Study of effects of failure of beamline elements and their compensation in CW superconducting linac

TL;DR

This paper investigates the impact of failures in RF cavities and solenoids in a CW superconducting linac, analyzing their effects on beam stability and proposing compensation methods to ensure smooth operation.

Contribution

It provides a detailed analysis of failure effects and introduces compensation strategies for RF cavity and solenoid failures in a CW superconducting linac.

Findings

Failure of RF cavity causes beam mismatch and emittance growth.

Compensation techniques can restore beam parameters after element failure.

Study enhances reliability and stability of high-intensity proton linacs.

Abstract

Project-X is the proposed high intensity proton facility to be built at Fermilab, US. First stage of the Project-X consists of superconducting linac which will be operated in continuous wave (CW) mode to accelerate the beam from 2.5 MeV to 3 GeV. The operation at CW mode puts high tolerances on the beam line components, particularly on radiofrequency (RF) cavity. The failure of beam line elements at low energy is very critical as it results in mis-match of the beam with the following sections due to different beam parameters than designed parameter. It makes the beam unstable which causes emittance dilution, and ultimately results in beam losses. In worst case, it could affect the reliability of the machine and may lead to the shutdown of the Linac to replace the failed elements. Thus, it is important to study these effects and their compensation to get smooth beam propagation in linac. This paper describes the results of study performed for the failure of RF cavity & solenoid in SSR0 section.