Beam dynamics at the main LEBT of RAON accelerator

Abstract

The high-intensity rare isotope accelerator (RAON) of the Rare Isotope Science Project (RISP) in Daejeon, Korea, has been designed to accelerate multiple-charge-state beams. The ion beams, which are generated by using an electron cyclotron resonance ion source (ECR-IS), will be transported through the main low energy beam transport (LEBT) system to the radio frequency quadrupole (RFQ). While passing the beams through the LEBT, we should keep the transverse beam size and longitudinal emittance small. Furthermore, the matching of required twiss parameter at the RFQ entrance will be performed by using electro-static quadrupoles at the main LEBT matching section which is from the multi-harmonic buncher (MHB) to the entrance of the RFQ. We will briefly review the new aspects of the main LEBT lattice, and the beam matching at the main LEBT matching section will be presented. In addition, the effects of various errors on the beam orbit and the correction of a distorted orbit will be discussed.