This paper reports on the feasibility study of a proton Super-Conducting
Linac (SCL) as a driver gor the High-Flux Breader Reactor (HFBR) at Brookhaven
National Laboratory (BNL). The Linac operates in Continuos Wave (CW) mode to
produce an average 10 MW of beam power. The Linac energy is 1.0 GeV. The
average proton beam intensity is 10 mA.Comment: 3 page

Alessi, J.

Raparia, D.

Ruggiero, A. G.

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This paper reports on the feasibility study of a proton Super-Conducting Linac (SCL) as a driver for the High-Flux Breeder Reactor (HFBR) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). The Linac operates in Continuous Wave (CW) mode to produce an average 10 MW of beam power. The Linac beam energy is 1.0 GeV. The average proton beam intensity in exit is 10 mA

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l Submitted to: XX Int’l Linac Conference BNL-6742.6 * Aug. 21-25, 2000, Monterey, CA A SUPER-CONDUCTING LINAC DRIVER FOR THE EIFBR* J. Ales& D. Raparia, A.G. &q&em, BNL, PO Box 5000, Upton, NY 11973, USA At&W3 This paper reports on the feasibility study of a proton Super-Conducting Linac (SCL) as a driver for the Iiigh- Flux Breader Reactor (HFBR) at Brookhaven National Isdma~ry (BJ$L). The Linac operates in Continues Wave (CW) mode to produce an average 10 MW of beam power. The Linac beam energy is 1.0 GeV. The average proton beam intensity in exit is 10 mA, 1 INTRODUCTION A proton SCL has been proposed to drive an internal solid target placed at the core of the de-commissioned HFBR at BNL. The purpose is to take advantage of the HFBR instrumentation and facility for the generation of a continuous, high-intensity neutron source. The SCL driver accelerates protons to 1 GeV, operates in CW mode, and generates an average beam power of 10 MWatt. The average beam current is 10 mA, and the total length about 300 m. The Linac is made of three parts: a Front-End, that is a 15 mA ion source, followed by a 5 MeV RFQ, a room temperature 150-MeV Drift-Tube Linac (DTL), and the SCL proper. This is made of two sections: the Medium-Energy Section (MES) that accelerates protons to 300 MeV, and the High-Energy Section (HES) that accelerates to 1 GeV. The selected operating frequency is 805 MHz. A spreadsheet program has been used for the design and cost estimate. The design has shown that the accelerator is feasible, can be built in a relatively short period of few years, and has an estimated total cost of about 300 M$. 2 REQUIREMENTS OF THE DRIVER The accelerator driver of the HFBR facility is a proton SCL about 300 m long with a straight-line geometry. The proton beam aims directly to the core, that is the center of the HFBR facility. The actual location of the accelerator that does not interfere with other facilities and utilities remains to be investigated. The SCL requirements are: l-GeV Proton Energy, lo- MWatt Beam Power, and CW Mode of Operation. The Beam Current at the exit of the SCL is 10 mA. Acceleration of positive-ions (protons) is assumed. A preliminary design has shown that the accelerator is feasible, can be build in a relatively short period of few years, and has a total cost of about 300-400 M$. A spread-sheet program [i] was used for the design and cost estimate, developed at the time of the design of the Accelerator for Tritium Production (APT) Linac [2, 41. The requirements of the Linac driving the HFBR are similar to those of a Linac already investigated for a different type of application {Energy Amplifier) 133. We have based our estimates essentially on that design. The accelerator is made of four major parts, shown in Figure 1: the Front-End, a room-temperature Low-Energy. Section, the SCL proper, and the Transport to the Target. Front-End MES SCE Target _ ., .t.;:, : :;: ;‘-‘., ~.‘;,.y.‘~.:;~, ~:.,,~-;,~~-.I,..‘;:‘. : ; y, Low-Energy HES Transport Section Figure 1. Layout of the l-GeV, l&MW SCL The Front-End is made of an Ion Source placed on a platform at 35-50 kVolt. It has a continuous beam output of 15 mA. It is followed by a 201.25-m RFQ which locus, bunch and accelerate the beam to about 3-5 MeV. At the exit, the beam bunches are compressed sufficiently to be squeezed within the rf buckets of the Low-Energy Section which operates at 402.5 or 805 MHz. Because of the relatively low beam current, and the absence of stringent requirements on the beam emittance and momentum spread, space-charge effects are not expected to play a relevant role. As a consequence, no major beam losses are expected in the RFQ. A transmission of 80% is conservatively assumed, and the beam intensity at the exit of the RFQ is 12 mA. We allow another 80% overall