Superconducting LINAC booster for the mumbai pelletron

Abstract

We are in the process of constructing a superconducting linear accelerator (LINAC), to boost the energy of heavy ion beams from the 14UD Pelletron accelerator, at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. The accelerating structures in the LINAC are quarter wave resonators (QWR) coated with lead which is superconducting at liquid helium temperature. With feasibility studies having been completed during the course of the 4th and 5th five-year plan periods, culminating with the demonstration of beam acceleration using one accelerating module, the construction of the LINAC is now under way.

Inhomogeneous and intrinsic damping of giant dipole resonance in hot rotating nuclei withA∼ 150

“…The experiment was performed using a pulsed, collimated 188 MeV 28 Si beam from the Pelletron Linac Facility, Mumbai [22], bombarding a 1.6 mg cm −2 124 Sn (∼97% enriched) target. The beam energy at the target centre corresponded to ∼185 MeV.…”