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THPEA002 | RF Systems of the VEC-RIB Facility | 3676 |
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An isotope separator on-line Rare Isotope Beam (RIB) facility is presently under development at VECC, Kolkata around the existing K=130 room temp cyclotron. In first stage the low-energy (1.7 keV/u; q/A ≤ 1/14) RIB will be accelerated to about 470 keV/u in the Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) linac followed by three IH-LINAC. This consists of seven different rf systems for RFQ, three re-buncher and three IH-Linac cavities each operating in CW mode. The 3.4 meter rod type RFQ and the four gap λ/4 re-buncher is designed to operate at 37.8 MHz. The RFQ and re-buncher has been installed and successfully operated at CW rf power. The first beam testing for O5+ has been done with proper phase locking between rf transmitters. Two DTL accelerator systems consist of IH-mode tank operating at 37.8 MHz and other with 75.6 MHz. The first IH linac has been installed in beam line and tested with nominal RF power. The Second IH-linac cavity has been fabricated and is undergoing low power rf test. Two other buncher cavities are presently under development. The rf systems with low power as well as high power testing for above accelerator cavities will be described in this paper. |