The University of Washington Superconducting Booster Accelerator Project: Status report

Conference · Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:5611006

Storm, D W

The University of Washington Superconducting Booster was proposed in 1982 and funded in December 1983. The goals were to be able to accelerate particles from protons to middle weight ions using our 9-MV FN tandem as an injector. Because we planned to accelerate lighter ions than other laboratories, we conceptualized the accelerator around ''low-beta'' resonators of ..beta.. near 0.1 and high-beta resonators of some value from 0.16 to 0.2. The final plans were based on lead-plated copper quarter-wave resonators. We adapted a design of Ben-Zvi and Brennan for our ..beta.. = 0.1 resonator and designed a new ..beta.. = 0.2 quarter-wave resonator. In addition to the LINAC, we have built a 300-KV injector deck, which has our old direct extraction source and a new General Ionex 860 sputter source, and we have built a gridded buncher which runs at 50 MHz. These are fully operational. We give a brief description of the LINAC. Then we discuss resonator construction and the rf control system. We describe our operating experience and recent tests. Our most recent experience involved providing a /sup 7/Li beam for the first nuclear physics experiment done with the new accelerator. 12 refs., 4 figs.

• Research Organization: Washington Univ., Seattle (USA). Nuclear Physics Lab.
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-84ER40124
• OSTI ID: 5611006
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/40124-15; CONF-8709217-1; ON: DE88004233
• Resource Relation: Conference: SNEAP conference, Tallahassee, FL, USA, 27 Sep 1987; Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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PARTICLE BOOSTERS
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CONTROL SYSTEMS
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RF SYSTEMS
SUPERCONDUCTING CAVITY RESONATORS
ACCELERATORS
BEAMS
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