The ISAC post-accelerator
Abstract
The acceleration chain of the ISAC facility boosts the energy of both radioactive and stable light and heavy ions for beam delivery to both a medium energy area in ISAC-I and a high energy area in ISAC-II. The post-accelerator comprises a 35.4 MHz RFQ to accelerate beams of A/q ≤ 30 from 2 keV/u to 150 keV/u and a post stripper, 106.1 MHz variable energy drift tube linac (DTL) to accelerate ions of A/q ≤ 6 to a final energy between 0.15 MeV/u to 1.5 MeV/u. A 40 MV superconducting linac further accelerates beam from 1.5 MeV/u to energies above the Coulomb barrier. All linacs operate cw to preserve beam intensity.
- Publication:
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Hyperfine Interactions
- Pub Date:
- January 2014
- DOI:
- 10.1007/s10751-013-0884-8
- Bibcode:
- 2014HyInt.225...79L
- Keywords:
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- ISAC;
- ISAC-I;
- ISAC-II;
- pre-buncher;
- RFQ;
- Chopper;
- Stripping foil;
- DTL;
- Superconducting linac;
- Post accelerator