Beam commissioning and first operation of the ISAC DTL at TRIUMF

Author

Laxdal, R.E. ; Dutto, G. ; Fong, K. ; Mackenzie, G. ; Pasini, M. ; Poirier, R. ; Ruegg, R.

Author_Institution

TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Volume

5

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

3942

Abstract

The post-accelerator for the ISAC radioactive beam facility combines a 35.4 MHz RFQ and a variable energy 106 MHz DTL. The ISAC DTL is designed to accelerate ions with 3 ⩽ A/q ⩽ 6 to energies fully variable from 0.153 to 1.53 MeV/u. The unique separated function design allows efficient room-temperature acceleration and full energy variability with no degradation in beam quality. The first stable beams were accelerated in the DTL in Dec. 2000 with full commissioning in the first months of 2001. Test results with stable beams will be reported and compared with beam simulation results. In addition the initial operating experience with stable beam delivery is reported

Keywords

accelerator RF systems; accelerator magnets; beam handling equipment; electromagnets; ion accelerators; linear accelerators; particle beam bunching; particle beam dynamics; radioactive ion beams; 106 MHz; 35.4 MHz; ISAC DTL; RFQ; TRIUMF; beam commissioning; beam dynamics; beam quality degradation; beam simulation; efficient room-temperature acceleration; full energy variability; ion accelerator; post-stripper; postaccelerator; radioactive beam facility; radioactive ion beam facility; radiofrequency quadrupole; separated function design; stable beams; triple gap buncher; variable energy drift tube linear accelerator; Acceleration; Coils; Degradation; Ion beams; Life estimation; Linear particle accelerator; Particle beams; Temperature; Testing; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2001. PAC 2001. Proceedings of the 2001

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7191-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2001.988305

Filename

988305