Introduction to Particle Accelerators國家同步輻射研究中心 周炳榮 Ping J. Chou pjchou@.twPHYS467500— 01Last update: 2007-10-22十年樹木,百年樹人Important Notes to Students: The sole purpose of this lecture notes is meant for classroom use only. Some photographs and graphic illustrations are adapted from various reference literatures, which are NOT to be distributed beyond the classroom use. Acknowledgement: The author is greatly in debt to Dr. Andrew Sessler of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for his generous help and offering of invaluable historic notes on the development of particle accelerators. Dr. Andrew Sessler’s book* on the historic review of the development of particle accelerators is HIGHLY recommended to those who is interested in the physics of particle accelerators and the human stories behind it. One can certainly find some inspiration from his book. * Andrew Sessler and Edmund Wilson, Engines of Discovery –- A Century of Particle Acceerators, (World Scientific, Singapore 2007)The years around 1930 can be marked as the starting point of the accelerator era. Lord Ernest Rutherford can be regarded as the first person to push the development of particle accelerators.Laureates Year Main contribution to the physics of particle accelerators---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------E.O. Lawrence 1939 the invention of cyclotron and the production of artificial radioactive elements J.D. Cockcroft & 1951 the invention of cascade accelerator and the first E.T.S. Walton disintegration of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated particles E.M. McMillan 1951 the principle of phase stability (transuranium elements) (in chemistry, shared with G.T. Seaborg ) J. Schwinger ( 1965 the fundamental analysis of properties of synchrotron shared with S. radiation (work on quantum electrodynamics) Tomonaga, R.P. Feynman) L.W. Alvarez 1968 drift tube linear accelerator (development of hydrogen bubble chamber) C. Rubbia & 1984 the invention of stochastic cooling for antiprotons S. Van der Meer (discovery of W/Z particles)Mechanism of Particle Acceleration DC voltage acceleration (developed in 1930s) • Voltage multiplier cascade (Cascade accelerators, Cockcroft and Walton) • Electrostatic generator (Van de Graaff accelerators) Resonance acceleration (Gustaf Ising, Sweden, first proposed it in 1924) • Radio-frequency (RF) Linear accelerators (Rolf Wideröe, Norway, built the first linac using an RF accelerating field) • Radio-frequency quadrupole (RFQ) (first proposed by I.M. Kapchinski and V.A. Teplyakov in 1970) • Cyclic accelerators Cyclotron (first one built in 1931) Microtron (first proposed in 1944 by V. Veksler and J. Schwinger) Synchrocyclotron (first proposed in 1945 by E. McMillan and V. Veksler) synchrotron Magnetic induction acceleration • Betatron (invented & built in 1940 by Donald Kerst, but the concept was formulated by R. Wideröe in 1928) • Induction linac (invented by N.C. Christofilos in 1950s)PHYS467500— 01DC voltage acceleration: (DC electric field)+V-VBattery (DC power supply)Magnetic induction acceleration: (Faraday’s Law of Induction)r r ∂B ∇× E = − ∂t r r r r & ∫ E ⋅ d l = − ∫ B ⋅ dSResonance acceleration: (AC electric field)∆W = e∆V ∆V = V0 sin(ωrf t + φ )E z ( r , t ) = E0 J 0 ( Bθ (r , t ) =e.g. the oscillating electromagnetic fields in a pillbox cavity (Maxwell eqs. + boundary conditions)ωcr ) e j ωtE0 ω J 1 ( r ) e j ωt c cExample of resonance acceleration:A pillbox cavity (NSRRC Booster)Electrostatic Acceleratorusing DC electric field to accelerate charged particles, the gain in the kinetic energy is: K= qV Voltage gain ∆V≦ 10 kV Method 1) 10 kV 10 kV 10 kV 10 kV- +- + - + - + Connecting several accelerating structures in succession each is charged by high voltage power supply (10 kV max.) Method 2)+ _Charging up several high voltage capacitors, each to the maximum voltage available, then we discharge those capacitors all in series Cockcroft-Walton accelerator, it can reach few MeVMethod 3)Van de Graaff accelerator, it can reach ~ 10 MeV, invented in 1930’s deposit charge on a moving belt (insulating material) driven by a motor. The belt carries the charge to a large sphere continuously. A very huge charge (high voltage) is built up on the sphere. The physical size and expense are the limitationCockcroft-Walton Voltage Multiplier (cascade accelerator)The 750 keV Cockcroft-Walton accelerator at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), Batavia, USAThe original Cockcroft-Walton generator developed by J. Cockcroft and E. Walton at Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, U.K.Ernest T.S. WaltonErnest RutherfordJohn D. Cockcroft(founding father of nuclear physics)•The Cockcroft-Walton generator can convert AC or raise a low DC voltage to a much higher DC voltage level. It is used to provide higher DC electric fields for particle acceleration. •It is based on the principles of voltage multiplying circuit. A voltage multiplier can step up a relatively low voltage to an extremely high value. This technique is different from the