Title :
Simulated performance of the superconducting section of the APT linac under various fault and error conditions
Author :
Gray, E.R. ; Nath, S. ; Wangler, T.P.
Author_Institution :
Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA
Abstract :
The current design for the production of tritium uses both normal-conducting (NC) and super-conducting (SC) structures. To evaluate the performance of the superconducting part of the linac which constitutes more than 80% of the accelerator, studies have been made to include the effects of various error and fault conditions. Here, we present the simulation results of studies such as effects of RF phase and amplitude errors, cavity/klystron failure, quadrupole misalignment errors, quadrupole gradient error, and beam-input mismatches
Keywords :
accelerator cavities; linear accelerators; proton accelerators; superconducting cavity resonators; APT linac; RF amplitude errors; RF phase errors; beam-input mismatches; cavity/klystron failure; normal-conducting structures; quadrupole gradient error; quadrupole misalignment errors; superconducting section; superconducting structures; Acceleration; Boring; Klystrons; Laboratories; Lattices; Linear particle accelerator; Magnets; Particle beams; Plasma simulation; Production;
Conference_Titel :
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1997. Proceedings of the 1997
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4376-X
DOI :
10.1109/PAC.1997.749959
