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La, only the
eigenvalue with negative imaginary part is im-
portant, When NuAy < Lo, the small signal
regime, all three eigenvalues must be included in
the evaluation of the output radiation power. If a
‘monochromatic radiation signal is fed at the FEL
input, its intensity change in a single pass of the
undulator is given by the small signal gain [5]
cs $7 (1-cos—Baina) (a0)
Gus = = AE
where rT = 4pNy is a measure of the undulator
length, and A = 2nNyAw/w, the detuning pa-
‘rameter, is proportional to the difference, Aw, be-
tween the wavelength of the input radiation and
the spontancous radiation wavelength (2). The
function Gsg/7° is shown in Fig.1.
Detuning
Figure 1: Small signal gain function Greg/ 7° vs A.
If we propagate a beam through the undula-
tor with no input radiation signal, but we assume
19
Ch,1: INTRODUCTION
that the beam has some initial random bunching,
B(O), at the spontaneous radiation wavelength,
the output intensity can be evaluated [5]
2
lacn = Be EAN" an
which in standard variables is just Eq.(3),
Since |B(0)|? is a random quantity, the inten-
sity fluctuates from pulse to pulse, and the same
will be true for the SASE mode, The fluctuations
have been observed for spontaneous radiation and
for SASE [9]. The fluctuation level in SASE is
determined by the cooperation length [10] Lg =
/4mp, i.e. the slippage in one gain length. For
coherent radiation in SASE the standard devia-
tion of the intensity distribution is 1/V/M, where
M = (Bunch length)/2nLc.
Diffraction, slippage and undulator error ef-
fects When conditions (a), (@), (¢) in Eq.(7)
are not satisfied, Lg becomes longer than Eq.(5),
and effects of diffraction and slippage need to be
included [5]. Analytical models and computer
codes have been developed for these cases,
Errors in the undulator magnetic field can
lead to a situation in which the electron trajec-
tory does not overlap the FEL radiation, or to the
emission of radiation at different wavelength, thus
effectively increasing the radiation linewidth and
reducing the gain. An approximate rule is to re-
quire that the deviation of electron beam trajec-
tory from the ideal trajectory should be less than
a small fraction (~ 1/2-1/4) of the beam radius,
while the relative error in the peak magnetic field
from period to period < p.
Status and development of FELs Many FELs
are now in operation in the USA, Europe and
Japan, Detailed descriptions of their performance
can be found in [6]. FELs have been operated
in the wavelength region from microwave to the
UY, with pulse length from js to ps. The radi-
ation from FEL oscillators has transform limited
linewidth, and is coherent, diffraction limited in
the transverse direction. The shortest wavelength,
about 200 nm, has been obtained at Duke Univer-
sity using an FEL oscillator on a storage ring. The
‘Vanderbilt FEL, mainly dedicated to medical ap-
plications, operates in the IR (\ = 12 pm) with
‘an average power of ~10 W. Peak power of ~1
GW has been obtained in the microwave region at
Livermore (ELF, A = 8.6 mm) and CESTA. Peak
power of tens of MW has been obtained in the IRSec.1.6: GLOSSARY OF ACCELERATOR TYPES
in many laboratories. Storage rings, room temper-
ature linacs, SC linacs, and electrostatic accelera-
tors are all being used to drive FELs.
At the moment there are two main lines of
development for FELs: (i) higher average power
in the IR to UV region, and (ii) very short wave-
lengths. High average power is useful for indus-
trial and medical applications. The interest in x-
rays is due to the fact that an x-ray FEL could pro-
vide coherent photons at ~ 1A, with almost 10
order of magnitudes higher peak power than the
most intense x-ray sources available today, and
pulse length < 1 ps [8], opening new possibili-
ties for the study of the structure of matter.
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1.6.7 High Voltage Electrodynamic Accelera-
tors
M, Cleland, Ion Beam App., Belgium
Machines of this type are potential drop or di-
rect action accelerators. They impart high ki-
netic energies to ions and electrons by connecting
high voltage generators between a patticle source
and a target at ground potential. In contrast to
electrostatic accelerators (Sec.1.6.5) such as Van
de Graaffs and Pelletrons that transport charges
mechanically, the high voltage power supplies in
electrodynamic accelerators convert low voltage
ac to high voltage de by means of cascaded recti-
fier circuits [1, 2, 3}. Some of these systems trans-
fer ac power from the mains to multiple rectifier
stages through an array of high voltage capaci-
tors while others use an assembly of high voltage
transformers. Although the designs of the power
supplies are different, their particle sources and
acceleration methods are similar,
Particle acceleration Charged particles can be
accelerated to high energies in high vacuum re-
gions where beam-gas collisions are rare. Parti-
cles are extracted from their sources (ions from
plasmas, electrons from cathodes), focused into
narrow beams and accelerated by electric fields
created by the high voltage generators. The con-
formation and strength of the fields are deter-
mined by the shapes and spacings of a series of
electrodes with intermediate potentials. The use
of multiple electrodes prevents spark discharges
inside the acceleration tube, protects the insulat-
ing rings between the electrodes from the effects
of scattered particles and permits the use of high
accelerating potentials and strong electric fields
(4).
High voltage generation The many applica-
tions for high voltage accelerators require poten-
tials from a few hundred kV to several MV. In this,
energy range, especially above 500 kV, conven-
tional single-stage transformer-rectifier systems
are inadequate because of insulation problems. A
variety of multiple-stage cascaded rectifier sys-
tems have been developed. The basic methods for
coupling ac power to all of the rectifier stages are
illustrated in Fig.1 [2]. In Fig.1a, ac power is in-
ductively coupled in series from one transformer-
rectifier stage to the next. The de outputs of each
stage are connected in series to produce high volt-
age power. In Fig.1b, ac power is inductively cou-
pled in parallel from a common primary winding
to all of the secondary windings. In Fig.1c, ac
power is capacitively coupled in series from one
rectifier stage to the next, Transformers are not re-
quired in the rectifier stages. In Fig.1d, ac power
is capacitively coupled in parallel to all of the rec-
tifier stages.
In series coupled systems, the lower stages
‘must transmit ac power to the upper stages and the
voltage droop under load is greater in the upper
stages, In parallel coupled systems, all stages re-® >» ©
w it:
ey ds
Led
a. x=
: q
1 a
=
Figure 1: Cascade generators. 1—Power supply; 2—
stage; 3—voltage rectifying and multiplying circuits,
ceive power directly from the primary source and
the voltage droop under load is the same in all
stages. This simplifies the design. Parallel cou-
pling reduces the internal impedance of the high
voltage generator and increases the amount of cur-
rent and power that can be provided for particle
acceleration.
Capacitive Cascade generators
Series coupled systems Cockcroft and Wal-
ton [5] used a high voltage generator with mul-
tiple rectifier stages capacitively coupled to a
source of ac power. This type of system is
commonly called a Cockcroft-Walton accelera-
tor. Their series coupled voltage multiplying rec-
tifier circuit was proposed eatlier by Greinacher
(Greinacher cascade circuit) [6]. During the
1930s and 1940s, the firm N.V. Philips, Nether-
Jands, produced many large, air insulated high
voltage generators and particle accelerators based
on this concept with potentials up to 3 MV [7].
During the 1950s, Emile Haefely & Co Ltd,
‘Switzerland, developed a symmetrical series cou-
pled cascade circuit. Many accelerators using this
type of high voltage generator have been pro-
duced for a variety of applications such as elec-
tron microscopy, ion injection into higher energy
rf accelerators, and separation of high energy par-
ticle beams. Potentials up to 4 MV have been ob-
tained with compressed gas insulation [8, 9, 10].
