IPAC'25 - the 16th International Particle Accelerator Conferece

Liquid lithium charge stripping technology: Achievement and lessons learned

MOYD2

2 Jun 2025, 11:30

30m

Hall 101_Ground Floor (TICC)

Invited Oral Presentation Plenary after coffee

Speaker

Takuji Kanemura (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University)

Description

Liquid metal technology is key to the next-generation high-power hadron facilities. Following early R&D collaboration between Argonne National Laboratory and Michigan State University, FRIB pioneered the technology of liquid lithium thin film and is the first in the world applying such technology in accelerator operations. FRIB uses a liquid lithium film for the charge stripping of high-power heavy-ion beams, enabling FRIB to achieve world’s highest power uranium beam on target.
Liquid lithium technology has been successfully applied to the liquid lithium charge stripper for FRIB operations, offering a superior choice for charge stripping of high-power heavy ion beams including uranium. Valuable experience has been gained in the performance and maintenance. This talk focuses on operational experience, lessons learned and future improvements.

Funding Agency

This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics under Award Number DE-SC0023633