Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Particle Accelerator Conference, 1993., Proceedings of the 1993
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1203-1
DOI :
10.1109/PAC.1993.309093
