Overview of the APT Accelerator Design
  The accelerator for the APT Project is a 100 mA CW proton linac with an output energy of 1030 MeV. A High Energy Beam Transport (HEBT) conveys the beam to a raster expander, that provides a large rectangular distribution at a target/blanket (T/B) assembly. Spallation neutrons generated by the proton beam in the T/B reacts with Helium-3 to produce tritium. The design of the APT linac is an integrated normal-conducting (NC)/superconducting (SC) proton linac; the machine architecture has been discussed elsewhere [1]. The NC linac consists of a 75 keV injector, a 6.7-MeV 350-MHz RFQ (radio frequency quadrupole), a 96-MeV 700-MHz CCDTL (coupled-cavity drift-tube linac), and a 700-MHz CCL (coupled-cavity linac), with an output energy of 211 MeV. This is followed by a SC linac, that employs 700-MHz elliptical niobium 5-cell cavities to accelerate the beam to the final energy. The SC linac has two sections, optimized for beam velocities of b =0.64 and b =0.82. Each section is made up of cryomodules containing two, three, or four 5-cell cavities, driven by 1-MW 700-MHz klystrons. The singlet FODO lattice in the NC linac transitions to a doublet focusing lattice in the SC linac, with conventional quadrupole magnets in the warm inter-module spaces. This doublet lattice is continued in the HEBT. An overview of the current linac design will be presented. 
J. F. Tooker, R. Bourque, D. Christiansen, J. Kamperschroer, G.   Laughon, M. McCarthy, and M. Schulze