transformer. It does not require the heavy core and use only capacitors and rectifiers (diodes). •The voltage potential achieved by the first Cockcroft-Walton voltage multiplier is 700 kV with a voltage variation within few percent. Positive ions of hydrogen with a beam current of the order of 10 µA being obtained (protons of 710 keV). •This is the first accelerator to demonstrate disintegration of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated particles! They induced the nucear reaction: Li+ p 2HeFirst cycle K1General principle of voltage multiplying circuitX1 K2 E supply E K3 0 2E K2 E In the 1st cycle when X1 and X2 are connected to K2 and K3, capacitor X2 will be charged to voltage E supply E K3 Efloating connectionE X2Second cycle K1 X1 2E X2The voltage multiplier circuit was known and used at lower potentials around 1920.ÆM. Schenkel, Elektrotechnische, 40: 333 (1919)ÆH. Greinacher, Z. Phys.,4: 195 (1921)Cockcroft and Walton adapted the circuit and applied it to a much higher voltage potentials than in the previous applications. Their results are reported in aseries of papers:Proc. Roy. Soc. (London), A129: 477 (1930)Proc. Roy. Soc. (London), A136: 619 (1932)Proc. Roy. Soc. (London), A137: 229 (1932)Proc. Roy. Soc. (London), A144: 704 (1934)J.D. Cockcroft and E.T.S. Walton were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1951.The steady DC voltage potentials available with the voltage multiplier cascade and its reliability have made it very useful in low-energy nuclear physics, in theenergy range up to 1 MeV. For enclosed systems filled with high pressureinsulating gases, the voltage has been achieved up to 6 MV. It is alsofrequently chosen as the pre-accelerator (injector) for higher energy machines when high-intensity ion beam is desired.Diameter of the sphere: 15 ft. Diameter of the supporting column: 6 ft.The machine was used as a research accelerator at MIT operating at potentials up to 2.75 MV. It was moved to Boston Museum of Science eventually. The effect of pigeons’droppings on the sphere is very dramatic as shown by those sparks.The diagram from E.O. Lawrence’s 1934 patent, found from WikipediaErnest O. Lawrence in 1930The first cyclotron with a diameter of 5 inchesE.O. Lawrence’s idea of using voltages oscillating at radio frequency (RF) toaccelerate charged particles in a circular machine was triggered by Rolf Wideroe’spaper that he came across in the Berkeley University library in 1929.[Ref.]: Photography gallery of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,/photo/gallery/If the frequency of electric oscillator is adjusted to be the same as the cyclotron frequency, i.e. particles always cross the voltage gap at the right timing (resonance condition: continuous accelerationÄenergy gain)The 11-inch cyclotron built by Lawrence and his graduate students, David Sloan and M. Stanley Livingston at the Univ. of California, Berkeley during 1931. They obtained a proton beam of energy 1.22 MeV and a current of 1 nA with a maximum accelerating voltage of only 4 kV.•Phys. Rev., 40: 19 (1932), E.O. Lawrence and M.S. Livingston•Rev. Mod. Phys.,18, 293 (1946), M.S. Livingston; “Ion Sources for Cyclotrons”The principle of vertical focusing in a cyclotron (focusing action of electric field)+V-VA H+BBecause of the existence of the curvature of the field lines, most effective for particles at low energy, near the center of gap.PHYS467500— 01At higher beam energy, the increase of speed is getting smaller. Particles can not cross the voltage gap at the right timing. Eventually they are decelerated (not synchronized with the accelerating voltage), i.e. the resonance condition is lost. The maximum energy gain can be obtained from a cyclotron: heavy particles: E ~ 20 MeV (protons) electrons : E ~ few hundred eV, < 1 keV ! The energy limit of cyclotron is set by the effects of relativity Synchronism is lost when v c (why?) What is the limitation to build a cyclotron at higher energy for heavy ions? Is cyclotron a good option for accelerating electrons to higher energy? Why?Homework 1) The correct expression to be used when the relativistic effect is taken into account should be R=P/(qB), instead of Eq.(1.2), where P is the momentum. Derive this result. PHYS467500— 01Homework 2) Using the expression given in Homework 1, derive the circulating frequency of particles when the relativistic effect is taken into account.qB f = 1− v2 c2 2πm0(1.5)Homework 3) Using the relativistic expression of circulating frequency given in Eq.(1.5) of Homework 2, calculate the circulating frequency for electrons with kinetic energy 10 keV and 1 MeV respectively. Assuming a magnetic field B= 500 Gauss. Then, you repeat the calculation using the nonrelativistic expressions given by Eqs.(1.2) and (1.3), compare the circulating frequencies obtained with the nonrelativistic expressions and relativistic expressions. Homework 4) Repeat the calculation you have done in Homework 3, calculate the circulating frequency for protons with kinetic energy 1 MeV and 30 MeV respectively. Assuming a magnetic field B= 500 Gauss. Then, you repeat the calculation with nonrelativistic expressions given by Eqs.