Conceptual design of an 800 MeV high power proton driver

Abstract

This paper outlines the conceptual design work of a high power proton cyclotron proposed by the China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE) for a spallation neutron source, accelerator driven systems, production of radioactive ion beams, and other applications. For this cyclotron the 100 MeV injection proton beam is currently considered to be provided by the CYCIAE-100 cyclotron, which is under construction at CIAE and will be later replaced by a dedicated injector for beam upgrading. In order to minimize beam losses for high intensity operation, large turn separation at the extraction has first priority. After analyzing of different scenarios, including super conducting designs, a warm magnet solution was chosen. The conceptual design, field calculations, RF cavity simulations, etc. will be presented in the paper.