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Commissioning of the ground test accelerator RFQ
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Accelerator TechnologyRadiologyEngineeringParticle AcceleratorsParticle AcceleratorGround Test AcceleratorParticle PhysicsMev GtaGta CommissioningCosmic RayInstrumentationSynchrotron RadiationAccelerator PhysicTreatment VerificationAccelerator PhysicsParticle Beam Physics
The Ground Test Accelerator (GTA) has the objective of verifying much of the technology (physics and engineering) required for producing high-brightness, high-current H{sup {minus}} beams. GTA commissioning is staged to verify the beam dynamics design of each major accelerator component as it is brought on-line. The commissioning stages are the 35 key H{sup {minus}} injector, the 2.5 MeV Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ), the Intertank Matching Section (IMS), the 3.2 MeV first 2{beta}{gamma} Drift Tube Linac (DTL-1) module, the 8.7 MeV 2{beta}{gamma} DTL (modules 1--5), and the 24 MeV GTA; all 10 DTL modules. Commissioning results from the RFQ beam experiments will be presented along with comparisons to simulations.