ICAP 2002 Abstracts and Posters

Simulation and Design of a High-Brightness Merging Multi-Beamlet Injector


Abstract

In a merging multi-beamlet injector, a large number of beamlets are accelerated separately and then merged to form a single beam. This design offers a number of potential advantages over a monolithic single beam injector, such as a smaller transverse footprint, more control over the shaping and aiming of the beam, and more flexibility in the choice of ion sources. A drawback however is a potentially larger emittance resulting from the merging of the beamlets. We describe the simulations of a merging multi-beamlet injector, leading to a design that produces a 0.5 Amp, 1.6 MeV beam of K+ ions, and that can meet the low normalized emittance requirement of less than 1 pi-mm-mrad. The design was developed and optimized using the particle simulation and envelope solver of the WARP code.


D. P. Grote, E. Henestroza, J. W. Kwan


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