International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Research Applications and Utilization of Accelerators
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The Proton Engineering Frontier Project K.Y. Kim, Y.S. Cho, B.H. Choi, J.Y. Kim, K.R. Kim, and J.W. Park Proton Engineering Frontier Project, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute Yuseong-Gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea Corresponding Author: ky@kaeri.re.kr The Proton Engineering Frontier Project (PEFP) was launched, in 2002, to establish an advanced research facility based on a high power 100 MeV, 20 mA proton linac, and to cultivate and expedite core scientific and industrial R&D programs by utilizing high quality proton beams. The PEFP proton linac consists of a 50 keV ion source, 3 MeV RFQ (Radio Frequency Quadrupole), and 100 MeV DTL (Drift Tube Linac), from which the proton beams can be extracted at either 20 MeV or 100 MeV and delivered to five target stations at each energy with distinguished beam conditions. The upstream part of the PEFP proton linac, up to 20 MeV DTL, has been successfully developed and commissioned to meet the designed performance in beam energy and peak beam current. The higher energy part is under fabrication and the full system is to be completed in 2012 as scheduled. Along with developing the proton linac, the PEFP has developed a dedicated user program to nurture and foster scientific and industrial R&D by using the proton beams, and made promising progresses. The paper describes the specifications of the PEFP proton linac and reports the status of the proton linac development and progresses made by the user program. In addition, the future expansion options and related R&D activities will be briefly covered. This work was supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of Korea.
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