Performance of cryocoolers in a High Temperature Superconducting ECR ion source (HTS-ECR) and its application for the High Current Injector Programme at IUAC, New Delhi

At the Inter University Accelerator Centre, a high current injector programme (HCI) is being developed as an alternate injector to the superconducting linear accelerator (SC-LINAC). For this purpose, a high temperature superconducting ECR ion source, PKDELIS, based on Gifford McMahon cryocoolers was designed, installed and commissioned in the Low Energy Beam Transport section of the high current injector. The ion source will inject multiply charged ions having A/q similar to 6 for further acceleration into the downstream RFQ and DTL accelerators before final injection into the superconducting linear accelerator. The details of the design, and experimental results of the ion source together with performance of the cryocoolers are presented in this paper.