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MOPD028 | Commissioning of a New CW Radio Frequency Quadrupole at GSI | 741 |
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The super heavy element research is one of the outstanding projects at GSI. At SHIP* six new elements have been discovered; moreover, nuclear chemical experiments with transactinides were recently performed at TASCA**. This experimental program strongly benefits from high average beam intensities. In the past beam currents were raised significantly by a number of improvements. The present upgrade program comprises the installation of a superconducting (sc) 28 GHz ECR ion source, a new frontend (low energy beam transport and RFQ), and, in the long term, an sc cw Linac. For the short term, the new RFQ will raise the duty factor by a factor of two (50%), limited by the following accelerator only. This bottleneck will be resolved by the applied cw Linac. Beam tests with a newly developed sc CH cavity are scheduled for 2012. The setup of the RFQ as the major upgrade of the 20 year old HLI*** is in progress, the commissioning will be finished in March 2010. Besides a higher duty factor, improved longitudinal beam quality and transmission are expected. This paper reports on the challenging rf and beam commissioning. * Separator for Heavy Ion Reaction Products |