INFN/LNL, Legnaro (PD)
The speaker will have expertise in the design, construction and operation of RFQs, both normal and superconducting. This talk will focus mostly on recent developments in RFQs for high power proton and deuteron beams, for both scientific and diverse purposes (e.g. Radioactive Nuclear Beam facilities, long-term irradiation tests of materials for Thermonuclear Fusion Reactors). The experience of the group at LNL in the field of cw RFQs originates from the realization of the PIAVE RFQ (superconducting 585 keV/u, heavy ion A/q<8.5) and the construction of the TRASCO RFQ (5 MeV, 30 mA protons). More recently within the collaboration between Europe and Japan for the construction of IFMIF-EVEDA in Rokkasho, the group at LNL is in charge of the design and construction of the RFQ (130 mA deuteron, 5 MeV). The physics design and the first construction test results will be ready for the PAC conference in 2009. In the same talk, the design approaches and experimental results of cw RFQs under development (for lower beam power) by other groups in Europe could be reviewed.
INFN- Sez. di Padova, Padova
INFN/LNL, Legnaro (PD)
Consorzio RFX, Associazione Euratom-ENEA sulla Fusione, Padova
The IFMIF-EVEDA RFQ is a 9.8 m long cavity, whose working frequency is equal to 175 MHz. In the base line design the accelerator tank is composed of 9 modules flanged together and a pattern of lateral CF100 flanges allows to host the dummy tuners and the couplers, and a pattern of CF 150 flanges the apertures for vacuum pumping manifolds as well. The construction procedure of each module foresees the horizontal brazing of four half –module length electrodes and then the vertical brazing of two brazed assembly. The progresses in the design and engineering phase, as well the description of all the fabrication phases are reported.