Author: Leitner, D.
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THPAC20 Beam Position and Phase Measurements of Microampere Beams at the Michigan State University ReA3 Facility 1187
 
  • J.L. Crisp, B. Durickovic, G. Kiupel, D. Leitner, J.A. Rodriguez, T. Russo, R.C. Webber, W. Wittmer
    FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
  • C.I. Briegel, N. Eddy, B.J. Fellenz, D. Slimmer
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
  • D. Constan-Wahl, S.W. Krause, S. Nash
    NSCL, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
  • M. Wendt
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  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
 
  • B. Durickovic, J.L. Crisp, G. Kiupel, D. Leitner, J.A. Rodriguez, R.C. Webber
    FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
  • D. Constan-Wahl, S.W. Krause, S. Nash, R. Rencsok, W. Wittmer
    NSCL, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
 
  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.
 
 
FRYBA1 Progress towards the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams 1453
 
  • J. Wei, N.K. Bultman, F. Casagrande, C. Compton, K.D. Davidson, J. DeKamp, B. Drewyor, K. Elliott, A. Facco, P.E. Gibson, T . Glasmacher, K. Holland, M.J. Johnson, S. Jones, D. Leitner, M. Leitner, G. Machicoane, F. Marti, D. Morris, J.A. Nolen, J.P. Ozelis, S. Peng, J. Popielarski, L. Popielarski, E. Pozdeyev, T. Russo, K. Saito, J.J. Savino, R.C. Webber, M. Williams, T. Xu, Y. Yamazaki, A. Zeller, Y. Zhang, Q. Zhao
    FRIB, East Lansing, USA
  • D. Arenius, V. Ganni
    JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
  • A. Facco
    INFN/LNL, Legnaro (PD), Italy
  • R.E. Laxdal
    TRIUMF, Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Vancouver, Canada
  • J.A. Nolen
    ANL, Argonne, USA
 
  Funding: 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 based on a continuous-wave superconducting heavy ion linac to accelerate all the stable isotopes to above 200 MeV/u with a beam power of up to 400 kW. At an average beam power approximately two-to-three orders-of-magnitude higher than those of operating heavy-ion facilities, FRIB stands at the power frontier of the accelerator family - the first time for heavy-ion accelerators. To realize this innovative performance, superconducting RF cavities are used starting at the very low energy of 500 keV/u, and beams with multiple charge states are accelerated simultaneously. Many technological challenges specific for this linac have been tackled by the FRIB team and collaborators. Furthermore, the distinct differences from the other types of linacs at the power front must be clearly understood to make the FRIB successful. This report summarizes the technical progress made in the past years to meet these challenges.
 
 
MOPMA07 The D-Line Project at Michigan State University 309
 
  • J.A. Rodriguez, S. Chouhan, W. Wittmer
    FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
  • S. Chouhan, A. Lapierre, D. Leitner, G. Perdikakis, M. Portillo, S. Schwarz, M. Steiner, C. Sumithrarachchi, S.J. Williams, X. Wu
    NSCL, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by Michigan State University (MSU) and the National Science Foundation (NSF)
The Coupled Cyclotron Facility (CCF) at Michigan State University (MSU) has been used to produce rare isotope beams for more than a decade. Ions produced by an ECR source are accelerated using two superconducting cyclotrons in tandem with a stripper foil in between to boost their charge state. After the second cyclotron, a target and a fragment separator produce and select the rare isotope beam that is sent to the different experimental vaults. A gas stopper can be used to thermalize the beam before sending it to a low energy experimental area or to a charge breeder before the ReA re-accelerator. The D-line project includes a mass separator after the gas stopper and several beam transfer lines that connect it to the low energy experiments and to the charge breeder. In this paper, we will describe the project and give an update of its status including the results of the commissioning.
 
 
MOPSM07 Results From the Linac Commissioning of the Rare Isotope Reaccelerator - ReA 360
 
  • W. Wittmer, D.M. Alt, C. Benatti, S.W. Krause, A. Lapierre, D. Leitner, F. Montes, S. Nash, R. Rencsok, M.J. Syphers, X. Wu
    NSCL, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
  • L.Y. Lin, J.A. Rodriguez, E. Tanke
    FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
 
  Funding: The NSCL is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and Michigan State University.
ReA is a radioactive ion beams post­accelerator currently being completed at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University. ReA is designed to reaccelerate rare isotopes to energies of a few MeV/u following production by projectile fragmentation and thermalization in a gas cell. The facility consists of five main components: an electron­beam ion trap (EBIT) charge breeder, an achromatic charge ­over­ mass separator, a radio­frequency quadrupole accelerator, a superconducting radio­ frequency linear accelerator (SRF LINAC) and a transport line into the experimental hall. The first sections up to the SRF LINAC of ReA have been commissioned in the last two years using the off­line stable ion beam source and the heavy ion beams from the EBIT charge breeder. The final section, transporting beam from the LINAC into the experimental hall, will be completed and commissioned early this summer. This paper presents the results of the SRF cryo module characterization and the progress of the machine optics model.
 
 
FRYBA2 Status of the Rare Isotope Reaccelerator Facility REA 1458
 
  • D. Leitner, D.M. Alt, T. Baumann, C. Benatti, K. Cooper, B. Durickovic, K. Kittimanapun, S.W. Krause, A. Lapierre, L.Y. Lin, F. Montes, D.J. Morrissey, R. Rencsok, J.A. Rodriguez, S. Schwarz, C. Sumithrarachchi, M.J. Syphers, S. Williams, W. Wittmer
    NSCL, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
  • X. Wu
    FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
 
  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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