Electron cooling experiments in CSR

The six species heavy ion beam was accumulated with the help of electron cooling in the main ring of Cooler Storage Ring of Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou (HIRFL-CSR). The ion beam accumulation dependence on the parameters of cooler was investigated experimentally. The 400 MeV/u ¹²C⁶⁺ and 200 MeV/u ¹²⁹Xe⁵⁴⁺ were stored and cooled in the experimental ring CSRe, and the cooling force was measured in different conditions.

     

High-voltage electron cooler project for NICA collider

A high-voltage electron cooling system (ECS) with electron energy reaching 2.5 MeV for the NICA collider is being designed at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. The ECS is being developed in correspondence with the available experience in manufacturing similar systems from around the world. The main feature of this design is the use of two cooling electron beams (one beam per collider ring); electrons are accelerated and decelerated by a common high-voltage generator. A conceptual project of high-voltage ECS has been developed. The cooler consists of three tanks filled with SF₆ gas under pressure. Two of them contain electron-beam forming systems; each system consists of two electron guns, two electron collectors, and accelerating-decelerating tubes placed in a longitudinal magnetic field generated by a solenoid. The third tank contains a high-voltage generator based on the voltage-multiplying circuit.     

Bunch beam cooling

Electron cooling is used for damping both transverse and longitudinal oscillations of heavy particle. The cooling of bunch ion beam (with RF voltage on) is important part of experiments with inner target, ion collision system, stacking and RF manipulation. The short length of an ion bunch increases the peak luminosity, gives a start-time point for using of the time-of-flight methods and obtains a short extraction beam pulse. This article describes the review of last experiments with electron cooling carried out on the CSRm, CSRe (China) and COSY (Germany) storage rings. The accumulated experience may be used for the project of electron cooler on 2.5 MeV (NICA) and 0.5 MeV HIAF for obtaining high luminosity, depressing beam-beam effects and RF manipulation.     

HIRFL-CSR实验环电子冷却装置磁场测量

 在HIRFL-CSR实验环电子冷却装置上采用了独立的高精度螺线管串联产生纵向磁场的设计,获得很高的冷却段磁场平行度。使用霍尔片测量磁场的分布,使用磁针测磁方法测量冷却段磁场的磁轴偏角,并根据测量及计算结果对单个线圈磁轴进行微调。测量及调试结果表明,在施加电流为额定电流的一半时,冷却段磁感应强度为0.078 T,剩余磁场小于2×10^-4 T,磁场不平行度小于1×10^-4,达到了预期的设计目标。     

Correction of vertical displacement of extracted beam during commissioning tests of the DC-110 cyclotron

The specialized DC-110 heavy ion cyclotron has been developed and created at the Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research for the BETA research and production complex in Dubna (Russia), which allows producing intense accelerated Ar, Kr, and Xe ion beams with a fixed energy of 2.5 MeV/nucleon. Commissioning works on the cyclotron complex, during which the design parameters were obtained, were carried out at the end of 2012. During commissioning of the accelerator, vertical displacement of the beam was found at the final acceleration radii and during its extraction. It is shown that the main cause of this displacement was the occurrence of a radial component of the magnetic field in the median plane of the magnet caused by asymmetry of the magnetic circuit. Vertical beam displacement was corrected by creating asymmetry of the current in the main electromagnet winding of the DC-110 cyclotron.     

Positron emission isotope production cyclotron in DLNP JINR (Status Report)

A C10-cyclotron for radioisotope production is under construction at the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problem, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (DLNP JINR). It is a compact isochronous cyclotron for accelerating H⁻ ions to the energy of about 10 MeV. The magnetic system, vacuum chamber and accelerating system is being built now. Results of the calculation and forming of the cyclotron magnetic field and the study of the beam dynamics from an ion source to an extraction system in calculated magnetic field are presented. The text was submitted by the authors in English.     

Experimental demonstration of relativistic electron cooling

We report on an experimental demonstration of electron cooling of high-energy antiprotons circulating in a storage ring. In our experiments, electron cooling, a well-established method at low energies (<500 MeV/nucleon), was carried out in a new region of beam parameters, requiring a multi-MeV dc electron beam and an unusual beam transport line. In this Letter, we present the results of the longitudinal cooling force measurements and compare them with theoretical predictions.     

Modeling beam dynamics in magnetic field of the helical coil

In this report, the beam dynamics in the magnetic field defined by the integral expression of the vector potential is considered. The influence of transverse components of the magnetic field on the shift of the beam trajectory in the helical solenoid of the LUE-200 accelerator of the IREN setup (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna) is analyzed.     

