ICFA-HB 2004 Commissioning Experience for the SNS Linac A. Aleksandrov, S. Assadi, I. Campisi, P. Chu, S. Cousineau, V. Danilov, G. Dodson, J. Galambos, D.Jeon, S.Henderson, N. Holtkamp, L.Kravchuk, S. Kim, M. Plum, M. Stockli, E. Tanke ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN USA

ICFA-HB 2004 Introduction: the SNS Project Parameters : P beam on target 1.44MW I beam aver.1.44mA Beam energy1 GeV Duty factor6% Rep. rate60Hz Pulse width1ms

ICFA-HB 2004 Injector 2.5 MeV RFQ 1000 MeV DTL 86.8 MeV To Ring and TGT CCL MHz 805 MHz SRF, ß=0.61, MeV HEBT MEBT SNS Linac Layout RFQ (1) DTL (6) CCL (4) 2.5 MeV 86.8 MeV 186 MeV Normal conducting linac 157 MeV

ICFA-HB 2004 Commissioning runs Run #1 - Front End - beam stop for design beam power hours of operation (24/7) Run #2 - Front End & DTL tank 1 - beam stop and radiation shield for design beam power hours of operation (24/7) Run #3 - Front End & DTL tank 1,2,3 - Beam stop and radiation shield for reduced beam power (50us, 1Hz) hours of operation (24/7) Run #4 - Front End, DTL, CCL modules 1,2,3 - Beam stop and radiation shield for reduced beam power (50us, 1Hz) - in progress

ICFA-HB 2004 H - Ion source and LEBT Radio frequency, multi-cusp ion source. Electrostatic low energy beam transport line Electrostatic pre-chopper in the LEBT Current [mA] Life time test at hot spare test 1.2ms, 60Hz (7% duty factor) Ion source availability: Run #1 : 85.6% Run #2 : 92.4% Run #3 : 97.8%

ICFA-HB MHz four-vane RFQ RFQ transmission vs. RF power Simulations (blue) and measurements (red) Output energy measured by Time Of Flight in MEBT = 2.45MeV (2% below design) During run#2 experienced resonant frequency shift of 500kHz. Returned to operation after retuning the cavity.

ICFA-HB MeV MEBT Schematic MEBT Layout RMS beam envelope in MEBT. Simulation (solid) and wire scanner measurements (dots). Beam current after RFQ (red), MEBT (blue)

ICFA-HB 2004 Beam emittance after MEBT. Vertical (top) and horizontal (bottom) Measured emittance after MEBT Dependance of RMS emittance upon peak beam current Design value =.3  mm mrad (RMS normalized)

ICFA-HB 2004 time MEBT chopper (10ns, 1e-4) current LEBT chopper (50ns, 1e-2) 945 ns period Chopping structure 38 mA time Chopping Measured effect of chopper on the beam (LEBT top, MEBT bottom )

ICFA-HB MHz DTL with permanent magnet focusing RF tuning: C.Deibele, THP65

ICFA-HB 2004 Setting DTL phase and amplitude DTL acceptance scan. Transmission through energy degrade vs. tank phase DTL phase scan. Measured dependence of beam phase at tank exit vs. tank RF phase compared with simulations (solid lines) for different RF amplitudes (different colors).

ICFA-HB 2004 Measured emittance after DTL tank 1 Vertical normalized RMS emittance = 0.3  mm*mrad Horizontal normalized RMS emittance = 0.4  mm*mrad Absolute calibration of horizontal scanner is under investigation due to discrepancy with wire scanner measurements

ICFA-HB MHz Coupled-Cavity Linac

ICFA-HB 2004 “Delta-T” procedure for CCL tuning

ICFA-HB 2004 Beam trajectory after correction Beam trajectory from RFQ exit to CCL beam dump. Vertical scale +- 1mm

ICFA-HB 2004 FE-MEBT-DTL-CCL beam transmission

ICFA-HB 2004 Longitudinal bunch profile in CCL

ICFA-HB 2004 Transverse beam profile and losses in CCL Beam profile measured by wire scanner in CCL4 Beam loss pattern in DTL-CCL

ICFA-HB 2004 Diagnostics performance Beam position and phase monitors –Position resolution <.2um –Phase resolution <.5 deg Beam current monitors –1-2% accuracy for short pulses Wire scanners –~ 1000 dynamic range –Require individual bias adjustment depending on energy, beam current Loss monitors –Commissioned but did not use Other devices tested –Laser based profile monitor for superconducting linac –Laser based beam in gap measuring system –Fast Faraday cup

ICFA-HB 2004 Commissioning results vs. goals Baseline Design or Goal Achieved MEBT peak current [mA] 3852 DTL1-3 peak current [mA] 3840 DTL4-6, CCL1-3 peak current [mA] 33 DTL1 beam pulse length [msec] 1.0 DTL1 average current [mA] MEBT horiz. emittance [  mm mrad (rms,norm)].27<.3 MEBT vertical emittance [  mm mrad (rms,norm)].27<.3 DTL1 horiz emittance [  mm mrad (rms,norm)] (fit), 0.40 (RMS) DTL1 vertical emittance [  mm mrad (rms,norm)] 0.3 (RMS)0.21 (fit), 0.31 (RMS) DTL1 beam duty factor 6.0%3.9% MEBT Beam Energy [MeV]  CCL3 output energy [MeV]  0.4

ICFA-HB 2004 Summary Successfully commissioned Front End, Drift Tube Linac, Coupled-Cavity Linac modules 1-3 –Demonstrated high power operation of Front End and Drift tube Linac tank #1 –Design requirements for peak current, energy are met for 50us pulse at 1Hz for warm linac –Developed tuning procedures, commissioned all diagnostics systems –Will commission last CCL module #4 together with Super Conducting Linac in summer 2005