Advances of the FRIB project

J. Wei, H. Ao, S. Beher, N. Bultman, F. Casagrande, S. Cogan, C. Compton, J. Curtin, L. Dalesio, K. Davidson, K. Dixon, A. Facco, V. Ganni, A. Ganshyn, P. Gibson, T. Glasmacher, Y. Hao, L. Hodges, K. Holland, K. HosoyamaH. C. Hseuh, A. Hussain, M. Ikegami, S. Jones, T. Kanemura, M. Kelly, P. Knudsen, R. E. Laxdal, J. Letourneau, S. Lidia, G. Machicoane, F. Marti, S. Miller, Y. Momozaki, D. Morris, P. Ostroumov, J. Popielarski, L. Popielarski, S. Prestemon, J. Priller, H. Ren, T. Russo, K. Saito, S. Stanley, M. Wiseman, T. Xu, Y. Yamazaki

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Abstract

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) Project has entered the phase of beam commissioning starting from the room-temperature front end and the superconducting linac segment of first 15 cryomodules. With the newly commissioned helium refrigeration system supplying 4.5K liquid helium to the quarter-wave resonators and solenoids, the FRIB accelerator team achieved the sectional key performance parameters as designed ahead of schedule accelerating heavy ion beams above 20MeV/u energy. Thus, FRIB accelerator becomes world's highest-energy heavy ion linear accelerator. We also validated machine protection and personnel protection systems that will be crucial to the next phase of commissioning. FRIB is on track towards a national user facility at the power frontier with a beam power two orders of magnitude higher than operating heavy-ion facilities. This paper summarizes the status of accelerator design, technology development, construction, commissioning as well as path to operations and upgrades.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1930003
JournalInternational Journal of Modern Physics E
Volume28
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1 2019
Externally publishedYes

Funding

This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science under Cooperative Agreement DE-SC0000661.

Keywords

  • Accelerator
  • FRIB
  • heavy ion
  • linac
  • rare isotope

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