During the 1980s, Nissin High Voltage Co Ltd,
Japan, simplified the symmetrical cascade circuit
by omitting the central column of capacitors when
high current beam pulses are not required. Poten-
tials up to 5 MV have been obtained with com-
pressed gas insulation. The 5 MeV unit is rated
for 30 mA of dc electron beam current or 150 kW
of beam power (11, 12].
Parallel coupled systems The parallel cou-
a
Ch.1: INTRODUCTION
pled cascade circuit proposed by Schenkel [13]
predated the Greinacher circuit but it was not
used for high voltage generators because of the
difficulty of making capacitors that could with-
stand the de output voltage. During the 1950s
and 1960s, Radiation Dynamics, Inc. developed
the parallel coupled cascade circuit used in Dy-
namitron accelerators [14]-(20]. High voltage,
high frequency ac power is generated by a reso-
nant system consisting of an iron-free transformer
and a pair of semicylindrical electrodes which
surround a rectifier assembly. Power is capaci-
tively coupled from these electrodes to semicircu-
lar corona rings which are connected to the rec-
lifier junctions. The rectifiers are connected in
series to produce high voltage de power. Insu-
lation between components is provided by com-
pressed sulfur hexafluoride gas. The parallel cou-
pling scheme permits the use of a large number of
rectifier stages, each of which produces the same
amount of de voltage under load. Dynamitrons
with potentials up to 5 MV have been produced
with electron beam power ratings up to 150 kW.
‘Two-stage tandem heavy ion accelerators using
this type of high voltage generator have been pro-
duced by General Ionex Corporation, now Genus,
Inc,, for high energy ion implantation in silicon
wafers (21).
Inductive Cascade generators
Series coupled systems During the 1950s and
Debs, Hi High Voltage Engineering Corp., now
Vivirad High Voltage, developed the Insulating
Core Transformer (ICT) circuit. This is a three-
phase, multi-stage cascade circuit using magnetic
coupling to transfer low voltage, low freqency ac
power from the primary windings at the low volt-
age end to an array of high voltage secondary
windings. The magnetic cores of the secondary
windings are separated by thin sheets of solid in-
sulating material, Rectifiers and filter capacitors
convert ac to de power at each stage. All of the de
circuits are connected in series to produce the high
voltage potential at the output end of the assem-
bly [22]-[28]. The largest ICT accelerators can
produce electron energies up to 3 MeV with beam
power ratings up to 100 kW,
Parallel coupled systems During the 1970s,
the Budker Institute, Novosibirsk, developed sev-
eral types of single-phase, multi-stage trans-
former systems. All of the secondary windings
are magnetically coupled to a coaxial primary
winding which extends the full length of the highSec.1.6: GLOSSARY OF ACCELERATOR TYPES
voltage assembly. The Elita is a resonant pulse
transformer with a solenoidal high voltage sec-
ondary winding. The ELT is a low frequency sys-
tem for generating high voltage ac power. It has
insulated magnetic cores inside the multiple sec-
ondary windings. The Russian ICT is a single-
phase version of the three-phase insulating core
transformer with rectifier circuits in each stage to
produce high voltage de power. The ELV is a
multi-stage, transformer-rectifier system without
magnetic cores. ELV accelerators can produce de
potentials up to 2 MV with electron beam power
ratings up to 50 kW (2, 29, 30}.
During the 1970s and 1980s, the Budker In-
stitute, the Efremov Institute for Electrophysical
Apparatus in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, and
the Institute for High Temperatures in Moscow
developed three-phase, transformer-rectifier high
voltage systems. These use continuous iron cores
at ground potential with elongated primary wind-
ings on each core. The high voltage secondary
windings are insulated from the cores and pri-
mary windings. Rectifiers connected in three-
phase bridge circuits convert ac to de power. The
Teus system uses a single bridge rectifier circuit,
with three high voltage windings and can produce
300 KV de and 75 KW of electron beam power.
The Aurora system uses multiple bridge recti-
fier circuits with lower voltage per stage and can
produce 750 kV de and 100 kW of beam power
(2,31, 32, 33}.
References
(1) W. Scharf, Particle Accelerators & Their Uses,
Part 1, Accelerator Design, Part 2, Applications
of Accelerators, Harwood Academic (1986)
(2) EA. Abramyan, Industrial Electron Accelerators
& Applications, Hemisphere (1988)
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Polymers, Hanser (1992)
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(6) H. Greinacher, Zeit. fur Physik 4 (1921) 195
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Physik 18 (1937) 209
[8] W. Heilpern, Helvetica Phys. Acta, Vol.28 (1955)
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(1919) 333
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Rectifier Device, U.S. Patent No 4,338,657 (1982)1.6.8 Induction Linacs
R. Bangerter, LBNL
Induction linacs (IL) are employed in applica-
tions that require combinations of beam current,
beam energy, and pulse length that are not easily
achieved using rf accelerators. The first large TL
was the Astron Injector at LLNL [1]. Although
induction acceleration had been used for some
time (e.g. the betatron, Sec.1.6.2), Ref.[1] is usu-
ally credited for the invention of IL. Since then,
‘more than ten major LIs have been built (2, 3].
Conventional linacs produce long trains of
beam pulses at radio frequencies. The average
beam current is usually < 1 A. In contrast, ILs
produce beam pulses at much lower repetition
rates, but much higher currents (e.g. >10 kA).
The Astron Injector originally produced 350 A of
electrons (3.7 MeV, pulse length 300 ns, burst rep-
etition rate >1 KHz) to create a magnetic field in
the Astron magnetic fusion device. Subsequently,
ILs to produce beams for electron ring acceler-
ators (experimental collective accelerators) were
built at Berkeley and at Dubna (2, 3]. Flash
radiography is another important application of
ILs, e.g. FXR [4], DARHT [5], and AIRIX [6].
ILs are also being developed to produce beams
for two beam accelerators (relativistic klystrons)
(Sec. 1.6.19) [7, 8, 9]. Other applications that have
been suggested or implemented include FELs,
electron beam welding, food irradiation, pulsed
neutron sources, treatment of materials, treatment
of chemical and nuclear waste, and tunneling in
rock. Most of these applications use electron
beams, Heavy ion inertial confinement fusion is
a possible application.
The IL concept Fig.1 (upper) illustrates the ba~
sic concept of induction acceleration. A pulser
(of modulator) provides the power to energize an
induction module. The electric acceleration field
is confined primarily to the axis of the accelera-
tor by the conducting walls ~ the induction cav-
ity — surrounding the induction core. The core is
usually made of some ferromagnetic (or ferrimag-
netic) material although it could be simply air or
vacuum. One may view the induction module as
an electrical transformer, The beam is the sec-
ondary of this transformer. An IL consists of one
or more (often many) induction modules placed
in series. One can also think of an induction cav-
ity as shorted transmission line as shown in Fig.1
(lower). In any case, the accelerating voltage Vis
associated with a changing magnetic field by V =
Ch.1: INTRODUCTION
—d@/dt, where = f B - dA is the magnetic
flux in the core, The integral is over the cross-
sectional area of the core. If one assumes that
is uniform over the area, then V = —AdB/dt, or
J Vdt = A AB. This quantity is often referred to
simply as the volt-seconds of the core, while AB
is referred to as the flux swing.
con -— ca
B TB | Acceleration
m=
"|B ” |e"
Gap Circuit
Beam
Figure 1: upper: An IL with two induction modules
(Stages). The beam is the secondary of a series of
transformers. lower: Alternatively, one can think of
an induction module as a shorted transmission line.
Another way to achieve induction accelera-
tion is by changing the area occupied by the mag-
netic field rather than the field itself (line-type in-
duction accelerator, in contrast to the core-type
[2). In the line-type machines, an induction cav-
ity is basically a radial or axial transmission line.
