A four-rod radio frequency quadruple (RFQ) accelerator is designed,manufactured,installed and commissioned for the Peking University Neutron Imaging Facility (PKUNIFTY).This 2699.6-mm-long RFQ accelerator with the mea...A four-rod radio frequency quadruple (RFQ) accelerator is designed,manufactured,installed and commissioned for the Peking University Neutron Imaging Facility (PKUNIFTY).This 2699.6-mm-long RFQ accelerator with the mean aperture radius of 3.88mm is operating at 201.5MHz in pulse mode.An inter-electrode voltage of 70kV is needed to accelerate the injected 50keV 40mA D+ ions up to 2MeV.We present the rf system,high rf power feeder design,lowver rf measurements and higher rf power test.Especially,the rf commissioning was carried out with rf power up to ~280 k W and duty factor of 4%.The measured x-ray spectrum shows that the rf inter-electrode voltage reaches 70.7 kV.It is found that the specific shunt impedance of the RFQ cavity reaches 52.7kΩ.m.展开更多
A 104-MHz ladder interdigital-H radio frequency quadrupole accelerator(T-IH-RFQ)is developed for applying RFQs to heavy ion implantation and accelerator-based mass spectroscopy in recent years at the Institute of Heav...A 104-MHz ladder interdigital-H radio frequency quadrupole accelerator(T-IH-RFQ)is developed for applying RFQs to heavy ion implantation and accelerator-based mass spectroscopy in recent years at the Institute of Heavy Ion Physics,Peking University.It could accelerate ions with a mass-to-charge ratio of less than 14,from 2.9 keV/u to 35.7 keV/u within a length of 1.1 m.The T-IH-RFQ cavity operating at H21(0)mode was constructed successfully.Based on a well designed rf power feeding system,the cavity was cold measured and tested with high rf power.In the case of cold measurement,the rf properties were obtained using a vector network analyzer with the help of a perturbation capacitor.During a high power test,the inter−electrode voltage was derived from the energy spectrum of x-rays measured by a high purity Ge detector.The results show that the specific shunt impedance of the T-IH-RFQ cavity reaches 178 kΩm,which could meet the requirements of beam dynamics design.展开更多
A real-time ion spectrometer mainly based on a high-resolution Thomson parabola and a plastic scintillator is designed and developed.The spectrometer is calibrated by protons from an electrostatic accelerator.The feas...A real-time ion spectrometer mainly based on a high-resolution Thomson parabola and a plastic scintillator is designed and developed.The spectrometer is calibrated by protons from an electrostatic accelerator.The feasibility and reliability of the diagnostics are demonstrated in laser-driven ion acceleration experiments performed on the XL-II laser facility.The proton spectrum extrapolated from the scintillator data is in excellent agreement with the CR39 spectrum in terms of beam temperature and the cutoff energy.This real-time spectrometer allows an online measurement of the ion spectra in single shot,which enables efficient and statistical studies and applications in high-repetition-rate laser acceleration experiments.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 11079001 and 10775009.
文摘A four-rod radio frequency quadruple (RFQ) accelerator is designed,manufactured,installed and commissioned for the Peking University Neutron Imaging Facility (PKUNIFTY).This 2699.6-mm-long RFQ accelerator with the mean aperture radius of 3.88mm is operating at 201.5MHz in pulse mode.An inter-electrode voltage of 70kV is needed to accelerate the injected 50keV 40mA D+ ions up to 2MeV.We present the rf system,high rf power feeder design,lowver rf measurements and higher rf power test.Especially,the rf commissioning was carried out with rf power up to ~280 k W and duty factor of 4%.The measured x-ray spectrum shows that the rf inter-electrode voltage reaches 70.7 kV.It is found that the specific shunt impedance of the RFQ cavity reaches 52.7kΩ.m.
基金by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 10775009 and 11079001.Y.C.Nie would like to thank the China Scholarship Council(CSC)for financial support when he was in Frankfurt.
文摘A 104-MHz ladder interdigital-H radio frequency quadrupole accelerator(T-IH-RFQ)is developed for applying RFQs to heavy ion implantation and accelerator-based mass spectroscopy in recent years at the Institute of Heavy Ion Physics,Peking University.It could accelerate ions with a mass-to-charge ratio of less than 14,from 2.9 keV/u to 35.7 keV/u within a length of 1.1 m.The T-IH-RFQ cavity operating at H21(0)mode was constructed successfully.Based on a well designed rf power feeding system,the cavity was cold measured and tested with high rf power.In the case of cold measurement,the rf properties were obtained using a vector network analyzer with the help of a perturbation capacitor.During a high power test,the inter−electrode voltage was derived from the energy spectrum of x-rays measured by a high purity Ge detector.The results show that the specific shunt impedance of the T-IH-RFQ cavity reaches 178 kΩm,which could meet the requirements of beam dynamics design.
基金by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 10905092(Young Scientists Fund),10925421,10974250,and 10935002the National Basic Research Program of China under Grant No 2007CB815102the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.
文摘A real-time ion spectrometer mainly based on a high-resolution Thomson parabola and a plastic scintillator is designed and developed.The spectrometer is calibrated by protons from an electrostatic accelerator.The feasibility and reliability of the diagnostics are demonstrated in laser-driven ion acceleration experiments performed on the XL-II laser facility.The proton spectrum extrapolated from the scintillator data is in excellent agreement with the CR39 spectrum in terms of beam temperature and the cutoff energy.This real-time spectrometer allows an online measurement of the ion spectra in single shot,which enables efficient and statistical studies and applications in high-repetition-rate laser acceleration experiments.
