HIRFL-CSR commissioning in 2006 and 2007

HIRFL-CSR, a new heavy ion cooler-storage-ring system at IMP, had been in commissioning since the beginning of 2006. In the two years of 2006 and 2007 the CSR commissioning was finished, including the stripping injection (STI), electron-cooling with hollow electron beam, C-beam stacking with the combination of STI and e-cooling, the wide energy-range synchrotron ramping from 7 MeV/u to 1000 MeV/u by changing the RF harmonic-number at mid-energy, the multiple multi-turn injection (MMI), the beam accumulation with MMI and e-cooling for heavy-ion beams of Ar, Kr and Xe, the fast extraction from CSRm and single-turn injection to CSRe, beam stacking in CSRe and the RIBs mass-spectrometer test with the isochronous mode in CSRe by using the time-of-flight method.     

HIRFL-CSR commissioning in 2006 and 2007

HIRFL-CSR, a new heavy ion cooler-storage-ring system at IMP, had been in commissioning since the beginning of 2006. In the two years of 2006 and 2007 the CSR commissioning was finished, including the stripping injection (STI), electron-cooling with hollow electron beam, C-beam stacking with the combination of STI and e-cooling, the wide energy-range synchrotron ramping from 7 MeV/u to 1000 MeV/u by changing the RF harmonic-number at mid-energy, the multiple multi-turn injection (MMI), the beam accumulation with MMI and e-cooling for heavy-ion beams of Ar, Kr and Xe, the fast extraction from CSRm and single-turn injection to CSRe, beam stacking in CSRe and the RIBs mass-spectrometer test with the isochronous mode in CSRe by using the time-of-flight method.     

HIRFL-CSR complex

The construction and commissioning of HIRFL-CSR were finished in 2007. From 2000 to 2005 the subsystem and key devices of CSR were successfully fabricated, such as magnet, power supply, UHV system, e-cooler, electric-static deflector with the septum of 0.1 mm, and the fast-pulse kicker with the rise time of 150 ns. After that the CSR commissioning activities were performed in 2006 and 2007, including the accumulation of those heavy ions of C, Ar, Kr and Xe by the combination of stripping injection （STI） or multiple multi-turn injection （MMI） and e-cooling with a hollow e-beam, wide energy-range synchrotron ramping by changing the RF harmonic-number at mid-energy, the beam stacking in the experimental ring CSRe, the RIBs mass-measurement with the isochronous-mode in CSRe by using the time-of-flight method, and the ion beam slow-extraction from CSRm.     

The First Isochronous Mass Measurements at CSRe

With the commissioning of the Cooler Storage Ring at the Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou (HIRFL-CSR),a pilot experiment operating the CSRe in isochronous mode to test the power of HIRFL-CSR for measuring the mass of the short-lived nucleus was performed in December of 2007.The fragments with A/q=2 of ~(36) Ar were injected into CSRe and their revolution frequencies were measured with a fast time pick-up detector with a thin foil in the circulating path of the ions.The preliminary result is presented.The result shows the potential of CSRe for mass measurements of short-lived nuclei.     

基于EPICS的CSRe束流诊断控制系统升级

兰州重离子加速器(HIRFL)冷却存储环的实验环（CSRe）提供高品质的束流用于高精度的质量测量、原子物理等实验研究,实现束流参数的准确测量是进行物理实验的前提保障。目前,CSRe加速器控制系统已升级为EPICS架构。介绍了基于EPICS的束流诊断控制系统现状,并利用升级后的控制系统测量了束流相关参数。其中,束流位置系统能够测量注入束流的逐圈位置信息,测量结果发现束流在注入过程中存在一定程度的震荡,影响注入效率。流强测量系统通过高分辨的数据采集卡实现对DCCT信号的精确测量,同时增加了D事例触发功能。升级后的控制系统,可以实现束流参数的测量,并集成于加速器控制系统的EPICS CSS界面。     

