Design studies, for accelerator modules based on an injector cyclotron and a superconducting ring cyclotron able to accelerate H2+ molecules, are presented. H2+ molecules are stripped by a foil creating a proton beam, with a maximum energy of 800 MeV and a beam power of 8 MW (CW). This beam would be sent to a beam dump where neutrinos would be produced from pion and muon decays at rest for the Decay At rest Experiment for δCP At the Laboratory for Underground Science - DAEδALUS. We are discussing the advantage of H2+ molecules for acceleration and present precise beam dynamics simulations w.r.t. extraction and beam losses. In general, beam losses are one of the most challenging parts in such a high power cyclotron design and must be addressed very early on in the design. We are also addressing H2+ dissociation and the stripping process, two other characteristic challenges in the DAEδALUS design.
@article{arxiv.1208.6587,
title = {Modelling challenges of the high power cyclotrons for the DAE$\delta$ALUS project},
author = {A. Adelmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.6587},
year = {2019}
}