IHEP Beijing, Beijing
PKU/IHIP, Beijing
CIAE, Beijing
A high-duty factor proton RFQ accelerator has been constructed at IHEP, Beijing for the basic study of Accelerator Driven Subcritical System. The ADS basic study is supported by a national program for nuclear waste transmutation which is regarded essential for the rapid development of nuclear power plants in China. In the initial commissioning of the 3.5MeV RFQ with an ECR ion source showed a nice performance with a transmission rate about 93% with an output beam of 46mA. The 352MHz RFQ is design for CW operation with the RF power source from LEP-II of CERN. This paper presents the beam commissioning and recent progress in high-duty factor operation from 7% to 15%.
IHEP Beijing, Beijing
CSNS accelerator mainly consists of an H- linac and a proton rapid cycling synchrotron. It is designed to accelerate proton beam pulses to 1.6 GeV kinetic energy at 25 Hz repetition rate, striking a solid metal target to produce spallation neutrons. The accelerator is designed to deliver a beam power of 120 kW with the upgrade capability up to 500 kW, The CSNS accelerator is the first large-scale, high-power accelerator project to be constructed in China and thus we are facing a lot of challenges in some key technologies. A series of R&D for major prototypes have being conducted since 2006, including an H- ion source, DTL tank, RF power supply for the linac, injection/extraction magnets and its pulse power supplies, dipole and quadrupole prototype magnets in the ring and its power supplies, ferrite-loaded RF prototype cavity, ceramic vacuum chamber, control and some beam diagnostics. This paper will briefly introduce the design and R&D status of the CSNS accelerator.