02 Proton and Ion Accelerators and Applications
2B Ion Linac Projects
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MO3A02 Commissioning of a New Injector for the RIKEN RI-Beam Factory 125
 
  • N. Sakamoto, M. Fujimaki, H. Hasebe, Y. Higurashi, O. Kamigaito, H. Okuno, K. Suda, T. Watanabe, K. Yamada
    RIKEN Nishina Center, Wako, Japan
  • R. Koyama
    SHI Accelerator Service Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
  
  A new injector for the RIKEN RI-Beam Factory (RIBF) has been fully commissioned since October 2011. The injector accelerates ions of m/q=6.8 up to 670 keV/u. In order to save the cost and space, a direct coupling scheme was adopted for rf coupling between the cavity and amplifier, based on an elaborate design with the Microwave Studio code. It has worked out very stably in these three months, making the uranium beam intensity higher by one order of magnitude. Moreover, it is now possible to operate the RIBF and GARIS facility for the super-heavy element synthesis independently.  
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MO3A03 FRANZ – Accelerator Test Bench and Neutron Source 130
 
  • O. Meusel, L.P. Chau, M. Heilmann, H. Podlech, U. Ratzinger, K. Volk, C. Wiesner
    IAP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  
  The challenge of existing and planned neutron sources is to provide highly brilliant ion beams with high reliability. The Frankfurt neutron source FRANZ is not only a neutron source but also a test bench for novel accelerator and diagnostic concepts for intense ion beams. The experiment consists of a compact linear accelerator test bench for the acceleration of an intense proton beam to 2 MeV producing the neutrons via the 7Li(p,n) reaction. The final beam intensity will be 200 mA, therefore the space charge and space charge compensation effects can be studied with high statistical relevance along the accelerator. The low energy beam transport LEBT is equipped with four solenoids matching the beam into the chopper system and into the RFQ-IH combination already under construction. The coupling of the RFQ accelerator stage and the IH drift tube cavity offers the possibility to use only one power amplifier as a driver for both of these resonators and reduces investment costs. The compact design of this low-β accelerator stage is optimized for high beam intensities to overcome the strong space charge forces expected in this accelerator test bench.  
 
TU1A01 Status of the IFMIF-EVEDA 9 MeV 125 mA Deuteron Linac 407
 
  • A. Mosnier
    Fusion for Energy, Garching, Germany
  
  The scope of IFMIF/EVEDA has been recently revised to set priority on the validation activities, especially on the Accelerator Prototype (LIPAc) with extending the duration up to mid 2017 in order to better fit the development of the challenging components and the commissioning of the whole accelerator. The present status of LIPAc, currently under construction at Rokkasho in Japan, outlines of the engineering design and of the developments of the major components will be reported. In conclusion, the expected outcomes of the engineering work, associated with the experimental program will be presented.  
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TU1A04 FRIB Accelerator Status and Challenges 417
 
  • J. Wei, E.C. Bernard, N.K. Bultman, F. Casagrande, S. Chouhan, C. Compton, K.D. Davidson, 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.P. Ozelis, S. Peng, J. Popielarski, L. Popielarski, E. Pozdeyev, T. Russo, K. Saito, R.C. Webber, M. Williams, Y. Yamazaki, A. Zeller, Y. Zhang, Q. Zhao
    FRIB, East Lansing, USA
  • D. Arenius, V. Ganni
    JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
  • J.A. Nolen
    ANL, Argonne, USA
  
  Funding: This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science under Cooperative Agreement DE-SC0000661
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at MSU includes a driver linac that can accelerate all stable isotopes to energies beyond 200 MeV/u at beam powers up to 400 kW. The linac consists of 330 superconducting quarter- and half-wave resonators operating at 2 K temperature. Physical challenges include acceleration of multiple charge states of beams to meet beam-on-target requirements, efficient production and acceleration of intense heavy-ion beams from low to intermediate energies, accommodation of multiple charge stripping scenarios (liquid lithium, helium gas, and carbon foil) and ion species, designs for both baseline in-flight fragmentation and ISOL upgrade options, and design considerations of machine availability, tunability, reliability, maintainability, and upgradability. We report on the FRIB accelerator design and developments with emphasis on technical challenges and progress. 		 
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TUPLB06 Status of the Rare Isotope Science Project in Korea 455
 
