FFAG'17 International Workshop on FFAG Accelerators

6 Sept 2017, 08:30 → 11 Sept 2017, 17:00 US/Eastern

Physical Science Building, Room 401 & 403 (4th Floor) (Cornell University Campus in Ithaca, NY)

Anna Petway (BNL), Dejan Trbojevic (BNL), Francois Meot (BNL), Nicholaos Tsoupas (BNL), Scott Berg (BNL)

Workshop Homepage

The annual International Workshop on Fixed Field Alternating Gradient (FFAG) Accelerators for 2017 will be held at Cornell University Campus in Ithaca, NY from September 6-11, 2017.

 

Abstract Submissions Abstract_Submissions.pdf

Committee Lunch (Saturday, Sept 9th) Committee_Lunch_Invite.pdf

Dining Guide in Campus Final_Dining_guide_for_Campus.pdf

Downtown Restaurant Map Downtown_Restaraunt_Map.pdf

Participant List Participant_List_for_attendees.pdf

School AGENDA 9/6 & 9/7 Final_school_Agenda.pdf

Transportation Schedule to Workshop Location Bus_Schedule_for_attendees.pdf

Wednesday, 6 September

09:00 → 09:45 Introduction to and history of FFAGs

Speaker: francois meot (bnl)

Slides slides_ffag2017_school.pdf

09:45 → 10:15 Scaling FFAG Optics

Speaker: francois meot (bnl)

10:15 → 10:45 Introduction to Bmad/Tao

Speakers: Chris Mayes (SLAC), David Sagan (Cornell Univ.)

more information https://github.com/ChristopherMayes/bmad-school/wiki

Material for Bmad and Tao are available at:
https://github.com/ChristopherMayes/bmad-school/wiki

10:45 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Bmad/Tao Concepts

Speakers: Chris Mayes (cmayes@slac.stanford.edu), David Sagan (Cornell)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch on your own

13:00 → 15:00 Bmad optics matching examples

Speakers: Dr Christopher Mayes (SLAC), David Sagan (Cornell Univ.)

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 16:15 Introduction to and history of ERLs

Speaker: Dr Chris Tennant (Jefferson Laboratory)

Slides Introduction_to_ERLs_(TENNANT).pptx

16:15 → 17:00 ERL optics example

Speaker: Dr Christopher Mayes (SLAC)

17:00 → 17:30 Longitudinal dynamics in ERLs

Speaker: Dr Chris Tennant (Jefferson Laboratory)

Slides Longitudinal_Dynamics_in_ERLs_(TENNANT).pptx

Thursday, 7 September

09:00 → 10:00 ERL homewordk recap

Speaker: Chris Mayes (SLAC)

10:00 → 10:45 BBU

Speakers: James Crittenden (Cornell University), Mr William Lou (Cornell University)

Slides FFAG_workshop_2017_BBU_.pdf

10:45 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Linear non-scaling FFAGs

Speaker: Dr J. Scott Berg (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides JSBerg-170907.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch on your own

13:00 → 14:00 Modeling FFAGs with Bmad

Speakers: Chris Mayes (SLAC), Mr David Sagan (Cornell), Dr J. Scott Berg (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

14:00 → 15:00 CBETA FFAG exercise

Speakers: Chris Mayes (SLAC), Mr David Sagan (Cornell), Dr J. Scott Berg (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 17:00 Software tools for FFAGs: ZGOUBI

Speaker: francois meot (bnl)

more information FFAG17School_zgoubiTutorial.tar.gz

Slides anHitchHickersGuideToZgoubiGalaxy.pdf

17:30 → 17:50 Registration at the Hilton Garden Inn

Friday, 8 September

08:30 → 12:00 Status

08:30 Status of 150-MeV FFAG Accelerator of Kyushu University

Speaker: Yujiro Yonemura

Slides attachment.ashx.pdf

09:00 Status report of KURRI FFAG Facility

Speaker: Yoshihiro Ishi

Slides FFAG17_Cornell_ishi.pdf

09:30 Tune Compensation and Dynamic Acceptance Studies in Imperfect Scaling FFAG

Speaker: Malek Haj Tahar

Slides Malek_FFAG17_talk1.pdf

10:00 Coffee Break

10:30 Intense Muon Source with MERIT_FFAG

Speaker: Yoshiharu Mori (Kyoto University)

Slides FFAG17_mori.pdf

11:30 CBETA Overview

Speaker: Georg Hoffstaetter

Slides 17_09_08HoffstaetterCBETA.pdf

11:45 Group Photo

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch - On Your Own

13:00 → 14:00 CBETA Tour

14:00 → 17:30 New Concepts

14:30 Test of Linear-Field Non-Scaling FFAG Arc with a Wide Energy Range

Speaker: Dr Stephen Brooks (BNL)

Slides Brooks_ATF-FFAG.pptx

15:00 Coffee Break

15:30 Novel concept of a Non-Scaling Fixed Field Alternating Gradient Accelerator

Speaker: Malek Haj Tahar

Slides Malek_FFAG17__talk2.pptx

16:00 NS-FFAG matched to the long linac straight section

Speaker: Dr Dejan Trbojevic (CAD)

