In April, the linac finished beam commissioning with the beam energy of 60 MeV. In July, the proton beam was accelerated to 1.6 GeV in the RCS. To reduce the beam loss, the CSNS team used single-shot mode for beam commissioning. On August 28, 2017, the first neutron beam was obtained from the tungsten target.
On November 1, 2017, the CSNS team began to provide beam with a repetition rate of 1 Hz, and received neutron signals at all three initial instruments during a joint beam commissioning. On November 9 of the same year, the proton beam pulses, with a repetition rate of 25 Hz struck on the tungsten target, which received an average beam power of more than 10 kW.
Imaging of the Proton Beam on Fluorescent Materials (Image by IHEP)
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