Author: Forest, T.A.
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MOPPR087 Transverse Beam Emittance Measurements of a 16 MeV Linac at the Idaho Accelerator Center 990
 
  • S. Setiniyaz, T.A. Forest
    ISU, Pocatello, Idaho, USA
  • K. Chouffani, Y. Kim
    IAC, Pocatello, IDAHO, USA
  • A. Freyberger
    JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
 
  A beam emittance measurement of the 16 MeV S-band High Repetition Rate Linac (HRRL) was performed at Idaho State University's Idaho Accelerator Center (IAC). The HRRL linac structure was upgraded beyond the capabilities of a typical medical linac so it can achieve a repetition rate of 1 kHz. Measurements of the HRRL transverse beam emittance are underway that will be used to optimize the production of positrons using HRRL's intense electron beam on a tungsten converter. In this paper, we describe a beam imaging system using on an OTR screen and a digital CCD camera, a MATLAB tool to extract beamsize and emittance, detailed measurement procedures, and the measured transverse emittances for an arbitrary beam energy of 15 MeV.