Development and status of the FRIB 28 GHz SC ECRIS

Haitao Ren, Guillaume Machicoane, Nathan Bultman, Xing Rao, Phil Morrison, Mykola Omelayenko, Larry Tobos, Jesse Fogleman, Helene Felice, Ray Hafalia, Heng Pan, Soren Prestemon

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Abstract

To meet a beam power requirement of 400 kW for heavy ions, a high intensity 28 GHz superconducting Electron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR) ion source is under development at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) in collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). The magnet was built and tested at LBNL and integrated into the ion source cryostat on the FRIB high voltage platform. Magnet cooldown to 4.2K was completed successfully in December of 2020. The static heat load at 4.2K has been measured to be around 1.2 W, in good agreement with the design value. The heat load is managed through 2 Gifford-McMahon/Joule-Thomson (GM-JT) cryocoolers that have been in operation for several months. Magnet energization is scheduled in November of 2021. Warm components preparation and assembly test are ongoing in parallel. The ion source commissioning with 18 GHz Klystron shall start in December of 2021. Details of the ion source development, status, and commissioning plan will be presented in the paper.

Original languageEnglish
Article number012008
JournalJournal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume2244
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 25 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event19th International Conference on Ion Sources, ICIS 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: Sep 20 2021Sep 24 2021

Funding

1Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA 2Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA Work supported by the U.S. Department Cooperative Agreement DE-SC0000661. Figure 2 shows the timeline of the project. DOE-SC and MSU signed the Cooperative Agreement in June 2009. In August 2013, DOE-SC approved the project baseline and start of civil construction (CD2-3a) with a total project cost of $730M, funded by DOE, MSU and the State of Michigan. FRIB obtained CD-3b approval from DOE in August 2014, and the technical construction began in October 2014. The project completion (CD-4) is scheduled to be in June 2022, but the forecast is for an early completion by January 2022. The first user experiments are expected in summer 2022.

FundersFunder number
State of Michigan
U.S. DepartmentDE-SC0000661
U.S. Department of Energy
Midwestern State University

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