Commissioning of the first drift tube linac module in the Ground Test Accelerator

Author

Johnson, K.F. ; Sander, O.R. ; Atkins, W.H. ; Bolme, G.O. ; Bowling, S. ; Cole, R. ; Connolly, R. ; Denney, P. ; Erickson, MP ; Gilpatrick, J.D. ; Ingalls, W.B. ; Kersteins, D. ; Kraus, R. ; Lysenko, W.P. ; McMurry, D. ; Mottershead, C.T. ; Power, J. ; Ro

Author_Institution

Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

17-20 May 1993

Firstpage

1669

Abstract

The Ground Test Accelerator (GTA) has the objective of verifying much of the technology required for producing high-brightness, high-current H^- beams. GTA commissioning is staged to verify the beam-dynamics design of each major accelerator component as it is brought online. The major components are the 35-keV H^- injector, the 2.5-MeV radiofrequency quadrupole (RFQ), the intertank matching section (IMS), the 3.2 MeV first 2βλ drift tube linac (DTL-1) module, and the 24-MeV GTA with 10 DTL modules. Results from the DTL-1 beam experiments will be presented

Keywords

ion accelerators; linear accelerators; particle beam diagnostics; 3.2 MeV; DTL-1; Ground Test Accelerator; H; H^- beams; beam-dynamics; commissioning; drift tube linac; injector; intertank matching section; radiofrequency quadrupole; Current measurement; Energy measurement; Extraterrestrial measurements; Life estimation; Linear particle accelerator; Particle beams; Phase measurement; Position measurement; Probes; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1993., Proceedings of the 1993

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1203-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1993.309093

Filename

309093