FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) is designed to accelerate beam up to 400 kW power with kinetic energy ≥ 200 MeV/u. Fast response of the machine protection system is critical for FRIB beam commissioning and operation to prevent damage to equipment. The beam commissioning of the first linac segment, including fifteen cryomodules, has been completed. Four ion species were accelerated to a beam energy of 20.3 MeV/u with duty factors from 0.05 percent to continuous wave. The peak beam current exceeded 10 percent of the final requirements. This paper summarizes the status of the machine protection system deployed in the production, Machine interlock response time of ~8 μs was achieved. Incentives for future development include being able to achieve smooth and reliable beam operation, faster machine protection response time and real time data analysis of failure mode.
