• R.E. Laxdal, C.D. Beard, R.J. Dawson, K. Fong, A. Grassellino, M.P. Laverty, D. Longuevergne, M. Marchetto, A.K. Mitra, T.C. Ries, I. Sekachev, Q. Zheng, V. Zvyagintsev
  TRIUMF, Vancouver

The ISAC-II Phase II expansion includes the addition of 20 new quarter wave resonators in three cryomodules to double the energy gain of the ISAC-II superconducting linac. The rf cavities are produced in Canada. The talk will concentrate on the beam commissioning (scheduled for March 2010) and early operating experience.

• M. Marchetto, J. Aoki, K. Langton, R.E. Laxdal, W.R. Rawnsley, J.E. Richards
  TRIUMF, Vancouver

The post acceleration section of the ISAC radioactive ion beam (RIB) facility is composed of a radio frequency quadrupole (RFQ) followed by a drift tube linac (DTL), both room temperature machines, that serve a medium energy experimental area up to 1.8 MeV/u, and a superconducting linac (SCLINAC) that serves a high energy experimental area. This SCLINAC, composed of forty quarter wave resonators housed in eight cryomodules, is capable of a total accelerating voltage of circa 40 MV. Since each cavity is phased independently at the maximum operational voltage, the final energy depends on the mass to charge ratio of the accelerated species. In order to deliver energies higher than 5 MeV/u we need to monitor the beam current as mandated by our operating license. The current monitor system (CMS) is composed of two non intercepting and one partially intercepting monitor. The signals from these three monitors are processed in a single control system that provides a go signal to the Safety system enabling beam delivery. The CMS system allows to exploit the SCLINAC to its full potential. In this paper we will present both hardware configuration and software control of the CMS.

• V. Naik, A. Bandyopadhyay, A. Chakrabarti, S. Dechoudhury, M. Mondal
  DAE/VECC, Calcutta
• F. Ames, R.A. Baartman, C.D. Beard, Y.-C. Chao, R.J. Dawson, P. Kolb, S.R. Koscielniak, R.E. Laxdal, M. Marchetto, L. Merminga, A.K. Mitra, T.C. Ries, I. Sekachev, V.A. Verzilov, F. Yan
  TRIUMF, Vancouver
• D. Longuevergne
  UBC & TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia

TRIUMF (Canada) and VECC (India) are both planning to use the photo-fission route for producing neutron-rich radioactive ion beams in their respective RIB programmes. With this common goal the two institutes have entered into a collaboration to jointly design and develop a superconducting 1.3GHz 50MeV, 10 mA, CW electron linac which will be used as the fission driver. The first phase of the e-Linac collaboration aims at the development, production and full technical and beam test of a 10MeV injector cryo module (ICM) which forms the front-end of the final linac. The design and technical development of the ICM will be presented.