RFQ Development for FETS

RFQ Development for FETS

Simon Jolly

Imperial College

16th December 2009

FETS RFQ Development

• FETS will utilise a 4m-long, 324 MHz four-vane RFQ channel, consisting of four resonantly coupled sections.

• RFQ focuses beam from LEBT and accelerates it to 3MeV, ready for Chopper/MEBT.

• 4-vane cold model showed agreement between CST simulations and bulk RF properties.

• Previous beam dynamics simulations, based on field maps produced with a field approximation code, provide a baseline for the new design.

• Novel design method currently under development to combine CAD and electromagnetic modeling with beam dynamics simulations in GPT.

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Previous RFQ Design Method

• RFQ parameterised by a and m parameters for modulations, for vane radius and L for cell length (see following slide).

• These parameters optimised by iteratively solving Kapchinsky-Teplyakov (K-T) equations.

• Alan wrote custom code (RFQSIM) to generate RFQ parameters for both 4-rod and 4-vane RFQ’s: results compare favourably to other codes (eg. PARMTEQM).

• RFQSIM used to successfully design ISIS 665 keV RFQ.

• These parameters handed directly to Frankfurt for RFQ manufacture.

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RFQ Design Parameters• RFQ parameterised by 3 (+ 1)

parameters:– a and m parameters define

modulation depth.– r0 defines the mean vane

distance from the beam axis and is derived from a and m.

gives the radius of curvature (vane) or mean radius (rod).

– L defines the length of each cell (half sinusoidal period).

• For field approximation method, these values generated for idealised RFQ field.


L

a

r0 (mm)ma

0 (mm)

L/2

rod axis

beam axis

FETS Integrated RFQ Design

• Would like to have a method of designing RFQ where all steps are integrated:– Engineering design.– EM modelling.– Beam dynamics simulations.

• Integrating design steps allows us to characterise effects of:– Fringe fields and higher order modes.– Particular CNC machining techniques and

options on beam dynamics.


RFQ Design Stages

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RFQ Parameters (from TUP066, LINAC06)


CAD Modelling• Autodesk Inventor CAD

package used to model RFQ cold model (and a lot more besides…).

• RFQ parameters stored in Excel spreadsheet.

• Inventor can dynamically link to parameters in Excel spreadsheet:– Change spreadsheet

parameters and model updates automatically.

– Use spline to approximate sinusoidal vane shape: only 2% difference.


CAD Sketches With Vane Modulations


Vane Modulation Sketch

Vane Profile Sketch

RFQ CAD Modelling

• Autodesk Inventor CAD package used to model RFQ cold model (and a lot more besides…).

• Inventor can dynamically link to parameters in Excel spreadsheet:– Change spreadsheet

parameters and model updates automatically.

– Use spline to approximate sinusoidal vane shape: only 2% difference.


CST MicroWave Studio E-field Modelling

• Four vanes from inventor imported by a macro.

• Model cut into 6 sections (5 plus matching section) for ease of modelling and to increase CST mesh density.

• Potentials and boundary conditions defined in the macro.

• Run solver to produce electrostatic field map.


Beam Dynamics Simulations

• GPT used for beam dynamics simulations.

• Import electrostatic field map from text file produced by CST.

• Integration algorithm traces particle movements through time-varying field.

• Compare results to field map from optimised RFQ field expansion.


Full RFQ Simulation: Z-Y, 5 bunches


Full RFQ Simulation: Z-E, full beam


CST Mesh Density

• A lot of effort on optimising meshing in CST.• Need a field map that gives transmission results

similar to RFQSIM.• Important to quantify whether we can model

Electrostatic field of vanes with enough accuracy in CST to measure beam dynamics.

• Non-trivial: modelling 30mm x 30mm x 4m volume with micron accuracy.

• Changes in beam dynamics MUST be unaffected by coarseness of CST field meshing so we can compare to optimised field.


Varying CST Mesh (640 points)


Varying CST Mesh (4700 points)


Particle Tracking For High/Low Mesh


First CST Field Map

• Produced with CST, tracked with GPT:– Transmission = 99%

– Mean energy = 1.31 MeV

– Energy rms = 261 keV


Best CST Field Map• Five sections reconstructed

into whole RFQ, high mesh density, tangential boundary:– Transmission = 100%– Mean energy = 3.03 MeV– Energy rms = 12 keV


Varying Mesh Density Results


Transverse Field Map Comparison


Transverse Field Map Comparison


Conclusions• CAD modelling process now pretty mature: can model vane, rod

and “vod” with parameter adjustment on-the-fly (everything except no. of cells).

• Models import into CST and output to GPT: beam dynamics simulations well understood.

• Need to ensure we’re not re-inventing the wheel: RFQ’s have been designed before without this process.

• Next steps:– Output CAD model to Comsol, repeat process from CST to

produce more easily adaptable field map (tighter integration with Inventor and Matlab).

– Compare CST coarse, fine, Comsol and RFQSIM field maps point-by-point to determine whether discrepancies are a result of poor field mapping or more accurate modelling of vane tips.

• Need to ensure CAM systems will understand our CAD models so we can manufacture what we’re designing (this is the point…).


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RFQ Development for FETS