Accelerator R&D
Accelerator R&D
Accelerator R&D covers many domains, from the concepts of acceleration themselves to the study and realization of sub-elements, with a large effort put on the two basic elements of any accelerator, the accelerating radio-frequency cavities, and the bending magnets. The main goals are to increase the intensity and/or the energy of the particule beams.
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Non limitating list of accelerator R&D
- Innovative acceleration concepts
- Laser plasma, and electron laser accelerations, enabling ultra high accelerating field
- Beam phase space optimization
- development of beam sources, and injectors
- beam cooling techniques
- development of RFQ (Radio Frequency Quadrupole), with both an accelerating and focusing effect
- development of crab cavities
- Beam control and beam loss reduction
- advanced beam diagnostics and analysis methods
- High field magnets
- both high field dipoles (for energy increase) and high field quadrupoles (final focus systems)
- Superconducting radio frequency technologies
- allowing continuous wave operation, limiting the accelerator length and its operation cost
- High gradient normal conducting radio frequency structures
- operated in pulsed modes, but capable of producing very high accelerating fields
- High power radio frequency and pulsed power generators
- necessary to power the cavities described above
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The programs CARE and EuCARD, partly financed through the funding of the 6th and 7th Framework Programmes of the European Community are examples of coordinated accelerator R&D programs..See FP6-FP7 accelerator R&D projects.
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