• M. Seidel, S.R.A. Adam, A. Adelmann, C. Baumgarten, R. Dölling, H. Fitze, A. Fuchs, J. Grillenberger, M. Humbel, D.C. Kiselev, A.C. Mezger, D. Reggiani, M. Schneider, H. Zhang
  PSI, Villigen
• Y.J. Bi, J.J. Yang, T.J. Zhang
  CIAE, Beijing

With an av­er­age beam power of 1.3MW the PSI pro­ton ac­cel­er­a­tor fa­cil­i­ty is present­ly at the world­wide fore­front of high in­ten­si­ty ac­cel­er­a­tors. This talk de­scribes crit­i­cal as­pects and re­cent im­prove­ments re­lat­ed to gen­er­a­tion and trans­port of the high in­ten­si­ty beam in a cy­clotron based fa­cil­i­ty. The in­stal­la­tion of new ac­cel­er­at­ing res­onators in the sec­ond of two cy­clotrons led to a sig­nif­i­cant im­prove­ment in view of beam in­ten­si­ty but also the re­li­a­bil­i­ty of the fa­cil­i­ty. Be­sides the over­all per­for­mance and fur­ther up­grade plans the dis­cussed top­ics in­clude: space charge dom­i­nat­ed beam dy­nam­ics, beam loss han­dling, ac­ti­va­tion and spe­cial­ized tech­ni­cal in­ter­lock sys­tems.

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