A fifteen year perspective on the design and perfomance of the SNS accelerator

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Abstract

Construction of the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) accelerator began approximately fifteen years ago. Since this time, the accelerator has broken new technological ground with the operation of the world’s first superconducting H- linac, the first liquid mercury target, and 1.4 MW of beam power. This talk will reflect on the issues and concerns that drove key decisions during the design phase, and will consider those decisions in the context of the actual performance of the accelerator. Noteworthy successes will be highlighted and lessons-learned will be discussed. Finally, a look forward toward the challenges associated with a higher power future at SNS will be presented.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHB 2016 - Proceedings of the 57th ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop on High-Intensity, High Brightness and High Power Hadron Beams
PublisherJoint Accelerator Conferences Website (JACoW)
Pages9-13
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9783954501854
StatePublished - Aug 1 2016
Event57th ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop on High-Intensity, High Brightness and High Power Hadron Beams, HB 2016 - Malmo, Sweden
Duration: Jul 3 2016Jul 8 2016

Publication series

NameHB 2016 - Proceedings of the 57th ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop on High-Intensity, High Brightness and High Power Hadron Beams

Conference

Conference57th ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop on High-Intensity, High Brightness and High Power Hadron Beams, HB 2016
Country/TerritorySweden
CityMalmo
Period07/3/1607/8/16

Funding

ORNL is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 for the U.S. Department of Energy. This research was supported by the DOE Office of Science, Basic Energy Science, Scientific User Facilities.

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