Electron proton instability in the CSNS ring

The electron proton (e-p) instability has been observed in many proton accelerators. It will induce transverse beam size blow-up, cause beam loss and restrict the machine performance. Much research work has been done on the causes, dynamics and cures of this instability. A simulation code is developed to study the e-p instability in the ring of the China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS).     

Simulation on buildup of electron cloud in a proton circular accelerator

Electron cloud interaction with high energy positive beams are believed responsible for various undesirable effects such as vacuum degradation, collective beam instability and even beam loss in high power proton circular accelerators. An important uncertainty in predicting electron cloud instability lies in the detailed processes of the generation and accumulation of the electron cloud. The simulation on the build-up of electron cloud is necessary to further studies on beam instability caused by electron clouds. The China Spallation Neutron Source(CSNS) is an intense proton accelerator facility now being built, whose accelerator complex includes two main parts: an H-linac and a rapid cycling synchrotron(RCS). The RCS accumulates the 80 Me V proton beam and accelerates it to 1.6 Ge V with a repetition rate of 25 Hz. During beam injection with lower energy, the emerging electron cloud may cause serious instability and beam loss on the vacuum pipe. A simulation code has been developed to simulate the build-up,distribution and density of electron cloud in CSNS/RCS.     

离子束-等离子体系统中的参量不稳定性

本文研究了外pump电场E_0在离子束-等离子体系统中所激发的静电低频参量不稳定性。导出了这种低频波的一般色散关系,并用数值方法分析了一维质子束-等离子体系统的参量不稳定性的激发过程。结果表明:离子束对等离子体中参量不稳定性的激发有极重要的影响。当没有离子束时,只能激发一种模式的波;一旦将离子束引入等离子体中,就可以在系统中激发两个波长较长的低频波。     

fs激光在靶背表面产生的质子束成丝

 介绍了利用3TW/60fs钛宝石超短超强激光与20μm铜薄膜靶相互作用的实验。实验观测到质子束的角分布随激光功率密度有所变化。在较高的功率密度（～1×10¹⁸ W/cm²）时，观测到环状的质子束分布，发散角较大。在较低的激光功率密度（～2×10¹⁷ W/cm²）时，质子束发散角减小，质子束出现成丝现象。质子束的角分布实际上反映了从靶前输运到靶背的超热电子电流横向分布。在输运过程中，由于Weibel不稳定性会使超热电子电流出现空心化并最后破裂成丝。     

质子束团传输过程中的二次电子多级倍增

电子云不稳定性是强流质子加速器稳定运行的一个重大障碍。在电子云积累的过程中,二次电子多级倍增是电子云的主要来源。二次电子多级倍增机制可以用电子的运动和能量增益来分析。为了得到电子云的密度及分布,编写了一个模拟程序用来跟踪电子云的发展演化过程。分析了在质子束团作用下电子的运动,分析二次电子多级倍增的原因,并用模拟程序进行了计算,结果发现电子云与束团的纵向分布密切相关。     

质子束在等离子体中传输的粒子模拟

用粒子模拟程序研究了长脉冲质子束在等离子体中的传输特性,模拟结果表明,等离子体可以明显改善质子束的空间传输特性,大尺度的等离子体相对于等离子体层可以实现较长距离的稳定传输。研究发现,在实现长距离传输时,等离子体波会对质子束密度有较大的调制作用,严重影响质子束的传输性质,同时通过优化束密度分布可以有效减弱等离子体波的激发,实现束较稳定的传输。     

Bent crystal application to formation and diagnostics of proton beam

The analysis of the deflection efficiency of high-energy proton beam with a bent crystal has been made and the optimum length of the bent crystal estimated. A bent Si crystal was used in the experiments at Serpukhov circular accelerator with 70 GeV proton beam. The results of the formation of a narrow proton beam and measurements of the beam phase volume are discussed.     

一台用于空间状态模拟的紧凑型质子源

A compact proton beam source for space simulation has been developed.A compact structure was designed in order to meet the special requirements of miniaturization.Some particular means have been adopted for improving the proton portion and beam transmission at a long distance.The experimental results showed that 8mA/30keV proton beam can be successfully obtained from this source at about 700W input microwave power.     

