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20 & 21 October 2022 The 30th Project Committee (PC#30) was held on the 20th and 21st of October 2022 at the QST Rokkasho Fusion Institute. For the first time since the Covid outbreak, it took place not only by … Continue reading IFMIF/EVEDA Project Committee #30

Injector operation The measurements with the new EMU (Emittance Meter Unit) were interrupted at the end of April because of an HV standoff issue due to a broken ceramic insulator placed at the repeller electrode. As the replacement of the … Continue reading Weekly LIPAc highlights (23/May-27/May)

Injector conditioning campaign After several long runs (each one of ~10hours of CW operation) the Injector CW campaign with the 11mm PE is now considered completed. The last few days of operation were dedicated to collect data for the beam … Continue reading Weekly LIPAc highlights (28/March-1/April)

In the first months of 2022 the operations on-site are focused on the CW conditioning campaigns for the injector and the RFQ. The injector conditioning campaign makes steady and quick progresses: the commissioning with 11mm plasma electrode reached 155mA of … Continue reading Weekly LIPAc highlights (7/March-11/March)

The experimental campaign at the end of 2021 was successful. The first stage of Phase B+ was completed successfully by December 20 with D+ beam transported at low duty cycle and low current up to the BD. Beam operation was … Continue reading Weekly LIPAc highlights (24/January-28/January)

These last weeks have been intense with beam operation onsite in Rokkasho. During the daytime LIPAc beam operation was carried out with H+ beam. During the night the RF-RFQ conditioning continued increasing the Duty Cycle. INFN joined the extra daily … Continue reading Weekly LIPAc highlights (29/November-3/December)