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Title	Beam Commissioning of the Superconducting RFQs of the New LNL Injector PIAVE
Author(s)	Pisent, Andrea ; Bisoffi, Giovanni ; Carlucci, Davide ; Cavenago, Marco ; Chiurlotto, Francesca ; Comunian, Michele ; Fagotti, Enrico ; Galatà, Alessio ; Kulevoy, Timur ; Poggi, Marco ; Porcellato, Anna M ; Sattin, Manuele
Affiliation	(INFN/LNL, Legnaro, Padova) ; (ITEP, Moscow)
Publication	2005
In:	21st IEEE Particle Accelerator Conference, Knoxville, TN, USA, 16 - 20 May 2005, pp.2696
Subject category	Accelerators and Storage Rings
Abstract	PIAVE is the new injector of the LNL superconducting heavy ion linac ALPI; the injector is able to accelerate ions up to U (Q/q=8.5) with a final energy of more than 1 MeV/u. During the last two months of 2004 the superconducting RFQ, composed by two Nb structures operating at 80 MHz, has been commissioned using the O+3 and Xe+18 beams produced by the ECRIS ALICE. The beam has been accelerated up to 587 keV/u reaching the main design parameters (energy, longitudinal and transverse emittance, transmission) and demonstrating a stable and reproducible operation. This is the first operational beam accelerated by a superconducting RFQ.