HIE-ISOLDE Design Study and the CATHI Project

Richard Catherall EN-STIISOLDE Technical Coordinator

HIE-EBIS Workshop 16th-17th October 2012.CERN

Energy upgrade10 MeV/uConstruction of SC LINAC+ service buildings

Intensity upgradeLINAC4+PSBDesign Study of target area, Class-A lab and beam lines

HIE-ISOLDE: An Upgrade of the present ISOLDE Facility

Beam quality upgrade

Staging Linac and Cryo

20145.5MeV/u

201610MeV/u

>2017

Design StudyIntensity Upgrade Beam Quality Upgrade

• Ventilation issues• Vacuum issues• Targets

– Fluka simulations– Target design– Materials

• Front End– Mechanics– Optics

• HV systems

• High resolution magnet• RFQ Cooler• REXEBIS upgrade• Off-line separator• Pre-mass separator

Deliverable – Final Design Study Report by mid 2014

Identify priorities and plan their implementation as a function of overall schedule and the existing facility

Assess the implications of any modifications in terms of resources, infrastructure and planning.

Address the issues and provide acceptable solutions in the form of conceptual designs and reports.

Extrapolate these issues as a function of proton intensity increase and secondary beam requirements.

Through previous experiences and collaborations, identify the issues associated with the existing facilities.

WP7.4: Radioactive Ion Beam Quality Charge breeder design study

Simulations of high current space charge limited electron beam for HIE-EBIS; Simulation based design of High Energy Current and Compression (HEC2) electron

gun, drift tubes, High Power Collector (HPC) and spec for the magnetic system; General design concept of the HIE-EBIS;

Beam

Quality

Andrey Shornikov

The CATHI Project: An Initial Training Network (ITN) within the European FP7 program

Initial Research Training Early Stage Researchers (ESR) experience < 4 yr

Experienced Researchers (ER) 4 yr < experience < 5 yr

CATHI = Monosite ITN CERN (the grant recipient and coordinator) + 13 Associated Partners

General ITN Objectives International mobility Intersectorial experience (academia + industry)

Complementary skills (language, communication & management, IPR issues etc.)

Dissemination of results (workshops etc)

Cryogenics, Accelerators and Targets at HIE-ISOLDE

Research Training Themes (20 Fellows over 4 years)

Y. Kadi HIE-ISOLDE Proposal, IEFC, August 21, 2009

Associated Partners

• Advantages– An in-kind contribution to projects and developments with

the added advantage of knowledge transfer.– Networking and contacts for future activities– A MC Fellow can spend up to 1/3 of his contract in

training/internships world-wide.• Secondments for up to several months

– Financial assistance from the CATHI project budget for training by the associated partnership.

• Including travel subsistence for AP members

– Its still not too late to become an associated partner!• Just need to sign a letter of commitment with CERN

Associated Partners

Y. Kadi HIE-ISOLDE Proposal, IEFC, August 21, 2009

Possible CERN Contributions

• Financial contributions from the EU (ITN) cannot be used for material costs.

• The Design Study does have an R&D budget:– For drawings– Software licenses– Prototypes

• Materials and fabrication processes

– Tests• At CERN or elsewhere.

• Expertise by specialist groups – Vacuum, RF, material science etc etc

• Thank you for your attention