Transport of DC and Bunched Beams through a 25 Mv Folded Tandem Accelerator

Abstract

Studies of beam transport through the planned ORNL 25 MV folded tandem accelerator demonstrate efficient utilization of phase-space acceptance and the feasibility of injecting buched beams from the tandem accelerator into the Oak Ridge Isochronous Cyclotron (ORIC). Use of a 180° bending magnet in the terminal provides outstanding charge state selection and permits better control of the high-energy beam transport than has previously been possible in coventional tandem acceler ators. Time spreads introduced in bunched beams by the 180° magnet are kept within a 6° RF acceptance window at ORIC provided the beam has a crossover in the center of the 180° magnet. Ion masses from 12 to 240 amu, preinjection energies from 150 to 500 keV and terminal voltages from 7.5 to 25 MV were studied for dc beams and beams bunched by various modulation techniques.