Commissioning the Front End Test Stand High Performance H{sup -} Ion Source at RAL

Journal Article · Thu Mar 12 00:00:00 EDT 2009 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3112519· OSTI ID:21269105

Faircloth, D C; Lawrie, S; Letchford, A P; Gabor, C; Wise, P; Whitehead, M; Wood, T; Perkins, M; Bates, M ^[1]; Savage, P J; Lee, D A ^[2]; Pozimski, J K ^[1]

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1. STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX14 0QX (United Kingdom)
2. Department of Physics, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ (United Kingdom)

The RAL Front End Test Stand (FETS) is being constructed to demonstrate a chopped H- beam of up to 60 mA at 3 MeV with 50 p.p.s. and sufficiently high beam quality for future high-power proton accelerators (HPPA). High power proton accelerators with beam powers in the several megawatt range have many applications including drivers for spallation neutron sources, neutrino factories, waste transmuters and tritium production facilities. The aim of the FETS project is to demonstrate that chopped low energy beams of high quality can be produced and is intended to allow generic experiments exploring a variety of operational conditions. This paper details the first stage of construction- the installation and commissioning of the ion source. Initial performance figures are reported.

• OSTI ID: 21269105
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1097, Issue 1; Conference: 1. international symposium on negative ions, beams and sources, Aix-en-Provence (France), 9-12 Sep 2008; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3112519; (c) 2009 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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