Design of a medium-energy beam-transport line with an anti-chopper for the JAERI/KEK project

The medium-energy beam-transport line (MEBT) plays an important role in reducing beam loss in the JAERI/KEK project. A MEBT was designed two years ago, with good beam matching and lower beam loss. To further reduce beam loss during the transient time of the chopper to meet the new requirement from the DTL, a medium-energy beam-transport line with an anti-chopper has been designed. The 3.5 m long transport line consists of nine quadrupole magnets, three bunchers and four chopper/anti-chopper cavities. It accomplishes two tasks: matching the beam from the RFQ to the acceptance of the DTL and chopping the beam to produce gaps for injection into the rapid-cycling ring, which follows the linac. A RF Chopper and an anti-chopper have been adopted in the lattice, resulting in a clean chopping effect and no beam losses during the transient time. Details of the beam dynamics analysis are given