A ferromagnetic core is not used. The line-type
cavities usually have very low impedance, In-
deed, a principal function of the core in a core-
type module is to provide a high impedance in
parallel with the load (beam).
In both induction accelerators and rf acceler-
ators, the accelerating electric field is associated
with a changing magnetic field. However, rf cav-
ities are often driven at resonance and induction
cavities are not. Also, induction cores are often
large (~1m dia.). The large size, together with the
use of ferromagnetic material, allows the induc-
tion accelerators to be used at longer pulse lengths
than rf accelerators. For ILs, the pulse length of-
ten lies in the range from tens of ns to tens of us.Sec.1.
ILs are related to other devices, e.g., the in-
ductive voltage adder. In an inductive voltage
adder a solid conductor replaces the beam.
Induction technology The main components of
an IL are the pulsers, the beam transport system,
and, in the case of a core-type machine, the induc-
tion cores.
‘Depending on the voltage, pulse length, and
other characteristics, the pulsers may be based
on simple switched capacitors, pulse forming net-
works, or pulse forming lines. Switches for the
pulsers include thyratrons, spark gaps, magnetic
switches, and solid state devices, To maximize
AB, a reset pulser normally magnetizes the core
in one direction before itis pulsed in the opposite
direction by the main pulser.
‘The beam transport system of an IL must be
capable of carrying high current. One can esti-
mate the maximum current that a transport chan-
nel can carry by setting the beam self force equal
to the applied focusing force of the lattice, The
actual current will be less than this maximum be-
cause of emittance, A detailed calculation is re-
quired in each individual case. For continuous
solenoidal focusing the maximum current is ap-
proximately
Is = 4x 10°(Z/A)By(Ba)* Amp. (1)
where Z and A are the charge and atomic mass
numbers, B is in Tesla, a is beam size in m, For a
‘quadrupole transport system the maximum beam
current is approximately
Tg =8 x 10°(67)?(nBa) Amp. (2)
where 1) is the effective occupancy factor (the
fraction of the lattice occupied by quadrupoles).
Solenoids are usually the preferred system for
light particles (e~, p), but quadrupoles appear
preferable for heavy ions, particularly at the high
velocity end of the machine, There has been some
research on neutralized and collective focusing
systems [10}.
‘Magnetic materials used for induction cores
include steel tape, nickel-iron tape, ferrite, and a
class of amorphous metallic glasses such as Al-
lied Chemical’s Metglas®, Core losses are an
important consideration, particularly if the beam
current is low. For materials other than ferrite,
the core must be laminated to minimize eddy-
current losses. Lamination is usually achieved
by winding the cores from thin tape (thickness
S 50 um). For example, the typical losses in iron-
based metallic glass are = 800 I/m? at a pulse
ILOSSARY OF ACCELERATOR TYPES
24
length of At = 11s and a flux swing of 2.5 T.
The losses scale approx. as AB?/At. (Because
of hysteresis, the losses at 2.5 T do not drop ap-
preciably below 100 J/m* even at very long pulse
lengths.)
Current research Recently much of the re-
search on ILs has been directed toward radiogra-
phy, inertial fusion, and the two-beam accelera-
tor (relativistic Klystron). In addition, however,
there is some basic research on improved ferro-
‘magnetic materials, transport systems, solid-state
pulsers, and recirculation, In recirculation the
beam passes through the cores more than once,
but the beam dynamics of these machines is more
similar to a linac than a synchrotron,
In one important experiment (11], an un-
cooled induction core was run for several days at
repetition rate of ~100 Hz. The pulser used ca-
pacitive storage and an array of field effect tran-
sistors. The measured efficiency into a resistive
dummy load approached 50%. With continued
development, induction accelerators may become
competitive with rf accelerators for high average
power applications.
References
[1] N.C. Christofilos et al, RSI 35 (1964) 886
[2] 1B. Less, PAC 79, p.3870
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Report, LA-9234-C (1981) p.205
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1.6.9 Industrial Applications of Electrostatic
Accelerators
G. Norton, Nat. Elec. Corp.
JL. Duggan, U. North Texas
Worldwide there are ~350 Electrostatic Acceler-
ators used for materials analysis or high-energy
ion implantation for the semiconductor industry.
They typically have terminal voltages of < 5Ch.1: INTRODUCTION
Table 1: Ton beam characteristics for various applications,
PROCEDURE TON BEAM ‘APPLICATION
CHARACTERISTICS
Rutherford Backscattering | Ito 3 MeV, He Elemental and thin Alm
(RBS) <100 nA, ~ 1mm dia. analysis
‘Channeling (RBS) Tto3 MeV, He Structure analysis and light
<50 nA, ~1 mm dia. element detection in crystals
Low divergence
Micro RBS: T to 3 MeV, He Position sensitive elemental
~1 nA, 10-20 ym dia, analysis
Elastic Recoil Detection Tto >20 MeV, heavy tons | Depth profiling of Z=1 10 9
(ERD) <1 fA, ~1 mm dia, elements
Particle Induced X-Ray T to 4 MeV, protons ‘Trace elemental analysis
Emission (PIXE) <1 fA ~ 1mm dia.
In-Air PIXE Tto 4 Mev, protons Non-destructive trace
<1yA, 1105 mm elemental analysis
Micro PIXE Tto 4 MeV, proton Position sensitive trace
<0.5nA, ~1 pum dia, elemental analysis
‘Nuclear Reaction Analysis | <3 to >10 MeV Enhanced sensitivity to
(NRA) wide variety of heavy ions | selected elements
1 to 10 pA, | to 3 mm dia.
Charged Particle Activation | 3 to >50 MeV Enhanced sensitivity t
(CPA) p, d,t, “He, A selected elements
<1pAto > 10yA
1mmto | cm dia.
Production, High Energy Ton | 103 MeV, B, P. Device manufacturing in
Implantation dose: 108 to 10*/em? semiconductors
‘uniform deposition
Research, High Energy fon | 1 to >10 MeV (50 MeV+) _| Material modification,
Implantation all available heavy ion beams | amorphization, device
Smmto lcm development, damage studies
MV and currents < 100 yA. They can be either
‘single-ended or tandem accelerators. From 1930's
through late 1960's, low energy Electrostatic Ac-
celerators were used to investigate nuclear struc-
ture, The 1980's saw a major shift towards ap-
plications in materials analysis [1] and materials
modification.
Applications fit into two main groups: mate-
rials analysis and materials modification, Mate-
rials analysis includes routine use of Rutherford
Backscattering (RBS) (2, 3] for quality control
in semiconductor manufacturing and other areas.
Particle Induced X-Ray Emission (PIXE) (4, 5] is
used in fields from art history through the envi-
ronmental sciences. X-ray imaging using 5 MeV
4c electron beams and Pulsed Fast Neutron Anal-
ysis (PENA) [6] for plastic explosive and drug de-
tection provide promise in the area of security.
‘Accelerator based mass spectrometry (AMS) [7]
is having a profound effect on a wide variety of
fields, which rely on counting extremely rare iso-
topes in small samples.
Accelerators used for materials modification
continue to have a significant economic impact
in the field of semiconductors [8]. Fabrication of
virtually all semiconductor devices now relies on
ion implantation with ion beam energies ranging
from a few keV to several MeV (9, 10]. Fig.1
shows how these techniques are related to other
branches of science [11]. Tab.1 gives typical ion
‘beam characteristics for various applications.
References
(1) LR. Tesmer, M. Nastasi (eds.), Handbook of Mod-
em Ion Beam Materials Analysis, Materials Res.
Soc, (1995)
[2] WK. Chu et al, Backscattering Spectrometry,
Academic Press (1978)See,
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cations fields (11).
