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Overview of the High Intensity Neutrino Source Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics Department FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar February 8 th 2007

Fermilab 8 GeV Superconducting H-minus LINAC Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 MI10 ACCELERATING SECTION ~678 meters TRANSPORT LINE ~1 km

Fermilab 8 GeV H-minus LINAC : Main parameters Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 G. W. Foster (Editor) An 8-GeV Superconducting Linac Proton Driver (2005) CREDITS INITIAL ULTIMATE Linac Particles per macropulse : 1.56E+14 Linac Macropulse Width : 3 ms 1 ms Linac Pulse Repetition Rate :2.5 Hz10 Hz Linac Beam Power: 0.5 MW2.0 MW

Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 OUTLINE 1 / Accelerating Section : Code benchmarking TRACK (ANL, P. Ostroumov) ASTRA (DESY, K. Floettmann) 2 / Transport Line : Implementation into TRACK Start-to-end parallel simulations (~1.7 km) 3/ The 60 MeV Front End Setup (Meson Linac)

Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 PART I THE ACCELERATING SECTION

ACCELERATING SECTION : LAYOUT (P. Ostroumov, ANL) Z~4 m W~2.5 MeV ~16 m ~10 MeV ~60 m ~120 MeV ~140 m ~420 MeV ~230 m ~1.2 GeV ~678 m ~8.0 GeV Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07

ASTRA (K. Floettmann, DESY) TRACK (P. Ostroumov, ANL) Integration of Equation of motion by Runge-Kutta Method of Forth Order id Read arbitrary input distribution id Read 2D and 3D external E fields id Read 2D and 3D external B fields Read only 2D external B fields 3D space charge (Free Space) 3D space charge (Image Charge) Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 TRACK / ASTRA : BRIEF DESCRIPTION Handle RFQ’s Do not handle RFQ’s

BENCHMARKING METHODOLOGY Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 Benchmark TRACK/ASTRA from RFQ to last accelerating cavity ( 674 m, 454 Cavities, 55 Sol., 117 Quads) First Zero Current (10k particles) Then for mA (200k macro-particles, 3D Space Charge) 6 beam parameters : RMS Trans. Size, RMS Trans. Emittance RMS Bunch Length, RMS Long. Emittance Energy, RMS energy spread

Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 TRACK / ASTRA : ZERO CURRENT KINETIC ENERGY

Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 ~2 % RMS ENERGY SPREAD TRACK / ASTRA : ZERO CURRENT

Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 ~2 % RMS BUNCH LENGTH TRACK / ASTRA : ZERO CURRENT

Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 ~0.7 % RMS LONG. EMITTANCE TRACK / ASTRA : ZERO CURRENT

Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 ~10 %~1 % RMS ENVELOPE TRACK / ASTRA : ZERO CURRENT

Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 ~0.8 % RMS TRANSVERSE EMITTANCE TRACK / ASTRA : ZERO CURRENT

TRACK / ASTRA : ZERO CURRENT Résumé Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 (+0.02 %) [mm]RMS SIZE Y ASTRATRACKUNITS [mm-mrad] [mm] [keV-mm] [mm] [keV] [MeV] KINETIC ENERGY RMS NORM. EMIT X RMS SIZE X RMS NORM. EMIT Z RMS BUNCH LENGTH RMS ENERGY SPREAD RMS NORM. EMIT Y[mm-mrad] (-2.47 %) (+1.99 %) (+0.73 %) (+9.94 %) (-1.02 %) (+0.76 %) (+0.77 %)

TRACK / ASTRA : 3D Uniform Ellipsoidal Bunch Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 3D UNIFORM ELLIPSOID 500k macro-particules (TRACK/ASTRA) CREDITS : T. Wangler, RF Linear Accelerators, p. 277.

TRACK / ASTRA : 3D Uniform Ellipsoidal Bunch Transverse Space Charge FieldsLongitudinal Space Charge Fields

RMS ENERGY SPREAD Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 ~8 % TRACK / ASTRA : mA

Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 TRACK / ASTRA : mA RMS BUNCH LENGTH

Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 RMS LONG. EMITTANCE ~10 % TRACK / ASTRA : mA RMS LONG. EMITTANCE

Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 ~3 %~9 % TRACK / ASTRA : mA RMS TRANSVERSE EMITTANCE

Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 ~6 %~1 % TRACK / ASTRA : mA RMS ENVELOPE

(-0.04 %) [mm]RMS SIZE Y ASTRATRACKUNITS [mm-mrad] [mm] [keV-mm] [mm] [keV] [MeV] KINETIC ENERGY RMS NORM. EMIT X RMS SIZE X RMS NORM. EMIT Z RMS BUNCH LENGTH RMS ENERGY SPREAD TRACK / ASTRA : mA Résumé Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 RMS NORM. EMIT Y[mm-mrad] (+8.15 %) ( %) (+6.25 %) (+1.52 %) (+8.83 %) (+3.09 %)

CONCLUSION : TRACK / ASTRA BENCHMARKING Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 TRACK / ASTRA Agreement Within 10% (Zero Current and 3D Space Charge) ``Benchmarking of simulation codes for high intensity hydrogen ion linacs’’ submitted to Journal of Instrumentation.

