Initial operation of the new Bevatron local injector

Conference · Wed May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1985

OSTI ID:5572967

Staples, J; Dwinell, R; Gough, R; Halliwell, J; Howard, D; Lax, J; Lundgren, S; Richter, R; Stover, G; Tanabe, J

Initial operational characteristics of a new Bevatron injector system are described. It is capable of providing an independent source of ions to the Bevatron through mass 40. The new injector consists of a sputter ion PIG source, operating on a 60 kV dc platform, an RFQ linac, and two Alvarez linacs, all operating at 199 MHz. Beams with q/A greater than or equal to 0.14 are accelerated to 200 keV/n in the RFQ and to 800 keV/n in the first Alvarez tank. Each Alvarez operates in the 2..beta..lambda mode, and each is followed by a foil stripper. Beams with a q/A greater than or equal to 0.32 are accelerated through the second Alvarez to 5 MeV/n, fully stripped, and injected into the Bevatron. Because the Bevatron can be efficiently switched between this injector and the SuperHILAC injector, a more efficient operations schedule is made possible to meet the increasingly diverse needs of the Biomedical and Nuclear Science research programs. 5 refs.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 5572967
• Report Number(s): LBL-18967; CONF-850504-230; ON: DE85015206
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
430302* -- Particle Accelerators-- Injection & Extraction Systems
ACCELERATORS
BEAM INJECTION
BEVATRON
CYCLIC ACCELERATORS
HEAVY ION ACCELERATORS
ION SOURCES
LINEAR ACCELERATORS
PENNING ION SOURCES
PERFORMANCE TESTING
QUADRUPOLE LINACS
SPUTTERING
SYNCHROTRONS
TESTING