利用HIRFL-CSR开展分子离子复合离解研究的可行性分析

介绍了储存环高精度分子谱学研究的科学意义、 国内外研究现状和利用HIRFL-CSR开展该项研究的优势, 着重论证了HIRFL-CSR分子离子注入实验环的总体设计方案和技术方案。 通过在HIRFL-CSR实验环上增建一条分子离子注入线, 将实验环改造成能兼顾现有物理实验和大分子物理研究的综合性研究平台, 为分子离子复合离解研究提供良好的技术支撑。 特别是质量数大于70的分子离子, 能显著提高其能量分辨。 In the present paper, it is introduced the scientific background and the current status of the high precision spectroscopy of the molecular ions at cooler storage ring. The advantages to study the dissociative recombination(DR) processes using cooler storage ring CSRe are discussed. The physics design,the main parameters of the injection beam line and the injection of the molecular ions into the CSRe and the key techniques are described in detail. With a new injection beam line,HIRFL-CSRe will be reconstructed to a multi discipline research platform,offering good opportunities for the study of DR processes of molecular ions,especially for that of the molecular ions of m>70 amu with much improved resolution.     

Radiation Protection of CSR

The construction of CSR (cooling storage ring) which includes a main ring (CSRm) and an experimental ring (CSRe) will be finished at the end of 2005. Heavy ions of carbon to uranium will be accelerated up to 900MeV/u and 400MeV/u at intensity of 10⁸ pps. The HIRFL (heavy ion research facility in Lanzhou) will be used as the injector. For the shielding design of CSR, the secondary neutrons due to the ion beam loss, their spectra and angular distributions were estimated based on the experimental results. The dose equivalent outside the shielding surface and in the surrounding environment and the neutron skyshine dose equivalent were also estimated in this study. The experimental result, neutron yield, spectrum and angular distribution for 400MeV/u ¹²C+Cu reaction were used for estimating the source term of shielding design. It is found that the most important environmental radiation impact component of CSR is the skyshine neutrons.     

兰州重离子冷却储存环工程

兰州重离子加速器冷却储存环是兰州重离子研究装置的后续工程 .它的建造目的是将重离子束的能量提高到 1 Ge V/u附近 ,同时利用储存环电子冷却技术将束流品质提高一个数量级 ,并提供更多种类的重离子束 ,以开展更广范围和更高精度的物理实验 .兰州重离子加速器冷却储存环是一个双储存环系统 ,由一个主环和一个实验环构成 .对其总体布局、总体参数、主要功能进行了介绍. HIRFL- CSR, a new accelerator project at the Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou (HIRFL), is a multipurpose Cooling Storage Ring system which consists of a main ring (CSRm) and an experimental ring (CSRe). Beams from HIRFL will be accumulated and accelerated in CSRm, and then transported to CSRe for internal target experiments. The layout, major parameters and main functions of the CSR were described.     

CSR的辐射防护

CSR(cooling storage ring)按计划将于2005年底建成调束,届时从¹²C到²³⁸U的重离子将可以分别被加速到900和400MeV的能量. HIRFL(兰州重离子加速器Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou)将 用作CSR的注入器. 为了CSR的屏蔽设计,本文利用现有的实验数据计算了由于束流损失产生的中子及其能谱、角分布,同时也估算了屏蔽体外表面的中子剂量、环境中子剂量及天空返照中子剂量. 在源项计算中使用了400MeV/u ¹²C+Cu反应的中子产额、能谱、角分布的实验数据. 计算表明, CSR对环境剂量影响最大的是天空返照中子.     

