ITEP-TWAC STATUS REPORT

N.N. Alexeevª, P.N. Alekseev, A.N. Balabaev, V.I. Nikolaev, V.A. Schegolev, B.Ju. Sharkov, A.V. Shumshurov, V.P. Zavodov, Yu.A. Satov

Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia

Abstract

The ITEP-TWAC facility is in operation of 4000 hours per year with proton and heavy ion beams in several modes of acceleration and accumulation. The new configuration of laser ion source with 100 J CO₂-laser has been started to use for Fe-ion beam generation at the input of the pre-injector U-3 delivering separated species of Fe¹⁶⁺ ions with energy of 1.1 MeV/u to booster synchrotron UK for acceleration up to the energy of 165 MeV/u and accumulation in the storage ring U-10 using multiple charge exchange injection technique. Some progress is achieved also in extension of experimental area and multi-purpose utilizing of machine to be used in a time sharing mode and running in parallel of several experiments and routine operation with various beams for a number of users. The machine status analysis and current results of activities aiming at both subsequent improvement of beam parameters and extending beam applications are presented.

ª – corresponding author

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