ecos lince a high intensity multi ion superconducting linac for nuclear structure and reactions

• DOI: 10.18429/jacow-ipac2014-thpme036
• Publication Date: 2014-01-01
• Authors: Luis Acosta; A. K. Ordúz; Faical Azaiez; Antonio Villari; Ismael Martel; Marek Lewitowicz; Jaime Prieto-Thomas; J.A. Dueñas; Peter Ostroumov; Antonio Peregrín; Rafael Carrasco D...; Giacomo De Angelis; Jose Sanchez-Segovia; A. Maj
• Keywords: 0103 physical sciences; A08 Linear Accelerators; 04 Hadron Accelerators; 01 natural sciences; 7. Clean energy; Accelerator Physics

During the past ten years, ECOS working group and users strongly supported the construction of a dedicated high-intensity stable-ion-beam facility in Europe, with energies at and above the Coulomb barrier as part of the Long-Range Plan of the Nuclear-Physics community. LINCE will be a multi-user facility dedicated to ECOS science: fundamental physics, astrophysics, nuclear structure and reaction dynamics. Applied research is foreseen in the fields of medical physics, aerospace and material sciences with energetic heavy ions. The facility will produce a wide range of ions, from protons (45 MeV) up to Uranium (8.5 MeV/u) with 1mA maximum beam intensity. A very compact linac has been designed by using a HV platform with a double-frequency ECR ion source, multi-harmonic buncher, an innovative CW RFQ design (1 ≤A/Q ≤ 7) and 26 accelerating cavities made of bulk niobium (β = 0.045, 0.077 and 0.15) working at 72.75 and 10⁹.125 MHz. This article gives an outline of the accelerator complex from the ion source to the experimental areas, and presents its research potential and the relevant physics instrumentation.<br/>Proceedings of the 5th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2014, Dresden, Germany<br/>