Longitudinal beam dynamic design of 500 kW beam power upgrade for CSNS-II RCS

Purpose The accelerator of the China Spallation Neutron Source(CSNS)consists of an 80 MeV H-linac and a 1.6 GeV rapid cycling synchrotron(RCS).The design beam power is 100 kW,which has been reached.In the upgrade project(CSNS-II),the beam power will be upgraded to 500 kW by increasing the linac energy to 300 MeV and adding a dual harmonic RF system in the RCS.In order to alleviate space charge effect and improve beam quality,the longitudinal beam dynamic of CSNS-II RCS dual harmonic RF system has been studied.Methods According to the longitudinal beam dynamic characteristics of CSNS-II RCS at different acceleration stages,the longitudinal emittance,bunching factor,momentumfilling factor and bunch length are studied and optimized in this paper.Results and conclusions The optimized bunching factor is greatly improved,and the tune spread caused by space charge effect is greatly reduced in CSNS-II.With the suppressed space charge effects,the beam loss can be well controlled in CSNS-II RCS.

Effective improvement of beam lifetime based on radiofrequency phase modulation at the HLS-II storage ring

A radiofrequency(RF)phase modulation method is applied to the Hefei Light Source II storage ring to deeply investigate its longitudinal beam characteristics and improve the beam lifetime.A theoretical analytical model and corresponding experimental measurements of single bunch length and island phenomena are examined.From a series of online machine experiments,we demonstrate that the suitable phase modulation amplitude is 0.02 rad,corresponding to an optimum modulation frequency ranging from 19.6 to 20.7 kHz of the RF system.Furthermore,the overall beam lifetime can be increased by a factor of 2.38 as a result of the beam dilution effect.

Super-resolution longitudinally polarized light needle achieved by tightly focusing radially polarized beams

Based on the vector diffraction theory, a super-resolution longitudinally polarized optical needle with ultra-long depth of focus(DOF) is generated by tightly focusing a radially polarized beam that is modulated by a self-designed ternary hybrid(phase/amplitude) filter(THF). Both the phase and the amplitude patterns of THF are judiciously optimized by the versatile particle swarm optimization(PSO) searching algorithm. For the focusing configuration with a combination of a high numerical aperture(NA) and the optimized sine-shaped THFs, an optical needle with the full width at half maximum(FWHM) of 0.414λ and the DOF of 7.58λ is accessed, which corresponds to an aspect ratio of 18.3. The demonstrated longitudinally polarized super-resolution light needle with high aspect ratio opens up broad applications in high-density optical data storage, nano-photolithography, super-resolution imaging and high-efficiency particle trapping.

Theoretical study of a dual harmonic system and its application to the CSNS/RCS

Dual harmonic systems have been widely used in high intensity proton synchrotrons to suppress the space charge effect, as well as reduce the beam loss. To investigate the longitudinal beam dynamics in a dual rf system, the potential well, the sub-buckets in the bunch and the multi-solutions of the phase equation are studied theoretically in this paper. Based on these theoretical studies, optimization of bunching factor and rf voltage waveform are made for the dual harmonic rf system in the upgrade phase of the China Spallation Neutron Source Rapid Cycling Synchrotron （CSNS/RCS）. In the optimization process, the simulation with space charge effect is done using a newly developed code. C-SCSIM.