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Main Authors: Evans, Nicholas J., Hoover, Austin, Gorlov, Timofey, Morozov, Vasiliy
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13517
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author Evans, Nicholas J.
Hoover, Austin
Gorlov, Timofey
Morozov, Vasiliy
author_facet Evans, Nicholas J.
Hoover, Austin
Gorlov, Timofey
Morozov, Vasiliy
contents Multi-turn charge-exchange injection is the primary method of creating high-intensity hadron beams in circular accelerators, and phase space painting during injection enables tailoring of the accumulated phase space distribution. A technique we call eigenpainting allows injection of particles into a single mode of a coupled ring, providing full four-dimensional control of the phase space distribution. Under ideal conditions, uniform eigenpainting generates a linear-force equilibrium distribution in the transverse plane, with zero volume in four-dimensional transverse phase space, even including space charge. We have implemented eigenpainting for the first time in the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) Accumulator Ring. Injecting 8.8 $μ$C of 800 MeV beam, we obtain a final ratio of intrinsic transverse emittances of $\approx$2.4. We analyze the effect of space charge on the final distribution through comparison of the reconstructed phase space to particle-in-cell simulations.
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spellingShingle Demonstration of a novel phase space painting method in a coupled lattice to mitigate space charge in high-intensity hadron beams
Evans, Nicholas J.
Hoover, Austin
Gorlov, Timofey
Morozov, Vasiliy
Accelerator Physics
Applied Physics
Multi-turn charge-exchange injection is the primary method of creating high-intensity hadron beams in circular accelerators, and phase space painting during injection enables tailoring of the accumulated phase space distribution. A technique we call eigenpainting allows injection of particles into a single mode of a coupled ring, providing full four-dimensional control of the phase space distribution. Under ideal conditions, uniform eigenpainting generates a linear-force equilibrium distribution in the transverse plane, with zero volume in four-dimensional transverse phase space, even including space charge. We have implemented eigenpainting for the first time in the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) Accumulator Ring. Injecting 8.8 $μ$C of 800 MeV beam, we obtain a final ratio of intrinsic transverse emittances of $\approx$2.4. We analyze the effect of space charge on the final distribution through comparison of the reconstructed phase space to particle-in-cell simulations.
title Demonstration of a novel phase space painting method in a coupled lattice to mitigate space charge in high-intensity hadron beams
topic Accelerator Physics
Applied Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13517