(3] L.C. Feldman, J.W. Mayer, Fundamentals of Sur-
face & Thin Film Analysis, Elsevier Sci. (1986)
[4] S.AE. Johannson, J.L. Campbell, sPIXE: A
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No.7 (1993) 82
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New Delhi; Brochure, U. Tokyo
1.6.10 Linear Accelerators for Electron
GA. Loew, SLAC
Electron (positron) linear accelerators (linacs)
are axially rectilinear structures which capture a
beam from an electron injector (positron source),
and accelerate it to a desired energy (1, 2, 3].
These linacs rely on radiofrequency (tf, typically
0.5-30 GHz) energy to produce the accelerating
electric field. Above a few MeV, de machines no
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‘matching input iris (steady state).
High Voltage
Modulator _| High Power
Klystron
AL Be battered
QS “in Ti
Triode Buncher Accelerator
Gun Velocity h on
Modulating Ie t
Prebuncher cd o
Ab=-70° Pn}
Figure 2: Schematic of a single-section, single-power-
source linac, with typical injector. A¢ is bunch length
{in units of rf phase. The gridded triode gun is some-
times replaced by a laser-driven photocathode or an rf
‘gun where the cathode is embedded inside an rf cavity.
Progressive bunching is graphically illustrated, Multi-
section linacs are simply constructed by adding sec-
tions linearly beyond the first one.
longer work because cumulative high voltages are
difficult to obtain.
‘The rf energy is used to launch a traveling
wave (TW) or a standing wave (SW) in an ar-
tay of microwave cavities or cells (Fig.1). See
Sec.7.3.5. In both cases, the structure is designed
so that the phase of the wave is synchronized with
the beam, Because of the small rest mass of e*,
above a few MeV, the needed rf phase velocity
vp * c. Generally, when entering the linac, par-
ticles are already considerably bunched, and what
little compression remains to be done occurs dur-
ing the first few MeV of acceleration (see Fig.2).
‘The bunches can then ride at a constant rf phase
and corresponding acceleration field.
The structures shown in Fig.1 are periodic (or
quasi-periodic, see below) in that their cell ge-Ch,1: INTRODUCTION
Figure 3: Typical Brillouin diagram for a disk-loaded waveguide, showing fundamental accelerating mode oper-
ating at 2n/3 phase shift per cell, and one branch of a higher-order HEM deflecting mode,
‘ometry is invariant with respect to longitudinal
translation, The periodic loading is necessary be-
cause a smooth waveguide would have vp > ¢.
‘The irises or other periodic obstacles create an
infinite family of space-harmonic modes (Fig.3).
‘The fundamental mode (n = 0) generally has
the largest amplitude and is used for acceleration,
The Brillouin diagram [4], Fig.3, corresponds to
a TW structure in which this fundamental mode
has vp = cat a phase shift of 27/3 per cell. Fig.3
exhibits a second upper-branch (there are an in-
finity of such higher-order modes, HOM) which
intercepts the vp = c line at a point with nega-
tive slope (backward-wave HEM); mode). These
modes are commonly called wakefields because
they can be excited by the beam bunch. The wake-
fields then cause particles later in this bunch or
subsequent bunches to be deflected transversely,
producing emittance growth and eventually beam.
break-up and particle loss. This problem can be
controlled by appropriate solenoidal focusing (at
low energy) and quadrupole focusing (at higher
energy), or by cell detuning (see below).
Most linac structures are made out of high
quality copper which, however, has a finite loss
‘which causes attenuation. For a given amount of
pulsed peak power Pp injected into an accelerator
section, itis not economical to extend its length £
beyond the point where ~70% of the power has
been dissipated. In a TW structure, the remain-
ing power is dumped into a load. The input is
‘matched so that there is no reflection at the source.
Ina SW structure, there are also losses and while
some power is reflected from the end, itis possible
to match the input so that there is no power reflec-
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tion in steady state. Because a standing wave can
bbe decomposed into two oppositely moving trav-
cling waves, the only efficient way of operating a
‘SW structure is in a mode with a x-phase shift
per cell on axis, which means that both travel-
ing waves are confluent and produce acceleration
(in reality, for mode stability reasons, the actual
phase-shift per cell in e.g. the SW side-coupled
structure invented at Los Alamos [5] is 7/2). Ad-
vantages and disadvantages of TW vs, SW struc-
tures are discussed in [5].
Alll periodic linac structures are characterized
by a figure of merit called the shunt impedance
per unit length, r. ‘The steady-state no-load en-
ergy acquired by a particle riding on top of the
synchronous fundamental wave is
Va=KVPor a
where the proportionality constant K < 1 for a
TW structure depends on the attenuation of the
section, and K = 1 for the perfectly matched SW
structure, assuming no appreciable field reduction
due to beam loading, If the linac consists of NV
identical sections, then the total energy is NV.
With a peak beam current I, the steady-state
ergy (ie., after the appropriate filling times) is re-
duced by a subtractive term o rIé.
‘TW structures may be designed to be quasi-
periodic. Two examples stand out. The first is the
constant-gradient structure in which dimensions
are tapered so as to decrease the group velocity
linearly with length. The fields are thereby caused
to be constant as opposed to exponentially decay-
ing as a function of length, as is the case in reg-
ular constant-impedance structures. The second
one is a variation of the former where the cavitySec.1.6: GLOSSARY OF ACCELERATOR TYPES
dimensions are varied so as to keep the accelerat-
ing fields approximately constant while giving the
HOM frequencies a Gaussian distribution which
causes them to decohere rapidly in time after their
excitation by the beam. A further variation of this
scheme is to equip every cell with four symmet-
rical side-openings which enable the HOMs with
both horizontal and vertical polarizations to leak
out into manifolds while leaving the fundamental
accelerating mode undisturbed [6}.
While the accelerator structure is the heart of
the linac, there are other essential components and
subsystems. Fig.2 shows a high power rf source
which in most machines is a klystron (magnetrons
are used in single-section low energy machines)
with its associated high voltage modulator. Be-
cause of the high peak power required (typically
4-80 MW), these klystrons have low duty cycles
(~100 Hz) and pulse lengths ~ a few ys. To in-
crease the peak power, modern linacs sometimes
use rf pulse compression systems (see Sec.6.7),
which temporarily accumulate the rf energy in a
storage device, thereby enhancing the peak power
emitted in a pulse at the expense of its width.
Fig.2 also shows an injector with its triode gun,
prebuncher and buncher. Other important subsys-
tems include rf drive and phasing, focusing, vac-
‘uum, alignment, water cooling, ac power, instru-
mentation and control [3].
For a given total energy, the length of a linac
can be reduced by increasing its accelerating gra-
dient. Typical machines use gradients from a few
MVim up to proposed ~100 MV/m. At low gra-
dients, the structure can sometimes suffer from
a parasitic resonant phenomenon (multipactor) in
which a surface-emitted electron gets accelerated,
hits the surface elsewhere (or returns to the same
point), and then ejects new secondary electrons
which produce an avalanche condition (see also
Sec.6.9). At high fields, electron field emission
takes place, which can have a variety of dele-
tetious effects: parasitic absorption of energy,
wakefields, dark-current producing spurious radi-
ation and backgrounds, and eventually rf break-
down which can make the linac inoperative, Field
emission is caused by a variety of surface irregu-
larities, impurities, dust, and contamination, and
‘can be controlled, up to a point, by proper sur-
face fabrication, treatment and cleaning (see also
Sec.6.12).
‘Tab.1 gives the parameters presently typically
achieved at the end of the SLC e linac, as well
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Table 1: Linac parameters for SLC (achieved) (7,
NLC (design) [8], and LCLS (design) (9].
