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@InProceedings{ren:napac2019-weplh06,
author = {H.T. Ren and J. Brandon and N.K. Bultman and K.D. Davidson and E. Daykin and T. Elkin and B. Galecka and P.E. Gibson and L. Hodges and K. Holland and D.D. Jager and M.G. Konrad and B.R. Kortum and S.M. Lidia and G. Machicoane and I.M. Malloch and H. Maniar and T. Maruta and G. Morgan and D.G. Morris and P. Morrison and A.C. Morton and P.N. Ostroumov and A.S. Plastun and E. Pozdeyev and X. Rao and S. Renteria and T. Russo and J.W. Stetson and R. Walker and J. Wei and Y. Yamazaki and T. Yoshimoto and Q. Zhao and S. Zhao},
% author = {H.T. Ren and J. Brandon and N.K. Bultman and K.D. Davidson and E. Daykin and T. Elkin and others},
% author = {H.T. Ren and others},
title = {{Commissioning Status of the FRIB Front End}},
booktitle = {Proc. NAPAC'19},
pages = {813--816},
paper = {WEPLH06},
language = {english},
keywords = {rfq, MMI, linac, cavity, ECR},
venue = {Lansing, MI, USA},
series = {North American Particle Accelerator Conference},
number = {4},
publisher = {JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland},
month = {10},
year = {2019},
issn = {2673-7000},
isbn = {978-3-95450-223-3},
doi = {10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2019-WEPLH06},
url = {http://jacow.org/napac2019/papers/weplh06.pdf},
note = {https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2019-WEPLH06},
abstract = {The FRIB Front End was successfully commissioned in 2017 with commissioning goals achieved and Key Per-formance Parameters (KPP) demonstrated for both 40Ar⁹⁺ and 86Kr¹⁷⁺ beams. Two more ion species, 20Ne⁶⁺ and 129Xe²⁶⁺, have been commissioned on the Front End and delivered to the superconducting linac during the beam commissioning of Linac Segment 1 (LS1) in March 2019. In August 2019, Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) conditioning reached the full design power of 100 kW continuous wave (CW) that is required to accelerate Ura-nium beams. Start-up/shutdown procedures and opera-tional screens were developed for the Front End subsys-tems for trained operators, and auto-start and RF fast re-covery functions have been implemented for the Front End RFQ and bunchers. In this paper, we will present the current commissioning status of the Front End, and per-formance of the main technical systems, such as the ECR ion source and RFQ.},
}