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MO1C3 High Voltage Upgrade of the 14UD Tandem Accelerator electron, heavy-ion, operation, acceleration 1
 
  • T.B. Tunningley, S.T. Battisson, A. Cooper, J.K. Heighway, D.J. Hinde, C. Kafer, T. Kitchen, P. Linardakis, N.R. Lobanov, C. Notthoff, T. Tempra, B. Tranter, R. Tranter
    Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capitol Territory, Australia
  • R.A. Bosch
    UW-Madison/SRC, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
  • J.E. Raatz
    NEC, Middleton, Wisconsin, USA
 
  The 14UD at the Australian National University’s Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF) operated at a maximum voltage of 15.5 MV after the installation of tubes with a compressed geometry in the 1990s. In recent years, the performance of the accelerator has shown a gradual decline to a maximum operation voltage of ~14.5 MV. There are some fundamental factors that limit the high voltage performance, such as SF6 gas pressure, field enhancement due to triple junctions and total voltage effect. In 2019 ANU initiated the feasibility study of available options to upgrade the entire population of supporting posts, acceleration tubes and grading resistors. In this paper we will discuss the preferred technologies and strategies for successful implementation of this development. The chosen design is based on NEC tubes with magnetic electron suppression and minimized steering of ion beam. The new grading resistors mounting options and improved voltage distribution along accelerator column timeline will be discussed.  
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-HIAT2022-MO1C3  
About • Received ※ 25 May 2022 — Revised ※ 27 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 10 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 19 September 2022
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TU1C4 A 3D Printed IH-Type Linac Structure - Proof-of-Concept for Additive Manufacturing of Linac RF Cavities cavity, vacuum, linac, experiment 41
 
  • H. Hähnel, A. Ateş, U. Ratzinger
    IAP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
 
  Funding: This research was funded by BBMBF grant number 05P21RFRB2.
Additive manufacturing ("AM" or "3D printing") has become a powerful tool for rapid prototyping and manufacturing of complex geometries. A 433 MHz IH-DTL cavity has been constructed to act as a proof of concept for additive manufacturing of linac components. In this case, the internal drift tube structure has been produced from 1.4404 stainless steel using 3D printing. We present the concept of the cavity as well as first results of vacuum testing and materials testing. Vacuum levels sufficient for linac operation have been reached with the AM linac structure.
 
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About • Received ※ 20 June 2022 — Revised ※ 30 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 10 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 20 September 2022
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TUP04 New Method for Overcoming Dipole Effects of 4-Rod RFQs dipole, rfq, impedance, ECR 72
 
  • S. Wunderlich, C. Zhang
    GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
 
  A new design of a 4-rod RFQ has been developed and simulated. In contrast to conventional designs, it uses asymmetrical stem geometry in the vertical-longitudinal plane. The effect on dipole fields for different geometrical parameters were examined and will be discussed.  
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About • Received ※ 21 June 2022 — Revised ※ 19 July 2022 — Accepted ※ 10 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 19 September 2022
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TUP05 Prototype Room Temperature Quadrupole Chamber with Cryogenic Installations cryogenics, quadrupole, vacuum, synchrotron 75
 
  • S. Aumüller, L.H.J. Bozyk, P.J. Spiller
    GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
  • K. Blaum
    MPI-K, Heidelberg, Germany
 
  The synchrotron SIS100 at FAIR accelerator complex at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum will generate heavy ion beams of ultimate intensities. As medium charge states have to be used, the probability for charge exchange in collisions with residual gas particles of such ions is much lager than for higher charge states. In the last years, several measures have lowered the residual gas density to extreme high vacuum conditions. For example 55% of the circumference of SIS18 have already been coated with NEG, which provides high and distributed pumping speed. Nevertheless, this coating does not pump nobel and nobel-like components, which have very high ionization cross sections. A cryogenic environment at e.g. 50-80K provides a high pumping speed for all heavy residual gas particles. The only typical residual gas particle that cannot be pumped at this temperature is hydrogen. With the pumping speed of an additional NEG coating in these areas, the pumping will be optimized for all residual gas particles. The installation of cryogenic installations in the existing room temperature synchrotron SIS18 at GSI has been investigated. Measurements on a prototype chamber and simulations of SIS18 with cryogenic installations based on these measurements are presented.  
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About • Received ※ 21 June 2022 — Revised ※ 30 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 01 July 2022 — Issue date ※ 10 August 2022
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TUP06 Cryogenic Surfaces in a Room Temperature SIS18 Ioncatcher vacuum, cryogenics, heavy-ion, operation 79
 
  • L.H.J. Bozyk, S. Aumüller, P.J. Spiller
    GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
 
