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DOI:10.18429/JACoW-HIAT2015-WEM2I01
Title The ISAC-II Linac Performance
Authors
  • M. Marchetto, S. Kiy, R.E. Laxdal, Y. Ma, O. Shelbaya, Z.Y. Yao, V. Zvyagintsev
    TRIUMF, Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Vancouver, Canada
Abstract The ISAC-II superconducting linac is operating for almost a decade. The first installation includes twenty cavities housed in five cryomodules. The Phase II upgrade consisted of twenty additional cavities housed in three cryomodules. The upgrade brings the linac to a nominal 40 MV of effective accelerating voltage according to design specification. Moreover the upgrade was the first step to qualify a Canadian vendor (PAVAC) for the production of superconducting cavities. Each cryomodule includes bulk niobium quarter wave resonators and a 9T superconducting solenoid for transverse focusing. The linac features a single vacuum space. Over the years the linac has experienced vacuum incidents and high power rf cable failures in vacuum that were addressed during maintenance. In a recent maintenance program cavities from a single cryomodule were re-etched to improve performance. Future cavity treatments are in the plan but they are restricted by the scientific program. The status of the linac, performance and future development plans will be presented. Reliability and availability of the linac will be discussed, metrics that will become even more important with the advent of ARIEL.
Funding Funded under a contribution agreement with NRC (National Research Council Canada)
Paper download WEM2I01.PDF [1.421 MB / 5 pages]
Slides download WEM2I01_TALK.PDF [14.869 MB]
Conference HIAT2015, Yokohama, Japan
Proceedings Link to full HIAT2015 Proccedings
Session Wednesday Morning Invited Oral 2
Date 09-Sep-15   11:00–12:00
Main Classification Room Temperature and Superconducting Linacs
Keywords ISAC, linac, cryomodule, cavity, TRIUMF
Publisher JACoW, Geneva, Switzerland
Editors Osamu Kamigaito (RIKEN, Wako, Japan); Schaa, Volker R.W. (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany); Kazunari Yamada (RIKEN, Wako, Japan)
ISBN 978-3-95450-131-1
Published February 2016
Series Heavy Ion Accelerator Technology Conference (13th)
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