A new compact structure for a high intensity low-energy heavy-ion accelerator

A new compact accelerating structure named Hybrid RFQ is proposed to accelerate a high-intensity low-energy heavy ion beam in HISCL （High Intensive heavy ion SuperConducting Linear accelerator）, which is an injector of HIAF （Heavy Ion Advanced Research Facility）. It is combined by an alternative series of acceleration gaps and RFQ sections. The proposed structure has a high accelerating ability compared with a conventional RFQ and is more compact than traditional DTLs. A Hybrid RFQ is designed to accelerate 238U34＋ from 0.38 MeV/u to 1.33 MeV/u. The operation frequency is described to be 81.25 MHz at CW （continuous wave） mode. The design beam current is 1.0 mA. The results of beam dynamics and RF simulation of the Hybrid RFQ show that the structure has a good performance at the energy range for ion acceleration. The emittance growth is less than 5% in both directions and the RF power is less than 150 kW. In this paper, the results of beam dynamics and RF simulation of the Hybrid RFQ are presented.     

Studies on RFQ accelerators and its applications

Development activities of Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) accelerators in China are presented.A 1 MeV O~+ RFQ and a 3.5 MeV ADS proton RFQ have been constructed.A novel separated function RFQ is under beam test, a 2 MeV D~+ RFQ is under construction and a CSNS RFQ is going to be constructed.The RFQ dynamics and the simultaneous dual beam acceleration with positive and negative ions were investigated and related codes were developed.The applications of RFQ will be further promoted in China.     

Design study of a radio-frequency quadrupole for high-intensity beams

The Rare isotope Accelerator Of Newness(RAON) heavy-ion accelerator has been designed for the Rare Isotope Science Project(RISP) in Korea. The RAON will produce heavy-ion beams from 660-MeV-proton to200-MeV/u-uranium with continuous wave(CW) power of 400 k W to support research in various scientific fields.Its system consists of an ECR ion source, LEBTs with 10 ke V/u, CW RFQ accelerator with 81.25 MHz and 500 ke V/u, a MEBT system, and a SC linac. In detail, the driver linac system consists of a Quarter Wave Resonator(QWR) section with 81.25 MHz and a Half Wave Resonator(HWR) section with 162.5 MHz, Linac-1, and a Spoke Cavity section with 325 MHz, Linac-2. These linacs have been designed to optimize the beam parameters to meet the required design goals. At the same time, a light-heavy ion accelerator with high-intensity beam, such as proton,deuteron, and helium beams, is required for experiments. In this paper, we present the design study of the high intensity RFQ for a deuteron beam with energies from 30 ke V/u to 1.5 MeV/u and currents in the m A range. This system is composed of an Penning Ionization Gauge ion source, short LEBT with a RF deflector, and shared SC Linac. In order to increase acceleration efficiency in a short length with low cost, the 2nd harmonic of 162.5 MHz is applied as the operation frequency in the D~+RFQ design. The D~+RFQ is designed with 4.97 m, 1.52 bravery factor. Since it operates with 2nd harmonic frequency, the beam should be 50% of the duty factor while the cavity should be operated in CW mode, to protect the downstream linac system. We focus on avoiding emittance growth by the space-charge effect and optimizing the RFQ to achieve a high transmission and low emittance growth. Both the RFQ beam dynamics study and RFQ cavity design study for two and three dimensions will be discussed.     

一种低能散RFQ加速器的物理设计

讨论了脉冲束注入、逐步增加同步相位、减小电极调制系数和极间电压等降低RFQ加速器能散的途径, 并在此基础上设计了一台能散为0.6%的RFQ加速器. 该加速器用于加速器质谱对¹⁴C, ¹³C, ²C 3种 离子的传输有很强的选择性, 有利于降低测量本底、简化装置.     

