Transport optics design and multi-particle tracking for the ilc positron source

Undulator-based positron source is adopted as the International Linear Collider baseline design. Complete optics to transport the positron beam having large angular divergence and large energy spread from a thin Ti target to the entrance of the 5 GeV damping ring injection line is developed. Start-to-end multi-particle tracking through the beamline is performed including the optical matching device, capture accelerator system, transport system, superconducting booster linac, spin rotators, and energy compressor. Positron capture efficiency of different schemes (immersed vs shielded target, and flux concentrator vs quarter wave transformation for the optics matching system) is compared. For the scheme of a shielded target and quarter wave transformation, the simulation shows that 15.1% of the positrons from the target are captured within the damping ring 6-D acceptance of A _x + A _y les 0.09 m and DeltaE times Deltaz les (plusmn25 MeV) times (plusmn3.46 cm), at the entrance of the damping ring injection line.