Introduction to RFQ session

Conference · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:6897631

Jameson, R A

It has been close to 15 years now since our colleagues I.M. Kapchinskii and V.A. Teplyakov in the USSR conceived their spatially uniform-focusing idea in the form of practical circuits for focusing and accelerating low-velocity ion beams using electrostatic fields. Almost seven years ago, J.J. Manca whetted our curiosity at Los Alamos by pointing out from Kapchinskii and Teplyakov's work a structure that could capture nearly 100% of an ion beam injected at a few tens of keV/nucleon and accelerate it with little emittance growth to a few MeV. Now the accelerator community at large has realized that a revolution has taken place, and almost everyone is involved. At the 1981 Linac Conference at Bishop's Lodge in Santa Fe, about 17 papers dealt with aspects of the radio-frequency quadrupole (RFQ) structure, as it has also come to be known. This is a brief review of the technology. 2 references, 9 figures.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 6897631
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-84-1375; CONF-840529-16; ON: DE84011415
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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