The summary of the survey of codes relevant to design of transmutation of actinide by spallation is presented. The accelerator actinide incinerator has been studied by using the codes of nuclear cascade calculation including a high energy fission. The validity of the codes has been examined by comparing the experimental data of the yields of neutrons, and of spallation and fission products by a...

Wakefield acceleration in dielectric loaded structures is discussed in this paper. We present a description of the dielectric wakefield accelerator concept, comparing some features of the collinear and the two beam accelerator configurations. The Argonne Wakefield Accelerator Facility (AWA) is discussed in detail, including major upgrades that are presently taking place. The basic features and ...

The purpose of this report is to provide a perspective on future accelerator projects, and to identify the R&D activities necessary to prepare for these projects. The report summarizes the conclusions of accelerator studies made during the 2001 Snowmass Summer Study on the Future of Particle Physics. In doing so, it serves as a summary of the opinions on accelerator R&D expressed by the scienti...

The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) operates a high energy (up to 33 GeV) linear accelerator delivering pulses up to a few microseconds wide. The pulsed nature of the electron beam creates problems in the detection and measurement of radiation both from the accelerator beam and the klystrons that provide the RF power for the accelerator. Hence, a pulsed x-ray facility has been built a...

M. Rihaoui, P. Piot, J. G. Power, Z. Yusof, and W. Gai Northern Illinois Center for Accelerator & Detector Development and Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois 60115, USA High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA Accelerator Physics Center, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA (Received...

We describe design and testing of an induction cell with modulator for the Relativistic Klystron Two-Beam Accelerator (RK-TBA) concept, an option for the power source for the Next Linear Collider (NLC). FM Technologies has designed and built a prototype induction accelerator, which we call a re-accelerator, for a joint LLNL/LBNL TBA technology test-bed experiment.

The Particle Beam Fusion Accelerator II, PBFA II, is now the largest pulsed power device in operation. This paper will summarize its first year and a half of operation for the Department of Energy (DOE) Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) program. Thirty-six separate modules provide 72 output pulses that combine to form a 100 TY output pulse at the accelerator center. PBFA II was successfully tes...

One particular laser accelerator is discussed in detail: the Template Laser (LT) Accelerator. According to one design, it employs mirrors placed periodically along the particle trajectory. According to another design, the mirrors are omitted, and additional electromagnetic fields are employed instead. The former design is a near field accelerator, but the latter is not. It is shown that contrar...

KAERI (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) has been performing the project named KOMAC (Korea Multi-purpose Accelerator Complex) within the frame work of national mid and long term nuclear research plan. The final objectives of KOMAC is to build a 20MW (1 GeV and 20 mA) cw (100% duty factor) proton linear accelerator. As the first stage, the low energy accelerator up to 20 MeV is being deve...

The need to debug hybrid parallel programs on heterogeneous accelerator clusters opens a new set of challenges for concurrently managing the processes and threads at node and accelerator levels. Currently, there exist open source debuggers for traditional HPC clusters, which support debugging of multi-node parallel programs. At present, debugging at the accelerator level is handled through lang...