BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
Cornell University (CLASSE), Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences and Education, Ithaca, New York, USA
The Cornell-BNL Electron Test Accelerator (CBETA) is a four-pass, 150 MeV energy recovery linac (ERL), now in construction at Cornell. A single fixed-field alternating gradient (FFAG) beam line recirculates the four energies, 42, 78, 114 and 150 MeV. The return loop is comprised of 107 quadrupole-doublet cells, built using Halbach permanent magnet technology. Spreader and combiner sections (4 independent beam lines each) connect the 36 MeV linac to the FFAG loop. We present here a start-to-end simulation of the 4-pass ERL, entirely, and exclusively, based on the use of magnetic field maps to model the magnets and correctors. There are paramount reasons for that and this is discussed, detailed outcomes are presented, together with comparisons with regular beam transport (mapping based) techniques.
