Cyclotron Drivers for Accelerator-Driven Systems

The requirements for accelerator-driven systems (ADS) allow different technical solutions for the driver accelerator. This fact is reminiscent of the “Meson factory race” in the 1970s, where several rather different accelerator designs were proposed in the same energy domain (600–800 MeV) but with beam intensities in the 0.1–1 mA range to produce mesons.