Superconducting heavy-ion accelerating structures

Tesla Superconducting Accelerating Structures

The application of the superconductivity phenomenon in accelerators originated with pioneer work in the late sixties at the High Energy Physics Laboratory (HEPL) at Stanford University [1]. Starting with the deposition of lead on copper and niobium on copper, by the end of 1968 the HEPL group had developed and tested the first bulk niobium superconducting accelerating cavity [2]. The result was...

A cw Heavy Ion Linac Based on Superconducting CH-Structures

According to the Unilac upgrade program for the SHE research at GSI, a new high energy part of the High Charge State Injector (HLI) has to be worked out. One of the versions of this linac foresees the acceleration of the highly stripped ions with charge-to-mass ratio of 1/6 delivered from the existing HLI at 1.4 MeV/u. The output beam energy should allow experiments at the Coulomb barrier and i...

The Cern Heavy Ion Accelerating Facility

CERN’s Lead Ion Accelerating Facility has been operating successfully for its first physics run. The facility, supported financially by some member states and designed, built and installed in a collaboration with several other laboratories (not only from member states), features a completely new linac and a major up-grade of the existing CERN machines. This paper reviews the design philosophy a...

Design Study of a Superconducting Cyclotron for Heavy Ion Therapy

Development of Superconducting Quadrupoles for Heavy Ion Fusion

Multi-beam heavy-ion accelerators are considered as promising drivers for inertial fusion energy. The High Current Experiment (HCX) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) will test driver-scale beam dynamics in a single transport channel. Single bore, NbTi superconducting quadrupoles are being developed for the HCX, taking into account their possible use as modules in a quadrupole arra...