Design of 57.5 MHz CW RFQ structure for the Rare Isotope Accelarator Facility

The Rare Isotope Accelerator (RIA) facility includes a driver LINAC for production of 400 kW CW heavy-ion beams. The initial acceleration of heavy ions delivered from an ECR ion source can be effectively performed by a 57.5 MHz 4 m long RFQ. The principal specifications of the RFQ are: (1) formation of extremely low longitudinal emittance: (2) stable operation over a wide range of voltage for acceleration of various ion species needed for RIA operation; (3) simultaneous acceleration of two-charge states of uranium ions. CW operation of an accelerating structure leads to a number of requirements for the resonators such as high shunt impedance, efficient water cooling of all parts of the resonant cavity, mechanical stability together with precise alignment, reliable rf contacts, a stable operating mode and fine tuning of the resonant frequency during operation. To satisfy these requirements a new resonant structure has been developed. This paper discusses beam dynamics and electrodynamics design of the RFQ cavity, as well as, some aspects of the mechanical design of this low-frequency CW RFQ.     

SSC直线注入器RFQ腔体多物理场分析

SSC-LINAC是为兰州重离子研究装置（HIRFL）设计的直线注入器,它将U34+离子加速到1 MeV/u注入到分离扇回旋加速器（SSC）中,为冷却储存环（CSR）提供10 MeV/u的U34+。该注入器可以将SSC引出的重离子流强提高一个量级以上。SSC-LINAC由一个RFQ（Radio Frequency Quadrupole）加速器和4个DTL（drift tube linac）组成,设计频率为53.667 MHz。RFQ工作在连续波模式,设计功率30 kW,如果不能有效地冷却,高频电流在电极表面产生的热量会使RFQ的腔壁和电极发生形变,从而导致腔体频率的漂移以及加速和聚焦电场的改变。因此,为了保证连续波工作的RFQ加速器稳定运行,对水冷模式和通道设计提出了很高的要求。作者用有限元软件ANSYS对RFQ进行高频电磁场、温度场、结构应力的耦合分析,验证了冷却方案设计的可行性和可靠性。Heavy Ion Research Facility at Lanzhou(HIRFL) consists of SFC, SSC, CSRm and CSRe. A new linac injector, which will increase U34+ to 1 MeV/u, is designed for SSC to increase the beam intensity to ten times higher. The new injector, whose frequency is 53.667 MHz, is composed by a RFQ (Radio Frequency Quadrupole) cavity and four DTL(Drift Tube Linac) cavities. The RFQ cavity, whose RF power is 30 kW, is operated at CW(continuous wave) mode. The heat produced by HF (high frequency) electromagnetic will cause deformation of RFQ structure, lead to the resonant frequency shift, and reduce the focusing efficiency of the cavity. An efficient cooling system is necessary to ensure that the RFQ cavity can stably be operated at the nominal frequency. A detailed multi-physics field coupling analysis of RFQ has been finished with 3D finite elements software ANSYS. The result of the analysis shows that the water cooling system can cool the RFQ cavity fully and keep the frequency drift be in a acceptable level.     

973 RFQ 水冷调谐系统(英文)

由于束流的传输效率对射频四极场加速器(RFQ) 中射频场的分布极其敏感,所以在RFQ 的运行过程中不再采用传统的调谐器调谐RFQ。水冷调谐的方法基本上不影响RFQ 射频场的分布,所以适用于RFQ 的调谐。中国科学院高能物理研究所为C-ADS、CSNS 预研RFQ 项目开发建造了一套水冷调谐系统,使用RF 相位差作为控制量进行RFQ 水冷调谐,相位差的控制精度达到了1°运行结果显示该系统满足了RFQ 的调谐需求。介绍了该系统的水冷系统、调谐控制系统和一些运行经验。Since the beam transmission of a Radio Frequency Quadrupole(RFQ) Accelerator is very sensitive to the field profile, the ordinary frequency tuning method by the local movable tuner is no more adopted in an RFQ operation. The tuning method by controlling cooling water temperature is widely adopted to tune the RFQ due to the less affect on the RFQ field profile. A Resonance Control Cooling System (RCCS) is developed and commissioned for the 973 RFQ,which is a R&D project for C-ADS and CSNS RFQ at IHEP. This system adopts the RF phase difference as control variable to tune the RFQ. The control accuracy of the RF phase difference is about 1°. The running of the 973 RFQ shows that the RCCS works very well and fully satisfies the operation requirement of the RFQ. In this paper, the water skid, resonance control system of the RCCS and the operation experiences will be presented.     

