Physical design of FEL injector based on the performance-enhanced EC-ITC RF gun

To meet the requirements of high performance THz-FEL （Free Electron Laser）, a compact scheme of FEL injector was proposed. A thermionic cathode was chosen to emit electrons instead of a photo-cathode with its complex structure and high cost. The effective bunch charge was improved to ~200 pC by adopting an enhanced EC-ITC （External Cathode Independently Tunable Cells） RF gun to extract micro-bunches; back bombardment effects were almost eliminated as well. Constant gradient accelerator structures were designed to improve energy to ~14 MeV, while the focusing system was applied for emittance suppressing and bunch state maintenance. The physical design and beam dynamics of the key components for the FEL injector were analyzed. Furthermore, start- to-end simulations with multi-pulses were performed using homemade MATLAB and Parmela. The results show that continual high brightness electron bunches with a low energy spread and emittance could be obtained stably.     

Physical design of FEL injector based on the performance-enhanced EC-ITC RF gun

To meet the requirements of high performance THz-FEL (Free Electron Laser), a compact scheme of FEL injector was proposed. A thermionic cathode was chosen to emit electrons instead of a photo-cathode with its complex structure and high cost. The effective bunch charge was improved to ～200 pC by adopting an enhanced EC-ITC (External Cathode Independently Tunable Cells) RF gun to extract micro-bunches; back bombardment effects were almost eliminated as well. Constant gradient accelerator structures were designed to improve energy to ～14 MeV, while the focusing system was applied for emittance suppressing and bunch state maintenance. The physical design and beam dynamics of the key components for the FEL injector were analyzed. Furthermore, start-to-end simulations with multi-pulses were performed using homemade MATLAB and Parmela. The results show that continual high brightness electron bunches with a low energy spread and emittance could be obtained stably.     

Production,installation and test of Nb-sputtered QWRs for ALPI

Eight cryostats, each housing 4 sputtered Nb/Cu, 160 MHz, quarter wave resonators (QWR), are now in operation in ALPI[1]. Two of them house high β cavities; the others are equipped with medium β resonators. Another medium β cryostat is ready and will be installed in the early 2002. Pb/Cu medium β accelerating cavities are now present only in four cryostats and they will have their Pb superconducting (SC) layer replaced by sputtered Nb soon. The substitution of the Pb SC layer in ALPI medium β resonators did not interfere with ALPI operation; the upgrading of resonators went on parallel to the cryostat maintenance programme. The average accelerating field of these resonators, at the design power of 7 W, overcomes 4 MV/m, whereas, when Pb electroplated, their average value was 2.7 MV/m. The sputtered resonator combines the good SC characteristics of Nb with the higher thermal conductivity and better stability to change of He bath pressure, which is typical of copper resonators. This leads to a very high reliability, as routinely experienced during beam acceleration.     

