Commissioning of the Low Energy Demonstration Accelerator (LEDA) radiofrequency quadrupole (RFQ)

Author

Johnson, K.J. ; Gilpatrick, J.D. ; Gurd, D. ; Jones, K. ; Lysenko, W. ; McGehee, P. ; Nath, S. ; Rees, D. ; Regan, A. ; Rybarcyk, L. ; Schneider, J.D. ; Sherman, J.D. ; Smith, H.V. ; Young, L.M. ; Schulze, M.E.

Author_Institution

Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA

Volume

5

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

3528

Abstract

Initial commissioning of a 6.7-MeV 100-mA RFQ is underway. The RFQ is part of LEDA, the He injector for the Accelerator Production of Tritium (APT) project. To benchmark the RFQ performance, beam physics experiments will be done with low and high current beams for both pulsed and cw beam operation. Commissioning efforts thus far have been limited to low-current pulsed beam LEDA operation. Measurements to fully characterize the RFQ will ultimately include the dependence of RFQ beam transmission on RFQ vane voltage, input beam energy, input match, and input transverse centroids. Other commissioning measurements for the RFQ will include output beam energy, phase, noise, transverse profiles, and transverse RMS emittances. This paper contains initial LEDA RFQ commissioning results, including RFQ pulsed output beam currents up to 40 mA

Keywords

accelerator cavities; linear accelerators; particle beam dynamics; proton accelerators; 100 mA; 6.7 MeV; Accelerator Production of Tritium; LEDA RFQ; Low Energy Demonstration Accelerator radiofrequency quadrupole; RFQ beam transmission; beam physics experiments; cw beam operation; input transverse centroids; output beam energy; pulsed beam operation; transverse profiles; Blades; Energy measurement; Helium; Impedance matching; Noise measurement; Phase measurement; Phase noise; Physics; Production; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the 1999

Conference_Location

New York, NY

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5573-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1999.792359

Filename

792359