IsoDAR@Yemilab: Preliminary Design Report -- Volume I: Cyclotron Driver

TL;DR

This paper presents the preliminary design of the IsoDAR cyclotron driver, a specialized accelerator producing a high-intensity proton beam for neutrino research, including innovative features like vortex motion utilization.

Contribution

It introduces the first purpose-built cyclotron employing vortex motion for high-intensity proton production in neutrino experiments.

Findings

Design of a 60 MeV, 10 mA proton cyclotron

Implementation of RFQ direct axial injection

Potential for broad particle physics research

Abstract

This Preliminary Design Report (PDR) describes the IsoDAR electron-antineutrino source in two volumes which are mostly site-independent and describe the cyclotron driver providing a 60 MeV, 10 mA proton beam (this Volume); and the medium energy beam transport line (MEBT) and target (Volume II). The IsoDAR driver and target will produce about 1.15e23 electron-antineutrinos over five years. Paired with a kton-scale liquid scintillator detector, it will enable a broad particle physics program including searches for new symmetries, new interactions and new particles. Here in Volume I, we describe the driver, which includes the ion source, low energy beam transport, and cyclotron. The latter features Radio-Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) direct axial injection and represents the first accelerator purpose-built to make use of so-called vortex motion.