HIRFL-CSR主环加速腔系统设计

正在建设中的兰州重离子加速器冷却储存环 ( HIRFL- CSR)的主环加速腔系统用于将累积的重离子束流进行加速 .其频率范围为 0 .2 5 - 1 .7MHz,峰值电压为 8.0 k V.重点介绍了主环加速腔系统的设计及主要高频参数 ,包括高频腔体的设计及低电平控制部分的设计. An ion cooler storage ring HIRFL CSR is constructing at Institute of Modern Physics(IMP). It consists of two rings--main ring (CSRm) and experimental ring (CSRe). For the CSRm, two RF systems will be employed. One is for RF stacking, and another is for beam accelerating. The designed parameters of CSRm accelerating system and the control block diagram of RF system are described. The RF accelerating system has a specification of lower and wider frequency range from 0.25 to 1.7 MHz...     

基于P2P技术的CSRe冷却装置控制系统设计

HIRFL-CSR工程对CSRe冷却装置电子冷却部分的控制系统在实时性和可靠性方面提出了非常高的要求。 电子冷却工作环境复杂, 各种干扰难以预测。 从电子冷却的控制系统改进出发, 以实现电子冷却的自动调束为目标, 以高端FPGA和ARM嵌入式系统为基础, 采用P2P通讯技术和神经元网络算法来实现对电子冷却的自动控制。 该控制系统对电子冷却控制的完善提供了先进的硬件平台和软件实现方案。 In the HIRFL-CSR project,it needs the high performance requirement in real time and reliability for the control system of CSRe’s cooling equipment——Cooler. Simultaneously, the running environment of the Cooler is very complex and it is difficult to predict various kinds of interference. To solve these problems, we focus on the improvement on the control system of the Cooler. The high performance FPGA and ARM embedded systems are used to realize the beam commissioning automatically,and the P2P(Peer to peer) technology and the neural network algorithm are adopted to implement the automatic control of the Cooler. The system provides the advanced hardware platform and the design proposal for the cooling control system.     

Commissioning of electron cooling in CSRe

The 400 MeV/u 12C6+ion beam was successfully cooled by the intensive electron beam near 1 A in CSRe.The momentum cooling time was estimated near 15 s.The cooling force was measured in the cases of different electron beam profiles,and the different angles between the ion beam and electron beam.The lifetime of the ion beam in CSRe was over 80 h.The dispersion in the cooling section was confirmed as positive close to zero.The beam sizes before cooling and after cooling were measured by the moving screen.The beam diameter after cooling was about 1 mm.The bunch length was measured with the help of the signals from the beam position monitor.The diffusion was studied in the absence of the electron beam.     

A pilot experiment for mass measurement at CSRe

A pilot experiment of mass measurement was performed at CSRe with the method of isochronous mass spectrometry. The secondary fragments produced via RIBLL2 with the primary beam of 400 MeV/u 36Ar delivered by CSRm were injected into CSRe. The revolution periods of the stored ions, which depend on the mass-to-charge ratios of the stored ions, were measured with a time-of-flight detector system. The results show that the mass resolution around 8×10-6 for Δm/m is achieved.     

DPIS-RFQ系统的高频参数测试及功率锻炼

中国科学院近代物理研究所于2007年开始进行等离子体直接注入项目的预研。详细介绍了RFQ系统的高频参数测试的方法及结果,并针对高脉冲功率的测试提出通过标定定向耦合器来测试脉冲功率的方法。介绍了系统锻炼的情况,包括针对功率源末级和腔内电极的打火问题提出了理论的分析和改善的方法。高频参数的测试和载束实验证实整套系统满足加速器的设计要求。     

Linear optics calibration and nonlinear optimization during the commissioning of the SSRF storage ring

Phase I commissioning of the SSRF storage ring on 3.0 GeV beam energy was started at the end of December 2007. A lot of encouraging results have been obtained so far. In this paper, calibrations of the linear optics during the commissioning are discussed, and some measured results about the nonlinearity given. Calibration procedure emphasizes correcting quadrupole magnetic coefficients with the Linear Optics from Closed Orbit (LOCO) technique. After fitting the closed orbit response matrix, the linear optics of the four test modes is substantially corrected, and the measured physical parameters agree well with the designed ones.     