Jean-Paul CarneiroCALCULATIONS OF THE LCLS INJECTOR USING ASTRA L01 L02 SOLENOID RF GUN + SOLENOID 9.4 M LCLS INJECTOR : ASTRA / PARMELA

Jean-Paul CarneiroCALCULATIONS OF THE LCLS INJECTOR USING ASTRA LCLS INJECTOR : ASTRA / PARMELA

Jean-Paul CarneiroASTRA SIMULATIONS OF THE LCLS INJECTOR EXIT L02 (8.42 M) – RESUME UNITSASTRAPARMELA MOMEMTUM[MeV/c] RMS ENERGY SPREAD[%] RMS SIZE X[mm] RMS NORM. EMIT X[mm-mrad] RMS SIZE Y[mm] RMS NORM. EMIT Y[mm-mrad] RMS BUNCH LENGTH[mm] (0.5 %) (6%) (10%) (2 %) (10%) (2 %)

Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 PART II THE TRANSPORT LINE

8 GeV TRANSPORT LINE TO MI: LAYOUT (D. Johnson et al., FNAL) Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 Stripping foil ARC 1ARC 2 Matching + Collimation DEBUNCHER CAVITY RT-SUPERSTRUCTURE 17 CELL (T. Khabiboulline, FNAL-TD) ~1 km (8 GeV, Space Charge Off)

TRANSVERSE PARTICLE DISTRIBUTION AT THE FOIL (TRACK) Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 No CollimatorWith Collimators

LONGITUDINAL PHASE SPACE AT THE FOIL (TRACK) Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 Debuncher OFFDebuncher ON

TRANSPORT LINE : MAD SIMULATIONS Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 From D. Johnson (FNAL)

TRANSPORT LINE : TRACK / ELEGANT (M. Borland, ANL) Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 DISPERSION [m]

TRANSPORT LINE : TRACK / ELEGANT Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 BETA FUNCTION

~10 H 40 mn ~1 H 18 mn Acc. Section (3D Space Ch.) Transport Line (No Space Charge) TRANSPORT LINE : TRACK / PARALLEL TRACK (J. Xu, ANL) Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07

TRACK START-TO-END SIMULATIONS Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 TRANSV. RMS EMITTANCE

TRACK START-TO-END SIMULATIONS Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 HINS longitudinal phase space RMS ENERGY SPREAD

TRACK SIMULATIONS : CONCLUSION & NEXT STEPS Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 Start-to-End simulations (from RFQ to stripping foil) implemented into TRACK The 1.7 km beamline runs on parallel (64 CPU) at ANL-BlueGene computer Takes 1H18 mn to perform, 200k particules. NEXT STEPS IN HINS SIMULATIONS 1/ Halo Studies (1M to 80M particle distribution on 64 to 256 CPUs) 2/ Jitter + Misalignment Studies (up to 100 CPU on ANL-JAZZ computer) 3/ Implementation H-minus stripping into TRACK (Magnetic, Residual Gas and Blackbody radiation)

TRACK SIMULATION : BLACKBODY STRIPPING Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 H. C. Bryant and G. H. Herling “Atomic physics with a relativistic H- beam” Journal of Modern Optics, January 2006 CREDITS C. Hill “Preliminary Notes: H- Ion Stripping in Transport by Thermal Photons” FERMILAB-Internal Memorandum (Dec. 2004) – unpublished - Hill’s Equation of Total Loss per Unit Length : with Numerical Application : 300 K : 1/L=7.86E-7 m-1 × 1.56E14 p/sec × 1.28E-9 J ≈ 0.15 W/m (1 Hz) 80 K : 1/L=2.7E-10 m-1 × 1.56E14 p/sec × 1.28E-9 J ≈ 5.3E-5 W/m (1 Hz) W. Chou “8 GeV H- Ions : Transport and Injection” PAC05

Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 PART III THE MESON LINAC

MESON LINAC : LAYOUT (~60 MeV, ~48 m) Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 Cooling ring dipole Effective Magnetic Length ~1.3 m SQA Quads “Old 8 GeV to MR line” Effective Magnetic Length ~45 cm Main Ring Trim Quads Effective Magnetic Length ~35 cm

MESON LINAC : TRACK SIMULATIONS Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07

MESON HALL : SOUTH VIEW Capture Cavity II Cave

Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 MESON HALL : NORTH VIEW

Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 MESON LINAC : MODULATOR, PULSE TRANSFORMER, KLYSTRON

Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 MESON LINAC : KLYSTRON, RF CONTROL SYSTEM

Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 FERMILAB Proton Source + LEBT (H. Piekarz, C. Schmidt, D. Moehs) Installed in MS6 building ~15 mA, 66 µs, 15 Hz

Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 FERMILAB magnetron H- source (D. Moehs) ~20 mA, 3 ms, 1 Hz (January 2007)

MESON LINAC : CONCLUSION Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 Modulator, Pulse Transformer and Klystron installed into Meson Hall Expected delivery time for RFQ : Summer 2007 Expected first 2.5 MeV beam : Winter 2007

Acknowledgments G. Apollinari (FNAL), S. Aseev (ANL), M. Borland (ANL), K. Floettmann (DESY), B. Foster (ex-FNAL), I. Gonin, C. Hill (FNAL), D. Johnson (FNAL), T. Khabiboulline, D. Moehs (FNAL), B. Mustapha (ANL), P. Ostroumov (ANL), H. Piekarz (FNAL), C. Schmidt (FNAL), V. Shiltsev (FNAL), B. Webber (FNAL), D. Wildman (FNAL), J. Xu (ANL). CONCLUSION and ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Jean-Paul Carneiro FNAL Accelerator Physics and Technology Seminar, Feb 8 th 07 Start-to-End simulation of the 8 GeV H-minus linac implemented into TRACK Jitter Studies and impact into stripping efficiency and MI losses (ESME ?) Benchmarking the code with experimental datas (Meson Linac)