• W.M. Tam
  IUCF, Bloomington, Indiana
• G. Apollinari, S. Chaurize, S. Hays, G.V. Romanov, V.E. Scarpine, C.W. Schmidt, W.M. Tam, R.C. Webber
  Fermilab, Batavia

The proton ion source for the High Intensity Neutrino Source (HINS) Linac front-end at Fermilab has been successfully commissioned. It produces a 50 keV, 3 msec beam pulse with a peak current greater than 20 mA at 2.5 Hz. The beam is transported to the radio-frequency quadrupole (RFQ) by a low energy beam transport (LEBT) that consists of two focusing solenoids, four steering dipole magnets and a beam current transformer. To understand beam transmission through the RFQ, it is important to characterize the 50 keV beam before connecting the LEBT to the RFQ. A wire scanner and a Faraday cup are temporarily installed at the exit of the LEBT to study the beam parameters. Beam profile measurements are made for different LEBT settings and results are compared to those from computer simulations. In lieu of direct emittance measurements, a solenoid variation method based on profile measurements is used to reconstruct the beam emittance.