Compressor Lattice Design for SPL Beam

A compressor ring providing very short proton bunches of a few ns has been designed as a component of a proton driver in the neutrino factory. Proton beams accelerated with the SPL (Superconducting Proton Linac) are stored in an accumulator ring before being transported to a compressor ring. The bunch compression is then performed with longitudinal phase rotation. For the neutrino factory, a special pulse structure of the primary proton beam is required. In the SPL based proton driver, the specification imposes that six (or five) bunches of a few ns length and about 12μs bunch spacing are formed in one cycle.