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TY - CONF AU - Carneiro, J.-P. AU - Prost, L.R. AU - Steimel, J. ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Power, Maria ED - Shiltsev, Vladimir ED - White, Marion TI - Procedure for the Alignment of the Beam in the Electrical Axes of the Pi-Test RFQ J2 - Proc. of NAPAC2016, Chicago, IL, USA, October 9-14, 2016 C1 - Chicago, IL, USA T2 - North American Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 3 LA - english AB - The PI-Test Radio-Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) has been in operation with beam at Fermilab since March 2016. The RFQ accelerates H⁻ beam from 30 keV to 2.1 MeV currently with 20 mus pulses and a maximum current of 10 mA. Once fully conditioned, the RFQ is expected to enable CW operation. Simulations with the beam dynamics code TRACK predict that a misalignment of the beam at the RFQ entrance can possibly deteriorate the transverse and longitudinal emittance at the RFQ exit without necessarily impacting the beam transmission. This paper discusses the procedure developed at Fermilab to align the beam in the electrical axes of the RFQ. Experimental results are shown together with predictions from TRACK. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 639 EP - 641 KW - ion KW - rfq KW - alignment KW - solenoid KW - emittance DA - 2017/01 PY - 2017 SN - 978-3-95450-180-9 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2016-TUPOB66 UR - https://jacow.org/napac2016/papers/tupob66.pdf ER -