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WEOBPA01 | First Results of the CRFQ Proof of Principle | 1873 |
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The Circular Radiofrequency Quadrupole is a new concept of a storage and accelerator ring for intense beams of light and heavy ions, protons and electrons. It is basically a Linear Radiofrequency Quadrupole completely bent on a circle. The advantages, which are expected to be the same performance features of a linear RFQ, would be smaller overall dimension with respect to accelerators with comparable beam intensity and emittance*. A collaboration between BNL and Italian research institute and universities was set up at the end of 2002 with the aim of the proof of the bending principle**. The prototype design is based on a 4-rods scheme and have a linear sector followed by a 45-degree curved sector. The 1mA proton beam, produced by a reconditioned RF source, go through a beam gap diameter of 10mm with circular 10mm diameters rods. Each sector is 700mm long and is placed in a 150mm diameter pipe***. The RF power at 202.56MHz is fed by a CERN "Frank James" 50kW amplifier. In this paper the first power and beam tests of the linear sector are presented.
*A.G. Ruggiero, C-A/AP/65 note, Brookhaven National Laboratory, October 2001. **A.G. Ruggiero et al., Proceedings of the EPAC 2004 conference.***D. Davino et al., Proceedings of the EPAC 2004 conference. |
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