  • J.-W. Kim
    IBS, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
  
  Funding: National Research Foundation of Korea
A heavy-ion accelerator facility is being designed in Korea for the production of rare isotope beams under the name of rare isotope science project (RISP). The project is funded and officially started in Jan. 2012. The accelerator complex is composed of three main accelerators: a superconducting linac to use in-flight fragmentation (IF) method in generating isotope beams, a 70 kW proton cyclotron for the ISOL method, and a superconducting post accelerator for re-acceleration of rare isotope beams to the energy range of 18 MeV/u. The minimum energy of a U beam required for the IF driver is 200 MeV/u at the beam power of 400 kW. The beam current of U ions in high charge states is limited by the performance of existing ECR ion sources. This facility will be unique in the aspect that state-of-art accelerators are facilitated for both the IF and ISOL drivers and combined to produce extreme exotic beams. Also, standalone operation of each accelerator will allow us to accommodate diverse users from beam application fields as well as nuclear physics. The current status of the design efforts will be presented. 		 
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TUPB028 Status of the Rare Isotope Science Project in Korea 534
 
  • J.-W. Kim
    IBS, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
  
  Funding: National Research Foundation of Korea
A heavy-ion accelerator facility is being designed in Korea for the production of rare isotope beams under the name of rare isotope science project (RISP). The project is funded and officially started in Jan. 2012. The accelerator complex is composed of three main accelerators: a superconducting linac to use in-flight fragmentation (IF) method in generating isotope beams, a 70 kW proton cyclotron for the ISOL method, and a superconducting post accelerator for re-acceleration of rare isotope beams to the energy range of 18 MeV/u. The minimum energy of a U beam required for the IF driver is 200 MeV/u at the beam power of 400 kW. The beam current of U ions in high charge states is limited by the performance of existing ECR ion sources. This facility will be unique in the aspect that state-of-art accelerators are facilitated for both the IF and ISOL drivers and combined to produce extreme exotic beams. Also, standalone operation of each accelerator will allow us to accommodate diverse users from beam application fields as well as nuclear physics. The current status of the design efforts will be presented. 		 
 
TUPB029 Beam Intensity and Energy Control for the SPIRAL2 Facility 537
 
  • C. Jamet, T. André, C. Doutresssoulles, B. Ducoudret, W. Le Coz, G. Ledu, S.L. Leloir, S. Loret
    GANIL, Caen, France
  
  The first part of the SPIRAL2 facility, which entered last year in the construction phase at GANIL in France, consists of an ion source, a deuteron and a proton source, a RFQ and a superconducting linear accelerator delivering high intensity, up to 5mA and 40 MeV for the deuteron beams. Diagnostic developments have been done to control the intensity and the beam energy by non-interceptive methods at the linac exit. The beam current is measured by using couples of ACCT-DCCT installed along the lines and the beam energy by using a time of flight device. This paper gives explanations about the technical solutions, the results and resolutions for measuring and controlling the beam.  
 
TUPB030 Overview of the Superconducting Linacs of the Rare Isotope Science Project 540
 
  • D. Jeon, C. Choi, J.D. Joo, H.C. Jung, H.J. Kim, H.J. Kim, S.K. Kim, Y.H. Kim, J.H. Lee, G.-T. Park, J. Song
    IBS, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
  • Y.Y. Lee
    KAERI, Daejon, Republic of Korea
  
  The Rare Isotope Science Project is launched in Korea to build a IF and ISOL facilities. The IF driver superconducting linac is to accelerate ion beams up to 200 MeV/u for U beam and 600 MeV for proton beam. The ISOL post linac is a superconducting linac to accelerate up to 18 MeV/u for U beam. General layout of SC linac is discussed.  
 
TUPB031 Beam Envelope Analysis and Simulation 543
 
  • V.S. Dyubkov, A.S. Plastun
    MEPhI, Moscow, Russia
  
  Forming the charge particle beams with small cross-sections and low energies is an actual problem for a linac design. That beams are used actively for isotope therapy, ion implantation, etc. Beam emittance is its quality factor, and it should be matched with a facility channel acceptance. The method for beam dynamics analysis at linac is developed in terms of non-coherent particle oscillation study. Nonlinear beam dynamics is investigated by using this method. It is shown that this technique allows one to realize effective beam emittance control. Analytical results obtained are verified by means of numerical simulation.  
 
