TRANSVERSE PHASE SPACE PAINTING FOR THE CSNS INJECTION*

The CSNS accelerators consist of an 80 MeV proton Linac, and a 1.6 GeV rapid cycling synchrotron (RCS). The ring accumulates 1.88*1013 protons via H- stripping injection in the phase CSNS-I. The injected beam is painted into the large transverse phase space to alleviate space-charge effects. The uniformity of beam emittance is important in reducing the tune shift/spread due to space charge effect. The paper introduces two parameters to evaluate the uniformity of a distribution. To satisfy the low-loss design criteria, extensive comparison of different painting scenarios has been carried out by using the simulation code ORBIT. This paper gives detailed studies on painting schemes and the dependence on the lattice tune, the injection peak current, and also chopping rate