| Title |
High-Gradient Booster for Enhanced Proton Radiography at LANSCE |
| Authors |
- S.S. Kurennoy, Y.K. Batygin
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
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| Abstract |
Increasing energy of proton beam at LANSCE from 800 MeV to 3 GeV improves radiography resolution ~10 times. We propose accomplishing this energy boost with a compact cost-effective linac based on cryo-cooled normal conducting high-gradient RF accelerating structures. High-gradient structures exceeding 100 MV/m have been developed for electron acceleration and operate with short RF pulse lengths below 1 us. Though such parameters are unusual for typical proton linacs, they fit perfectly for proton radiography (pRad) applications. The pRad limits contiguous trains of beam micro-pulses to less than 80 ns to prevent blur in images. For a compact pRad booster at LANSCE, we develop a staged design: a short section to capture and compress the 800-MeV proton beam followed by the main high-gradient linac. Our beam dynamics study addresses the beam magnetic focusing and minimizing its energy spread, which are challenging in high-gradient structures but very important for successful pRad operation.
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| Conference |
IPAC2021 |
| Series |
International Particle Accelerator Conference (12th) |
| Location |
Campinas, SP, Brazil |
| Date |
24-28 May 2021 |
| Publisher |
JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Editorial Board |
Liu Lin (LNLS, Campinas, Brazil); John M. Byrd (ANL, Lemont, IL, USA); Regis Neuenschwander (LNLS, Campinas, Brazil); Renan Picoreti (LNLS, Campinas, Brazil); Volker R. W. Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany) |
| Online ISBN |
978-3-95450-214-1 |
| Online ISSN |
2673-5490 |
| Received |
10 May 2021 |
| Accepted |
17 August 2021 |
| Issue Date |
11 August 2021 |
| DOI |
doi:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-MOPAB210 |
| Pages |
693-695 |
| Copyright |
 Published by JACoW Publishing under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 International license. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s), the published article's title, publisher, and DOI. |
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