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THPAC20 | Beam Position and Phase Measurements of Microampere Beams at the Michigan State University ReA3 Facility | 1187 |
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A high power CW, heavy ion linac will be the driver accelerator for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams being designed at Michigan State University. The linac requires a Beam Position Monitoring (BPM) system with better than 100 micron resolution at 100 microamperes beam current. A low beam current test of the candidate technology, button pick-ups and direct digital down-conversion signal processing, was conducted in the ReA3 re-accelerated beam facility at MSU. The test is described. Beam position and phase measurement results, demonstrating ~200 micron and ~1 degree resolution in a 90 kHz bandwidth for a 0.5 microampere beam current, are reported. | ||
THPHO14 | RF Cavity Phase Calibration using Electromagnetic Pickups | 1334 |
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Funding: Michigan State University FRIB funds: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science under Cooperative Agreement DE-SC0000661 The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) is a heavy ion fragmentation facility to produce rare isotopes far from stability for low energy nuclear science. The facility will utilize a high-intensity, superconducting heavy-ion driver linac to provide stable ion beams from protons to uranium at energies greater than 200 MeV/u and at a beam power of up to 400 kW. The baseline design for the linac comprises over 300 accelerating superconducting cavities. A precondition for tuning the linac is calibrating the RF phase of each of these cavities, which requires a phase scan combined with energy measurements. In this work, we explore the use of electromagnetic pickups for this task. (We used capacitive style pickups.) Pickups provide fast readings, and measurements of the phase difference between a pair of pickups allows us to infer energy values (provided initial energy is known) and to reconstruct the phase-energy curve. We present an overview of the algorithm and measurement results of an implementation on the ReA3 re-accelerator. |
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FRYBA2 | Status of the Rare Isotope Reaccelerator Facility REA | 1458 |
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The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) is currently in the preliminary design phase at Michigan State University (MSU). FRIB consists of a driver linac for the acceleration of heavy ion beams, followed by a fragmentation target station and a ReAccelerating facility (RεA). While FRIB is expected to start commissioning in 2017, the first stage of RεA called ReA3 is already under commissioning and was coupled to the Coupled Cyclotron Facility in 2012. Once FRIB is completed RεA will continue operation as post-accelerator facility for FRIB. RεA consists of a gas stopper, an Electron Beam Ion Trap (EBIT) charge state booster, a room temperature radio frequency quadrupole (RFQ), a LINAC using superconducting quarter wave resonators, and an achromatic beam transport and distribution line to a new experimental area. An overview of the facility will be discussed. In particular, this talk will focus on the technical progress and commissioning results using pilot beams from the off-line ion source and charge bred beams from the online EBIT injector. | ||
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