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 DOE grant R&D titled ¿Development of Transformative Preparation Technology to Push up High Q/G Performance of FRIB Spare HWR Cryomodule Cavities¿ is ongoing at FRIB. This R&D is for 2 years since September 2022. This project proposes four objectives: 1) Superiority on high gradient performance of electropolishing (EP) over buffered chemical polishing at low frequency (322 MHz), 2) High Qo performance by the local magnetic shield, 3) Development of HFQS-free BCP and, 4) Wet N-doping method. This paper will report the result of first object, and a local magnetic shield design and simulation to reduce the residual magnetic field < 0.1 mG in the vertical test Dewar, for the object 2.
HZDR, Dresden, Germany
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
Superconducting radio frequency photo injectors (SRF gun) offer advantages for operating in continuous wave (CW) mode and generating high-brightness and high-current beams. A new SRF gun is designed as a low emittance photo injector for LCLS-II-HE and a prototype gun is currently being developed under collaboration between SLAC, FRIB, HZDR and ANL. The aim is to demonstrate stable CW operation at a cathode gradient of 30 MV/m. One of the crucial component for successful SRF gun operation is the photocathode system. The new SRF gun will adopt the HZDR-type cathode, which includes a cathode holder fixture (cathode stalk) developed by FRIB and a sophisticated cathode exchange system designed by HZDR. This innovative cathode insertion system ensures accurate, particle-free and warm cathode exchanges. A novel alignment process targets the cathode to the stalk axis without touching cathode plug itself. To commission the prototype gun, metallic cathodes will be used. A specifically designed vacuum system ensures vacuum pressure of 10-9 mbar for transport of a single cathode from the cleanroom to the gun. Thus maintaining cathode quality.
FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
The driver linac for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University includes 324 superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities, and the SRF particle-free beamline spans approximately 300 meters. Protecting the beamlines against contamination is critical to FRIB operations, and thus, various administrative and engineered controls have been put in place to protect the SRF cryomodules. These controls include local vacuum interlocks for cryomodule isolation, accelerator-wide interlocks, and software controls to safeguard the cryomodules and beamlines. Meanwhile, efforts are being made to provide training and develop programs with the goal of preventing critical failures during maintenance. This paper discusses the measures and approaches used for both system integration to support operations and SRF beamline protection.
FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Recently, a new Electropolishing (EP) facility was con-structed and commissioned at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beam (FRIB) with the purpose of supporting advanced surface processing techniques for SRF R&D activities. The FRIB production cavities opted for a Buffered Chemical Polish (BCP) method due to its cost effectiveness and was supported by successful outcomes in other facilities with low beta cavities in a similar frequency range. All 324 cavities used in FRIB Linac were processed in-house at MSU using BCP and exhibited satisfactory performance during testing. As part of the FRIB energy upgrade R&D, 5-cell 644 MHz elliptical resonators will be employed, desiring the use of EP and advanced techniques such as nitrogen doping and medium-T baking. The EP facility is designed to accommodate all types of cavities used in FRIB and possesses the capability for performing EP at low temperatures. Here we report the details of design and commissioning of the EP facility, highlights of encountered issues and subsequent improvements, and preliminary results from vertical tests conducted on the cavities.
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.
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FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
Michigan State University is pursuing SRF R&D for FRIB400 upgrade, doubling the FRIB linac beam energy (400 MeV/u for the heaviest uranium beam) using ßopt=0.65 644 MHz 5-cell elliptical cavities. We have achieved unprecedented Q₀ in this cavity class, Q₀ = 3.5·1010 at Eacc of 17.5 MV/m in a nitrogen-doped bare niobium cavity in collaboration with FNAL and ANL. The next missions are achieving such high Q₀ in jacketed cavities and in cryomodules, achieving field-emission free performance at Epeak of 40 MV/m with reproducibility, developing a compact two-window high-power fundamental power coupler (15 kW CW), and achieving stable resonance control of cavities integrated with tuners in cryomodules. In this talk, we will present progress of the SRF R&D and discuss future plan.
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.