2017/08/21 by Daniel Winklehner, Winklehner, Daniel
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Gyrotron and Vacuum Electronics Research #Magnetic confinement fusion research #Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers #Particle accelerators and beam dynamics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1708.06412
openalex publication_date 2017/08/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The Decay-At-rest Experiment for delta-CP violation At a Laboratory for Underground Science (DAEdALUS) and the Isotope Decay-At-Rest experiment (IsoDAR) are proposed experiments to search for CP violation in the neutrino sector, and "sterile" neutrinos, respectively. In order to be decisive within 5 years, the neutrino flux and, consequently, the driver beam current (produced by chained cyclotrons) must be high. H2+ was chosen as primary beam ion in order to reduce the electrical current and thus space charge. This has the added advantage of allowing for stripping extraction at the exit of the DAEdALUS Superconducting Ring Cyclotron (DSRC). The primary beam current is higher than current cyclotrons have demonstrated which has led to a substantial R&D effort of our collaboration in the last years. We present the results of this research, including tests of prototypes and highly realistic beam simulations, which led to the latest physics-based design. The presented results suggest that it is feasible, albeit challenging, to accelerate 5 mA of H2+ to 60 MeV/amu in a compact cyclotron and boost it to 800 MeV/amu in the DSRC with clean extraction in both cases.