FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University is based on a high power heavy ion linac and beam commissioning is under way. For evaluation of beam Twiss parameters and rms emittance, we routinely use multiple profile measurements while the strength of an upstream quadrupole is varied. The change of the quadrupole strength results in a beam mismatch downstream of the profile monitor which can cause beam losses. This is not acceptable in a high energy beamline. To avoid this transverse mismatch, we developed a beam matching procedure by optimization of quadrupoles’ setting downstream of the profile monitor. Using this procedure we were able to eliminate beam losses during the quadrupole scan, and evaluate beam Twiss parameters and rms emittance. Examples of using this procedure in the folding segment of the FRIB linac will be reported.
FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beam (FRIB) includes a heavy ion superconducting (SC) linac. Recently we completed beam commissioning of the Linac Segment 1 (LS1) and 45° bend section of the Folding Segment 1 (FS1). Four ion species, 40Ar9+, 20Ne6+, 86Kr17+ and 129Xe26+ were successfully accelerated to a beam energy of 20.3 MeV/u. We explored the possibility of non-invasive beam diagnostics for online beam envelope monitoring based on beam quadrupole moments derived from Beam Position Monitors (BPMs)*. In future operations, various ion beam species will be accelerated and minimization of beam tuning time is critical. To address this requirement, it is beneficial to use BPMs to obtain beam Twiss parameters instead of wire scanners. This paper reports the results of BPM-based beam Twiss parameters evolution in the FS1.
* R. E. Shafer, "Laser Diagnostic for High Current H beams", Proc. 1998 Beam Instrumentation Workshop (Stanford). A.I.P. Conf. Proceedings, (451), 191.
FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
The beam commissioning of linac segment 1 (LS1) composed of fifteen cryomodules consisting of total 104 superconducting (SC) resonators and 36 SC solenoids was successfully completed. Four ion beam species, Ne, Ar, Kr and Xe were successfully accelerated up to 20.3 MeV/u. The FRIB driver linac in its current configuration became the highest energy continuous wave hadron linac. We will report a detailed study of beam dynamics in the LS1 prior to and after stripping with a carbon foil.