(0 after full compression,
SLC__NLC_LCLS
Energy (GeV) 302x250 15
Gradient(MeVim) 17 57.17
fet (GHz) 2.856 11.424 2.856
klystron
#flinac 224, 3270 70
peak power(MW) 65 75 65
pulse length(us) 3.5 15 3.5
e7/ounch (10!) 4 1.0 0.63
ene (mm-mrad) = 45410
Ny (mm-mrad) 5 004 = 10
@; (mm) 10 0.15.03!)
os (10-8) 153.0 <1
as the design values for the NLC and the LCLS.
Electron and positron linacs are used for
‘many purposes [10]. The largest number of elec
tron linacs (many thousands) are radiotherapy ma-
chines which can be found in hospitals worldwide
(energy ~4-30 MeV, x-rays produced by electrons
impinging on targets, or direct electron radiation).
Low energy linacs are also used in industry for
sterilization of various materials and products, x-
ray radiography, etc.. Most of these linacs con-
sist of single sections and power sources. Linacs
of higher energy (50 MeV-50 GeV) are used in
laboratories for nuclear and particle physics and
as injectors into e* storage rings of various types
[11]. As this article is being written, the interna-
tional particle physics community is assessing the
possibility of building an ee linear collider in
the TeV CM energy range. Different options are
being examined by various accelerator laborato-
ries, spanning the entire rf frequency spectrum be-
tween 1,3 GHz (superconducting approach) and
30 GHz for the main linacs, The machine might
be 20 to 30 km long, and at 30 GHz might consist
of up to 20,000 sections [12].
References
U1] Linear Accelerators, ed., A. Septier, PM. Lapos-
tolle, North-Holland (1970)
[2] GA. Loew, R. Talman, AIP Conf, Proc. 105
(1983) pt
(3) RB, Neal et al, The Stanford Two-Mile Linear
Accelerator, Benjamin (1968)
[4] L. Brillouin, Wave Propagation in Periodic Struc-
tures, Dover (1953)[5] RH. Miller, Proc. Linear Accelerator Conf.,
SLAC-303 (1986) p.200
[6] RH. Miller etal, Proc. Linear Ace. Conf. (1996)
{7] P, Emma, PAC 95, p.606
[8] Zeroth Order Design for Next Linear Collider,
SLAC-474 (1996)
[9] VK. Bharadwaj, PAC 97
[10] G.A. Loew, Proc. Proton Linear Acc. Conf.
(1976) p.217
(11) J. Clendenin et al, Compendium of Scientific
Linacs (1996)
[12] G.A. Loew et al, Int, Linear Collider Tech. Rev.
‘Comm. Report, SLAC-R-95-471 (1995)
1.6.11. Livingston Chart
J. Rees, SLAC
‘The Livingston Chart, named after its originator,
M. Stanley Livingston, shows the historical rise
of beam energy with passing years for accelera-
tors based on various technologies (Fig.1) [4]. It
may be compared to analogous charts for colliders
(Sec. 1.6.3) which are couched in terms of center-
of-mass energy. In the case of an accelerator beam
bombarding a fixed target, the center-of-mass en-
ergy depends on the mass of the target particle.
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electron accelerators.
References
[1] M. Stanley Livingston, John P. Blewett, Particle
Accelerators, McGraw-Hill (1962)
1.6.12 Medical Applications of Accelerators
J. Alonso, LBNL/ORNL
1.6.12.1 Radiation therapy [1, 2]
Ionizing radiation in sufficient doses kills cells.
Applied for cancer therapy, this method is now,
Ch.1; INTRODUCTION
thanks to much basic biological research, highly
effective. The difference between tumor control
and unacceptable damage to nearby healthy tis-
sue requires dose control on the percent level.
Essential in this is the accurate definition of the
tumor volume now made possible by CT (Com-
puterized x-ray Tomography) and MRI (Magnetic
Resonance Imaging) methods. The challenge is
to conform delivery precisely to the irregular 3-
D shape of the tumor. Several approaches have
‘been developed exploiting the absorption features
of various particles as shown in Fig.1.
Depth (om)
Figure 1: Absorption vs depth for various particles.
X-ray therapy [3, 4] This is the most widely
used radiation treatment. The x-ray depth-dose
relation is exponential. Treating a tumor located
25 cm inside a patient involves significant doses
up and down stream of the treatment field. These
doses can be mitigated by multi-port treatments in
which beams are brought in from several angles
and overlap at the tumor, Restricting the beam
cross-section to the different projections of the
tumor along the different beams is accomplished
with sophisticated collimators. The x-ray field is
typically 20-30 cm in diameter.
Accelerators for x-ray therapy 5-30 MeV S-
band electron linacs are the mainstay of radi-
ation therapy today (~5000 worldwide, princi-
pal manufacturers: Varian, Siemens, GE, Mit-
subishi, Toshiba). X-rays are produced by elec-
trons striking a heavy-metal target. The very
broad bremsstrahlung spectrum is “hardened” by
using absorbers to filter out contributions from
lower energies. S-band linacs are a highly suc-
‘cessful spin-off from the high-energy and nuclear
physics programs. Theit compactness, efficiencySec.1.6: GLOSSARY OF ACCELERATOR TYPES
and reliability have been key to their acceptance
for clinical application. With overall lengths of
1-2 m, and low rigidity of the e~ beams, very
efficient packaging of the accelerator and beam
transport systems are possible. The development
of the isocentric gantry configuration (patient lies
stationary while the x-ray beam can be rotated
around the tumor) has allowed multiple treat-
ment ports. Powered by either a magnetron or a
Klystron, these accelerators operate at repetition
rates up to 1 kHz,
Proton and ion-beam therapy [5}-[10] Fig.1
reveals the advantage of using heavy-charged par-
ticles (instead of e~) for therapy. First recog-
nized by Bob Wilson in 1946, the Bragg Peak at
the end of the particle’s range, can provide a sig-
nificant concentration of dose into a tumor, The
wider proton curve arises from the higher multiple
scattering and range-straggling of protons, the tail
of the carbon curve comes from nuclear breakup
of the projectile into lighter (longer-ranged) frag-
ments. Ionization density for charged particles
varies as Z?, so heavier ions in addition to having
sharper stopping points are more lethal to malig-
nant cells,
The well-defined stopping point also makes
it easier to conform the radiation dose to an
irregularly-shaped tumor by independently vary-
ing the energy of the stopping particles. Pencil-
‘beam scanning systems have been designed for
this purpose, but the required precision of con-
trol and response speed are difficult. Nonethe-
less, clinical trials are beginning in 1997 at PSI
and GSI.
Even with less sophisticated delivery systems,
dose distributions of proton and ion beams are
considerably better than even the best x-ray sys-
tems, and successful clinical programs with these
beams have been ongoing for almost 50 years.
The primary difficulty in widespread application
has been the limited availability and high acceler-
ator cost.
Accelerators for proton therapy Proton en-
ergy of 250 MeV allows penetration to 30 cm in
tissue. Average beam current of a few nanoamps
is adequate for treatment times of ~1-2 min for all
but the largest therapy fields. Early proton ther-
apy was performed with fixed-energy synchrocy-
clotrons (e.g. Harvard, Uppsala); the large ther-
apy fields (“20 cm dia.) at the required unifor-
mity (5%) were produced using sophisticated
scattering foil techniques, the range of the beam
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was varied by energy degraders in front of the pa-
tient. ‘These “passive” delivery systems are de-
coupled from the accelerator, requiring only a fast
and reliable beam cutoff system. In these first fa-
cilities, treatment port orientations are adjusted by
moving the patient.
The more advanced delivery systems require
‘energy variability, precise beam-intensity control
and above all high stability and rapid response.
The control systems for beam-delivery and ac-
celerator must be tightly coupled. A continuous
beamis preferred, with a duty factor >25%. Inter-
facing an advanced delivery system with a short-
pulsed beam presents formidable problems.