Dielectronic recombination at low energy range with Boron-like Ar13+at the CSRm

In order to extend the dielectronic recombination (DR) experiments from the main cooler storage ring CSRm with intermediate charge state ions to the experimental cooler storage ring CSRe with highly charged ions and even radioactive ions, a test electron-ion recombination experiment of B-like Ar¹³⁺ ions was performed with a section of the new electron beam energy detuning system, which will be installed at the CSRe. We present the measured and also the calculated DR spectra for the ∆n = 0 resonances from 0 to 3 eV. The experimental results agree very well with the previous DR experimental data from CRYRING, and the energy resolution reached 30 meV full width at half maximum. This test experiment demonstrates that the reliability and stability of the newly developed electron beam energy detuning system are satisfactory for the upcoming DR experiments at the CSRe. However, we found large discrepancies between the experimental result and the calculation in both resonance positions and the intensities of the recombination spectrum below 0.7 eV, which indicate that precise calculation of the DR spectrum of multielectron ions is still a challenge.     

兰州重离子加速器冷却储存环

 兰州重离子加速器冷却储存环HIRFL-CSR,是一个多用途、多功能的双冷却储存环同步加速器系统,由主环CSRm和实验环CSRe构成,并以兰州重离子级联回旋加速器HIRFL作注入器。CSR利用高频变谐波的方法,将重离子束的能量从7～25 MeV/u同步加速到２00～1 000 MeV/u,同时利用重离子储存环中空心电子束冷却技术将束流品质提高１个数量级,并通过储存环的快引出及慢引出,提供多种类的重离子束以及放射性次级束(RIBs),以开展范围更广精度更高的物理实验。该装置于2007年投入运行,已取得了重要的运行结果,如实现了剥离注入与多圈注入、空心电子束对重离子束的冷却与累积、变谐波宽能区同步加速、等时性环型谱仪、RIBs的产生收集与ToF高分辨质量测量以及高能重离子束的变能慢引出等。     

冷却存储环虚拟加速器的数据交互系统

 介绍了兰州重离子加速器冷却存储环（HIRFL CSR）为重离子治癌而改造的控制系统中的数据交互系统,数据交互系统是CSR虚拟加速器的核心。该系统能实现对256个能量级的束流控制,为以后深层重离子治癌做好准备。系统主要采用Java,COM,Oracle,ARM,DSP,FPGA等技术实现了对磁铁电源的实时、同步控制,已达到对束流的控制及束流在不同能量级间的切换控制。该系统已经运行于冷却存储环主环（CSRm）的束流慢引出调试中,性能稳定,能满足物理人员的要求。     

内置垫补线圈的C型二极磁铁

对HIRFL CSR的原形磁铁进行了试制和研究.尝试了一种新的改善磁场分布的方法:在不增大极头的条件下使用两根内置导线,实践证明是可行的.用OPERA 2D和TOSCA 3D软件分析了垫补电流对中、低场的影响,同时也介绍了这块C型二极磁铁的制作工艺及磁场测量结果. The C-type dipole prototypes in the injection beam line from a Separate Sector Cyclotron (SSC) to Cooling Storage Ring (CSR) are selected as R & D for CSR magnets fabrication, because they have large bending angle and small radius, and are very difficult to stack and fabricate. A method to obtain good field homogeneity has been attempted in the C-type dipole prototype. This method is not the enlarged dipole pole but two imbedded conductors and two small power supplies. This is easy operating....     

CSRe的 Schottky束流诊断系统的研制

 介绍了Schottky信号的产生原理。研制了CSRe的Schottky束流诊断系统,该系统由一对平行的Schottky电极板、四分之一波螺旋谐振腔、低噪声放大器及数据获取系统组成。利用能量为481.88 MeV/u的⁷⁸Kr³⁶⁺束流对Schottky束流诊断系统进行灵敏度测试。结果表明该系统能够测量流强大于82 nA的束流。