RFQ加速器中二极模稳定杆作用机理的研究

RFQ加速器中的二极模场给束流施加一个偏转力,导致束流损失在机器上.因此,必须采取降低二极模场的措施.人们提出采用二极模稳定杆使二极模频率远离四极工作模.在一台RFQ冷模上开展的实验研究中,发现了一些与二极模稳定杆作用机理相关的新现象,本文报告这些实验结果,并对其进行分析解释.根据这些结果,提出,利用非对称性地插入二极模稳定杆,可以降低非对称RFQ腔体中的二极模场分量.     

Preliminary design studies of a 100 MeV H−/H+ LINAC as injector for SNS synchrotron/ADS LINAC

It is proposed to construct a spallation neutron source (SNS) at Centre for Advanced Technology (CAT) based on a 1 GeV proton synchrotron with 100 MeV H⁻ LINAC as injector. Additionally, the LINAC can form the first 100 MeV part of a 1 GeV proton LINAC to be built in future for accelerator driven system (ADS) applications. We are exploring a configuration of the 100 MeV LINAC which will consist of an H⁻ ion source, a 4–6 MeV RFQ followed either by a 20 MeV drift tube LINAC (DTL) and 100 MeV separated function drift tube LINAC (SDTL) or a coupled cavity drift tube LINAC (CCDTL) structure. In this paper, we present the results of our preliminary physics design studies of the RFQ-SDTL, RFQ-CCDTL and RFQ-DTL-SDTL configurations. The design of the 4.5 MeV RFQ is discussed along with the matching sections between the RFQ-SDTL/DTL and RFQ-CCDTL. The choice of the accelerator configuration and that of various parameters of the individual accelerator structures under consideration are discussed. The design objectives are to arrive at a configuration which eases heat removal for CW operation and which is less prone to halo formation in order to reduce the beam loss at higher energies.     

Power test of the separated function RFQ accelerator

The progress of the Separated Function RFQ (SFRFQ) accelerator, which can raise the field gradient of acceleration while maintaining the transverse focusing power sufficient for high current beam, is presented. In order to demonstrate the feasibilities of the novel accelerator, a prototype cavity was designed and constructed. Correspondingly, a code SFRFQCODEV1.0 was developed specially for cavity design and beam dynamics simulation. The prototype cavity will be verified as a post-accelerator for ISR RFQ-1000 (Integral Split Ring RFQ) and accelerate O+ from 1 MeV to 1.6 MeV. To inject a higher current oxygen beam for the prototype cavity, the beam current of ISR RFQ-1000 was upgraded to 2 mA. The status of high power and beam test preparation for the prototype cavity are presented in this paper.     

分段共振耦合RFQ场调谐方法研究

强流质子加速器需要采用分段共振耦合RFQ作为其低能加速结构,为减少束流损失,RFQ加速器必须达到所要求的场分布.针对共振耦合结构的特殊性,在RFQ传输线模型的理论基础上,在一台RFQ冷模型上进行了场调谐的实验研究,获得了满意的实验结果.同时,也验证了作者用LabVIEW编写的RFQ场调谐程序的正确性.     

中国散裂中子源RFQ的热分析

射频四级场(RFQ)加速器的水冷具有以下两种功用: 首先它可以把射频场发热带走, 维持RFQ腔的热稳定性及限制RFQ强体形变幅度; 其次, 当RFQ失谐时, 它还可以用来进行RFQ的调谐, 而同时又基本不影响RFQ的射频场分布. 由于RFQ粒子的传输效率对射频场的分布极其敏感, 在RFQ的运行中不再采用传统的用调谐器对RFQ进行调谐的方法. 本文通过热分析, 确定了RFQ加速器的水冷管道的数量和布局及最佳工作水温; 确定了RFQ失谐时, 如何利用水温变化来对RFQ进行调谐的方法.     

RFQ结构参数σ/R 对电极最大表面电场及极间电场的影响

基于CST 微波工程软件对四杆型RFQ 的模拟运算,分析了在不同情况下不同的RFQ 结构参数σ/R与电极最大表面电场Emax 之间的关系,发现对应于不同RFQ 孔径下的最小的Emax,其结构参数σ/R 的值是不同的。同时发现改变σ/R,RFQ极间电场线性度始终保持在99.5% 以上,但σ/R 变大会微幅提升极间电场线性度。Based on the simulation on 4-rods RFQ by the CST MWS software, we analyzed the relationship between the RFQ’s structure parameter σ/R and the maximum electrode field Emax, and found that as the aperture R varies,the value of σ/R corresponding to the minimum Emax does not necessarily keep constant. We also found that the RFQ interelectrode field linearity maintains over 99.5% as σ/R veries, although it slightly increases as σ/R increases.     