Booster-Nuclotron beam line for NICA project

This paper presents the concept of the booster-Nuclotron beam line for the Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility (NICA) accelerator complex being developed at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna, Russia). The beam line serves for ion beam transportation and stripping at an intermediate energy. The magnetic system of the beam line is considered. The results of a simulation of gold Au³²⁺/Au⁷⁹⁺ ion beam dynamics in the beam line are presented.     

Beam transportation lines for the NICA project

A heavy-ion collider, i.e., the Nuclotron-based Ion Collider Facility (NICA), is being developed at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia. The aim of this project is to construct a new accelerator complex for conducting experiments with colliding ion beam (at the first stage of the project) and with polarized proton and deuteron beams (at the second stage). The NICA accelerator complex will consist of two linear accelerators, two synchrotrons, two collider rings, and beam transportation lines. The magnetic lattice and diagnostic and correction systems for the NICA beam transportation lines are described in this report.     

Booster synchrotron of NICA accelerator complex

NICA is a new accelerator complex being constructed at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research; the main task of this complex is to perform collider experiments for ion beams up to uranium with energies of up to 3.5 × 3.5 GeV/nucleon. This complex includes an electron string ion source, a 6 MeV/nucleon linear accelerator, a booster, the Nuclotron, and a collider with an average luminosity of 10²⁷ cm² s^?1. The main tasks of the booster are to accumulate up to 4 × 10^{9 197}Au³²⁺ ions, to accelerate to 600 MeV/nucleon (sufficient enough energy for completely stripping nuclei), to reduce the requirements of vacuum conditions for the Nuclotron, and to form the necessary beam emittance using an electron cooling system. The specific features of the NICA booster and the requirements for the basic systems of the synchrotron and their parameters are presented in this paper.     

A system for measuring a low-intensity proton beam

A system for measuring proton beam intensity and energy for the medical channel of the Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, at energies of 70–280 MeV and an average current of about 1 nA is presented. The reaction of elastic scattering of primary beam protons on the polyethylene target is used in the system to determine the intensity and energy of a therapeutic proton beam with accuracies of 1% and 1 MeV, respectively.     

中能重离子微束辐照装置的研制

微束辐照装置是将辐照样品的束斑缩小到微米量级, 能够对辐照粒子进行准确定位和精确计数的实验平台, 是开展辐照材料学、辐照生物学、辐照生物医学以及微加工的有力工具. 中国科学院近代物理研究所(IMP)正在研制中能重离子微束辐照装置. 该装置以兰州重离子加速器(HIRFL)系统提供的中能和低能重离子束流为基础, 采用磁聚焦方式形成微米束. 束运线上两台铅垂方向的偏转磁铁辅以四极磁铁构成对称消色差系统, 将束流导向地下室, 再用高梯度的三组合四极透镜强聚焦形成微米束斑, 在真空中或大气中辐照样品. 它将成为国内首台能够提供从低能(10MeV/u)到中能(100MeV/u)的重离子微束的公共实验平台, 用于定位、定量照射靶物质(生物细胞、组织或其它非生物材料等), 有助于深入揭示重离子与物质相互作用的本质, 也为探索重离子辐照效应的应用提供新的手段.     

Beam-cooling methods in the NICA project

The Nuclotron-based Ion Collider Facility (NICA) is a new accelerator complex under construction at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) for experiments with colliding beams of heavy ions up to gold at energies as high as 4.5 × 4.5 GeV/u aimed at studying hot and dense strongly interacting nuclear matter and searching for possible indications of the mixed phase state and critical points of phase transitions. This facility comprises an ion source of the electron-string type, a 3-MeV/u linear accelerator, a 600-MeV/u superconducting booster synchrotron (Booster), a Nuclotron (upgraded superconducting synchrotron with a maximum energy of 4.5 GeV/u for ions with the charge-to-mass ratio Z/A = 1/3), and a collider consisting of two vertically separated superconducting rings with an average luminosity of 10²⁷ cm^?2 s^?1 in an energy range over 3.0 GeV/u. Beam cooling is supposed to be used in two NICA elements, the Booster, and the collider rings. The Booster is intended for the storage of ¹⁹⁷Au³¹⁺ ions to an intensity of about 4 × 10⁹ particles; their acceleration to the energy 600 MeV/u, which is sufficient for the complete stripping of nuclei (an increase in the injection energy and the charge state of ions makes the requirements for vacuum conditions in the Nuclotron less stringent); and the formation of the necessary beam emittance using the electron cooling system. Two independent beam-cooling systems, a stochastic one and an electron one, are supposed to be used in the collider. The parameters of the cooling systems, the optimum mode of operation for the collider, and the arrangement and design of the elements of the systems are discussed.     

