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URLhttps://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2025-TUP055
TitleIOTA experiment for proton pulse compression at extreme space-charge
Authors
  • B. Simons
    Northern Illinois University, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
  • J. Eldred, N. Banerjee
    Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
  • V. Shiltsev
    Northern Illinois University
AbstractThe longitudinal compression of intense proton bunches with strong space-charge force is an essential component of a proton driver for a muon collider. We propose a proton bunch compression experiment at the Integrable Optics Test Accelerator (IOTA) storage ring at Fermilab to explore optimal radio frequency (RF) cavity and lattice configurations. IOTA is a compact fixed-energy storage ring dedicated to beam physics R&D that can circulate a 2.5-MeV proton beam with extreme space-charge. Using ImpactX and its 3D space-charge solver, simulations indicate that bunch length can be rapidly reduced by a factor of at least two, without appreciable degradation in transverse beam quality, even under strong space-charge conditions. However, longitudinal defocusing presents a large effect in short-pulsed proton beams, and the optimization of bunch compression under such conditions is discussed.
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Conference6th North American Particle Accel. Conf. (NAPAC2025)
Series
LocationSacramento, CA, USA
Date10-15 Aug 2025
PublisherJACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland
Editorial BoardTor O. Raubenheimer (SLAC), Roark A. Marsh (LLNL), Eric Prebys (UC Davis), Ling Wang (MSU), Petr M. Anisimov (LANL), Kip Bishofberger (LANL), Gustavo Bruno (ANL), Zhichu Chen (SARI), Jan Chrin (PSI), Kelly Jaje (ANL), Jaeyu Lee (POSTECH), Magdalena Montes-Loera (SLAC), Mary Saethre (PHENOTYPE), Tasha Summers (SLAC), Kent Wootton (ANL)
Online ISBN978-3-95450-261-5
Online ISSN2673-7000
Received10 August 2025
Revised14 August 2025
Accepted14 August 2025
Issued28 January 2026
DOI10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2025-TUP055
Pages486-489