Published January 1, 1987 | Version v1
Journal article

Analytical study of the equation for the longitudinal motion of particles in a radio-frequency-quadrupole accelerator

  • 1. Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Universita degli Studi di Lecce, I-73100 Lecce, Italy and Gruppo di Lecce, Sezione di Bari, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, I-73100 Lecce, Italy

Description

We develop a procedure based on the averaging method of Bogoliubov, Krylov, and Mitropolsky to obtain analytical approximate solutions of the equation for the longitudinal motion of a particle in a radio-frequency-quadrupole (RFQ) accelerator under the Kapchinskii-Teplyakov assumption. Our analytical results, which fairly agree (within a few per thousand) with those coming from the numerical integration of the equation under consideration, are exploited in the case of an RFQ device with N = 150 cells in which the accelerated particles are protons and for values of the efficiency A from 0.05 to 0.5. Starting from an injection energy of 10 keV, a final energy of about 1.5 MeV is achieved. Our procedure may be applied to other fundamental problems arising in the project of an RFQ accelerator, such as the study of the equation for transversal oscillations

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Phys. Rev., A
Journal Volume
35
Journal Issue
1
Series
Phys. Rev., A.
Journal Page Range
393-397
ISSN
0556-2791
CODEN
PLRAA

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