TH1  —  Thursday Morning Session   (19-Aug-04   08:30—10:30)

Chair: S.O. Schriber, NSCL, East Lansing, Michigan

    
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TH101 Status of the J-PARC Linac, Initial Results and Upgrade Plan 554
 
  • Y. Yamazaki
    JAERI/LINAC, Ibaraki-ken
 
  The J-PARC linac building will be completed by March, 2005, when the installation of the linac components will start. On the other hand, the front end linac, comprising the 3 MeV RFQ linac, the MEBT with the beam chopper, and the 20 MeV DTL first tank, is under beam commissioning in the KEK site. A peak current of 30 mA, which is enough for the 0.6 MW operation of Rapid-Cycling Synchrotron (RCS), was accelerated up to 20 MeV on the second day of the beam commissioning, last November. The detailed study of the system is under way, including the stability test of many components. The front end linac will be shipped to the JAERI Tokai site after the building completion there. The beam commissioning of the 181 MeV linac will start in September 2006, that of the 3 GeV RCS in May, 2007, and that of the 50 GeV Main Synchrotron (MR) in November 2007. The beam acceleration in the MR will be done by March, 2008. It is strongly recommended by the government committee that the upgrade to the 400 MeV linac should start immediately after the completion of the above accelerator system, that is, in April 2008, with the period of three years, aiming the 1 MeV RCS beam power.  
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TH102 Overview of High Intensity Linac Programs in Europe 559
 
  • M. Vretenar, R. Garoby
    CERN, Geneva
 
  Recent years have seen a boost in the European Union (EU) engagement for accelerator research in Europe. Laboratories and institutions from member states are invited to combine their efforts and to define common goals and strategies, in order to receive a financial support up to 50% of the total project cost. In the field of High Intensity Linacs, the EU had already supported the EURISOL initiative for nuclear physics, which this year is applying for funding of a Design Study, and the development of linacs for Waste Transmutation. More recently, an initiative for high-energy physics has been approved, which includes a programme for the development of pulsed linac technologies. Together with the ongoing national projects, these European initiatives represent a strong focussed effort towards the development of linac technologies, intended to overcome difficulties coming from decreasing national budgets. This paper presents a summary of the requests coming from the European physics communities and an overview of linac R&D activities sponsored by the EU, together with some information on parallel national projects. The parameter choices as well as the main technical features of the different projects are presented and compared.  
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TH103 Summary of the Argonne Workshop on High Gradient RF 564
 
  • J. Norem
    ANL, Argonne, Illinois
 
  Workshop on High Gradient rf was held at Argonne from October 7 - 9, 2003. This workshop reviewed the problems encountered when a number of accelerator technologies approached the high gradient limits. The aim of the workshop was to involve materials scientists and try to look at trigger mechanisms and surface interactions, in addition to reviewing progress. Talks were presented on superconducting rf, progress with high and low frequency copper cavities, and dielectrics. The focus was on both experimental and theoretical aspects of the problem. The overall picture presented at the workshop will be summarized.  
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TH104 Industrial RF Linac Experiences and Laboratory Interactions 569
 
  • M. Peiniger
    ACCEL, Bergisch Gladbach
 
  Since more than two decades ACCEL Instruments GmbH at Bergisch Gladbach (formerly Siemens/Interatom) is supplying the worldwide accelerator labs with key components like rf cavities and power couplers, s.c. magnets, insertion devices, vacuum chambers and x-ray beamline equipment. Starting with the design and production of turn key SRF accelerating modules in the late 80th, meanwhile ACCEL is engineering, manufacturing, on site commissioning and servicing complete accelerators with guaranteed beam performance. Today, with a staff of more than 100 physicists and engineers and about the same number of manufacturing specialists in our dedicated production facilities, ACCEL's know how and sales volume in this field has accumulated to more than 2000 man years and several hundred Mio €, respectively. Basis of our steady development is a cooperative partnership with the world leading research labs in the respective fields. As an example, for the supply of a turn key 100 MeV injector linac for the Swiss Light Source, and meanwhile also for the Diamond Light Source as well as for the Australian Synchrotron Project, we established a very fruitful partnership with DESY.  
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