Zero-degree injection line for PILAC, the proposed Los Alamos Pion Linac

Author

Blind, Barbara

Author_Institution

Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

6-9 May 1991

Firstpage

899

Abstract

An optimized injection line for PILAC, the proposed Los Alamos Pion Linac, is presented. With the other optimized components (pion source, accelerator, and high-resolution beamline and spectrometer), the system is capable of delivering 10/sup 9/ 920 MeV pions per second to the target. Issues concerning the linear transport are touched upon, but the emphasis is on the tuning process for the nonlinear elements used for aberration correction. The beam-optics code MARYLIE was used for all nonlinear optimizations and to evaluate the performance of the line. The line was optimized for 380 MeV pions (peak of pion production).<>

Keywords

linear accelerators; physics computing; Los Alamos Pion Linac; accelerator; beam-optics code MARYLIE; high-resolution beamline; linear transport; optimized components; optimized injection line; pion source; spectrometer; zero-degree injection line; Geometrical optics; Laboratories; Lattices; Linear particle accelerator; Mesons; Particle beams; Production systems; Proton accelerators; Spectroscopy; US Department of Energy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1991.164483

Filename

164483