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Lead talk session B-4.
This talk outlines the key challenges of high-intensity ring design through the lens of the design and operation of ISIS, that of high-intensity machines worldwide, and particularly the design of the MW class neutron source ISIS-II. ISIS is the high-intensity pulsed neutron and muon source at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK. Operation centres on a rapid cycling proton synchrotron (RCS) that accelerates 3e13 protons per pulse from 70 to 800 MeV at 50 Hz, delivering a mean beam power of 0.2 MW. In this talk we clarify what we mean by high-intensity and discuss the importance of effective modelling, understanding, minimising and controlling of beam-loss mechanisms. Is it possible to push the intensity frontier whilst maintaining flexibility and reliability?