Author: Basten, B.
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WEPS040 The Driver Linac of the Neutron Source FRANZ 2577
 
  • U. Ratzinger, B. Basten, L.P. Chau, H. Dinter, M. Droba, M. Heilmann, M. Lotz, O. Meusel, I. Müller, D. Mäder, Y.C. Nie, D. Noll, H. Podlech, A. Schempp, W. Schweizer, K. Volk, C. Wiesner, C. Zhang
    IAP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
 
  FRANZ is under con­struc­tion at the Goethe Uni­ver­si­ty Frank­furt. A 2MeV ± 100 keV pro­ton beam will pro­duce 1 keV to 200 keV neu­trons on a Li7 tar­get. Ex­per­i­ments are planned in the field of nu­cle­ar as­tro­physics as well as in ap­plied physics. A dc op­er­at­ed pro­ton source with a max­i­mum beam cur­rent of 200 mA was suc­cess­ful­ly beam test­ed end of 2010. FRANZ will have two ex­per­i­men­tal areas: One for ac­ti­va­tion ex­per­i­ments with cw pro­ton beams of a few mA gen­er­at­ing a us­able neu­tron flux of some 10 bil­lion per square cm per sec­ond, the other one for 250 kHz, 1 ns short neu­tron bunch­es gen­er­at­ed by 1 ns pro­ton puls­es of a few Am­pere beam cur­rent. A spe­cial 2 MeV, 175 MHz high cur­rent cav­i­ty is re­al­ized at pre­sent as a RFQ-DTL com­bi­na­tion. Novel tech­niques have been in­vent­ed to reach the need­ed pulsed tar­get beam cur­rent by a bunch com­pres­sor sys­tem.
Work supported by HICforFAIR and GSI.