LINAC developments for heavy ion operation at GSI and FAIR
Open Access
- 30 December 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Instrumentation
- Vol. 15 (12), T12012
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/15/12/t12012
Abstract
The first cavity of a standalone superconducting (sc) continuous wave (cw) heavy ion Linac as a demonstration of the capability of 217 MHz multi gap Crossbar H-mode structures (CH) has been already commissioned at high acceleration gain. The worldwide first beam test with a superconducting multi gap CH-cavity was a milestone of the R&D work of HIM and GSI in collaboration with Goethe University Frankfurt (GUF) in preparation of the sc cw heavy ion Linac project, substituting GSI-UNILAC as a heavy ion high duty factor Linac. Recently the first two of four fully equipped cw-Linac cryomodules are in procurement. To meet the future FAIR science requirements higher beam intensity has to be achieved in the present GSI-accelerator complex. In the last years ion source developments, in particular for the high current Vacuum Arc Ion Sources (VARIS), were concentrated on heavy elements, as Bi and Pb, aiming for stable routine ion source operation at a sufficient rep. rate and high production efficiency. Stripping is a key technology for all heavy ion accelerators. After upgrade of the supersonic N2-gas jet implementation of high current foil stripping, recently a new H2 gas cell, using a pulsed gas regime synchronized with arrival of the beam pulse has been developed. An enhanced stripper gas density as well as a simultaneously reduced gas load results in an increased stripping efficiency, while the beam emittance remains the same. A new record beam intensity (11.1 emA) for 238U28+ beams at 1.4 MeV/u has been achieved, applying the pulsed high density H2-stripper target to a high intensity 238U4+ beam from the VARIS ion source. Further ion source developments have been accomplished recently providing for sufficient heavy ion beam intensities at the High Current Injector Linac. A machine investigation program has been performed in 2020. The focus was to optimize the entire FAIR injector chain for high intensity heavy ion beam after the successful implementation of different upgrade measures. Besides a dedicated operation mode applying UNILAC, as a heavy ion Linac, at a synchronous phase significantly lower than 30 degrees for high intensity proton beam, could be established. Thus, UNILAC is able to deliver a sufficient proton beam intensity for the FAIR commissioning phase, when the FAIR-proton Linac is not yet available.Keywords
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