Upgrade of the sextupole field for beam instability mitigation in rapid cycling synchrotron of China Spallation Neutron Source

Liangsheng Huang; Yuwen An; Changdong Deng; Yuan Huang; Shouyan Xu

doi:10.1007/s41605-023-00428-7

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Upgrade of the sextupole field for beam instability mitigation in rapid cycling synchrotron of China Spallation Neutron Source

Liangsheng Huang^1,2,3, ,,
Yuwen An^1,2,3,
Changdong Deng^1,2,3,
Yuan Huang^1,2,3,
Shouyan Xu^1,2,3

1. Dongguan Campus, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Dongguan, 523803, China;
2. Spallation Neutron Source Science Center, Dongguan, 523803, China;
3. Key Laboratory of Particle Acceleration Physics and Technology, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

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The authors would like to acknowledge the efforts of the magnet, power supply and mechanical group members for their continuous work in designing, fabricating, installing and checking out the magnet. We are also grateful to the physics, beam instrument and operation group members for their indispensable support during the experiment. The author would like to thank Dr. Renjun Yang for revising the text of this article. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project: U1832210) and the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation, China (Project: 2021B1515140007).

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Received Date: April 15, 2023
Revised Date: September 26, 2023
Accepted Date: October 06, 2023
Available Online: January 10, 2024
Published Date: October 29, 2023

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Background The China Spallation Neutron Source incorporates a rapid cycling synchrotron (RCS) that operates by accumulating protons at 80 MeV and subsequently accelerating them to 1.6 GeV within a time span of 20 ms. The beam is guided to striking the tungsten target for neutron source.
Purpose As a space charge dominated machine, the RCS is subject to space charge effects and momentum spread, hereby influencing the tune spread. To address this issue, sextupole magnets, powered by two families of DC power supply, were initially employed to decrease the absolute value of chromaticity and to control the tune spread. The head-tail instability has been observed during the RCS beam commissioning.
Method The beam tests and simulations were conducted, revealing that tuning the chromaticity proved to be an effective mitigation strategy. However, to achieve better control over the tune spread and further suppress the instability, the DC sextupole field has been upgraded to an AC sextupole field, aiming to provide dynamic for controlling the chromaticity over an acceleration cycle.
Results and conclusion Thanks to the upgraded of AC field, the instability has been fully mitigatedwith beam power of 100 kW and the transmission in the RCS has been improved by ~ 2% from 96 to 98%. With help of AC sextupole at present, the beam power in the RCS is increased to 140 kW.
- China spallation neutron source,
- Rapid cycling synchrotron,
- Sextupole field,
- Chromaticity,
- Head–tail instability

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Liangsheng Huang, Yuwen An, Changdong Deng, et al. Upgrade of the sextupole field for beam instability mitigation in rapid cycling synchrotron of China Spallation Neutron Source[J]. Radiation Detection Technology and Methods, 2023, 7(4): 550-560. DOI: 10.1007/s41605-023-00428-7

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