17–22 May 2026
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Exploring Coupled-Cavity Linac upgrade with Distributed-Drive Linac at LANSCE

WEP4313
20 May 2026, 16:00
2h
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Deauville, France
Poster Presentation MC4.A08: Hadron accelerators: Linear Accelerators Poster session

Speaker

Michael Kaemingk (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Description

The Distributed-Drive Linac (DDL) concept allows independent control of the radiofrequency (RF) power and phase of each accelerator cell, realized by an RF power system consisting of discrete solid-state amplifiers (SSAs). The DDL concept is under investigation at Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) as a candidate for the future upgrade of the 805-MHz Coupled-Cavity Linac. Independently adjustable RF power and phase of each DDL accelerator cell allows using the same DDL architecture to provide a much higher beam energy at the linac exit, such as 2-3 GeV, for proton radiography (pRad). The DDL architecture would require significant upgrade of the RF infrastructure at LANSCE, including implementing a great number of phase-coherent coaxial transmission lines for 3000-5000 individual DDL accelerator cells. For the pRad operation mode, compact RF pulse compressors are also under investigation.

Funding Agency

Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy through the Laboratory Directed Research and Development program of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, under project number 20260114ER.

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Author

Haoran Xu (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Co-authors

Mr Benjamin Sims (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Javier Vega (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Dr John Lewellen (Los Alamos National Laboratory) John Lyles (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Joshua Yoskowitz (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Kevin Shipman (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Leanne Duffy (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Maria Sanchez Barrueta (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Michael Kaemingk (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

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