AOT Accelerator and Beam Science, ABS

Accelerator and Beam Science

The Accelerator and Beam Science (AOT-ABS) Group at Los Alamos addresses physics aspects of the driver accelerator for the LANSCE spallation neutron source and related topics. These activities are wide ranging and include

• generating negative and positive ions in plasma ion sources,
• creating ion beams from these particles,
• accelerating the ion beams in linear accelerator structures up to an energy of 800 MeV,
• compressing the negative hydrogen beam to packets of sub-microsecond duration and accumulating beam current in the Proton Storage Ring, and
• distributing the ion beams to various targets, at which either target elements are directly converted into radioactive isotopes or neutrons are created by spallation processes.