重离子冷却储存环CSRm双电子复合实验研究类锂36,40Ar15+离子同位素移动

配备电子冷却装置的重离子储存环为开展高电荷态离子的双电子复合（dielectronic recombination,DR）精密谱学研究提供了绝佳的实验平台。本工作在兰州重离子加速器冷却储存环主环（HIRFL-CSRm）上开展了类锂36,40Ar15+离子的双电子复合实验,实验观测了电子-离子质心系能量范围为0~35 eV的双电子复合速率系数谱。通过外推法获得了36,40Ar15+离子2s_1/2→2p_1/2和2s_1/2→2p_3/2的跃迁能量。同时利用GRASP2K程序理论计算了36,40Ar15+离子2s_1/2→2p_1/2和2s_1/2→2p_3/2跃迁的质量移动因子和场移动因子,进而得到双电子复合谱的同位素移动值。36,40Ar15+离子2s_1/2→2p_1/2和2s_1/2→2p_3/2同位素移动分别为0.861 meV和0.868 meV。它们均小于目前CSRm上双电子复合实验的实验分辨为~10 meV,进而解释了实验测量的DR谱上未能观察到同位素移动的原因。然而,高电荷态离子的同位素移动场效应与原子序数Z5成正比,因此,在重离子加速器冷却储存环实验环（HIRFL-CSRe）以及未来大型加速器--强流重离子加速器装置（HIAF）上有望通过DR精密谱学方法研究高电荷态重离子甚至放射性离子的同位素移动,进而获得相关原子核的核电荷半径等信息。The cooler storage ring is equipped with an electron-cooler. It is an excellent experimental platform for dielectronic recombination (DR) experiment of highly-charged ions. In this paper, the dielectronic recombination experiments of lithium-like Ar15+ ions with mass number 36 and 40 are conducted at the HIRFL-CSRm(main ring of the Cooling Storage Ring of Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou). The experimental electron-ion collision energy scale is from 0 eV to 35 eV. Extrapolation method is exploited to obtain the excitation energies of transitions 2s_1/2→2p_1/2 and 2s_1/2→2p_3/2 of the 36,40Ar15+ ions from experimental data. Meanwhile, GRASP2K program is utilized to calculate the mass shift factors and field shift factors of 36,40Ar15+ ions for 2s_1/2→2p_1/2 and 2s_1/2→2p_3/2 transitions to obtain isotope shifts in DR spectra. In theoretical calculation, isotope shifts of 36,40Ar15+ ions corresponding to 2s_1/2→2p_1/2 and 2s_1/2→2p_3/2 are 0.861 meV and 0.868 meV, respectively. They are both less than the experimental precision (~10 meV) of these dielectronic recombination experiments at the CSRm, which explains that isotope shifts cannot be distinguished from the experimental dielectronic recombination spectra. However, the field shift of highly-charged ions is proportional to Z5. In the future, the dielectronic recombination experiments of highly-charged heavy ions even radioactive ions will be conducted at the HIRFL-CSRe (experimental ring of the Cooling Storage Ring of Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou) and the future large accelerator facility--HIAF(High intensity Heavy-ion Accelerator Facility) to measure isotope shifts to obtain the nuclear charge radius information.     

HIRFL-CSR团簇靶的优化

为HIRFL-CSR团簇内靶设计加工了新的供气系统, 拆换了原有的喷嘴, 对氢气和氩气进行了新的实验, 获得了氢气和氩气的稳定团簇束, 解决了困扰团簇靶稳定运行的喷嘴堵塞问题. 获得的氢团簇束密度为1.75×10¹³ atoms/cm³, 好于德国GSI内靶对氢束所达到的1×10¹³atoms/cm³. 研究了团簇束的衰减, 测量了氢束和氩束的有效靶厚, 研究了团簇靶系统对这两种工作气体的长期运行稳定性. 对氢和氩两种工作气体, 各级气压呈现了良好的稳定性, 说明在实验的时间范围内, 团簇靶运行稳定.     

兰州冷却环总体设计

兰州重离子冷却环CSR是兰州重离子加速器研究装置HRRFL的一项升级工程, 是一个双冷却储存环系统,由主环CSRm和实验环CSRe构成. 从HIRFL回旋加速器系统来的重离子束, 首先注入到主环CSRm中进行累积冷却, 然后加速到较高的能量引出打初级靶产生放射线次级束RIBs或高离化重离子束, 这些次级束再被送到验环CSRe储存起来以开展内靶实验.     

远离稳定线原子核的实验研究（Ⅰ）

综述了近年来我国在远离稳定线原子核实验研究中取得的重要进展．这些实验研究工作主要是在中国科学院近代物理研究所（ＩＭＰ）、中国原子能科学研究院（ＣＩＡＥ）和中国科学院上海原子核研究所（ＳＩＮＲ）进行的．文章还简要介绍了ＩＭＰ和ＣＩＡＥ现有加速器上研制的放射性束流线及进一步的发展计划．     

