Title :
Using MOTER to design PILAC
Author :
Butler, H.S. ; Li, Z. ; Thiessen, H.A.
Author_Institution :
Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA
Abstract :
A pion linear accelerator (PILAC) is being designed as a new experimental facility for the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility (LAMPF). The design goal is a flux of 10/sup 9/ pions per second at an energy of 920 MeV into a spectrometer having a resolution of 200 keV. To meet this design goal, the system will have to accept a large phase space of particles which, in turn, implies that higher-order aberrations will be significant and have to be corrected. The computer program MOTER is being used to investigate the size of the aberrations and their effect on the resolution of the system. To meet this challenge a number of improvements were made to MOTER. This work describes those improvements, shows how MOTER can be used to design the high-resolution channel, and indicates the direction that future developments of this program will take.<>
Keywords :
beam handling techniques; linear accelerators; physics computing; LAMPF; Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility; MOTER; PILAC; computer program; design goal; high-resolution channel; higher-order aberrations; phase space; pion linear accelerator; Energy resolution; Kernel; Laboratories; Linear accelerators; Linear particle accelerator; Mesons; Packaging; Physics; Postal services; Spectroscopy;
Conference_Titel :
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1991. Accelerator Science and Technology., Conference Record of the 1991 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0135-8
DOI :
10.1109/PAC.1991.164274
