RF conditioning and beam experiments on 400 keV RFQ accelerator at BARC
- Ion Accelerator Development Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai (India)
A 400 keV Radio-frequency quadrupole accelerator (RFQ) has been designed, developed and tested at BARC. This will be used as a neutron generator (via D-T reaction). The RFQ operates at a resonant frequency of 350 MHz and needs an RF power of ∼ 60 kW to accelerate the deuteron beam to 400 keV within a length of 1.03 m. Though the RFQ is designed for deuteron beam, it was tested by accelerating both the proton and deuteron beams to their designed values of 200 and 400 keV respectively. The proton and deuteron beam experiments required peak RF power of approx. 15 kW and 60 kW respectively at 350 MHz. The RF power from the tetrode amplifier and coaxial transmission lines is coupled to the cavity by a coaxial loop coupler. As the coupler and cavity operated at vacuum of better than 2e-6 torr, extensive RF conditioning of the cavity and coupler was performed to reach at the desired power levels. (author)
- Research Organization:
- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai (India); Indian Vacuum Society, Mumbai (India)
- OSTI ID:
- 22597153
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: ISDEIV-2014: 26. international symposium on discharges and electrical insulation in vacuum, Mumbai (India), 28 Sep - 3 Oct 2014; Other Information: Country of input: India; 7 refs., 6 figs., 2 tabs.; This record replaces 48041781; Related Information: In: Proceedings of the twenty sixth international symposium on discharges and electrical insulation in vacuum. V. 1| 438 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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