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With the development of high-power laser technology, laser plasma acceleration has developed rapidly due to its excellent acceleration structure. Nearly one-hundred-MeV proton beams and several GeV electron outputs are obtained. The laser-driven proton beams have excellent quality of μm-scale sizes and ps-scale pulse lengths. Owing to the existence of the accelerating laser field, direct application is difficult, so the proton beams need to be transmitted to the application terminal through the beamline. However, the wide energy spectrum and large divergence angle bring difficulties in transmitting the beam. The weak focusing in the constant gradient magnetic field is neglected in the transmission of laser-driven particle beams because of the relatively weak focusing force. But weak focusing has special advantages: simultaneous focusing in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction, energy analysis in the horizontal direction, focusing force in the horizontal and vertical direction distributed by the field index n, and smaller influence of chromatic aberration effect. In this paper, we propose the beam transmission with weak-focusing magnet. The requirements for the focusing of proton beams with the same energy and different divergence angles in the X direction and Y direction in the weak-focusing magnetic field are explored by studying the linear beam dynamics of the beams. Then the conditions of precise energy analysis for particle beams with large divergence angle can be determined. For beams with 2% energy spread, the lengths of the drift space before and after the weak-focusing magnet and deflection radius are scanned to find out the minimum beam size and the shortest pulse length after transmission. It is found that a certain combination of drift space and deflection radius can minimize the beam size or the pulse length. Focusing and energy selection can be achieved while compressing the pulse length and effectively reducing the size of the beamline, which has significant advantages. When the deflection radius is 0.65 m, the proton beam with 20 MeV energy, 2% energy spread, and an initial divergence angle of ±50 mrad has the root-mean-square size of 108 μm in both the X direction and the Y direction, and a pulse length of 154 ps at the application terminal. Comparing with common beam transmission elements such as quadrupole lenses and deflection magnets, the laser-accelerated ion beam benefits from the integration of focusing and energy analysis of weak-focusing magnetic fields (focusing and energy analysis exist at the same time and continuously change with deflection angle), as well as the horizontal and vertical focusing forces can be distributed by the magnetic field index n (the larger the n, the stronger the focusing force in the vertical direction is and the weaker the focusing force in the horizontal direction). When the proton beam is transmitted in a weak-focusing magnetic field, the advantages of the focusing element and the energy selection element are combined, so the influence of the chromatic aberration effect can be reduced, the pulse length can be compressed, and the beamline size can be effectively reduced. -
Keywords:
- laser acceleration /
- particle beam delivery /
- particle beam applications /
- ultrafast
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图 1 质子束满足水平或竖直方向成像传输条件时
$\theta $ 随$n$ 的变化曲线Figure 1. Variation curves of θ with n when the proton beams satisfies the imaging transmission conditions in the horizontal or vertical direction.
图 2 质子束水平和竖直方向的像点位置相同时的传输. 浅黄色背景区域代表弱聚焦磁铁 (a) 交点1对应的质子束的传输包络; (b) 交点1对应的质子束在
$X'Z'$ 平面的传输包络; (c) 交点2对应的质子束在$X'Z'$ 平面的传输包络; (d) 交点2对应的质子束的传输包络Figure 2. Transmission of the proton beams when the positions of the image points in the horizontal and vertical directions are the same. The light yellow background area represents the weak-focusing magnet: (a) The transmission envelope of the proton beam corresponding to crossing point 1; (b) the transmission envelope of the proton beam corresponding to crossing point 1 in the
$X'Z'$ plane; (c) the transmission envelope of the proton beam corresponding to crossing point 2 in the$X'Z'$ plane; (d) the transmission envelope of the proton beam corresponding to crossing point 2.
图 3 L1分别等于0.3 m(上)、0.7 m(中)和 L2(下)时, X方向质子束rms尺寸(左)、脉冲长度(中)和偏转角度(右)随L2和rc的变化
Figure 3. Variations of proton beam size (left), pulse length (middle) and deflection angle (right) with L2 and rc when L1 equals to 0.3 m (upper), 0.7 m (middle) and L2 (lower) respectively.
图 4 质子束的传输束线设计 (a) 2%能散质子束的传输包络; (b) 2%能散质子束在
$X'Z'$ 平面的传输包络与束线布局示意图; (c) Y方向磁场强度随半径的变化; (d) 2%能散质子束在束线出口的分布; (e) 不同能散质子束在束线出口的尺寸和脉冲长度Figure 4. Transmission beamline design for proton beams: (a) The transmission envelope of the proton beam with 2% energy spread; (b) the transmission envelope of the proton beam with 2% energy spread in the
$X'Z'$ plane and the schematic diagram of beamline layout; (c) Y-direction magnetic field strength as a function of radius; (d) distribution of proton beam with 2% energy spread at the beamline exit; (e) the sizes and pulse lengths of proton beams with different energy spread at the beamline exit.
图 5 100和200 MeV质子束的传输束线设计 (a) 100 MeV质子束的传输包络; (b) 100 MeV质子束在
$X'Z'$ 平面的传输包络; (c) 100 MeV质子束在束线出口的分布; (d) 200 MeV质子束的传输包络; (e) 200 MeV质子束在$X'Z'$ 平面的传输包络; (f) 200 MeV质子束在束线出口的分布Figure 5. Transmission beamline design for 100 and 200 MeV proton beams: (a) Transmission envelope of 100 MeV proton beams; (b) the transmission envelope of 100 MeV proton beams in the
$X'Z'$ plane; (c) distribution of 100 MeV proton beams at the beamline exit; (d) transmission envelope of 200 MeV proton beams; (e) the transmission envelope of 200 MeV proton beams in the$X'Z'$ plane; (f) distribution of 200 MeV proton beams at the beamline exit. -
[1] Tajima T, Dawson J M 1979 Phys. Rev. Lett. 43 267
[2] Kim I J, Pae K H, Choi I W, Lee C L, Kim H T, Singhal H, Sung J H, Lee S K, Lee H W, Nickles P V, Jeong T M, Kim C M, Nam C H 2016 Phys. Plasmas 23 070701
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Google Scholar
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[26] 陈佳洱 2012 加速器物理基础 (北京: 北京大学出版社) 第136页
Chen J E 2012 Fundamentals of Accelerator Physics (Beijing: Peking University Press) p136 (in Chinese)
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