18–26 Sept 2025
Ito International Research Center
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Commissioning of the first HElmholtz LInear ACcelerators (HELIAC) cryomodule with heavy ion beam

MOB05
22 Sept 2025, 12:20
20m
Ito International Research Center

Ito International Research Center

Tokyo
Board: MOB05
Invited Oral Presentation MC1: SRF Facilities Monday Oral Session: B

Speaker

Maksym Miski-Oglu (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Helmholtz Institute Mainz)

Description

The superconducting heavy ion HELmholtz LInear ACcelerator (HELIAC) is designed to meet the needs of the Super Heavy Element (SHE) research and material sciences user programs at GSI in Darmstadt. The HELIAC is planned for construction at GSI in Darmstadt. The beam energy can be varied smoothly between 3.5 and 7.3 MeV/u, with an average current of up to 1 emA and a duty cycle of 100 %. Recently, the first cryomodule CM1, was fully commissioned and tested w/o beam. CM1 comprises three Crossbar H-mode (CH)-type accelerator cavities, a CH-rebuncher, and two superconducting solenoid lenses. Following the commissioning of the cryogenic supply and the RF-systems, successful beam tests were conducted at the end of 2023 and mid of 2024. A helium as well as an argon ion beam was successfully accelerated to the design energy. The beam energy could be varied continuously between 1.3 and 3.1 MeV/u without any significant particle losses being measured in the cryomodule. This contribution covers the construction and commissioning of the first HELIAC cryomodule and the results of the beam test campaign.

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Author

Maksym Miski-Oglu (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Helmholtz Institute Mainz)

Co-authors

Winfried Barth (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Helmholtz Institute Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) Florian Dirk Dziuba (Helmholtz Institute Mainz) Viktor Gettmann (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Helmholtz Institute Mainz) Thorsten Kuerzeder (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, Helmholtz Institute Mainz) Julian List (Helmholtz Institute Mainz) Holger Podlech (Goethe University Frankfurt) Stepan Yaramyshev (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research)

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