LINAC2022 - List of Authors (Letchford, A.P.)

Paper	Title	Page
MO1AA01	Upgrades and Developments at the ISIS Linac	1
	A.P. Letchford STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
	The ISIS Spallation Neutron Source at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in the UK has a 70 MeV H⁻ linac operating at 202.5 MHz. The linac consists of a 665 keV RFQ and a 4-tank Drift Tube Linac (DTL). In order to ensure continued reliability, increase performance and lay the groundwork for possible facility upgrades in the future a programme of R&D has been taking place in recent years. This paper will discuss three components of that programme: the complete replacement of DTL Tank 4; the design of a Medium Energy beam Transport (MEBT) between the RFQ and DTL; and the Front End Test Stand (FETS), a demonstrator for the front end of a future high current, high energy linac.
	Slides MO1AA01 [26.001 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2022-MO1AA01
About •	Received ※ 16 August 2022 — Revised ※ 25 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 27 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 27 September 2022
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TUPOJO21	The Pre-Injector Upgrade for the ISIS H⁻ Linac	398
TUOPA03	use link to see paper's listing under its alternate paper code
	S.R. Lawrie, R.E. Abel, C. Cahill, D.C. Faircloth, A.P. Letchford, J.H. Macgregor, S. Patel, T.M. Sarmento, J.D. Speed, O.A. Tarvainen, M. Whitehead, T. Wood STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
	A new maintenance-free, high current, high duty-factor H⁻ linac pre-injector is being commissioned for the ISIS pulsed spallation neutron and muon facility. As well as delivering a low emittance-growth, loss-free beam, the pre-injector incorporates a chopper to facilitate arbitrary bunch time-structures. A 50 Hz, 0.9 ms (4.5% duty factor) RF-driven H⁻ ion source operates extremely reliably and with a large available parameter space via a novel microwave ignition gun and a wideband solid-state RF amplifier. A 202.5 MHz medium energy beam transport (MEBT) incorporates eight quadrupole magnets with integrated xy steerers, four quarter-wave re-bunching cavities, four extremely compact beam position monitors and an electrostatic chopper in just two metres of footprint. Beam has been extracted from the ion source and MEBT commissioning is due Spring 2023. Thereafter, the entire pre-injector will be soak-tested offline for a year before installing on the user facility.
	Slides TUPOJO21 [1.784 MB]
	Poster TUPOJO21 [3.053 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2022-TUPOJO21
About •	Received ※ 13 August 2022 — Revised ※ 16 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 29 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 05 September 2022
Cite •	reference for this paper using ※ BibTeX, ※ LaTeX, ※ Text/Word, ※ RIS, ※ EndNote (xml)

Paper

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Upgrades and Developments at the ISIS Linac

1

A.P. Letchford
STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom

The ISIS Spallation Neutron Source at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in the UK has a 70 MeV H⁻ linac operating at 202.5 MHz. The linac consists of a 665 keV RFQ and a 4-tank Drift Tube Linac (DTL). In order to ensure continued reliability, increase performance and lay the groundwork for possible facility upgrades in the future a programme of R&D has been taking place in recent years. This paper will discuss three components of that programme: the complete replacement of DTL Tank 4; the design of a Medium Energy beam Transport (MEBT) between the RFQ and DTL; and the Front End Test Stand (FETS), a demonstrator for the front end of a future high current, high energy linac.

Slides MO1AA01 [26.001 MB]

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2022-MO1AA01

About •

Received ※ 16 August 2022 — Revised ※ 25 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 27 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 27 September 2022

Cite •

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TUPOJO21

The Pre-Injector Upgrade for the ISIS H⁻ Linac

398

TUOPA03

use link to see paper's listing under its alternate paper code

S.R. Lawrie, R.E. Abel, C. Cahill, D.C. Faircloth, A.P. Letchford, J.H. Macgregor, S. Patel, T.M. Sarmento, J.D. Speed, O.A. Tarvainen, M. Whitehead, T. Wood
STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom

A new maintenance-free, high current, high duty-factor H⁻ linac pre-injector is being commissioned for the ISIS pulsed spallation neutron and muon facility. As well as delivering a low emittance-growth, loss-free beam, the pre-injector incorporates a chopper to facilitate arbitrary bunch time-structures. A 50 Hz, 0.9 ms (4.5% duty factor) RF-driven H⁻ ion source operates extremely reliably and with a large available parameter space via a novel microwave ignition gun and a wideband solid-state RF amplifier. A 202.5 MHz medium energy beam transport (MEBT) incorporates eight quadrupole magnets with integrated xy steerers, four quarter-wave re-bunching cavities, four extremely compact beam position monitors and an electrostatic chopper in just two metres of footprint. Beam has been extracted from the ion source and MEBT commissioning is due Spring 2023. Thereafter, the entire pre-injector will be soak-tested offline for a year before installing on the user facility.

Slides TUPOJO21 [1.784 MB]

Poster TUPOJO21 [3.053 MB]

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2022-TUPOJO21

About •

Received ※ 13 August 2022 — Revised ※ 16 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 29 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 05 September 2022

Cite •

reference for this paper using ※ BibTeX, ※ LaTeX, ※ Text/Word, ※ RIS, ※ EndNote (xml)