兰州重离子加速器的状态和发展

文章首先简要地介绍了世界上重离子加速器的发展状态,然后对兰州重离子加速器（HRFL）的结构,建造过程,运行情况,多年来以及目前正在进行的主要改造项目进行了描述,为适应核物理及其相关学科的持续发展研究的需要,对HIRFL近期和将来的发展情况作了概括的描述。     

FEL光学速调管的升级性能分析

通过三维磁场的有限元计算,给出了自由电子激光（FEL）研究用光学速调管升级后的磁参数。国家同步辐射实验室合肥光源（HLS）电子储存环能量可以日常运行在200～800 MeV间,为了与电子储存环能量匹配,并在较高束电子能量下进行实验和得到较多的相干辐射光子,光学速调管从原来的对称结构升级成非对称结构,用于HLS储存环谐波产生FEL实验。给出了升级后非对称光学速调管的几组匹配磁参数,用于在HLS储存环注入能量和可以运行的最高能量下进行谐波FEL实验。初步计算表明,HLS 储存环电子束性能优越,能散很低,FEL实验用最高能散仅为2.05×10-4,相应FEL辐射的能散修正因子在0.96以上,可以忽略不计。     

重离子冷却贮存环与原子物理研究

文中概要介绍了重离子冷却贮存环的工作过程,对在这个装置上目前进行的原子物理学领域有关前沿研究课题进行了简述和讨论.     

HLS储存环高频调制实验

在合肥光源(HLS)储存环上进行了高频调制实验, 结果表明采用调制频率接近同步振荡频率f_s的高频幅度或相位调制, 可以提高束流寿命. 而通常采用的是2f_s的调制方式. 实验测量了最佳调制频率和合适的调制度, 以及不同流强下调制引起寿命增长的程度. 同时观察到束流频谱中高次分量的降低, 这有利于抑制多束团耦合不稳定性.     

基于AD9854重离子治癌加速器高频控制器设计

介绍了兰州重离子治癌加速器治疗装置的高频控制系统原理、软件设计、硬件配置和布局。提出并实现了对重离子治癌加速器高频控制系统的高频腔体的精确控制。在硬件上,重离子治癌加速器高频控制系统硬件平台由监视控制板和数据分析板两部分构成,采用双FPGA+DSP+DDS+PXI 结构,此结构具有强大的数据处理能力,其核心器件是FPGA和DDS。通过设计编写FPGA VHDL代码实现对DDS芯片的配置,产生的IQ两路信号,分别发送到高频腔、幅度调制器以及偏流电源上,完成幅相同调和频率调制。通过该设计,实现与DAC和ADC操作配合进行高速高效的数据传输,产生高品质束流。     

质子与重离子肿瘤治疗的进展

简要介绍了质子与重离子肿瘤治疗的历史和现状.现在,全世界有质子治疗中心23家,治疗肿瘤患者总数为39 612人;重离子治疗设备有3台,治疗肿瘤患者4 511人（包括He离子治疗2 054例病人）.     

RETRACTED: High power acceleration of an HSC type injector for cancer therapy

This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief, in accordance with our policy on publishing ethics.

The article is largely a duplicate publication of a paper already published by the same authors in Physical Review Special Topics –Accelerators and Beams as "High power test of an injector linac for heavy ion cancer therapy facilities" (Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 18, 111002, DOI 10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.18.111002). The main results and much of the text are identical. The lead author, Dr Liang Lu, submitted this article to Chinese Physics C while the Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams article was still in the peer review process. Each journal then accepted the respective submissions, with the article published in Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams before Chinese Physics C. During submission, authors explicitly declare that the work is original and is not published or under consideration for publication elsewhere. This publication is therefore a serious breach of scientific publishing ethics. The Editorial Board of Chinese Physics C treats such matters extremely seriously, and hereby retracts this article. 

Dr Liang Lu takes full responsibility for this matter, and apologises for his behaviour. The Editors apologise to our readers that this was not detected earlier in the publication process.

