ESS Normal Conducting Linac Status and Plans

Edgar Sargsyan , Ibon Bustinduy , Luigi Celona , Anne-Catherine Chauveau (1) , Håkan Danared , Santo Gammino , Nagore Garmendia , Francesco Grespan , Frank Hellström , Georg Hulla , Paolo Mereu , Øystein Midttun , Juan Muñoz , Lorenzo Neri , Andrea Pisent , Bruno Pottin (1) , Janet Schmidt

1 IRFU - Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers

The European Spallation Source (ESS) uses a linear accelerator to deliver the high intensity proton beam to the target station for producing intense beams of neutrons. The average beam power is 5 MW with a peak beam power at the target of 125 MW. The normal conducting linear accelerator (linac) operating at 352.21 MHz accelerates a proton beam of 62.5 mA from 0.075 to 90 MeV. It consists of an ion source, Low Energy Beam Transport (LEBT), Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ), Medium Energy Beam Transport (MEBT), and Drift Tube Linac (DTL). The design, construction and testing of those structures is done by European partner labs as an in-kind contribution to the ESS project. This paper presents the status and plans for the ESS normal conducting linac.

Mots clés: rfq; ion-source; DTL; linac; proton

Domaines: Physique des accélérateurs [physics.acc-ph]

Edgar Sargsyan, Ibon Bustinduy, Luigi Celona, Anne-Catherine Chauveau, Håkan Danared, et al.. ESS Normal Conducting Linac Status and Plans. 29th International Linear Accelerator Conference, Sep 2018, Beijing, China. pp.THPO043, ⟨10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2018-THPO043⟩. ⟨hal-02016887⟩