Speaker
Description
The Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) accelerator delivers high intensity proton beams for fundamental science and national security applications since 1972. LANSCE is capable of simultaneous H+ and H- beam operations to multiple experiments requiring different time structures. This is achieved upstream in the facility with a combination of two 750 kV Cockcroft-Walton (CW) generators, a chopper and radiofrequency cavities, before going into the 800-MeV linac.
The proposed LANSCE Modernization Project (LAMP) is evaluating critical machine upgrades necessary to continuous beam operations in decades to come. A significant component of LAMP is replacing the two CW with a dual-species 3-MeV Radiofrequency Quadrupole (RFQ). This change requires a full re-design of the LAMP front-end accelerator to deliver the existing and expanded capabilities of the facility. This contribution will discuss the LAMP front-end accelerator layout based on the general beam requirements and on standard accelerator codes, showcasing the start-to-end propagation of H+ and H- beams from the source to the linac entrance.
Funding Agency
This work benefited from the use of the LANSCE accelerator facility. Work was performed under the auspices of the US Department of Energy by Triad National Security under contract 89233218CNA000001.
| Region represented | North America |
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| Paper preparation format | Word |
