PAC2013 - List of Authors (Rencsok, R.)

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Results From the Linac Commissioning of the Rare Isotope Reaccelerator - ReA

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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.

THPHO14

RF Cavity Phase Calibration using Electromagnetic Pickups

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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.

FRYBA2

Status of the Rare Isotope Reaccelerator Facility REA

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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.

Slides FRYBA2 [2.996 MB]

Paper	Title	Page
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.

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.

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.
	Slides FRYBA2 [2.996 MB]