(1.2) and (1.3), compare the circulating frequency for both cases.The 184 inch cyclotron built at Univ. of California, Berkeley[Ref.]: Photography Gallery of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, /photo/gallery/Electron Linac (disk loaded structure)[Ref.] High power microwave amplifier[Ref.] Beam Line, Vol.28 (1998), published by SLACStanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)50 ¥ 50 GeV e-e+September 25, 2007 - Wolfgang Panofsky, Renowned Stanford Physicist and Arms Control Advocate, Dead at 88 •born in Berlin April 24, 1919 •graduated from Princenton University in 1938 •received his PhD. From California Institute of Technology in 1942 and served as consultant to the Manhattan Project, helping build the first atomic bomb during World War II. •The founding director of SLAC •member of the President’s Science Advisory Committee in the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations. •a fellow of the American Physical Society and served as its president in 1974. For more details, please refer to /pressreleases/2007/20070925.htmMagnetic induction accelerationBetatronBgBav• • •Donald Kerst and Robert Serber reinvented R. Wideröe’s beam transformer idea and renamed it as betatron. The success is due to their detailed orbit stability analysis and careful magnet design by D. Kerst. In the betatron, a time varying magnetic field produces an electric field that accelerates electrons. Although the betatron has a circular geometry similar to the cyclotron, it’s a pulsed machine and the particle orbit does not spiral out. It’s the first circular accelerator to operate at a constant orbit radiusPhys. Rev., 58: 841 (1940), D.W. Kerst Phys. Rev., 60: 47 (1941), D.W. Kerst Phys. Rev., 60: 53 (1941), D.W. Kerst and R. SerberPrimary coilSecondary coilAC Induced alternating currentChanging magnetic flux The principle of betatron is similar to the action taking place in an electric transformer. The coil of magnet in the betatron acts as the primary winding, the circulating electron beam acts as the secondary winding. the changing magnetic flux acceleration the increasing magnetic field particle guiding In contrast, cyclotrons can be operated continuously ! Betatron operation must be recycled Pulsed operation[Ref.] /history/Timeline/1940s.html[Ref.] /engineering/ind_module_summary.htmlThe Flash X-Ray Facility (FXR),a linear-induction electron beamaccelerator built in 1982, atLawrence Livermore NationalLaboratory, California, USA. Itis used to study the detonationprocess (implosion) of nuclearweapons.[Ref.] /str/April02/April50th.htmlNichola C. Christofilos, theinventor of the inductionlinac (1950s) and theprinciple of strong focusing.[Ref.] http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/new/Christofilos.htm國家同步輻射研究中心增能環(新竹科學園區)Synchrotron (higher energy electron)when e-travels at 0.98c Äthe beam energy is only at 2 MeV e-travels at a constant speed above few MeV The operation principles of e-synchrotron combine:•cyclotron method of acceleration•Strength of magnetic guiding field increases as the e-energy increasesThe alternating voltages at the gaps can be kept at constant frequency (f RF = const.)Synchrotron must also be pulsed.•Phys. Rev., 70: 249 (1946), D. Bohm and L. Foldy同步輻射加速器基本構造示意圖The synchrotron radiation emitted by electrons orbiting in the magnetic field was first observed in a 70 MeV electron synchrotron at General Electric Company Research Laboratory in 1947.•J. Appl. Phys.,18: 810 (1947), F.R. Elder, A.M. Gurewitsch, R.V. Langmuir, and H.C. PollockThe 300 MeV electron synchrotron built at General Electric Co. in 1940s.The photograph shows the synchrotron radiation emitted from theaccelerator.PHYS467500—01•Fixed-target machine:¨test particle m B is at rest in the lab frame, E AB E c m E 2*2≅•Colliding-beam machine:SLAC Beam Line , Spring 1997Livingston Plot★Terminated in 1993 SSC: 20 TeVLivingston Plot for Colliders in the Constituent Frame 7 TeV (p-p collider)Replaced by International Linear Collider (ILC)The energy of hardon colliders here has been derated by factors of 6-10. Why?PHYS467500— 01[Ref.]: SLAC Beam Line, Spring 1997Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), Chicago, U.S.A.Tevatron (1 TeV)Main Injector[Ref.] Visual Media Services, Fermilab /pub/presspass/vismedia/RecyclerMain RingTevatronMain InjectorMain Control RoomLarge Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (will start up in May 2008)[Ref.] http://www.cern.ch Operating temperature 1.9 KSuperconducting coils cooled down to 1.9 °K, dipole field B= 8 TStanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Menlo Park, California, U.S.A.[Ref.] Klystron galleryLinac tunnel[Ref.] /exp/e158/pictures/ASSET/tunnel_.jpgSLAC Linear Collider[Ref.] /sldwww/slc/SLAC_AERIAL.GIFForth Generation Light Source ( X-ray FEL ) FEL: free electron laser/lcls/Electron bunch length: 0.023 mm, 15 GeV electron beam X-ray wavelength: 0.15 – 1.5 nm X-ray pulse duration: 100 femtosecond – 100 attosecond。