  For FAIR operation, the existing heavy ion synchrotron SIS18 at GSI will be used as booster for the future SIS100. In order to reach the intensity goals, medium charge state heavy ions will be used. Unfortunately, such ions have very high ionization cross sections in collisions with residual gas particles, yielding in beam loss and a subsequent pressure rise via ion impact stimulated gas desorption. To reduce the desorption yield, room temperature ioncatcher have been installed, which provide low desorption surfaces. Simulations including cryogenic surfaces show, that their high sticking probability prevents the vacuum system from pressure built-ups during operation. Such, the operation with heavy ion beams can be stabilized at higher heavy ion intensities, than solely with room temperature surfaces. A prototype ioncatcher containing cryogenic surfaces has been developed and built. The surfaces are cooled by a commercial coldhead, which easily allows this system being integrated into the room temperature synchrotron. The development and first laboratory tests including fast pressure measurements of this system will be presented.  
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About • Received ※ 21 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 01 July 2022 — Issue date ※ 10 August 2022  
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TUP08 RF Chopper for Prebunched Radioactive Ion Beams cavity, cryomodule, rfq, dipole 87
 
  • A.J. Gonzalez, A.S. Plastun
    FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
 
  An RF chopper system is being designed for the Re-Accelerator (ReA) linac at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University (MSU). The chopper system is designed to clean out satellite bunches and produce a 16.1 MHz bunch structure, which allows for time-of-flight separation of the isotopes. The chopper system’s location in the beamline is between the ReA3 and ReA6 cryomodules. In ReA, the beam can be prebunched at the frequency of 16.1 MHz and accelerated in a 80.5 MHz RFQ, producing four satellite bunches for every one high-intensity bunch. The chopper system includes an RF deflector operating at 64.4 MHz, which is the beat frequency of 80.5 MHz and 16.1 MHz. The deflector deflects every bunch to spatially separate high-intensity and satellite bunches. The beam trajectory is biased by a constant magnetic field to ensure the high-intensity bunches do not experience any total deflection. The kicked bunches are low in intensity and will be sent to a beam dump, resulting in a clean 16.1 MHz beam structure injected into the ReA6 cryomodule.  
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About • Received ※ 20 June 2022 — Revised ※ 30 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 10 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 19 September 2022
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TH1I2 Reinforcement Learning and Bayesian Optimization for Ion Linac Operations controls, quadrupole, rfq, experiment 130
 
  • J.L. Martinez Marin, B.R. Blomberg, K.J. Bunnell, G.M. Dunn, E. Letcher, B. Mustapha, D. Stanton
    ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
 
  Funding: This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. This research used the ATLAS facility, which is a DOE Office of Nuclear Physics User Facility.
The use of artificial intelligence can significantly reduce the time needed to tune an accelerator system such as the Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System (ATLAS) where a new beam is tuned once or twice a week. After establishing automatic data collection procedures and having analysed the data, machine learning models were developed and tested to tune subsections of the linac. Models based on Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Bayesian Optimization (BO) were developed, their respec-tive results are discussed and compared. RL and BO are well known AI techniques, often used for control systems. The results were obtained for a subsection of ATLAS that contains complex elements such as the radio-frequency quadrupole (RFQ). The models will be later generalized to the whole ATLAS linac, and similar models can be devel-oped for any accelerator with a modern control system.
 
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About • Received ※ 09 July 2022 — Revised ※ 10 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 19 September 2022 — Issue date ※ 19 September 2022
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TH1C4 Cavity Designs for the CH3 to CH11 and Bellow Tuner Investigation of the Superconducting Heavy Ion Accelerator HELIAC cavity, SRF, heavy-ion, niobium 140
 
  • T. Conrad, H. Podlech, M. Schwarz
    IAP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • K. Aulenbacher, W.A. Barth, F.D. Dziuba, T. Kürzeder, S. Lauber, J. List, M. Miski-Oglu
    HIM, Mainz, Germany
  • K. Aulenbacher
    IKP, Mainz, Germany
  • W.A. Barth, M. Basten, F.D. Dziuba, V. Gettmann, M. Heilmann, T. Kürzeder, S. Lauber, J. List, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Rubin, A. Schnase, S. Yaramyshev
    GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
 
  New CH-DTL cavities designs of the planned Helmholtz Linear Accelerator (HELIAC) are developed in collaboration of GSI, HIM and IAP Frankfurt. The in cw-mode operating linac with a final energy of 7.3 MeV/u, is intended for various experiments, in particular with heavy ions at energies close to the Coulomb barrier for research on SHE. Twelve sc CH cavities are foreseen, divided into four different cryostats each equipped with two dynamic bellow tuner. After successful beam tests with CH0, CH3 to CH11 were designed. Based on the experience gained so far, optimizations were made, which will lead to both an increase in performance in terms of reducing the peak fields limiting superconductivity and a reduction in manufacturing costs and time. In order to optimize manufacturing, attention was paid to design many parts of the cavity, such as lids, spokes, tuner and helium shell, with the same geometrical dimensions. In addition, a tuner test rig was developed, which will be used to investigate the mechanical properties of the bellow tuner. For this purpose, different simulations were made in order to realize conditions as close as possible to reality in the test rig.  
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About • Received ※ 27 June 2022 — Revised ※ 19 July 2022 — Accepted ※ 10 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 19 September 2022
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