Research Article

The Opportunity Offered by the ESSnuSB Project to Exploit the Larger Leptonic CP Violation Signal at the Second Oscillation Maximum and the Requirements of This Project on the ESS Accelerator Complex

Table 2

Current main parameters of the ESS linac.

Parameter Value

Average beam power 5 MW
Ion kinetic energy 2 GeV
Average macro pulse current 62.5 mA
Average macro pulse length 2.86/4 ms
Pulse repetition rate 14 Hz
Maximum accelerating cavity surface field 45 MV/m
Linac length 352.5 m
Reliability 95%
Annual operating period 5000 h