[Triumf-seminars] TRIUMF Accelerator Seminar today at 14:00

[TRIUMF Seminars]

Date/Time: Wed 2012-12-05 at 14:00

Location:  ISAC II Conf. Rm.   

Speaker:   Dimo Yosifov (TRIUMF)

Title:     TRIUMF e-linac vacuum system

Abstract: The new Advanced Rare Isotope Laboratory (ARIEL) is TRIUMF's flagship facility that will expand Canada's capabilities to produce and study isotopes for physics and medicine. Utilizing next-generation technology, it will showcase a Made-in-Canada, high-power superconducting electron accelerator to produce exotic isotopes for research and development.

ARIEL is an accelerator based research facility, which is being constructed for scientific research by TRIUMF. It will produce radioactive isotopes by bombarding alkanides targets with high energy electron beams, generated by an electron gun (EGUN) and accelerated with an electron linear accelerator (E-linac). The E-linac is comprised of an EGUN, three main accelerators, and beam transport lines, delivering the beam to a beam dump (2014) or to ARIEL targets (2017). To minimize the collision of electrons with air molecules, the E-linac requires an evacuated volume along the electrons path. When beam is running, the pressure in the EGUN and the three accelerators has to be at level less than 1.3E-9 mbar, in the section between the accelerators and the beam transport lines at level less than 1.3E-8mbar and in the beam transport lines, which delivers beam to the targets, at level less than 1.3E-7mbar.



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