Beam Dynamics Simulations for Soreq SARAF Accelerator

Soreq is designing a high intensity linear accelerator facility [1] capable of accelerating protons or deuterons up to energies of 40 MeV at intensities of up to 4 mA (present planed RF power supplies will allow beam intensity of up to 2 mA). The actual design of this accelerator and construction of its components is the responsibility of ACCEL GmbH. A group has been formed at Soreq to perform beam dynamics studies of the SARAF accelerator according to the design presented by ACCEL. Beam dynamics simulation at Soreq is important to help us in the understanding of the SARAF accelerator and for validating the ACCEL design. We present results of beam dynamics simulations of the SARAF LINAC according to the latest ACCEL design. We have succeeded in obtaining a good ''tune'' with less than 25% emittance growth in the longitudinal and transverse planes