Keyword: cyclotron
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MOBL2 Thermalized and Reaccelerated Beams at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory ion, acceleration, diagnostics, injection 19
 
  • S.J. Williams, T. Baumann, K. Cooper, A. Lapierre, D. Leitner, D.J. Morrissey, G. Perdikakis, J.A. Rodriguez, S. Schwarz, A. Spyrou, M. Steiner, C. Sumithrarachchi
    NSCL, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
  • W. Wittmer
    FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
 
  Funding: This work is supported by the National Science Foundation under contract number RC100609.
The National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University is a Radioactive Ion Beam (RIB) facility providing beams of exotic nuclear species through projectile fragmentation. The Coupled Cyclotron Facility accelerates stable ion beams to ~100 MeV/A which are then fragmented and selected with the A1900 separator. A recent addition to NSCL is the gas stopping facility which thermalizes the high energy beam. The RIBs are extracted at <60keV and selected by A/Q for further transport to the low energy areas, currently consisting of the BECOLA beam cooling and laser spectroscopy system, and LEBIT Penning trap. RIBs up to 6 MeV/A will be provided by the ReA post-accelerator, currently consisting of an EBIT, RFQ and superconducting RF cavities. Energies up to 1.5 MeV/A are presently available, and energy increases will be phased in with the addition of further cryomodules. In a campaign of commissioning experiments, RIBs from a fragmentation facility were thermalized and post-accelerated for the first time. Preliminary results will be presented, focussing on the diagnostic challenges of detecting and characterizing beams over a wide range of energy and rate.
 
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WEPC04 Beam Diagnostics for Commissioning and Operation of a Novel Compact Cyclotron for Radioisotope Production diagnostics, ion, ion-source, target 660
 
  • I. Podadera, B. Ahedo, P. Arce, L. García-Tabarés, D. Gavela, A. Guirao, J.I. Lagares, L.M. Martinez, D. Obradors-Campos, C. Oliver, J.M. Perez Morales, F. Sansaloni, F. Toral
    CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain
 
  Funding: Work partially funded by the CDTI and supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under project AMIT, within the subprogramme CENIT-2009.
The AMIT cyclotron will be a 8.5 MeV, 10 μA CW H accelerator which aims to deliver a beam for radioisotope production. In order to properly validate all the beam commissioning steps, a set of diagnostics needs to be implemented. They must cover all the commissioning phases: ion source characterization, medium energy acceleration and nominal energy at full current. Due to compactness of the design, the number of beam diagnostics is limited and restricted to the most essential ones during operation. An overview of the diagnostics that are planned for the characterization of the cyclotron will be discussed in this contribution. In all the commissioning phases, beam current probes are essential to validate the cyclotron and each subsystem. As a main diagnostic, a moveable probe has been designed and simulated for optimization of the cyclotron. The thermal simulations of the probe and the mechanical integration will be presented.