The upgrade of the normal conducting (NC) Radioactive Ion Beam EXperiment (REX)-ISOLDE heavy ion accelerator at CERN, under the High Intensity and Energy (HIE)-ISOLDE framework, proposes the use of superconducting (SC) quarter-wave resonators (QWRs) to increase the energy capability of the facility from 3 MeV/u to beyond 10 MeV/u. A beam dynamics study of a lattice design comprising SC QWRs and SC solenoids has confirmed the design's ability to accelerate ions, with a mass-to-charge ratio in the range 2.5 < A/q < 4.5, to the target energy with a minimal emittance increase. We report on the development of this study to include the implementation of realistic fields within the QWRs and solenoids. A preliminary error study is presented in order to constrain tolerances on the manufacturing and alignment of the linac.
@article{arxiv.0906.3484,
title = {Beam Dynamics Studies for the HIE-ISOLDE Linac at CERN},
author = {M. A. Fraser and M. Pasini and R. M. Jones and M. Lindroos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.3484},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
3 pages, 8 figures, 1 table, submitted to the Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC) 2009 in Vancouver. Page formatting changed to US letter size