FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
JLab, Newport News, Virginia, USA
After project completion on scope, on cost, and ahead of schedule, the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams began operations for scientific users in May of 2022. During the first 12 months of user operations, the FRIB accelerator complex delivered 5250 beam hours, including 1528 hours to nine science experiments conducted with primary beams of 36Ar, 48Ca, 70Zn, 82Se, 124Xe, and 198Pt at beam energies >200 MeV/u; 2724 hours for beam developments, studies, and tuning; and 998 hours to industrial users and non-scientific programs using the FRIB Single Event Effect (FSEE) beam line. The ramp-up to a beam power of 400 kW is planned over a six-year period; 1 kW was delivered for initial user runs from in 2022, and 5 kW was delivered as of February 2023. Upgrade plans include doubling the primary-beam energy to 400 MeV/nucleon for enhanced discovery potential (¿FRIB 400¿). This talk reports on FRIB status and progress since SRF2021, emphasizing lessons learned during the transition from beam commissioning to machine operations, challenges and resolutions for the power ramp-up, progress with accelerator improvements, and R&D for the energy upgrade.
FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
A prototype SRF gun is currently being designed at FRIB, MSU for the Low Emittance Injector of the Linac Coherent Light Source high energy upgrade at SLAC. This employs a 185.7 MHz superconducting quarter-wave resonator (QWR). The mechanical design of this cavity has been optimized for performance and to comply with ASME Section VIII, Div 2, Design by analysis requirements. This paper presents the various design by analysis procedures and how they have been adopted for the SRF gun cavity design.
NSCL, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HDZR), is working on the design and fabrication of a photo-injector cryomodule; suitable for operation as part of accelerator systems at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Project scope requires the fabrication of two 185.7 MHz superconducting, quarter-wave resonators (QWR) based, injector cavities. Cavity fabrication will be completed at FRIB with contracted vendors supporting subcomponent fabrication and electron-beam welding. Fabrication will use poly-crystalline and large grain RRR niobium materials. The current status of cavity fabrication will be presented including material procurement, prototype forming, and electron-beam welding development.
FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
HZDR, Dresden, Germany
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
The Linac Coherent Light Source II High Energy (LCLS-II-HE) Project at SLAC includes the construction of a low-emittance injector (LEI) and a superconducting quarter-wave resonator (QWR) at 185.7 MHz. Several alternatives to a superconducting radio frequency (SRF) QWR gun were considered for the LEI, including nor-mal-conducting RF guns evolved from the LCLS-II gun design. Compared to normal-conducting designs, the combination of an intrinsically outstanding vacuum environment (for cathode lifetime), and the potential for a larger ultimate performance envelope, led to the deci-sion to pursue development of the QWR-SRF gun. A prototype gun is currently being designed and fabricated at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michi-gan State University (MSU). This paper presents perfor-mance goals for the new gun design, an overview of the prototype development effort, status, and future plans including fabrication.