Author: Wengenroth, M.
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TUPS007 Construction and Test of a Cryocatcher Prototype for SIS100* 1527
 
  • L.H.J. Bozyk, D.H.H. Hoffmann
    TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
  • H. Kollmus, P.J. Spiller, M. Wengenroth
    GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
 
  Funding: EU-FP-7 project COLMAT, FIAS
The main accelerator, SIS100, of the FAIR-facility will provide heavy ion beams of highest intensities. Ionization beam loss is the most important loss mechanism at operation with high intensity, intermediate charge state heavy ions. A special synchrotron design has been developed for SIS100, aiming for hundred percent control of ionization beam loss by means of a dedicated cold ion catcher system. To suppress dynamic vacuum effects, the cryo catcher system shall also provide a significantly reduced effective desorption yield. The construction and tests of a prototype cryo ion catcher is a workpackage of the EU-FP-7 project COLMAT. A prototype test setup including cryostat has been constructed, manufactured and tested at GSI under realistic conditions with heavy ion beams of the of the heavy ion synchrotron SIS18. The design and results are presented.