Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
Project X Injector Experiment radio frequency quadrupole has recently been built for Fermilab by Berkley laboratory. This RFQ will be placed after the low energy beam transport (LEBT) and before the medium energy beam transport (MEBT). The RFQ will operate at 162.5 MHz in CW regime; its function is to accelerate and focus particles coming from the LEBT at 30 keV, and to deliver a beam at 2.1 MeV to the MEBT. In order to make sure that the RFQ meets the specifications of field flatness and frequency the field in the vanes should be measured using bead pull technique. FNAL created a new single wire bead pull set up for the RFQ of PXIE. The measurements are used to find the electrical center of the structure, then the amplitude of the electromagnetic field in all the sectors of the RFQ; and the tuning will be based on these measurements. This paper describes the bead pull experimental set up, the software developed for this particular application and the measurements taken.
