10–15 Aug 2025
SAFE Credit Union Convention Center
America/Los_Angeles timezone

Beam loss modeling and mitigation due to intra-beam stripping

THP014
14 Aug 2025, 16:00
2h
Ballroom A (SAFE Credit Union Convention Center)

Ballroom A

SAFE Credit Union Convention Center

Poster Presentation MC4 – Hadron Accelerators Thursday Poster Session

Speaker

Shivam Kakkar (University of Tennessee at Knoxville)

Description

Intra-Beam Stripping (IBS) is a critical beam loss mechanism in high-intensity H- linacs and presents a significant limitation to increasing beam power. This work presents a computational framework to evaluate and mitigate IBS-induced beam loss along the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) LINAC. Our calculation is based on an analytic theory and involves evaluation of a 9D integral using the Monte-Carlo technique. We first benchmarked our calculations against simplified, analytically solvable cases. We then applied our algorithm to Gaussian bunches with a known probability density function (PDF). We next expanded our algorithm to arbitrary bunch distributions using the Neural Spline Flow (NSF) models trained on PyORBIT tracking data. In the future, we plan to validate our algorithm experimentally and apply it to design IBS mitigation strategies.

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Author

Shivam Kakkar (University of Tennessee at Knoxville)

Co-authors

Alexander Zhukov (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Austin Hoover (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Lawrence Lee (University of Tennessee at Knoxville) Nicholas Evans (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Vasiliy Morozov (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

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