TUPB032 Beam Dynamics of the Linac ALPI-PIAVE in View of Possible Upgrades Scenario for the SPES Project. 546
 
  • M. Comunian, C. Roncolato
    INFN/LNL, Legnaro (PD), Italy
  • B.B. Chalykh
    ITEP, Moscow, Russia
  
  At the Legnaro National Laboratories it is operating a Super Conducting linac for nuclear studies named ALPI. The ALPI linac is injected either by a XTU tandem, up to 14 MV, or by the s-c PIAVE injector, made with 2 SC-RFQ. In this article will be report the beam dynamics simulations for some possible scenario upgrade of the linac operate by a new injector, made with a new RFQ.  
 
TUPB033 Piezoelectric Actuator Based Phase Locking System for IUAC Linac 549
 
  • B.K. Sahu, R. Ahuja, G.K. Chowdhury, R.N. Dutt, S. Ghosh, D. Kanjilal, J. Karmakar, M. Kumar, R. Kumar, D.S. Mathuria, A. Pandey, P. Patra, A. Rai, A. Roy, S.K. Suman
    IUAC, New Delhi, India
  
  The linac of IUAC consists of three main accelerating modules with each one housing eight superconducting quarter wave resonators. Currently, the phase locking of the resonator is performed by a combination of fast I-Q based electronic tuner and helium gas flow based mechanical tuner. Microphonics measurement on the resonators found the presence of lower frequency vibrations along with main mechanical mode (~60 Hz) of the resonators. Although main mechanical mode of the resonator is damped by using SS balls, the presence of lower frequency vibrations demand more RF power from the amplifier, as the existing mechanical tuner works in time scale of seconds. A combination of piezoelectric actuator based fast tuner along with stepper motor based coarse tuner operating in the time scale of milliseconds is being developed. This scheme is implemented on a few resonators in last linac cryostat. Initial results show that this mechanism can arrest all low frequency vibrations thereby reducing a substantial load from the electronic tuner and improve the dynamics of the phase locking scheme. The implementation scheme along with test results will be presented in detail.  
 
TUPB034 A Helium Injector for Coupled RFQ and SFRFQ Cavity Project at Peking University 552
 
  • S.X. Peng, J. Chen, J.E. Chen, S.L. Gao, Z.Y. Guo, P.N. Lu, H.T. Ren, Z. Wang, Y. Xu, J. Zhao
    PKU/IHIP, Beijing, People's Republic of China
  
  A new acceleration structure named as coupled RFQ and SFRFQ cavity is under design at Peking University (PKU). A pulsed He+ beam injector will be needed to transport 30 keV 20 mA He+ beam with a factor of 1/6, pulse width of 1 ms and normalized rms emittance less than 0.15 π{·}mm{·}mrad for this composited type cavity. Based on the experimental results obtained on the PKU LEBT test bench, a 1.16 m long two-solenoid type low energy beam transport (LEBT) line was developed. In this paper we will address the 30 keV He+ ion beam transportation experiment results on the test bench as well as the specific design on the helium injector.  
 
TUPB035 A New Design of the RFQ Channel for GSI HITRAP Facility 555
 
  • S.G. Yaramyshev, W.A. Barth, G. Clemente, L.A. Dahl, V. Gettmann, F. Herfurth, M. Kaiser, M.T. Maier, D. Neidherr, A. Orzhekhovskaya, H. Vormann, G. Vorobjev
    GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
  • R. Repnow
    MPI-K, Heidelberg, Germany
  
  The HITRAP linac at GSI is designed to decelerate ions with mass to charge ratio of A/Z<3 from 4 MeV/u to 6 keV/u for experiments with ion traps. The particles are decelerated to 500 keV/u with an IH-DTL stucture and finally to 6 keV/u with a 4-rod RFQ. During commissioning stage the deceleration to approx. 500 keV/u was successfully demonstrated, while no particles behind the RFQ with an energy of 6 keV/u were observed. Dedicated simulations with DYNAMION code, based on 3D-fotometrie of the fabricated RFQ electrodes were successfully performed comprehending the commissioning results. In a second step the simulations have been experimentally confirmed at a test-stand (MPI, Heidelberg). An input energy, accepted by the RFQ channel is significantly higher than design value. For this reason the longitudinal beam emittance after deceleration with IH structure does not fit to the longitudinal RFQ acceptance. To solve this problem a new design of the RFQ channel with a correct input energy has been started. New RFQ parameters and the results of the beam dynamics simulations are presented in this paper.  
 
