Development of a radio frequency quadrupole linac implemented with the equipartitioning beam dynamics scheme

等分配ビーム力学スキームを実装したRFQの開発

近藤 恭弘   ; 森下 卓俊  ; Jameson, R. A.*

Kondo, Yasuhiro; Morishita, Takatoshi; Jameson, R. A.*

RFQは現代の大電流リニアックの実現のための鍵となる加速器であるが、これまで多くのRFQが非常に保守的な設計思想で設計されてきた。我々は空間電荷の物理に基づいて、3MeV、50mAの負イオンRFQを開発した。大電流リニアックで広く用いられている等分配測をRFQ設計に実装し、ヴェーン長3mの3MeV RFQで、設計ビーム透過率99.1%、ビーム垂直方向エミッタンス0.24 mm mrad、ビーム方向エミッタンス0.11 MeV degを得た。このRFQを実際に製作し、ビーム運転を行い設計性能を実証した。この論文ではこの等分配RFQの設計の詳細とビーム運転結果を述べる。

Radio frequency quadrupole linac (RFQ) is the key component which realized modern high-current proton linacs, however, many RFQs are designed based on very conventional design schemes. We developed 3-MeV 50-mA H (negative hydrogen) RFQ based on a beam space-charge physics concept. The equipartitioning scheme, which is widely used in the high intensity linac design, is implemented into the RFQ design. Design performances of 99.1% transmission, 0.24 mm mrad transverse normalized rms emittance, and 0.11 MeV deg for longitudinal direction are achieved with a vane length of 3 m and the final energy of 3 MeV. An RFQ employing this design concept was fabricated, and the design performance was confirmed by beam commissioning. In this paper, the design and result of the beam commissioning of this fully equipartitioned RFQ are described.