Design study for a 500 MeV proton synchrotron with CSNS linac as an injector

Using the China Spallation Neutron Source(CSNS) linac as the injector, a 500 MeV proton synchrotron is proposed for multidisciplinary applications, such as biology, material science and proton therapy. The synchrotron will deliver proton beam with energy from 80 MeV to 500 MeV. A compact lattice design has been worked out, and all the important beam dynamics issues have been investigated. The 80 MeV H-beam is stripped and injected into the synchrotron by using multi-turn injection. In order to continuously extraction the proton with small beam loss,an achromatic structure is proposed and a slow extraction method with RF knock-out is adopted and optimized.     

Proton beam writing of Nd:GGG crystals as new waveguide laser sources

Focused proton beam writing has been utilized to fabricate optical channel waveguides in Nd:GGG crystals. The 1?MeV proton beam irradiation creates a local modified region with positive refractive index changes at the end of the proton trajectory, in which the channel waveguide could confine the light field in a symmetric way. Room-temperature laser emission has been achieved at 1063.7?nm, with absorbed pump power of 61?mW (at 808?nm). The obtained slope efficiency of the Nd:GGG waveguide laser system is as high as 66%, which is, to our best knowledge, the highest value for integrated lasers from ion beam processed channel waveguide systems.     

CSNS/RCS中的阻抗和束流不稳定性

中国散裂中子源（CSNS）的快循环同步加速器（RCS）是一台强流质子加速器,其束流平均功率达到100 kW。在此强流加速器中,真空部件的阻抗是引起束流不稳定的主要原因,它严重限制了束流强度及品质。对CSNS/RCS设计中的各种真空部件阻抗进行了详细计算,并以计算结果为出发点,理论分析了各种不稳定性强弱,确定了各种不稳定性发生的阻抗阈值,为真空部件结构设计提供了参考。对比较严重的电阻壁阻抗,采用阻抗壁尾场模型进行跟踪模拟,得到不稳定性增长率与理论计算值符合较好。自然色品有助于束流稳定,加入自然色品后模拟,电阻壁不稳定性消失。     

APTR质子同步加速器RFQ直线注入器的优化设计

为实现质子治疗装置的国产化和小型化,基于已完成安装调试的上海先进质子治疗装置(APTR),开展质子治疗注入器系统的升级设计研究,利用PARMTEQM设计软件和快聚束策略,针对APTR同步加速器RFQ直线注入器进行动力学设计模拟。RFQ工作频率为325 MHz,流强18 mA,对从离子源引出的低能质子束流进行匹配俘获、横向聚焦、纵向聚束和预加速,引出能量为3.0 MeV。通过优化预注入器RFQ动力学设计方案和极头参数,有效避免参数共振,减小束流损失,使其整体传输效率达到98.0%,在水平和垂直方向上的发射度增长分别为1.2%和3.3%,出口束流满足下一级腔体的注入需求,开展设计模拟验证和相关冗余度分析,为质子同步加速器的治疗设备和直线注入系统提供参照依据。     

Head-tail instability caused by electron clouds in positron storage rings

In positron or proton storage rings with many closely spaced bunches, an electron cloud can build up in the vacuum chamber due to photoemission or secondary emission. We discuss the possibility of a single-bunch two-stream instability driven by this electron cloud. Depending on the strength of the beam-electron interaction, the chromaticity and the synchrotron oscillation frequency, this instability either resembles a linac beam breakup or a head-tail instability. We present computer simulations of the instabilities, and compare the simulation results with analytical estimates.     

A system for proton beam control during radiotherapy

A system for the on-line control of proton beam profiles and track has been designed and constructed to guarantee the quality assurance of radiotherapy carried out in the Medical-Technical Complex of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. To measure the horizontal and vertical profiles of the beam in the treatment room, a multiwire ionization chamber has been designed and constructed. The chamber consists of two anode and three cathode electrodes. Each anode electrode contains 30 wires 0.1 mm in diameter separated by 3 mm. To control the beam track, four industrial semiconductor diodes 2D212A designed for radio engineering application were used. The system is installed in front of the first collimator in the peripheral part of the beam, so that it does not disturb the operated part of the beam. Output signals from the ionization chamber and the diodes are processed by a specially constructed electronic device connected to a personal computer. It utilizes 64-channel 16-bit charge-current converters (TERA chip). One-years’s experience of the operation of the system in proton therapy treatment sessions has shown its high reliability and sensitivity to proton beam parameters. The accuracy of controlling the asymmetry of the beam profiles is 2% and the track deviations are equivalent to 0.2 mm of water.     