TUPB036 Design of Re-Buncher Cavity for Heavy-ion LINAC in IMP 558
 
  • L.P. Sun, X. Du, Y. He, A. Shi, C. Zhang, Z.L. Zhang
    IMP, Lanzhou, People's Republic of China
  
  A re-buncher with spiral arms for a heavy ion linear accelerator named as SSC-LNAC at HIRFL (the heavy ion research facility of Lanzhou) has been constructed. The re-buncher, which is used for beam longitudinal modulation and match between the RFQ and DTL, is designed to be operated in continuous wave (CW) mode at the Medium-Energy Beam-Transport (MEBT) line to maintain the beam intensity and quality. Because of the longitudinal space limitation, the re-buncher has to be very compact and will be built with four gaps. We determined the key parameters of the re-buncher cavity from the simulations using Microwave Studio software, such as the resonant frequency, the quality factor Q and the shunt impedance. The detailed design of a 53.667 MHz spiral cavity and measurement results of its prototype will be presented.  
 
TUPB039 Conceptual Design of Superconducting Heavy Ion Linear Injector for HIAF 561
 
  • Z.J. Wang, Y. He, H. Jia, C. Li, S.H. Liu, W. Wu, X.B. Xu, B. Zhang, H.W. Zhao
    IMP, Lanzhou, People's Republic of China
  
  A heavy ion accelerator facility, High Intensity Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF), has been promoted by Institute of Modern Physics （IMP）of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The injector of the accelerator facility is a superconducting linac. It is a high intensity heavy ion linac and works on pulse mode. The final energy is 150 MeV/u. The accelerated species are from P to Uranium. The linac works with both laser and ECR ion source. The designed current is 20 emA. The general concept of HIAF and the preliminary design of linear injector are presented in the paper.  
 
TUPB040 Status of the Linac SRF Acquisition for FRIB 564
 
  • M. Leitner, E.C. Bernard, J. Binkowski, B. Bird, S. Bricker, S. Chouhan, C. Compton, K. Elliott, B. Enkhbat, A.D. Fox, L.L. Harle, M. Hodek, M.J. Johnson, I.M. Malloch, D. R. Miller, S.J. Miller, T. Nellis, D. Norton, R. Oweiss, J.P. Ozelis, J. Popielarski, L. Popielarski, K. Saito, M. Shuptar, G.J. Velianoff, J. Wei, M. Williams, K. Witgen, Y. Xu, Y. Yamazaki, Y. Zhang
    FRIB, East Lansing, USA
  • A. Facco
    INFN/LNL, Legnaro (PD), Italy
  
  Funding: This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science under Cooperative Agreement DE SC0000661.
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) will utilize a high-intensity, superconducting heavy-ion driver linac to provide stable ion beams from protons to uranium up to energies of >200 MeV/u and at a beam power of up to 400 kW. The ions are accelerated to about 0.5 MeV/u using a room-temperature 80.5 MHz RFQ and injected into a superconducting cw linac consisting of 330 individual low-beta cavities in 49 cryomodules operating at 2 K. This paper discusses the current status of the linac SRF acquisition strategy as the project phases into construction mode. 		 
 
TUPB041 Scattering of  H− Stripped Electrons  from SEM Grids and Wire Scanners at the CERN LINAC4 567
 
  • F. Roncarolo, E. Chevallay, M. Duraffourg, G.J. Focker, C. Heßler, U. Raich, VC. Vuitton, F. Zocca
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • B. Cheymol
    ESS, Lund, Sweden
  
  At the CERN LINAC4, wire grids and scanners will be used to characterize the H− beam transverse profile at different stages along the acceleration to 160 MeV. The wire signal will be determined by the balance between secondary emission and number of charges stopped in the wire, which will depend on the wire material and diameter, the possible choice of biasing (DC) the wires and the beam energy. The outermost electrons of H− ions impinging on a wire are stripped in the first nanometers of material. A portion of such electrons are scattered away from the wire and can reach the neighboring wires.  In addition, scattered electrons hitting the surrounding beam pipe generate secondary electrons that can also perturb the measurement. Monte Carlo simulations, analytical calculations and a laboratory experiment allowed quantifying the amount of scattering and the scattered particles distributions. The experiment was based on 70 keV electrons, well reproducing the case of 128 MeV H− ions. For all the LINAC4 simulated cases the predicted effect on the beam size reconstruction results in a relative error of less than 5%.  
 
