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Title SHUNT IMPEDANCE STUDIES IN THE ISIS LINAC
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Abstract The ISIS linac consists of four DTL tanks that accelerate a 50 pps, 20 mA H- beam up to 70 MeV before injecting it into an 800 MeV synchrotron. Over the last decades, the linac has proved to be a stable and reliable injector for ISIS, which is a significant achievement considering that two of the tanks are more than 50 years old. At the time the machine was designed, the limited computing power available and the absence of 3D electromagnetic (EM) simulation codes, made the creation of a linac optimized for power efficiency almost impossible, so from this point of view, the ISIS linac is quite simple by today's standards. In this paper, we make a shunt impedance comparison study using the power consumption data collected from ISIS and the results obtained when simulating each of the four DTL tanks with 2D and 3D EM codes. The comparison will allow us to check the accuracy of our simulation codes and models and to assess their relative performance. It is particularly important to benchmark these codes against real data, in preparation for their use in the design of a proposed new linac, which will replace the currently aging ISIS injector.
Organisation ISIS , ASTeC , ASTeC-IB , CI , STFC
Keywords Physics , Shunt Impedance , ISIS Linac
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Language English (EN)
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Paper In Conference Proceedings In 14th Linear Accelerator Conference (LINAC08), Victoria, BC, Canada, 29 Sep 2008 - 3 Oct 2008, (2008). THP065.PS 2008