四轩型RFQ加速腔高频特性的数值模拟与实验研究

为设计一个高负载因子、高流强的RFQ加速器，使用三维电磁场计算程序MAFIA对加速腔的高频特性进行了模拟计算. 本文主要研究RFQ支撑板高度、宽度、间距、电极形状等结构参数对高频腔体高频特性的影响，根据RFQ加速器的比分路阻抗以及电磁场分布的要求，对RFQ的结构参数进行优化设计，然后根据模拟计算结果加工冷模，进行冷模测量并将测量结果与计算结果加以比较.     

A Particle-in-cell scheme of the RFQ in the SSC-Linac

A 52 MHz Radio Frequency Quadrupole(RFQ)linear accelerator(linac)is designed to serve as an initial structure for the SSC-Linac system(injector into Separated Sector Cyclotron).The designed injection and output energy are 3.5 keV/u and 143 keV/u,respectively.The beam dynamics in this RFQ have been studied using a three-dimensional Particle-In-Cell(PIC)code BEAMPATH.Simulation results show that this RFQ structure is characterized by stable values of beam transmission efficiency(at least 95%)for both zerocurrent mode and the space charge dominated regime.The beam accelerated in the RFQ has good quality in both transverse and longitudinal directions,and could easily be accepted by Drift Tube Linac(DTL).The effect of the vane error and that of the space charge on the beam parameters have been studied as well to define the engineering tolerance for RFQ vane machining and alignment.     

Exact Solutions to a Combined sinh-cosh-Gordon Equation

Based on a transformed Painlev~ property and the variable separated ODE method, a function transfor- mation method is proposed to search for exact solutions of some partial differential equations （PDEs） with hyperbolic or exponential functions. This approach provides a more systematical and convenient handling of the solution process of this kind of nonlinear equations. Its key point is to eradicate the hyperbolic or exponential terms by a transformed Painleve property and reduce the given PDEs to a variable-coefficient the resulting equations by some methods. As an application, are formally derived. ordinary differential equations, then we seek for solutions to exact solutions for the combined sinh-cosh-Gordon equation     

强流四杆型RFQ加速腔水冷系统的设计和数值模拟

为了研制一个强中子发生器，北京大学重离子物理研究所设计了一台高负载因子、高流强的RFQ加速器. 本文讨论了RFQ加速腔水冷系统的设计，使用有限元软件ANSYS对水冷系统进行了分析. 使用MAFIA模拟计算得到的功率密度，并将其作为ANSYS水冷模型的边界条件. 因为MAFIA程序和ANSYS程序分网方法的不同，使用一个程序来将MAFIA的结果导入到ANSYS模型中，从而建立起了RFQ加速腔的热分析模型. 通过这个热分析模型分析并检验了水冷系统的设计，确定了水冷系统的结构. 模拟计算结果表明：使用目前设计的这套水冷系统，能够使RFQ加速器工作在适宜的温度下以及长时间稳定的运行.     

Study on shunt impedance and voltage distribution of 4-rod RFQ cavity

A high current RFQ (radio frequency quadrupole) is being studied at the Institute of Modern Physics,CAS for the direct plasma injection scheme. Shunt impedance is an important parameter when designing a 4-rod RFQ cavity,it reflects the RF efficiency of the cavity,and has a direct influence on the cost of the structure.Voltage distribution of a RFQ cavity has an effect on beam transmission,and particles would be lost if the actual voltage distribution is not as what it should be.The influence of cell length,stem thickness and height on shunt impedance and voltage distribution have been studied,in particular the effect of projecting electrodes has been investigated in detail.     

医用质子加速器注入器714MHz RFQ的设计研究

结合近几年来RFQ研究的进展,探讨了进一步提高RFQ工作频率上限的可能性.通过讨论得出了一台714MHz—0.8MeV RFQ的设计参数.动力学模拟计算表明,对医用弱流加速器,RFQ在714MHz频率仍能保持传输效率高,发射度增长小等优良性能.