FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) will be a new national user facility for nuclear science. This cw, high power, superconducting (SC), heavy ion driver linac consists of a frontend to provide various highly charged ions at 0.5 MeV/u, three SC acceleration segments connected by two 180° bending systems to achieve an output beam energy of ≥200 MeV/u for all varieties of stable ions, and a beam delivery system to transport multi-charge-state beams to a fragmentation target at beam power of up to 400 kW. The linac utilizes four types of low-beta resonators with one frequency transition from 80.5 to 322 MHz after Segment 1, where ion charge state(s) is boosted through a stripper at ≤20 MeV/u. The beam dynamics design challenges include simultaneous acceleration of multi-charge-state beams to meet beam-on-target requirements, efficient acceleration of high intensity, low energy heavy ion beams, limitation of uncontrolled beam loss to <1 W/m, accommodation of multiple charge stripping scenarios, etc. We present the recent optimizations on linac lattice, the results of end-to-end beam simulations with machine errors, and the simulation of beam tuning and fault conditions.
