Author: Groening, L.
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TUA1I02 Upgrade of the UNILAC for FAIR 139
 
  • L. Groening, A. Adonin, W.A. Barth, X. Du, R. Hollinger, E. Jäger, M. Kaiser, S. Mickat, A. Rubin, P. Scharrer, B. Schlitt, G. Schreiber, H. Vormann, C. Xiao, C. Zhang
    GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
  • Ch.E. Düllmann
    HIM, Mainz, Germany
  • H. Hähnel, U. Ratzinger, A. Seibel, R. Tiede
    IAP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
 
  The UNIversal Linear Accelerator (UNILAC) at GSI has served as injector for all ion species from protons for uranium for the past four decades. In order to meet the requirements for the upcoming FAIR project the machine has to be revised. A dedicated uranium source branch is under design. It has to provide up to 20 emA of 238U4+ at 2.2 keV/u to the entrance of the RFQ. The latter needs to be re-designed aiming at lower electric surface fields for sparking mitigation. The operational flexibility of the subsequent MEBT will be enhanced. We report on recent achievements on enhancing the stripping efficiency from U4+ to U28+ by employing a pulsed jet of hydrogen gas. The stripper section may also include an option to provide a round-to-flat adapter shrinking the horizontal emittance at the expense of the vertical one. The existing post-stripper DTL is in operation since 40 years and will be fully re-designed. An optimized drift tube shape increases the shunt impedance, varying stem orientations shall mitigate parasite rf-modes, and asymetric and enhanced quadrupole focusing will preserve the beam flatness. The contribution will describe the various upgrade measures.  
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TUA1C01 A Pulsed Gas Stripper for Stripping of High-Intensity, Heavy-Ion Beams at 1.4 MeV/u at the GSI UNILAC 144
 
  • P. Scharrer, W.A. Barth, Ch.E. Düllmann, J. Khuyagbaatar
    HIM, Mainz, Germany
  • W.A. Barth, M. Bevcic, Ch.E. Düllmann, L. Groening, K.P. Horn, E. Jäger, J. Khuyagbaatar, J. Krier, P. Scharrer, A. Yakushev
    GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
  • Ch.E. Düllmann, P. Scharrer
    Mainz University, Mainz, Germany
 
  The GSI UNILAC in combination with SIS18 will serve as a high-current, heavy-ion injector for the future FAIR. It has to meet high demands in terms of beam brilliance at a low duty factor (100 mus beam pulse length, 2.7 Hz repetition rate). An advanced 1.4 MeV/u gas stripper setup has been developed, aiming at an enhanced yield into the required charge states. The setup delivers short, high-density gas pulses in synchronization with the beam pulse. This provides an increased gas density at a reduced gas load for the differential pumping system. In recent measurements, high-intensity, heavy-ion beams of U4+ were successfully stripped and separated for the desired charge state. The modified stripper setup, as well as major results, are presented, including a comparison to the present gas stripper based on a N2 gas-jet. The stripping efficiency into the desired 28+ charge state was significantly increased by up to 60 % using a hydrogen stripper target while the beam quality remained similar.  
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WEA1C03 Status and Perspectives of the CW Upgrade of the UNILAC HLI at GSI 183
 
  • P. Gerhard, L. Groening, W. Hartmann, S. Mickat, K. Tinschert, H. Vormann, K.-O. Voss
    GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
 
  The High Charge State Injector (HochLadungsInjektor) HLI was commissioned in 1991. It was the first linac comprising of a Radio Frequency Quadrupole RFQ and an Interdigital H-Type cavity IH. For more than twenty years, it successfully provided essential heavy ion beams with high duty cycle for several lighthouse experiments and developments at GSI. Among them are the Super Heavy Element Research SHE, namely the experiments SHIP, TASCA, SHIPTRAP, and the heavy ion cancer therapy. Three out of the six transuranium elements found at GSI were discovered with ion beams from the HLI. The ever increasing demand for beam intensity was met by the proposal of a SuperConducting Continuous Wave sc cw-Linac. As the HLI will serve as an injector for this new accelerator, a cw upgrade for the HLI was developed.  
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