A Proposal for a 72.75 MHz RFQ for ECOS-LINCE Project

ECOS-LINCE (Martel I et al., Proceedings IPAC’14, 2014) is a proposal for a new European First Class high intensity heavy-ions accelerator for stable ions, with energies at and above the coulomb barrier. The low energy section will be achieved using a 72.75 MHz normal conducting four vanes RFQ designed to give a 460 keV/u boost for A/Q = 7 ions in about 5 m (Orduz AK et al., IPAC’14, 2014). The geometry vanes are modeled to accommodate windows in order to obtain a clear separation of the RFQ modes (Ostroumov P et al., Rev ST Accel Beams 15:110101, 2012). This article presents the experimental results of the RF test carried out on a aluminum prototype.