IMPROVEMENT OF THE LONGITUDINAL BEAM DYNAMICS TUNING PROCEDURE FOR THE MSU RIA DRIVER LINAC

The Rare Isotope Accelerator (RIA) driver linac will use a superconducting, cw linac with independently phased superconducting rf cavities for acceleration and utilize beams of multiple-charge-states (multi-q) for the heavier ions. Given the acceleration of multi-q beams and a stringent beam loss requirement in the RIA driver linac, a new beam dynamics code capable of simulating nonlinearities of the multi-q beam envelopes in the longitudinal phase space was developed. Using optimization routines, the code is able to maximize the linearity of the longitudinal phase space motion and thereby to minimize beam loss by optimizing values for the amplitude and phase of the cavities for a given accelerating lattice. Relative motion of the multi-q beams is also taken into account so that superposition of the beam centroids and matching of their Twiss parameters are automatically controlled. The new tuning procedure and its benefit on the performance of the beam dynamics in the longitudinal plane are discussed in the paper.