‘The first hospital-based proton therapy accel
erator is the 250 MeV synchrotron at Loma Linda,
California, built by Fermilab. It has a weak-
focusing lattice, injected by a 2 MeV RFQ with
a single-tun kicker. Operating on a 2-s cycle, the
half-integer resonant extraction provides reason-
ably flat spills with a 25% duty factor at any de-
sired energy up to 250 MeV. Beam is transported
to two fixed-beam rooms and three gantry rooms.
‘Two new hospital-based facilities (Boston
and Tokyo) are coming on line in 1998, based
on 235 MeV fixed-energy cyclotrons provided by
IBA (Belgium) and Sumitomo, Energy variation
is provided by a degrader and energy-selection
and collimation transport line. Beam current from
the cyclotron is increased to maintain roughly uni-
form beam brightness after energy selection. En-
ergy changes can take place in a few seconds. In-
tensity control is achieved via the internal proton
ion-source.
Isocentric delivery is implemented in all these
facilities, Because of the high rigidity of the pro-
ton beam (up to 2.5 T-m) gantries are large (13 m
dia, at Loma Linda), In addition, sufficient fight
path must be provided from the last magnet to
the patient to allow for beam spreading, dosime-
try and field definition, contributing as much as 6
m to the gantry diameter,
A novel compact gantry system is in opera-
tion at PSI in a proton therapy line attached to
the 600 MeV cyclotron. The patient and the mas-
sive bending-magnet system counterrotate around
a common center, reducing by well over 50% the
space required. In addition, the treatment field is
obtained by means of an active line-scanning sys-
tem allowing the patient to be placed much closer
to the last magnet. Beam is swept in one trans-
verse plane by a fast magnet, the patient is trans-lated in the other transverse plane to provide the
full field of treatment,
Interest in proton therapy is increasing
rapidly. Many more proton therapy centers are
expected to come on line in the next ten years.
Accelerators for ion-beam therapy An energy
of 400 MeV/amu is needed for a carbon beam
to penetrate 30 cm in tissue, corresponding to a
magnetic rigidity of 6 T-m, Isocentric delivery
presents a formidable challenge, Treatments with
helium beams began in the mid 1950's at Berke-
ley’s 184” synchrocyclotron, while therapy trials
with beams of neon (and other ions) at the Bevalac
took place between 1978 and 193,
HIMAC, in Chiba, Japan, has operated since
1994 with carbon beams. Based on two 16
m synchrotrons (can produce 30-cm range
con beams), it is injected by a 6 MeV/amu RFQ-
Alvarez linac and two separate ion-source plat-
forms, It has three treatment rooms with horizon-
tal and vertical beam delivery ports.
GSI, in Darmstadt is commissioning a ther-
apy facility with carbon ions using a pixel-
scanning system. Pulse-to-pulse energy vari-
ation from the SIS-18 synchrotron is required
(qansport line magnets adjusted for each energy).
Computer-controlied scanning magnets paint the
beam, dwelling less than 1 ms on each volume e!-
cement of the treatment field.
Three European initiatives (Heidelberg,
TERA in Milan, and Med-AUSTRON in Vienna)
are supporting a design study at CERN to develop
a synchrotron with advanced pixel-scanning
systems, and isocentric delivery of carbon beams.
‘A medical synchrotron for carbon treatments is
planned in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Currently
there are no ion-beam plans in the US.
Neutron therapy Fast neutrons (14-70 MeV)
have been used for therapy for over 50 years. With
depth doses similar to lower-energy x-rays, lo-
calization of dose into a well-defined volume is
difficult. However, the very high ionization den-
sity (owing to low-energy proton knockons from
nuclear scattering) produces favorable results in
radioresistant tumors, located at shallow depths,
particularly salivary-gland tumors,
Slow neutrons are receiving attention for
“capture therapy” applications such as BNCT.
Boron-loaded, tumor-seeking pharmaceuticals
are administered to the patient, the tumor area
is then flooded with slow neutrons which are se~
lectively absorbed by the boron causing more ra-
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Ch.1: INTRODUCTION
diation damage to the tumor tissue. Critical to
success is the tumor-specificity of the pharma-
ceutical. While reactors are being tried, ulti-
mate clinical implementation is expected to re-
quire accelerator-produced neutrons. For the fa-
vored {p-Li} reaction, a beam of 2.5 MeV protons
of average current 10-100 mA is envisioned.
Accelerators for fast-neutron therapy D-T
generators were prolific sources of 14 MeV neu-
trons for many years. Few remain today because
‘of maintenance issues and general acceptance that
higher energy neutrons are needed. Cyclotrons
producing neutrons via {p-Be} or {d-Be} reac-
tions in the 60-70 MeV range were employed in
1970-80. Of these, only the U. Washington ma-
chine remains in operation today. Also operat-
ing today are the neutron therapy programs at
Fermilab (60-MeV protons deffected onto a neu-
‘on target partway down the injector linac), and
Faure, South Africa (200 MeV separated sector
‘eyclotron).
An innovative fast-neutron therapy system,
designed and built by Henry Blosser, has been
recently commissioned at Detroit's Harper-Grace
Hospital. It consists of a superconducting 60 MeV
deuteron cyclotron mounted on the outside of a
vertical ring that can rotate about a patient at its
center, thus providing isocentric beam delivery.
‘The accelerated beam strikes a target fixed at the
‘outer radius of the cyclotron, and no beam extrac-
tion is needed,
q-meson therapy The three meson factories
(LAMPF, PSI, TRIUMF) all conducted medical
trials with x~ mesons. While many hundreds
of patients were treated in 1970-80, with innova-
tive pion transport systems, the clinical results and
high cost did not indicate promise for this modal-
ity, All three programs have been discontinued.
1.6.12.2 Radioisotopes
Radioactive isotopes are widely used in both diag-
nostic and therapeutic applications. Tracers, iso-
topes either alone or attached to physiologically
relevant molecules, are used for functional imag-
ing, detecting activity or hyperactivity concentra-
tions in tissues. Imaging is possible using positron
emitters (PET) such as 11-C, 18-F, or even with
single photon emitters and suitably collimated
gamma-ray detectors (SPECT). PET isotopes are
short-lived, and are produced with small single- or
dual-particle (H or H/D) cyclotrons (<18 MeV)
close to the end-use clinic,‘Sec.1.6: GLOSSARY OF ACCELERATOR TYPES
While isotopes best suited for diagnostics
emit hard gammas to minimize absorption in the
body, alpha and beta emitters are preferred for
therapeutic applications, limiting dose to the vol-
ume close to the isotopic application. The isotopic
dose is applied either by uptake (e.g. iodine in
thyroid treatments) of injected material or by sur-
gical implantation of radioactive seeds (referred
to as Brachytherapy).
‘Though many of the isotopes used are reactor-
produced (e.g. 99-Mo / 99m-Tc), many are
made with proton beams of 35 MeV or lower
from cyclotrons (e.g. 201-TI, 123-1, 67-Ga, 111-
In), Commercial production is concentrated in a
few centers with elaborate distribution networks
to provide rapid delivery of short-lived isotopes.
Research isotopes are also produced at higher-
energy accelerators (200-800 MeV protons in
TRIUMF, BLIP (AGS-Brookhaven) and until re-
cently LAMPF}.
Accelerators for isotope production [11] PET
isotopes are most commonly produced by (p,n) re-
actions with low-energy (11-15 MeV) cyclotron
beams. The commercially-available cyclotrons
are compact, self-shielded, highly reliable, and
totally automated. Targetry and autochemistry
units are usually included, providing complete
hands-off preparation of isotopes in a form ready
for administration, Manufacturers include CTI
(Knoxville, TN), IBA (Belgium) and Ebco (Van-
couver).
