Commissioning and Operation of FAST Electron Linac at Fermilab

Conference · Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2018-THPMF024· OSTI ID:1469005

Romanov, Alexander ^[1]; Baffes, Curtis  ^[1]; Broemmelsiek, Daniel ^[1]; Carlson, Kermit ^[1]; Crawford, Darren  ^[1]; Eddy, Nathan  ^[1]; Edstrom, Dean ^[1]; Harms, Elvin ^[1]; Hurd, Joseph ^[1]; Kucera, Michael ^[1]; Leibfritz, Jerry  ^[1]; Rakhno, Igor ^[1]; Reid, John ^[1]; Ruan, Jinhao ^[1]; Santucci, James  ^[1]; Shiltsev, Vladimir  ^[1]; Stancari, Giulio  ^[1]; Thurman-Keup, Randy  ^[1]; Valishev, Alexander ^[1]; Warner, Arden ^[1]

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1. Fermilab

We report results of the beam commissioning and first operation of the 1.3 GHz superconducting RF electron linear accelerator at Fermilab Accelerator Science and Technology (FAST) facility. Construction of the linac was completed and the machine was commissioned with beam in 2017. The maximum total beam energy of about 300 MeV was achieved with the record energy gain of 250 MeV in the ILC-type SRF cryomodule. The pho-toinjector was tuned to produce trains of 200 pC bunches with a frequency of 3 MHz at a repetition rate of 1 Hz. This report describes the aspects of machine commission-ing such as tuning of the SRF cryomodule and beam optics optimization. We also present highlights of an experimental program carried out parasitically during the two-month run, including studies of wake-fields, and advanced beam phase space manipulation.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 1469005
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-CONF-18-320-AD; 1689860
• Resource Relation: Conference: 9th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Vancouver, BC Canada, 04/29-05/04/2018
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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