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In current accelerators, numerous parameters and monitored values are to be adjusted and evaluated, respectively. In addition, fine adjustments are required to achieve the target performance. Therefore, the conventional…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-01-29 Gaku Mitsuka , Shinnosuke Kato , Naoko Iida , Takuya Natsui , Masanori Satoh

A 52MHz Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) linear accelerator (linac) is designed to serve as an initial structure for the SSC-linac system (injector into Separated Sector Cyclotron). The designed injection and output energy are 3.5 keV/u and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Xiao Chen , He Yuan , Yuan You-Jin , Liu Yong , Xia Jia-Wen , Lu Yuan-Rong , Yuri Batygin

We introduce ABEL, the Adaptable Beginning-to-End Linac simulation framework developed for agile design studies of plasma-based accelerators and colliders. ABEL's modular architecture allows users to simulate particle acceleration across…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 J. B. B. Chen , E. Adli , P. Drobniak , O. G. Finnerud , E. Hørlyk , D. Kalvik , C. A. Lindstrøm , F. Peña , K. Sjobak

This paper presents the final physics design of the Proton Improvement Plan-II (PIP-II) at Fermilab, focusing on the linear accelerator (Linac) and its beam transfer line. We address the challenges in longitudinal and transverse lattice…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-06-03 Abhishek Pathak , Arun Saini , Eduard Pozdeyev

In synchrotron machines, the beam extraction is accomplished by a combination of septa and kicker magnets which deflect the beam from an accelerator into another. Ideally the kicker field must rise/fall in between the beam bunches. However,…

PIP-II is an 800 MeV superconducting RF linear accelerator under development at Fermilab. As the new first stage in our accelerator chain, it will deliver high-power beam to multiple experiments simultaneously and thus drive Fermilab's…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Dennis J. Nicklaus , Pierrick Hanlet , Charles King , Daniel McArthur , Richard Neswold

LINAC 4 is a normal conducting H- structure proposed to intensify the proton flux currently available for the CERN accelerator chain. This linac is designed to accelerate a 65 mA beam up to 160 MeV to be injected into the CERN Proton…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 M. Baylac , J. M. De Conto , E. Froidefond , E. Sargsyan

Suppression of beam losses is essential for successful operation of high-intensity linac. Historically, the values of the field amplitudes and phases of the side-coupled, 805-MHz LANSCE linac modules are maintained using a well-known…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Y. K. Batygin , F. E. Shelley , H. A. Watkins

Particle accelerators play a pivotal role in advancing scientific research, yet optimizing beamline configurations to maximize particle transmission remains a labor-intensive task requiring expert intervention. In this work, we introduce…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Anwar Ibrahim , Alexey Petrenko , Maxim Kaledin , Ehab Suleiman , Fedor Ratnikov , Denis Derkach

Radio-frequency linear accelerators are used as injectors for synchrotrons and as stand-alone accelerators for the production of intense particle beams, thanks to their ability to accelerate high beam currents at high repetition rates. This…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-03-28 Maurizio Vretenar

The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) Linac accepts 750 keV H- ions from the front end and accelerates them to 400 MeV for injection into the Booster rapid cycling synchrotron. Day-to-day drifts in the beam longitudinal…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 R. Sharankova , A. Shemyakin , S. Rego

Recirculating energy recovery linacs are a promising technology for delivering high power particle beams ($\sim$GW) while only requiring low power ($\sim$kW) RF sources. This is achieved by decelerating the used bunches and using the energy…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 S. Setiniyaz , R. Apsimon , P. H. Williams

The Proton Improvement Plan - II (PIP-II) injector linac is an 800 MeV superconducting H$^-$ linac, christened Linac2, that will replace the existing 400 MeV injector to the accelerator complex at Fermilab. The higher energy, intensity and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 S. Krishnagopal , M. Convery , J. Dey

At present, a variety of image-based diagnostics are used in particle accelerator systems. Often times, these are viewed by a human operator who then makes appropriate adjustments to the machine. Given recent advances in using convolutional…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-12-20 A. L. Edelen , S. G. Biedron , S. V. Milton , J. P. Edelen

The CLIC linear collider aims at accelerating multiple bunches of electrons and positrons and colliding them at a centre of mass energy of 3 TeV. These bunches will be accelerated through X-band linacs, operating at an accelerating…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 V. Khan , R. M. Jones

The Fermilab Linac is a roughly 145 meter linear accelerator that accelerates H- beam from 750 keV to 400 MeV and provides beam for the Booster and the rest of the accelerator chain. The first section of the Linac is a Drift-Tube Linac…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-05-25 J. Stanton , R. Sharankova , K. Seiya , M. Wesley

KEKB completed all of the technical milestones, and had offered important insights into the flavor structure of elementary particles, especially the CP violation. The accelerator control system at KEKB and injector linac was initiated by a…

PIP-II is the Fermilab's flagship project for providing powerful, high-intensity proton beams to the laboratory's experiments. The heart of PIP-II is an 800-MeV superconducting linac accelerator. It will be located in a new tunnel with new…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-06-18 L. Lari , F. Cerutti , L. S. Esposito , C. Baffes , S. J. Dixon , N. V. Mokhov , I. Rakhno , I. S. Tropin

Fermilab is planning the construction of a prototype front end of the Project X linac. The Project X Injector Experiment (PXIE) is expected to accelerate 1 mA cw H- beam up to 30 MeV. Some of the major goals of the project are to test a cw…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-01-30 V. A. Lebedev , A. V. Shemyakin , J. Steimel , M. Wendt , B. M. Hanna , L. R. Prost , V. E. Scarpine

For proton linear accelerators used in applications such as accelerator-driven systems, due to the nature of the operation, it is essential for the beam failure rate to be several orders of magnitude lower than usual performance of similar…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-04-26 Zhou Xue , JianPing Dai , Cai Meng