     

Conceptional design of a heavy ion linac injector for HIRFL-CSRm

A room temperature heavy ion linac has been proposed as a new injector of the main Cooler Storage Ring(CSRm) at the Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou(HIRFL), which is expected to improve the performance of HIRFL. The linac injector can supply heavy ions with a maximum mass to charge ratio of 7 and an injection kinetic energy of 7.272 MeV/u for CSRm; the pulsed beam intensity is 3 emA with the duty factor of 3%. Compared with the present cyclotron injector, the Sector Focusing Cyclotron(SFC), the beam current from linac can be improved by 10–100 times. As the pre-accelerator of the linac, the 108.48 MHz 4-rod Radio Frequency Quadrupole(RFQ) accelerates the ion beam from 4 keV/u to 300 keV/u, which achieves the transmission efficiency of 95.3% with a 3.07 m long vane.The phase advance has been taken into account in the analysis of the error tolerance, and parametric resonances have been carefully avoided by adjusting the structure parameters. Kombinierte Null Grad Struktur Interdigital H-mode Drift Tube Linacs(KONUS IH-DTLs), which follow the RFQ, accelerate ions up to the energy of 7.272 MeV/u for CSRm. The resonance frequency is 108.48 MHz for the first two cavities and 216.96 MHz for the last 5 Drift Tube Linacs(DTLs). The maximum accelerating gradient can reach 4.95 MV/m in a DTL section with the length of17.066 m, and the total pulsed RF power is 2.8 MW. A new strategy, for the determination of resonance frequency,RFQ vane voltage and DTL effective accelerating voltage, is described in detail. The beam dynamics design of the linac will be presented in this paper.     

合肥光源储存环的离子俘获与直流离子清洗

研究了合肥光源(HLS)电子储存环中离子产生、俘获的过程,离子对束流的影响,直流离子清洗的作用及清洗效果.为光源的高效率的运行提供了理论指导及实验依据.     

用于中性束注入的大功率射频离子源激励器研制

建立了一个等离子体射频激励器,工作气体为氢气,工作气压为0.3Pa,激励器陶瓷桶直径300mm,工作频率1MHz。实现了RF等离子体激发放电,在输入射频功率16kW条件下,采用朗缪尔探针测得的等离子体密度>10¹⁸m^-3,初步建立了一个RF等离子体源实验平台。     

Beam dynamics simulations of the injector for a compact THz source

Terahertz radiation has broad application prospects due to its ability to penetrate deep into many organic materials without the damage caused by ionizing radiations. A free electron laser (FEL)-based THz source is the best choice to produce high-power radiation. In this paper, a 14 MeV injector is introduced for generating high-quality beam for FEL, is composed of an EC-ITC RF gun, compensating coils and a travelling-wave structure. Beam dynamics simulations have been done with ASTRA code to verify the design and to optimize parameters. Simulations of the operating mode at 6 MeV have also been executed.     

HIRFL注入器高频腔体与高频机的匹配

 叙述了兰州重离子加速器注入器(SFC)高频系统的200 kW高频机与高频腔体的功率匹配,匹配测量系统的工作原理,以及对匹配系统的改进和完善,并对高频腔体的输入阻抗和耦合电容进行了计算。为提高高频系统的稳定性和可靠性,对影响高频功率传输和D电压提高的问题进行了深入的研究和改进。采用矢量阻抗仪冷态测量腔体匹配阻抗的方法和一些相应的技术和措施,用矢量电压表动态测量功率输出级的相位差,判断D电路是否工作在匹配状态,从而使SFC的D电压由原来的50~65 kV（不稳定）提高到稳定工作的105 kV,改善了SFC的工作状态和保证了SFC的高效运行。     

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为探究射频离子源驱动器线圈电气参数对射频放电的影响,主要进行了射频离子源等离子体激发的物理分析,并计算了射频电源的频率选择与线圈放电电流、线圈匝间电压以及放电气压之间的关系,设计了射频离子源驱动器的主要参数。研制的射频离子源驱动器装置,成功获得氢等离子体射频放电。实验结果和理论计算结果符合很好。