• G. Machicoane, C. Benatti, D.G. Cole, M. Doleans, O.K. Kester, F. Marti, X. Wu, P.A. Zavodszky, C. Zhang
  NSCL, East Lansing, Michigan

Funding: Supported by the National Science Foundation under grant PHY-0110253

The construction of the SUperconducting Source for Ions (SUSI), a 3rd generation Superconducting ECR ion source for the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University has been completed and commissioning of the source is ongoing. SUSI operates primarily at 18GHz and is scheduled to replace the 6.4 GHz SC-ECR for injection in the coupled cyclotron later this year. Excellent performances during commissioning have been obtained with SUSI for the production of highly charged ions for both metallic and gas elements and will be presented. A set of six solenoid coils gives SUSI the capability to modify the length and the position of the resonant zone and also to adjust the gradient of the axial magnetic field near the resonance. The impact of this flexible magnetic field profile on the ion beam production and the charge state distribution is actively studied and will be discussed. Emittance measurements of the ion beam extracted from SUSI have been performed and will also be presented.

• X. Wu, C. Compton, M. Doleans, W. Hartung, R.C. York, Q. Zhao
  NSCL, East Lansing, Michigan

An 8 GeV proton linac is being considered for the Fermilab accelerator complex. A design calls for five superconducting cavity types: three types of half-wave and two types of multi-cell elliptical structures. The elliptical cavity types have a frequency of 1.3 GHz with a beta = 0.81 and a beta = 1 and provide acceleration from 420 MeV to 8 GeV. An alternative concept would be to use an additional 1.3 GHz elliptical cavity type starting at 150 MeV. The alternative design may reduce project cost and risk. It would increase the technology overlap between Project X and the International Linear Collider. Preliminary simulations show the alternative linac layout has adequate longitudinal acceptance. This paper will discuss the beam dynamics studies for the alternative linac layout in comparison with the baseline layout.

• Q. Zhao, M. Doleans, F. Marti, T.P. Wangler, X. Wu, R.C. York
  NSCL, East Lansing, Michigan
• J. Qiang
  LBNL, Berkeley, California

Funding: U.S. Department of Energy

A driver linac has been designed for the proposed Facility for Rare Isotope Beam (FRIB) at Michigan State University. FRIB is a lower cost and reduced scope alternative to the Rare Isotope Accelerator (RIA) project. The superconducting driver linac will accelerate stable isotope beams to energies ≥200 MeV/u with a beam power up to 400 kW for the production of rare isotope beams. The driver linac consists of a front-end and two segments of superconducting linac connected by a charge stripping station. End-to-end beam simulation studies with high statistics have been performed using the RIAPMTQ and IMPACT codes on high performance parallel computers. These studies include misalignment of beam elements, rf amplitude and phase errors for cavities, and thickness variation of the stripping foil. Three-dimensional fields of the superconducting solenoids and cavities were used in the lattice evaluation. The simulation results demonstrate good driver linac performance. No uncontrolled beam losses were observed even for the challenging case of multiple charge state uranium beam acceleration. The beam dynamics issues will be discussed and the detail beam simulation results presented.

• X. Wu, C. Compton, M. Doleans, W. Hartung, D. Lawton, F. Marti, R.C. York, Q. Zhao
  NSCL, East Lansing, Michigan

Funding: This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy

The superconducting (SC) driver linac developed for the proposed Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University (MSU) will be able to accelerate stable beams of heavy ions to > 200 MeV/u with beam powers up to 400 kW. The driver linac front-end will include ECR ion sources, a bunching system for multi-charge state beams and a radio frequency quadrupole (RFQ). The superconducting linac will have a base frequency of 80.5 MHz primarily using SC cavities and cryomodules developed for the Rare Isotope Accelerator (RIA), the FRIB predecessor. A charge-stripping chicane and multiple-charge state acceleration will be used for the heavier ions in the driver linac. A beam delivery system will transport beam to the in-flight particle fragmentation target station. The paper will discuss recent progress in the accelerator system design for the superconducting driver linac.