The ATLAS multi-user upgrade and potential applications

Mustapha, B.; Nolen, J. A.; Savard, G.; Ostroumov, P. N.

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/12/12/T12002

Title: The ATLAS multi-user upgrade and potential applications

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With the recent integration of the CARIBU-EBIS charge breeder into the ATLAS accelerator system to provide for more pure and efficient charge breeding of radioactive beams, a multi-user upgrade of the ATLAS facility is being proposed to serve multiple users simultaneously. ATLAS was the first superconducting ion linac in the world and is the US DOE low-energy Nuclear Physics National User Facility. The proposed upgrade will take advantage of the continuous-wave nature of ATLAS and the pulsed nature of the EBIS charge breeder in order to simultaneously accelerate two beams with very close mass-to-charge ratios; one stable from the existing ECR ion source and one radioactive from the newly commissioned EBIS charge breeder. In addition to enhancing the nuclear physics program, beam extraction at different points along the linac will open up the opportunity for other potential applications; for instance, material irradiation studies at ~ 1 MeV/u and isotope production at ~ 6 MeV/u or at the full ATLAS energy of ~ 15 MeV/u. Furthermore, the concept and proposed implementation of the ATLAS multi-user upgrade will be presented. Future plans to enhance the flexibility of this upgrade will also be presented.

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Mustapha, B. ^[1]; Nolen, J. A. ^[1]; Savard, G. ^[1]; Ostroumov, P. N. ^[2]

Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)

Publication Date:: Wed Dec 13 00:00:00 EST 2017

Research Org.:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

OSTI Identifier:: 1422586

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Journal of Instrumentation

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 12; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 1748-0221

Publisher:: Institute of Physics (IOP)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; material irradiation; real-time beam switching; Linacs; isotope production; multi-beam acceleration; Accelerator Applications; Accelerator modelling and simulations (multi-particle dy- namics; single-particle dynamics); Accelerator Subsystems and Technologies; Ion sources (positive ions, negative ions, electron cyclotron resonance (ECR), electron beam (EBIS))

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                    Mustapha, B., Nolen, J. A., Savard, G., and Ostroumov, P. N. The ATLAS multi-user upgrade and potential applications.  United States: N. p., 2017. 
Web.  doi:10.1088/1748-0221/12/12/T12002.

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                    Mustapha, B., Nolen, J. A., Savard, G., & Ostroumov, P. N. The ATLAS multi-user upgrade and potential applications.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/12/12/T12002

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                    Mustapha, B., Nolen, J. A., Savard, G., and Ostroumov, P. N. Wed .  
"The ATLAS multi-user upgrade and potential applications".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/12/12/T12002.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1422586.

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@article{osti_1422586,

  title        = {The ATLAS multi-user upgrade and potential applications},

  author       = {Mustapha, B. and Nolen, J. A. and Savard, G. and Ostroumov, P. N.},

  abstractNote = {With the recent integration of the CARIBU-EBIS charge breeder into the ATLAS accelerator system to provide for more pure and efficient charge breeding of radioactive beams, a multi-user upgrade of the ATLAS facility is being proposed to serve multiple users simultaneously. ATLAS was the first superconducting ion linac in the world and is the US DOE low-energy Nuclear Physics National User Facility. The proposed upgrade will take advantage of the continuous-wave nature of ATLAS and the pulsed nature of the EBIS charge breeder in order to simultaneously accelerate two beams with very close mass-to-charge ratios; one stable from the existing ECR ion source and one radioactive from the newly commissioned EBIS charge breeder. In addition to enhancing the nuclear physics program, beam extraction at different points along the linac will open up the opportunity for other potential applications; for instance, material irradiation studies at ~ 1 MeV/u and isotope production at ~ 6 MeV/u or at the full ATLAS energy of ~ 15 MeV/u. Furthermore, the concept and proposed implementation of the ATLAS multi-user upgrade will be presented. Future plans to enhance the flexibility of this upgrade will also be presented.},

  doi          = {10.1088/1748-0221/12/12/T12002},

  journal      = {Journal of Instrumentation},

  number       = 12,

  volume       = 12,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Wed Dec 13 00:00:00 EST 2017},

  month        = {Wed Dec 13 00:00:00 EST 2017}

}

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