The MW class proton accelerators are expected to play
important roles in many fields, attracting institutions to continue
researching and tackling key problems. The continuous wave (CW)
isochronous accelerator obtains a high-power beam with higher energy
efficiency, which is very attractive to many applications. Scholars
generally believe that the energy limitation of the isochronous
cyclotron is ∼1 GeV. To get higher beam power by the
isochronous machine, enhancing the beam focusing become the most
important issue.
Adjusting the radial gradient of the average magnetic field makes
the field distribution match the isochronism. When we adjust the
radial gradient of the peak field, the first-order gradient is
equivalent to the quadrupole field, the second-order, the hexapole
field, and so on. Just like the synchrotron, there are quadrupoles,
hexapole magnets, and so on, along the orbits to get higher energy,
as all we know.
If we adjust the radial gradient for the peak field of an FFA's FDF
lattice and cooperate with the angular width (azimuth flutter) and
spiral angle (edge focusing) of the traditional cyclotron pole, we
can manipulate the working path in the tune diagram very
flexibly. During enhancing the axial focusing, both the beam
intensity and the energy of the isochronous accelerator are
significantly increased. Here a 2 GeV CW FFA with 3 mA of average
beam intensity design is presented. It is essentially an isochronous
cyclotron although we use 10 FDF lattices. The key difficulty is
that the magnetic field and each order of gradient should be
accurately adjusted in a large radius range.
As a high-power proton accelerator with high energy efficiency, we
adopt high-temperature superconducting (HTS) technology for the
magnets. 15 RF cavities with a Q value of 90000 provide energy gain
per turn of ∼15 MeV to ensure the CW beam intensity reaches 3
mA. A 1:4 scale, 15-ton HTS magnet, and a 1:4 scale, 177 MHz cavity
have been completed. The results of such R&D will also be presented
in this paper.
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