Study of defect annealing by supercurrent proton beam irradiation and of radiation defect profiles in GaAs by the positron annihilation method

The annealing of radiation defects in GaAs by a supercurrent proton beam with currents up to 200 A cm^?2 and 4.8 MeV energy was studied. The positron annihilation method (measurement of angular distribution of annihilation photons) has been used to study the depth profiles of radiation defects in solids. Profiles of vacancy-type defects in GaAs irradiated by a supercurrent proton beam have been measured.     

准周期聚焦–加速耦合系统的均温设计方法

强流质子直线加速器要求严格控制束流损失和束流发射度增长.理论已经证明,强的空间电荷作用在不同自由度之间的耦合,会因为其间的温度差异,通过束流的相干不稳定性,使束流发射度增长.因此,有必要按照均温的原则设计强流加速器.但是,由于质子直线加速器的各种加速结构均为准周期耦合系统,使得均温设计十分繁琐而难以达到完全均温.我们利用国际上通用的束流动力学软件TRACE3-D,给它补充了均温设计功能,通过与PARMILA程序的配合使用,可以方便地在加速器设计中实现均温条件.本文将介绍我们对TRACE3-D的修改补充,并以强流质子直线加速器设计实例,说明均温设计的必要性.     

Thermal hydraulic studies of spallation target for one-way coupled indian accelerator driven systems with low energy proton beam

BARC has recently proposed a one-way coupled ADS reactor. This reactor requires typically ∼1 GeV proton beam with 2 mA of current. Approximately 8 kW of heat is deposited in the window of the target. Circulating liquid metal target (lead/lead-bismuth-eutectic) has to extract this heat and this is a critical R&D problem to be solved. At present there are very few accelerators, which can give few mA and high-energy proton beam. However, accelerators with low energy and hundreds of micro-ampere current are commercially available. In view of this, it is proposed in this paper to simulate beam window heating of ∼8 kW in the target with low-energy proton beam. Detailed thermal analysis in the spallation and window region has been carried out to study the capability of heat extraction by circulating LBE for a typical target loop with a proton beam of 30 MeV energy and current of 0.267 mA. The heat deposition study is carried out using FLUKA code and flow analysis by CFD code. The detailed analysis of this work is presented in this paper.      

Mismatch study of C-ADS main linac

The ADS accelerator in China is a Continuous-Wave(CW) proton linac with 1.5 Ge V beam energy,10 m A beam current, and 15 MW beam power. To meet the extremely low beam loss rate and high reliability requirements, it is very important to study the beam halo caused by beam mismatch, which is one major sources of beam loss. To avoid envelope instability, the phase advances per period are all smaller than 90 degrees in the main linac design. In this paper, simulation results of the emittance growth and the envelope oscillations caused by mismatch in the main linac section are presented. To meet the emittance growth requirement, the transverse and longitudinal mismatch factors should be smaller than 0.4 and 0.3, respectively.     

散裂靶中质子束窗的散射效应

 质子束窗是在高功率靶区中的一个分界窗,它将质子输运线上高真空区域和氦容器中的氦环境分开。在其他散裂中子源中质子束窗的热效应以及机械问题都已经被研究过了,但质子束在该窗中散射效应的研究却很少被报导,然而在靶设计中如果没有处理好质子束窗的散射效应会有很大的问题。报导了质子束窗散射效应的模拟计算结果,包括不同质子束窗的材料和结构选择,并以中国散裂中子源（CSNS）为例,介绍了在CSNS一期和二期中质子束窗采用周边水冷的铝合金单层结构,CSNS三期采用中间水冷的铝合金夹层结构。文中给出了不同结构的质子束窗和不同的与靶距离散射效应对靶上经非线性磁铁均匀化的束流分布的影响的模拟计算结果。模拟结果显示质子窗的散射效应对束流损失和靶上的束流分布有重要的影响。     

离子通道摇摆电子束流激发的纵向慢波不稳定性

考虑相对论电子束入射等离子体所产生的离子通道的具体结构,利用线性电磁流体力学理论对离子通道摇摆电子束激发的纵向慢波电磁不稳定性进行研究.通过对导出的系统色散关系的数值分析,给出了系统中电磁波、空间电荷波以及两者在一定条件下互作用形成的电磁-静电混合模式的传播特性.研究发现系统在慢波区域存在电磁不稳定性,并揭示此慢波不稳定性是由电子束的betatron振荡所导致,且系统的不稳定性程度与betatron振动频率密切相关.对betatron振荡激发的慢波电磁不稳定性物理机理进行了分析,并给出了不稳定性存在的条件 关键词： 离子通道 betatron振荡 电磁不稳定性