European Spallation Source
At the end of November, four members of ASTeC’s Intense Beams Group attended a one-day design study meeting in Bilbao dedicated to the European Spallation Source (ESS). In its present incarnation ESS is a long-pulse neutron facility - essentially a high energy proton linac sending a 2-3 ms beam into a target - and should complement the short-pulse features offered by ISIS at RAL. The meeting, the fifth of a series of design workshops, focussed on key operational scenarios and beam dynamics issues that permit low beam losses, rapid commissioning, and high reliability. Chris Prior gave a talk entitled “Operational Simulations” to stimulate discussion in the working group on operational aspects, while a second group was devoted mainly to the linac front-end. Details of the workshop can be found at http://indico.hep.lu.se/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=935. Ciprian Plostinar also took advantage of the trip to visit Tekniker , a company based near Bilbao, to see Spanish progress on the development of an H- ion source and a cold model of an RF rebuncher cavity.
31 August 2010