamics during acceleration of protons and deuterons in the JLEIC ion collider ring. We demonstrate high stability of the deuteron polarization in figure-8 accelerators. We analyze a change in the beam polarization when crossing the transition energy.

Kondratenko, A.↗

BEAM IMPEDANCE STUDY ON A HARMONIC KICKER FOR THE CCR OF THE JLEIC

The design of the high power prototype of the harmonic kicker cavity for the Circulator Cooler Ring (CCR) of the Jefferson Lab Electron-Ion Collider (JLEIC) is complete and fabrication is underway. In this report, we present some of impedance study with a high beam current of the JLEIC (average current ~ 0.76 A) for the HOM and RF power estimation.

Park, Gunn Tae↗

Coupled Bunch Instability from JLEIC Crab Cavity Higher Order Modes

Particle bunches traveling in a ring can excite wakefields inside any radio-frequency (rf) element present. These electromagnetic modes can resonate long enough and interact with subsequent passing bunches. A coherent oscillation between bunches can quickly become an instability and needs to be addressed. The Jefferson Lab Electron-Ion Collider (JLEIC) has a large 50 mrad crossing angle and thus relies on bunch crabbing to achieve high luminosity. Bunch crabbing is done with compact superconducting rf dipole cavities. We study coupled bunch oscillations driven by the higher order modes (HOM) of multi-cell rf dipole (rfd) crab cavities under study for JLEIC, we calculate the instability growth time assuming a symmetric beam frequency spectrum, identify the HOM driving the instability and discuss mitigation measures.

Sosa Guitron, Salvador I.↗

LONGITUDINAL COUPLED BUNCH INSTABILITY IN JLEIC

The luminosity performance of the JLEIC design is achieved by using a high bunch repetition rate (476MHz) with moderate bunch charges, similar to the strategy employed in modern lepton colliders. Such a bunch configuration will make single bunch instabilities less problematic, yet makes the machine more prone to the onset of longitudinal and transverse coupled bunch instabilities. Consequently, this will set higher demands on the bunch-by-bunch feedback systems to mitigate the multi-bunch instabilities. In this paper we present our detailed analysis of the growth rate of the coupled bunch instabilities for beams in both the electron and ion rings due to the accelerating RF cavities in JLEIC at the collision scenario. The implication of the growth rate on the feedback system will be discussed.

Li, Rui↗

Toroidal merger simulations for the JLEIC bunched beam electron cooler ring

The bunched beam electron cooler ring for the Jefferson Lab Electron-Ion Collider (JLEIC) requires a merger system to transport magnetized electron beams of two different energies to the same energy recovery linac (ERL) beamline. The system is especially challenging compared to existing mergers for ERL or hadron cooling applications (as at COSY) due to the small separation in energy between the two beams; for the JLEIC bunched beam cooler, the two beam energies may only differ by a factor of 4. An additional complication is the use of a magnetized beam. A toroidal merger system is studied using G4Beamline/GEANT4. Preservation of the quality of the low energy beam from the injector is especially vital for efficient cooling performance and compatibility with the ERL. Effects of the toroidal system on transverse and longitudinal emittances of the magnetized beams, as well as space charge effects, are presented and discussed.

Sy, Amy V.↗

Dispersive Electron Cooling for JLEIC

JLEIC is the electron ion collider under design at Jefferson Lab, which will provide a luminosity up to 1034 cm-2s-1. To reach the high luminosity, short ion and electron bunches with high charge density colliding in high frequency are proposed in JLEIC design. The high charge density of the ion beam leads to strong intrabeam scattering effect, which enlarges the ion beam emittance and ruins the luminosity if not mitigated. Magnetized electron cooling is implemented to overcome the intrabeam scattering effect and to reduce or maintain the ion beam emittance. In this paper, we discuss the redistribution of the cooling effects in the longitudinal and the transverse directions by introducing the dispersion of the ion beam in the cooling section. When the charge density of the cooling electron beam varies, the dispersion of the ion beam leads to an increase of the transverse cooling rate and a reduction of the longitudinal cooling rate, while the total decrement of the Courant-Snyder invariant of the ion beam increases. Both theoretical analysis and numerical calculation are presented.

Zhang, He↗

Status Update of a Harmonic Kicker Development for JLEIC

The Jefferson Lab Electron-Ion Collider (JLEIC) is an asymmetric high luminosity ring-ring collider proposed as the next major R&D facility for the nuclear physics community. Both of JLEIC?s electron and ion collider rings have high beam current with gaps serving the pur-poses of beam abort, ion clearing, etc. Those gaps will cause time-varying beam loading in the storage RF cavi-ties, and may result in modulation of cavity RF phase/voltage and cyclic shift of collision point, which could lead to significant luminosity loss. We studied a few approaches to mitigate the RF phase modulation and IP shift, such as correcting the RF phase/voltage modula-tion with traditional LLRF feedback, one-turn feedback (OTFB), or RF feedforward (FF); optimizing the bunch fill pattern to limit the RF phase/voltage modulation to a small fraction of the bunch trains in the collider ring; or matching the RF phase modulation in the two rings. The preliminary results are discussed in this paper.

Guo, Jiquan↗

HIGH CURRENT HIGH CHARGE MAGNETIZED AND BUNCHED ELEC-TRON BEAM FROM A DC PHOTOGUN FOR JLEIC COOLER

A high current, high charge magnetized electron beam-line was developed for fast and efficient cooling of ion beams for the proposed Jefferson Lab Electron Ion Col-lider (JLEIC). In this paper, we describe recent achieve-ments that include the generation of picosecond-bunch magnetized beams at average currents up to 28 mA with exceptionally long photocathode lifetime, and independent demonstrations of magnetized beam with high bunch charge up to 700 pC at 10s of kHz repetition rates. In addition, a detailed description of an extremely stable and reliable fiber-based drive laser system that employs a gain-switched master oscillator is presented. These ac-complishments mark important steps toward demonstrat-ing the feasibility of a technically challenging JLEIC cooler design using magnetized beams

Adderley, P.↗

Luminosity Studies of Asymmetric Crab crossing in JLEIC

The proposed Jefferson Lab Electron Ion Collider (JLEIC) currently plans to use a crab crossing scheme to maximize the available luminosity. It had been suggested by that space and cost savings, as well as hadron beam quality improvements could be realized by leaving the ion beam un-crabbed and increasing the crabbing angle of the electron beam. We also examine the two bunches crabbed at different angles, as well as at different crabbing frequencies to determine the maximum achievable luminosity for both JLEIC and LHC parameters.

Nissen, Edith↗