Multiple Charge State Beam Acceleration at Atlas
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A test of the acceleration of multiple charge-state uranium beams was performed at the ATLAS accelerator. A U beam was accelerated in the ATLAS PII linac to 286 MeV (~1.2 MeV/u) and stripped in a carbon foil located 0.5 m from the entrance of the ATLAS Booster section. A Ni 'guide' beam from the tandem injector was used to tune the Booster for U. All charge states from the stripping were injected into the booster and accelerated. Up to 94% of the beam was accelerated through the Booster linac, with losses mostly in the lower charge states. The measured beam properties of each charge state and a comparison to numerical simulations are reported in this paper.
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