LEPTA project: Formation and injection of positron beam

The project of the Low-Energy Particle Toroidal Accumulator (LEPTA) has been developed and is put into operation at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna). The LEPTA facility is a small positron storage ring equipped with an electron cooling system. The project positron energy is 2?C4 keV. The main purpose of the facility is to generate an intense flux of positronium atoms (the bound state of the electron and positron). The LEPTA storage ring was commissioned in September 2004. The positron injector was designed in 2005?C2010, and the beam transport channel was constructed in 2011. The experiments on electron and positron injection from the injector into the accumulator were started in August 2011. The results are reported here.     

兰州重离子加速器冷却储存环中电子冷却性能

为了在兰州重离子加速器冷却储存环(HIRFL-CSR)上开展一维离子束序化的研究,在CSR主环上,对6.39 MeV/u的58Ni19+离子束进行了冷却累积实验。测量了离子束与电子束之间不同的水平、垂直夹角以及不同电子束剖面的情况下,束流累积及束流寿命变化情况;重点研究了离子束衰减过程中动量分散随离子数的变化规律,拟合计算得到了动量分散随离子数按照幂函数衰减的指数;在给定离子数的情况下,动量分散随夹角、电子束剖面的依赖关系,为下一步在CSR上获得纵向一维有序化离子束的研究做准备。在实验中观测到在较大的夹角情况下,离子束出现纵向振荡和中心频率移动。     

3.5 MeV无箔注入器束流调试

 3.5 MeV 注入器是“神龙一号”直线感应加速器的束源,在注入器束流调试中,首先通过数值模拟方法,初步确定束流过聚焦和聚焦不足两种极端情况下引出线圈输运磁场峰值的变化范围;然后以注入器出口束流波形为参考,通过实验调试找到了这两种情况下引出线圈输运磁场峰值的实际配置;再通过测量束流的剖面或发射度,在这两种配置中选定一个折中的引出线圈磁场配置,并最终确定了注入器输运磁场的总体配置。经过调试完成后的注入器束流为3.6 MeV,流强为2.8 kA,归一化边发射度为1 040 mm·mrad,达到了预期的指标。     

Experimental neutron flux measurements with a diamond detector at the QUINTA setup

The operational capability of a diamond detector used to measure the neutron spectrum by the response function on the QUINTA setup [1] installed at the proton beam of the phasotron [2] (Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research) was demonstrated in the energy interval of 2.1–20 MeV. The neutron-flux count rate was measured. The energy of neutrons was estimated at 7.4–25.7 MeV based on the diamond-detector response spectrum. The dependence of the diamond-detector response spectra on the angle between the proton beam and the line going through the detector and the center of the QUINTA setup was investigated. The angular anisotropy of the neutron flux was demonstrated. Measurements at different distances from the detector to the QUINTA setup were performed.     

New form of exploitation of cyclotron U-120

Experiments carried out on the Nuclear Research Institute cyclotron U-120 showed that the energy of the output beam can be changed in the region 6·2–7·2 MeV/nucl without additional correction of the radial slope of the magnetic field (e.g. with the use of ferromagnetic shims suitable for an energy of 6·7 MeV/nucl). Using a combination of ring and disc shims, ions of atomic hydrogen were accelerated in the energy region 8·5–10·7 MeV and ions of₃He²⁺ with energy 21 MeV. The intensities of these beams, except₃He²⁺ having been accelerated in the economical regime of the ion source, reached as much as 100 A behind the deflector. The possibility of smooth regulation of the energy without changing the classical character of the accelerator is also discussed.     

First results of electron cooling experiments at LEAR

The first results are presented of electron cooling experiments in the Low-Energy Antiproton Ring (LEAR) at CERN, performed with a proton beam of about 50 and 21 MeV. The number of stored protons ranged from 10⁷ to 3 × 10⁹. Cooling times of the order 1 s and proton drag rates of up to 0.7 MeV/s were obtained. The capture of cooling electrons by protons producing hydrogen atoms was used to derive an effective electron temperature (0.25 eV). From the angular profile of the neutral hydrogen beam an upper limit of 3π mm.mrad could be deduced for the horizontal equilibrium proton-beam emittance. The lowest equilibrium momentum spread was 2 × 10⁵ (FWHM), as derived from the analysis of the longitudinal Schottky signal. This Schottky signal exhibited an unusual behaviour with beam intensity and under certain conditions showed a doublepeak structure which was associated with collective beam noise. For very cold beams transverse instabilities were observed, which resulted in a rapid spill-off of protons and a stabilization at lower intensities. The threshold of these instabilities was raised by heating the proton or the electron beam. The cooling of a bunched proton beam was investigated. The reduction of the proton momentum spread led to bunch lengths of about 2 m, containing 3 × 10⁸ protons.