Author: Durukan, E.
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WEPC02 Project PROMETHEUS: Design and Construction of a Radio Frequency Quadrupole at TAEK 652
 
  • G. Turemen, B. Yasatekin
    Ankara University, Faculty of Sciences, Ankara, Turkey
  • Y. Akgun, A. Alacakir, A.S. Bolukdemir, E. Durukan, H. Karadeniz, E. Recepoğlu
    TAEK, Ankara, Turkey
  • E. Cavlan
    TOBB ETU, Ankara, Turkey
  • M. Celik, Z. Sali
    Gazi University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Teknikokullar, Ankara, Turkey
  • S. Erhan
    UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Ö. Mete
    UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
  • G. Unel
    UCI, Irvine, California, USA
  
  The PROMETHEUS Pro­ject is on­go­ing for the de­sign and de­vel­op­ment of a 4-vane radio fre­quency quadru­pole (RFQ) with its H+ ion source, a low en­ergy beam trans­port (LEBT) line and di­ag­nos­tics sec­tion. The main goal of the pro­ject is to achieve the ac­cel­er­a­tion of the low en­ergy ions up to 1.5 MeV by an RFQ (352 MHz) shorter than 2 m. A plasma ion source is being de­vel­oped to pro­duce a 20 keV, 1 mA H+ beam. Ion source, trans­mis­sion and beam dy­nam­ics in the RFQ are dis­cussed through sim­u­la­tion re­sults. In ad­di­tion, an­a­lyt­i­cal stud­ies were also per­formed re­sult­ing into an RFQ de­sign code, DEMIRCI as dis­cussed and pre­sented here in com­par­i­son with var­i­ous ex­ist­ing soft­ware. As a re­sult of the sim­u­la­tions, beam trans­mis­sion of 99% was achieved at 1.7 m down­stream reach­ing en­ergy of 1.5 MeV. As the first phase an Alu­minum RFQ pro­to­type, the so-called cold model, will be built for low power RF char­ac­ter­i­za­tion. In this con­tri­bu­tion the sta­tus of the pro­ject, de­sign con­sid­er­a­tions, sim­u­la­tion re­sults, the var­i­ous di­ag­nos­tics tech­niques and RFQ fab­ri­ca­tion is­sues are dis­cussed.  
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