Small cyclotron technology has been revolu-
tionized by the development of high-quality H~
ion sources, which solved the thermal, mechani-
cal and activation problems associated with beam.
extraction (See Sec.1.6.4). For energies up to 30
MeV, magnetic fields in the cyclotron can be high,
leading to compact structures, but for higher ener-
sgies the magnetic field must be reduced to avoid
Lorentz stripping of the H~ ions. TRIUMF (500
MeV) has a maximum field of $ kG.
Beam currents for the PET isotope systems
are modest (e.g. 50 A). The higher-onergy cy-
clotrons used for production of longer-lived iso-
topes push the limits of current for this tech-
nology (up to 1 mA). New technologies are be-
ing explored for isotope production, including
use of other beams such as deuterons and 3-He,
with RFQ drivers (SAIC - Fermilab), and ion cy-
clotrons.
Advanced radiography ‘The advent of high
fluxes, high quality x-rays from synchrotron ra-
32
diation sources has opened up opportunities for
diagnostics with monochromatic x-rays [12]. A
notable example is the coronary angiography pro-
gram started at SSRL and now ongoing at NSLS,
in which an exposure taken with x-rays just above
and just below the K edge are subtracted, produc-
ing detailed image of coronary arteries with little
contrast agent,
Relevant x-ray energies are in the 10's of keV
range. Storage rings with e~ or e+ beam energies
225 GeV are adequate for this purpose. For the
lower energy rings, wigglers with high magnetic
fields are required.
References
[1] Waldemar Scharf, Biomedical Particle Accelera-
tors, AIP Press (1993)
(2] WAH. Scharf, 0.A. Chomicki, Physica Medica XII
(1996) 199
[3] CJ. Karzmark, C.S. Numan, E. Tanabe, Medical
Electron Accelerators, McGraw-Hill (1993)
[4] EM. Khan, The Physics of Radiation Therapy,
2nd Ed., Williams & Wilkins (1994)
[5] RR, Wilson, Radiology 47 (1946) 487
[6] Ion Beams in Tumor Therapy, U. Linz, ed, Chap-
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on Hadrontherapy (1993), Elsevier Excerpta Med
‘ca, International Congress Series 1077 (1994)
[8] W-T. Chu, B.A. Ludewigt, TR. Renner, RST 64
(1992) 2055
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Proc. Ist Int, Symp. on Hadrontherapy, p.377
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tonal Academy Press (1995)
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1.6.13 Microtron [1]
PH, Debenham, DOE
Classical microtron In the classical microtron,
first proposed by Veksler [2], an rf cavity with an
accelerating gap is placed in a uniform magnetic
field B, (See Fig.1.) Resonant acceleration is
achieved for electrons that cross the gap near the
resonant rf phase ¢, and whose orbit circumfer-
ences are integral multiples of the rf wavelength
2. The resonance condition is
Vv cos b =vAB @
where V is the peak gap voltage, and 1. is the or-
bit circumference increment. The harmonic num-
ber v is typically 1 or 2.Magnet
LS
RF Cavity
Figure 1: A classical microtron and a racetrack mi-
crotron,
AF Lina’
Classical microtrons supply pulsed electron
beams at energies from 5 to 45 MeV. Practi-
cal cavity designs limit the resonant energy gain
V cosy to approximately 1 MeV. Condition (1)
then demands a low-field magnet (< 0.3 T), which
limits the maximum energy. Cavity cooling lim-
itations necessitate pulsed operation, Like other
resonant accelerators, the microtron enjoys phase
focusing, which leads to good energy stability and
low energy spread.
Racetrack microtron [3, 4] The classical mi-
crotron’s single magnet is replaced by two “end
magnets” in the racetrack microtron (RTM), and
the cavity is replaced by a linac. (See Fig.l.)
RIMs obey condition (1) and are phase-focused.
Resonant energy gains of 10 MeV or more, c.w.
operation, and magnetic fields above 1 T are pos-
sible, The largest is MAMI [5] at U. Mainz, three
cascaded RTMs producing a c.w. beam of 855-
MeV electrons with horizontal and vertical emit-
tance of 10 nm-rad and 0.7 nm-rad respectively,
and 50 keV energy spread. Each end magnet in
the last stage of MAMI weighs 450 tons. CEBAF
‘can be considered a variation based on the RTM
principle.
References
U1] S.P. Kapitza, VIN. Melekhin, The Microtron, Har-
‘wood (1978)
[2] VIL. Veksler, Proc. USSR Acad. Sci. 43 (1944)
346; V.L. Veksler, J. Phys. USSR 9 (1945) 153
(3] RE. Rand, Recirculating Electron Accelerators,
‘Harwood (1984)
[4] MAD. Wilson, PAC 91,
(5] H. Herminghaus et . 1990 Linac
Conf. (1991) 362; Also see MAMI website at
-nutpyfwvww.kph.uni-mainz.de/,
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Ch.1: INTRODUCTION
1.6.14 utp Colliders
R Palmer, BNL
The idea of muon colliders was introduced by
Skrinsky et al [1] and Neuffer [2] and has been
studied in more detail since 1993 [3, 4, 5]. Muon
Colliders are promising, but they are far less de-
veloped than their hadron or e¥e~ counterparts.
No muon collider has ever been built.
‘The main advantages of muons, as opposed to
electrons, for a lepton collider are:
© Synchrotron radiation, that forces high en-
ergy electron colliders to be linear, is negligi-
ble. ‘Thus a muon collider can be circular and
smaller.
* Because the muon collider can be circular,
the muon bunches can collide many times. The
number of such collisions is limited by the
muon lifetime and is related to the average
bending field in the muon collider ring, with
Neolttons © 150 Bayo [Tesla}.
« Synchrotron radiation as bunches cross each
other (beamstrahlung, Sec.2,6.2) is supressed
by the higher mass of the muon. This allows
the usc of larger bunches of muons and reduces
the energy spread of the interactions.
« s-channel Higgs production is enhanced by a
factor of (m/me)® = 40000. This combined
with the lower energy spreads allow more pre-
cise determination of Higgs masses, widths and
branching ratios,
But there are problems with the use of muons:
‘© Muons are obtained from the decay of pions,
made by higher energy protons impinging on
a target. ‘The proton source must have a high
intensity, and very efficient capture of the pions
is required.
‘© The selection of fully polarized muons is in-
consistent with the requirements for efficient
collection. Polarizations only up to 50% are
practical, and loss of luminosity is in-
evitable (¢*e™ linear colliders can polatize the
7's up to 85 %),
© Muons made with large emittance must be
cooled quickly before they decay. Conven-
tional synchrotron, electron, or stochastic cool-
ing are too slow. Ionization cooling (Sec.2.8.4)
is the only clear possibility, but does not cool 10
very low emittances.
‘* Due to the short lifetime, conventional syn-
chrotron acceleration is too slow. Recirculating.
accelerators or pulsed synchrotrons are needed.Sec.1.6: GLOSSARY OF ACCELERATOR TYPES
PAL atarch PROTON SOURCE
‘eons
} PRODUCTION
POLARZATION LP SELECTION
Py ‘aa « Cellar
secon
fionzaTion cota
20 Stage
210 ater
TOTALS Ge, ee
Figure 1: Overview of a4 TeV Muon Collider.
‘¢ Because they decay while stored in the col~
lider, muons radiate the ring and detector with
decay electrons. Shielding is essential and
backgrounds will be high.
Radiation hazard from neutrino radiation,
proportional to E%, is an issue when center of
mass energies > 3 TeV.
The basic parameters of a 4 TeV collider [5]
and a 0.5 TeV demonstration collider are given in
‘Tab.1. The 4 TeV collider is shown schematically
in Figs.1 and 2,
‘The main components of the 4 TeV collider
could be:
‘© A proton source with KAON [6] like parame-
ters (30 GeV, 10" protons per pulse, at 15 Hz).