transmission efficiency, that is a 20% beam loss, during the transfer of the beam through the rest of the accelerator, all the way down to the Target. At the exit of the SCL, and on the Target, the beam intensity is then IO mA. 3 LINAC DESIGN In a proton Linac there is a large variation of beam velocity, in our case from 6 = 0.08 at 3 MeV to p = 0.875 at 1 GeV. The Low-Energy section cannot be made of half-wavelength super-conducting rf cavities, though quarter-wavelength super-conducting linear accelerators do exist and are successfully operational. We prefer to adopt here a room-temperature Low-Energy Section, made for instance of a conventional DTL similar to the * Work pcrfonncd under the auspices of the US Dcpartmcnt of Energy one operating as injector to the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron at BNL. We shall also adopt a 150 MeV energy for this section to ease the design and manufacturing of the rf cavities in the early part of the SCL proper. Other solutions are of course possible, and they should be examined in a more careful and detailed design. We shall not attempt here to say more about the Front-End and the Low-Energy Section, except noting that likely the cost of both together is in the range 50- 100 M$ (year 2000). Thus, the SCL proper begins at 150 MeV and ends at 1 GeV. The corresponding variation of velocity is from p = 0.5066 to fi = 0.8750. Since the length of the rf cavity cells is L = @J2, it should in principle vary between 9.5 and 16.4 cm, with h = 37.3 cm, the rf wavelength at 805 MHz, the chosen operating rf frequency of the SCL. To optimize the accelerating gradient, and the transit time factor, it would be desirable to manufacture cavities with cells varying in length as the beam accelerates. This may not be economical, and we prefer [2-4] to manufacture if cavities all with the same cell length. This simplifies the design, and reduces the cost, at the expense of a modest reduction of the transit time factor. Here we assume that the SCL is divided in two subsections each operating at two intermediate values of velocity. A super-conducting MES, from 150 to 300 MeV, has the cavity cell length adjusted to the intermediate value l3 = 0.525. The HES, from 300 MeV to 1 GeV, is designed with the intermediate value l3 = 0.69. The layout of the SCL is described in [2, 31. For more details see also the related paper [5l. where a SCL operating in pulsed mode is described. it is made of a sequence of identical periods each consisting of a Warm Insertion for the location of focussing quadrupoles, steering magnets, vacuum pumps, and instrumentation, and of a Cryo-Module including a number of cavities all with the same number of individual cells. One or more cavities are powered by a rf coupler connected to Klystrons, the rf power source. The general parameters of the SGL are given in Table 1. Cost and other parameters used for our estimate are shown in Table 2. The overall design is summarized in Table 3. The cost items are quoted in year 2000 dollars. There are four cells in one cavity, each 9.78 and 12.85 cm long, respectively in the MES and HES. There are also six and eight cavities in one cryostat, separated by 32 cm from each other. The cold-to-warm transitions at both ends of the cryostat are 30 cm long. With a l-meter long warm insertion, this makes a period 5.546 and 7.951 m long, respectively in the MES and HES. To focus the transverse motion of the beam a FODO sequence of quadrupole magnets is assumed, with a quadrupole located every period. We have also assumed a cryogenic temperature of the rf cavities of 2 “K. One Klystron groups together all the cavities in one Cryo-Module. The power of one Klystron is divided in 6 or 8 rf couplers, one for each cavity. To avoid saturation of the Klystrons, a 35% rf power contingency has been included above the requirement for the normal mode of operation. .l L . c Table 3. Summar of the 1.0~GeV SCL Desi n 61 - . out Cell Reference &, I 0.6526 0.875i 0.524 0.6s (*) Including 35% rf power contingency. REFERENCES [l] The program is available by making request to one of the Authors. [2] A. G. Ruggiero, “Design Considerations on a Proton Superconducting Linac”. BNL Report 623 12. August 1995. [3] A.G. Ruggiero, “A Superconducting Linac as the Driver of the Energy Amplifier”. BNL 63527, UC-414 AGS/AD/97- 1, October 1996. [4] A Feasibility Study of the API Superconducting Linac. Edited by K.C.D. Ghan. April 1996. Los Alamos National Laboratory, LA-UR-95-4045. [5J D. Raparia, A.G. Ruggiero, “A Super-Conducting Linac Injector to the BNL-AGS”. Contribution to this Conference. 

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