2017•JACOWOpen access
Commissioning of New Light Ion RFQ Linac and First Nuclotron Run with New Injector
Andrey V. Butenko, S. V. Barabin, Alexander Vladimirovich Bazanov, Aleksandr Belov, Denis Donets, V. V. Fimushkin, Boris V. Golovenskiy, Alexander Govorov, V. V. Kobets, Alexander Kovalenko, Aleksander Kozlov, Gennady N. Kropachev, Timur V. Kulevoy, Viktor Kuzmichev, Konstantin A. Levterov, Dmitry Lyuosev, A. I. Martynov, Vladimir Mialkovskiy, Valery Monchinsky, С. М. Полозов, Dmitry O. Ponkin, Roman Pushkar, V. Seleznev, Konstantin V. Shevchenko, Ilia Shirikov, A. A. Sidorin, A. Smirnov, Grigoriy Trubnikov
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Abstract
The new accelerator complex Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility (NICA) is now under development and construction at JINR, Dubna. This complex is assumed to operate using two injectors: the Alvarez-type linac LU-20 as injector of light ions, polarized protons and deuterons and a new linac HILAc - injector of heavy ions beams. Old DC for-injector of the LU-20, which operated from 1974, is replaced by the new RFQ accelerator, which was commissioned in spring 2016. The first Nuclotron technological run with new fore-injector was performed in June 2016. Beams of D⁺ and H²⁺ were successfully injected and accelerated in the Nuclotron ring. Main results of the RFQ commissioning and the first Nuclotron run with new for-injector is discussed in this paper.