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‘A liquid metal target surrounded by a 20 T
hybrid solenoid to make and capture pions.
‘* A5TT solenoidal channel to allow the pions to
decay into muons, with rf cavities to decelerate
the fast ones that come first, while accelerating
the slower ones that come later.
A solenoidal snake and collimator to select
the momentum, and thus the polarization, of the
muons,
© A sequence of ionization cooling stages,
each consisting of: (@) energy loss material
in a strong focusing environment for trans-
verse cooling; (ji) linac reacceleration and (iii)
lithium wedges in dispersive environments for
cooling in momentum space.%
EE WY hese
i
\
ju.
Figure 2: Layout of the collider and accelerator rings.
‘Table 1: Parameters of Collider Rings
c-ofmEnergy (ev) 4S
‘Beam energy (TeV) 225
Repetitionrate (Hz) 152.5
p-driver energy (GeV) 30 24
Protons per pulse 104 10
’s per bunch (10!) Fs 4
Bunches ofeachsign 2 1
Beam power(MW) 387
y (mum-mrad) 50 90
Circumference (km) 8 «13
6° at IP (mm) 3 8
@, (mm) 3 8
oy at IP (ym) 28 17
£(cm7s"!) 10% _ 10°
© A linac and/or recirculating linac pre~
accelerator [5], followed by a sequence of
pulsed field synchrotron accelerators using SC
linacs for rf.
# Anisochronous collider ring with locally cor-
rected low beta insertion.
References
[1] VV. Patkhomchuk, A.N, Skrinsky, Proc. 12th Int.
Conf. on High Energy Acc. (1983) 485; A. N.
Skrinsky, V.V. Parkhomchuk, Sov. J. of Nucl.
Phys. 12, (1981)3
(2) D. Neuffer, Proc. 12th Int. Conf. on High Energy
‘Acc. (1983) 481; PA 14 (1983) 15
{3] D.V. Neuffer, R.B. Palmer, EPAC 94; M. Tigner,
AIP Proc. 279 (1993) 1
(4] RB. Palmer et al, Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.)
SIA (1996)
(5] uty" collider, A Feasibility Study, BNL-
52503, FermiLab-Conf-96/092, LBNL-38946;
Proc. 1996 DPF/DPB Summer Study on High
Energy Physics, Snowmass
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Ch.1: INTRODUCTION
[6] KAON Factory Proposal, Accelerator Design
Study Report, TRIUMF report
1.6.15 Pulsed High Voltage Devices [1, 2]
4. Nation, Cornell U.
Pulsed High Voltage devices were originated by
1.C. Martin of AWRE in England, He used a Marx
generator to impulse charge a water dielectric
transmission line as a lumped parameter capaci-
tor. The discharge of the transmission line, now
as a distributed line, into a vacuum diode reduced
the pulse duration, compared to the charging time,
by an order of magnitude and hence increased the
available power correspondingly. Electron beam
‘was produced by a field emission cathode. Sim-
ple systems of this type produce output pulses of
1-10 MV with pulse durations of order 20-100 ns,
at impedances of a few to 50 9, depending on
the dielectric used in the pulse line. More recent
extensions of the technology produced ~30 MV
output voltage, sub-P. impedances, and power lev-
els of tens of TW. Applications of this technology
include x-ray generation and inertial confinement
fusion,
Marx generators/Pulse lines The typical Marx
Generator uses plus/minus charged columns of
capacitors which are charged in parallel and dis-
charged in series, through triggered spark gaps,
into a transmission line. ‘The charging and dis-
charging of the transmission line occurs in ~1 is
and < 0.1 us respectively. The transmission lines
use deionized water or oil as the insulating ma-
terial, Breakdown strengths of the dielectrics are
~100 and 300 kV/em respectively for pulse dura-
tions ~1 pus and increase slowly (oc t~1/8 for sub-
ius pulses) with decreasing pulse durations. The
transmission line is usually connected to the diode
by an overvolted gas or water spark gap. Mod-
est changes in the pulse duration and the genera-
tor output impedance are achieved through the use
of tapered transmission lines connecting the pulse
line to the load. In sub- impedance generators
the basic Marx generator-pulse line confugura-
tion may be repeated many times (¢.g., PBFA Z,
generator uses 36 modules run in parallel). In
cases where very short duration high power pulses
are required, the rise time of the power pulse is
decreased by the the use of transfer capacitors.
‘The transfer capacitor consists of a water dielec-
tric section used as an intermediate low induc-
tance unit located between the Marx generator
and the transmission line, The fast rising volt-Sec.
age on the water capacitor leads to the forma-
tion of multiple channel discharges, and hence
low series impedance, in the switch. In ultra
high power devices the load is connected to the
source by a Magnetically Insulated Transmission
Line (MITL). In an MITL the feed is an evacu-
ated transmission line in which the wave electric
field causes electron emission from the negative
line conductor, but does not result in a short circuit
of the line since the current in the wave produces
a sufficiently large transverse magnetic field be-
tween the line conductors to prevent electron gap
closure,
‘Transmission line loads The load depends on
the application. Three commonly used loads are:
(@ Vacuum diodes with field emission cathodes;
i) Diodes, with either foil or foiless anodes
which are used to produce electron or ion beams;
and (iii) Z Pinches.
The above arrangements are commonly used
for hard x-ray production, high power microwave
generation, pellet heating and for the generation
of intense soft x-ray pulses. Recent experiments
at Sandia have reported the production of 2 MJ
x-ray pulses with peak powers of 200 TW.
Diodes naturally generate electron beam cur-
rents when a suitable polarity high voltage pulse
is applied across the diode, With areverse voltage
pulse ion beams may be generated if the electron
current can be suppressed. This is accomplished
by applying an external transverse magnetic field
in the diode such that the electron excursion from
the cathode is less than the anode cathode gap
spacing. Under these conditions energy may be
efficiently transferred to an ion beam, Proton and
other low atomic number ion beams have been
successfully produced,
Inductive Addition Induction accelerators are
discussed in Sec.1.6.8. High voltage pulses for
radiography ot for use in electron beam injectors
are frequently produced by the use of a single cen-
tral cathode conductor as the secondary of several
induction modules. The voltage of the cathode
is then equal to the sum of the secondary voltage
outputs of each of the modules; i.e. the conduc-
tor adds the voltages from the modules. For hard
x-ray production, which scales as I-V2*, the high
voltage output is essential for efficient use of the
converter. The Hermes Ill accelerator at Sandia,
e.g,, uses 20 1-MV induction modules to produce
2 20 MeV electron beam in a single diode. For
electron beam production the increased injector
GLOSSARY OF ACCELERATOR TYPES
36
energy allows larger space charge limited beam
currents, and reduced beam divergence.
Voltage and current fluctuations For many
pulse power applications, square voltage and cur-
‘rent waveforms are of secondary importance com-
pared to the power output. This is especially true
in multi-TW devices where the low impedance
of the generator causes a relatively slow increase
in the load current, For example, the PBFA Z
driver produces a 2.8 MV, 5 MA, 100 ns pulse
power pulse to a Z pinch. The voltage fluctu-
ations are ~ 25% and the current rise time is
comparable to the pulse half width. The device
is well matched, however, to the dynamics of the
imploding Z pinch. The fluctuations in the output
of higher impedance devices is, however, much
lower and a degree of tuning is possible, espe-
ally in the beam production mode of operation,
Pulse transformers Many of the above devices
‘are not well suited to high repetition rate op-
eration, except in burst modes. For applica-
tions requiring more modest beam currents, (¢.g.
Klystrons), pulse transformers offer the preferred
modulator configuration, Thyratron switching
permits repetition rate use more readily than that
achievable with pressurized gas switches. Pulse