TUPB042 Progress on RFQIII Fabrication in J-PARC Linac 570
 
  • T. Morishita
    JAEA/LINAC, Ibaraki-ken, Japan
  • K. Hasegawa, Y. Kondo
    JAEA, Ibaraki-ken, Japan
  • H. Kawamata, F. Naito, T. Sugimura
    KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
  
  The J-PARC accelerator comprises an injector linac, a 3 GeV Rapid-Cycling Synchrotron and a 50 GeV Main Ring. The J-PARC linac has been operating for users with the beam energy of 181 MeV. The energy (to 400 MeV) and current (to 50 mA) upgrade of the linac is scheduled for 1MW operation at RCS. For the current upgrade, the fabrication of a new RFQ, which is designed for 50 mA acceleration, has been started. The engineering design and the fabrication technologies were carefully chosen to reduce the discharge risk during the operation. For good vacuum pumping, vanes and ports are brazed for the direct pumping through slits at the tuners. Also, we tried a chemical polishing to improve the smoothness of the vane surface. In this paper, we present the fabrication progress of a new RFQ in J-PARC linac.  
 
TUPB043 One Design of Heavy Ion Linac Injector for CSRm 573
 
  • X.H. Zhang, J.W. Xia, Y.J. Yuan
    IMP, Lanzhou, People's Republic of China
  
  The design of heavy ion linac as one new injector of the main Cooling Storage Ring (CSRm) has been discussed. The linac design is based on interdigital H mode drift tube with KONUS (Kombinierte Null Grad Struktur). A high acceleration rate with zero degree synchronous particle phase acceleration reduce the length of IH-KONUS linac and the cost in comparison with conventional linac based on Alvarez structure. To reduce the effect of emittance growth, the RFQ structure is used in front of the IH-KONUS linac. In this linac, the design particle 238U28+ will be accelerated to 7 AMeV, and the transmission of Uranium beam can reach up to 80%. In this report, the initial physics design of the main linac is presented.  
 
TUPB105
 First Operation of the Brookhaven EBIS as the Heavy Ion Preinjector for RHIC  
 
  • J.G. Alessi, E.N. Beebe, A.I. Pikin, D. Raparia
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  
  Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy.
During the 2012 RHIC run cycle, the EBIS-based heavy ion preinjector provided U39+, Au32+ and Cu11+ ions for the RHIC physics program. The preinjector was operated for ~2.5 months continuously. Intensities delivered to the Booster synchrotron were ~109 U39+ ions/pulse, ~1.5·109 Au32+ ions/pulse, and ~6·109 Cu11+ ions/pulse, in ~20 μs pulses. When providing Au and Cu for asymmetric collisions in RHIC, both species were always available, with a switching time between species of 1 second. The performance and operational experience of this new preinjector will be presented. 		 
 
THPB097 FRIB Front End Design Status 1047
 
  • E. Pozdeyev, N.K. Bultman, G. Machicoane, G. Morgan, X. Rao, Q. Zhao
    FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
  • V.L. Smirnov, S.B. Vorozhtsov
    JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia
  • J. Stovall
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • L.T. Sun
    IMP, Lanzhou, People's Republic of China
  • L.M. Young
    LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 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) will provide a wide range of primary ion beams for nuclear physics research with rare isotope beams. The FRIB SRF linac will be capable of accelerating medium and heavy ion beams to energies beyond 200 MeV/u with a power of 400 kW on the fragmentation target. This paper presents the status of the FRIB Front End designed to produce uranium and other medium and heavy mass ion beams at world-record intensities. The paper describes the FRIB high performance superconducting ECR ion source, the beam transport designed to transport two-charge state ion beams and prepare them for the injection in to the SRF linac, and the design of a 4-vane 80.5 MHz RFQ. The paper also describes the integration of the front end with other accelerator and experimental systems. 		 
 
FR1A04 In Flight Ion Separation using a Linac Chain 1059
 
  • M. Marchetto, F. Ames, B. Davids, R.E. Laxdal, A.C. Morton
    TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada
  
  The ISAC accelerator complex now can accelerate radioactive heavy ion beams to above the Coulomb Barrier. Recently an ECR type charge state booster has been added to allow the acceleration of radioactive beams with masses A>30. A characteristic of the ECR source is the efficient ionization of background species that can overwhelm the low intensity RIB beam. The long linac chain at ISAC can be used to provide some in flight separation both in time domain and in spatial domain analogous to fragment separators at in-flight fragmentation facilities. The talk will summarize the work done at TRIUMF to develop tools to aid in the filtration and diagnosis of beam purity in the post acceleration of charge bred beams. Marco Marchetto has been leading this effort.  
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