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Holger Podlech

Test and Commissioning of the HELIAC Power Coupler

The superconducting continuous wave (cw) heavy ion HElmholtz LInear ACcelerator (HELIAC) is intended to be built at GSI in Darmstadt. With its high average beam current and repetition rate, the HELIAC is designed to fulfill the requirements of the super heavy element (SHE) research user program and the material sciences community at GSI. The accelerating cavities are of the superconducting Crossbar H-mode (CH) type, developed by GUF. Within the Advanced Demonstrator project, the first cryomodule, consisting of four cavities is scheduled for commissioning with beam in 2023. The former RF power couplers introduced a high heat input into the cryostat. Therefore, the coupler is redesigned at HI…

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The neutron-rich Mg isotopes: first results from MINIBALL at REX-ISOLDE

After the successful commissioning of the Radioactive beam EXperiment (REX) at ISOLDE (CERN) in 2002, first physics experiments were performed in 2003 which focussed on the neutron-rich Mg isotopes in the vicinity of the “island of inversion”. After introducing the REX facility and the modern γ spectrometer MINIBALL first preliminary results will be presented showing the high potential and physics opportunities offered by this new radioactive beam facility.

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Reconstruction of the Longitudinal Phase Space for the Superconducting CW HELIAC

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on RF Superconductivity The 19th International Conference on RF Superconductivity, Dresden, Germany, 30 Jun 2019 - 5 Jul 2019; Geneva : JACoW Publishing, CERN 1175-1179 (2019). doi:10.18429/JACOW-SRF2019-THP103

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A superconducting CW-LINAC for heavy ion acceleration at GSI

The European physical journal / Web of Conferences 138, 01026 (2017). doi:10.1051/epjconf/201713801026

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A dynamic collimation and alignment system for the Helmholtz linear accelerator

Review of scientific instruments 92(11), 113306 - 113306-9 (2021). doi:10.1063/5.0069824

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Longitudinal phase space reconstruction for a heavy ion accelerator

At the GSI Helmholtzzentrum f\"ur Schwerionenforschung (GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany, a prototype cryomodule (advanced demonstrator) for the superconducting (SC) continuous wave (CW) Helmholtz Linear Accelerator (HELIAC) is under construction. A transport line, comprising quadrupole lenses, rebuncher cavities, beam correctors, and adequate beam instrumentation has been built to deliver the beam from the GSI 1.4 MeV/u High Charge Injector (HLI) to the advanced demonstrator, which offers a test environment for SC CW multigap cavities. In order to achieve proper phase space matching, the beam from the HLI must be characterized in detail. In a dedicated machine experiment the bunch shape has been…

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“Safe” Coulomb Excitation ofMg30

We report on the first radioactive beam experiment performed at the recently commissioned REX-ISOLDE facility at CERN in conjunction with the highly efficient γ spectrometer MINIBALL. Using Mg-30 ions accelerated to an energy of 2.25 MeV/u together with a thin Ni-nat target, Coulomb excitation of the first excited 2(+) states of the projectile and target nuclei well below the Coulomb barrier was observed. From the measured relative deexcitation γ-ray yields the B(E2;0(gs)(+)R 2(1)(+)) value of Mg-30 was determined to be 241(31)e(2) fm(4). Our result is lower than values obtained at projectile fragmentation facilities using the intermediate-energy Coulomb excitation method, and confirms the …

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Advanced Beam Dynamics Design for the Superconducting Heavy Ion Accelerator HELIAC

The 10th International Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC2019, Melbourne, Australia, 19 May 2019 - 24 May 2019; JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland 928-931 (2019). doi:10.18429/JACOW-IPAC2019-MOPTS034

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Investigation of the Li9+H2→Li8+t reaction at REX-ISOLDE

The one-neutron transfer reaction Li-9 + H-2 -> Li-8 + t has been investigated in an inverse kinematics experiment by bombarding a deuterated polypropylene target with a 2.36 MeV/u Li-9 beam from the post-accelerator REX-ISOLDE at CERN. Excitation energies in Li-8 as well as angular distributions of the tritons were obtained and spectroscopic factors deduced. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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First heavy ion beam tests with a superconducting multigap CH cavity

Physical review accelerators and beams 21(2), 020102 (2018). doi:10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.21.020102

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Reference beam dynamics layout for the SC CW heavy ion HELIAC at GSI

Abstract The standalone superconducting continuous wave heavy ion linac HELIAC (HElmholtz LInear ACcelerator) is a common project of GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research and Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM) under key support of Goethe University Frankfurt (IAP) and in collaboration with National Research Nuclear University MEPhI and NRC “Kurchatov Institute” ITEP. In 2017 the first superconducting section of the linac has been successfully commissioned and extensively tested with beam at GSI. The measurements sufficiently present the capability of 216.816 MHz multi-gap Crossbar H-mode (CH) DTL-structures. An acceleration of heavy ions up to the design beam energy and beyond has been r…

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Beam Dynamics Simulations for the New Superconducting CW Heavy Ion LINAC at GSI

LINAC18 : 29th Linear Accelerator Conference : September 16-21, 2018, Friendship Hotel, Beijing, China / Pei, Guoxi , Geneva : JACoW Publishing, CERN, Jan 2019,; Geneva : JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland 525--527 (2018). doi:10.18429/JACOW-LINAC2018-TUPO084

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Accelerated radioactive beams from REX-ISOLDE

In 2001 the linear accelerator of the Radioactive beam EXperiment (REX-ISOLDE) delivered for the first time accelerated radioactive ion beams, at a beam energy of 2 MeV/u. REX-ISOLDE uses the method of charge-state breeding, in order to enhance the charge state of the ions before injection into the LINAC. Radioactive singly-charged ions from the on-line mass separator ISOLDE are first accumulated in a Penning trap, then charge bred to an A/q < 4.5 in an electron beam ion source (EBIS) and finally accelerated in a LINAC from 5 keV/u to energies between 0.8 and 2.2 MeV/u. Dedicated measurements with REXTRAP, the transfer line and the EBIS have been carried out in conjunction with the first co…

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First acceleration of heavy ion beams with a superconducting continuous wave HIM/GSI CW-linac

Heavy Ion Accelerator Technology 2018, Lanzhou, China, 22 Oct 2018 - 26 Oct 2018; Journal of physics / Conference series 1401, 012012 (2020). doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1401/1/012012

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Reconstruction of the Longitudinal Phase Portrait for the SC CW Heavy Ion HELIAC at GSI

Proceedings of the 10th International Particle Accelerator Conference The 10th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 19 May 2019 - 24 May 2019; JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland 898-901 (2019). doi:10.18429/JACOW-IPAC2019-MOPTS024

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Low energy reactions with radioactive ions at REX-ISOLDE-the 9Li + 2H case

19 pages, 12 figures, 2 tables.-- PACS nrs.: 25.60.-t; 25.45.-z; 27.20.+n.-- et al. ISOLDE Collaborattion and REX-ISOLDE Collaboration.

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Further RF Measurements on the Superconducting 217 MHz CH Demonstrator Cavity for a CW Linac at GSI

Proceedings of the 10th International Particle Accelerator Conference The 10th International Particle Accelerator Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 19 May 2019 - 24 May 2019; Geneva : JACoW Publishing, CERN 2826-2829 (2019). doi:10.18429/JACOW-IPAC2019-WEPRB014

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