Graduate student support for accelerator physics projects with the e-linac at TRIUMF

2010年6月，加拿大创新基金会以及不列颠哥伦比亚省和加拿大政府的配套资金批准了对TRIUMF超导电子直线加速器（即e-linac）的资金资助。该加速器将生产用于核科学和材料科学研究以及医学应用的同位素。加拿大正在通过这个项目开发超导加速器技术，这可能会导致加拿大参与未来使用这种技术进行粒子加速的国际研究机构。本申请申请资金允许研究生继续参与e-linac项目，从而接受加速器物理方面的宝贵培训。在这个项目的前三年，我们的学生参与了电子束剖面监视器的设计、建造和操作，电子束剖面监视器是电子直线加速器的关键诊断系统，并分析了这些设备的数据。一名学生还帮助开发了高级应用软件，以促进原型低能量束流线的操作，并为未来的注入器低温模块调试和加速器低温模块调试，以及以后的日常操作提供便利。由学生开发的设备和软件将于2014年开始全面部署，届时将在电子大厅安装电子直线加速器，随后将进行长时间的调试和运行。这段时间将为学生提供学习加速器物理许多重要技能的绝佳机会。

Capital funding for a superconducting electron linear accelerator at TRIUMF, known as the e-linac, was approved in June 2010, through the Canada Foundation for Innovation and matching funding from the Governments of British Columbia and Canada. The accelerator will produce isotopes for nuclear and materials science research, and for medical applications. Superconducting accelerator technology is being developed in Canada through this project, which may lead to Canadian participation in future international research facilities that use this technique for particle acceleration. This application requests funds to allow graduate students to continue participation in the e-linac project, thereby receiving valuable training in accelerator physics. In the first three years of this project, our students have worked on the design, construction, and operation of beam profile monitors, a key diagnostic system for the e-linac, and in the analysis of data from these devices. A student has also helped develop high-level application software to facilitate operation of the prototype low energy beamline, and for future commissioning of the Injector Cryomodule followed by the Accelerator Cryomodule, and later to facilitate routine operations. Full deployment of the equipment and software developed by the students will commence with the installation of the e-linac in the e-hall in 2014, followed by an extended period of commissioning and operation. This period will offer an excellent opportunity for students to learn many important skills in accelerator physics.