Slides AR-to-Linac.pptx

16:30 The Study of Scaling FFAGs in a multipole ion trap

Speaker: David Kelliher

Slides 170908_kelliher_multipoletrap_final.pdf

17:00 Lossless crossing of half-integer resonance stopband during tune modulation by synchrotron oscillations

Speaker: Guimei Wang (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides GuimeiWang_Lossless%20crossing%20of%20resonance%20stopband.pdf

Saturday, 9 September

08:30 → 20:10 CBETA

08:30 CBETA Multipass Lattice Design

Speaker: Chris Mayes (SLAC)

Slides Mayes-2017_09_09-FFAG17-CBETA-Lattice.pdf

08:50 CBETA: FFAG Beamline Design

Speaker: Dr J. Scott Berg (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides JSBerg-170909.pdf

09:10 CBETA: Magnet design and correction

Speaker: Dr Stephen Brooks (BNL)

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09:30 Assessment of 3D OPERA design of CBETA cell

Speaker: francois meot (bnl)

Slides slides_FFAG17_FMeot.pdf slides_FFAG17_FMeot.ps

10:00 Coffee Break

10:30 CBETA: Commissioning Plan

Speaker: Adam Bartnik (Cornell)

Slides FFAG-Workshop-Commissioning.pptx

11:30 EMMA Experience; orbit correction in EMMA

Speaker: David Kelliher (ISIS/RAL/STFC)

Slides 170910_kelliher_emmaorbcorr.pptx

12:30 Committe Lunch - Invitation Only

12:30 Lunch on your own

14:30 Hike

16:30 Picnic at Treman State Park

Sunday, 10 September

08:30 → 13:30 High Intensity Protons

08:30 FFAG design for next generation short pulse neutron and muon source

Speaker: Shinji Machida (STFC RAL)

Slides machida20170910-2_v1.pdf

09:00 Conceptual Design of Proton Drivers for Accelerator Driven System

Speaker: Yasuhiro Fuwa (Kyoto University)

Slides FFAG2017_fuwa.pdf

09:30 Harmonictron as intensity frontier

Speaker: Yoshiharu Mori (Kyoto University)

10:00 Update on KURRI-FFAG simulations using OPAL

Speaker: Suzie Sheehy (Univ. of Oxford)

Slides suzie-slides.pptx

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Dynamic aperture studies in scaling FFAGs

Speaker: David Kelliher (ISIS/RAL/STFC)

Slides 170910_kelliher_scalingDA_v2.pptx

12:00 Lunch on your own (Limited campus dining on Sunday)

13:30 → 17:00 Hardware

13:30 Correction of focusing force with pole surface coils for the radial sector type FFAG accelerator

Speaker: Mitsutaka Ueda (Kyushu University)

Slides FFAG17_Ueda_Kyushu.pdf

14:00 Measurement of magnetic hysteresis effects of the bending magnet for beam transport 1

Speaker: Kengo Sugahara (Kindai University)

Slides FFAGworkshp@ksugahar.pdf FFAGworkshp@ksugahar.pptx

14:30 Measurement of magnetic hysteresis effects of the bending magnet for beam transport 2

Speaker: Ritsuki Yasutomi (Kindai University)

Slides FFAGworkshop%e6%9c%ac%e7%95%aa%e7%94%a8.pptx

15:00 Control of KURRI FFAG

Speaker: Yasutoshi Kuriyama (Kyoto University)

Slides 20170910-FFAG17-Kuriyama.pdf

15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 Off-midplane field expansion from midplane field data

Speaker: Dr Nicholaos Tsoupas (BNL)

Slides FFAG2017-Algorithm-2Dto3D.pptx

Monday, 11 September

08:30 → 10:30 Muon

08:30 Development of MERIT

Speaker: Hidefumi Okita (Kyoto University)

Slides Okita_FFAG17_2.pdf

09:00 FFAG Applications for Muon Science

Speaker: Akira Sato (Osaka University)

Slides 170911_SUPERIT.pdf

09:30 Towards nuSTORM facility - overview of accelerator designs

Speaker: Jaroslaw Pasternak (Imperial College)

Slides FFAG17_nustorm.pdf

10:00 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:30 Medical

10:30 Cancer Therapy Proton Gantry made of Halbach type Permanent Magnets

Speaker: Dr Dejan Trbojevic (CAD)

Slides FFAG-2017-Gantry-Talk.pptx

10:50 Study of FFAG Gantries and Adiabatic Transitions

Speaker: Julian Gascoyne (Univ. of Edinburgh)

Slides FFAG_Gantries_and_Adiabatic_Transitions.pdf

11:05 Progress on Ion Therapy in the US

Speaker: Carol Johnstone (Fermilab)

Slides Johnstone_ion_therapy_09112017.pptx

11:25 HElium ion Accelerator for radioTHERapy

Speaker: Carol Johnstone (Fermilab)

Slides FFAG%2717.pdf FFAG%2717.pptx

11:45 Dual Proton - Helium accelerator for radioisotope production

Speaker: Carol Johnstone (Fermilab)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch Break - On Your Own

13:30 → 14:00 Discussion of Future Prototype Projects

Minutes fixedfieldprototypeprojects_public.xls

14:00 → 14:20 Workshop Adjourn