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IAEC/SNRC (Israel) is constructing an accelerator fa-cility, SARAF, for neutron production. It is based on a linac accelerating 5 mA CW deuteron and proton beam up to 40 MeV. As a first phase, IAEC constructed and operated a linac (SARAF Phase I), from which remains an ECR ion source, a Low-Energy Beam Transport (LEBT) line and a 4-rod RFQ. Since 2015, IAEC and CEA (France) are collaborating in the second phase, consisting in manufacturing of the linac (Figure 1). The injector control-system has been recently updated and the Medium Energy Beam Transport (MEBT) line has been installed and integrated to the infrastructure. It has been partially commissioned during the first semester of 2022. This paper presents the results of the integration, tests and commissioning of the injector and MEBT, be-fore delivery of the cryomodules., Proceedings of the 31st International Linear Accelerator Conference, LINAC2022, Liverpool, UK

Three normal conducting rebunchers will be installed at the Medium Energy Beam Transport (MEBT) of the SARAF-LINAC phase II [saraf]. The MEBT line is designed to follow a 1.3 MeV/u RFQ, is about 5 m long, and contains three 176 MHz rebunchers providing a field integral of 10⁵ kV. CEA is in charge of the design and fabrication of the Cu plated stainless steel, 3-gap rebuncher. The high power tests and RF conditioning have been successfully performed at the CEA Saclay on the first cavity. A solid state power amplifier, which has been developed by SNRC and has been used for the RF tests. The cavity has shown a good performance according to calculations, regarding the dissipated power, peak temperatures and coupling factor. RF conditioning was started with a duty cycle of 1\% and increased gradually until continuous wave (CW), which is the nominal working mode in SARAF-LINAC., Proceedings of the 10th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2019, Melbourne, Australia

SNRC and CEA collaborate to the upgrade of the SARAF accelerator to 5 mA CW 40 MeV deuteron and proton beams (Phase 2). CEA is in charge of the design, construction and commissioning of the MEBT line and the superconducting linac (SARAF-LINAC Project). The prototypes of the 176 MHz NC rebuncher, SC cavities, RF coupler and SC solenoid-Package have been tested recently. Meanwhile, the cryomodules technical specifications have been written and called for tender. This paper presents the status of the SARAF-LINAC Project at April 2019., Proceedings of the 10th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2019, Melbourne, Australia

CEA is in charge of the design, construction, installation and commissioning at SNRC of the Linac of the SARAF project. The linac is composed of an MEBT and a Superconducting linac (SCL) integrating 4 cryomodules. Nowadays, the HWR cavities and superconducting magnets prototypes are being built. The Critical Design Review of the cryomodules has just been passed in March 2018. This paper present the status of the SARAF-LINAC cryomodules., Proceedings of the 61\textsuperscript{st} ICFA ABDW on High-Intensity and High-Brightness Hadron Beams, HB2018, Daejeon, Korea

SNRC and CEA collaborate to the upgrade of the SARAF accelerator to 5 mA CW 40 MeV deuteron and proton beams (Phase 2). CEA is in charge of the design, construction and commissioning of the MEBT line and the superconducting linac (SARAF-LINAC Project). The prototypes of the 176 MHz NC rebuncher, SC cavities, RF coupler and SC Solenoid-Package are under construction and their test stands construction or adaptation is in progress at Saclay. Meanwhile, the cryomodules and the global system just passed their Critical Design Reviews. This paper presents the status of the SARAF-LINAC Project at April 2018., Proceedings of the 9th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2018, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Status of the CEA desing of the future Saraf linac (title to be revised), Proceedings of the 29\textsuperscript{th} Linear Accelerator Conf., LINAC2018, Beijing, China

SNRC and CEA collaborate to the upgrade of the SARAF accelerator to 5 mA CW 40 MeV deuteron and proton beams (Phase 2). CEA is in charge of the design, construction and commissioning of the superconducting linac (SARAF-LINAC Project). This paper presents to the accelerator community the status at March 2017 of the SARAF-LINAC Project., Proceedings of the 8th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2017, Copenhagen, Denmark

An important issue for the new high power class ion linac projects is the preservation of the beam quality through the acceleration in the linac. An extremely low fraction of the beam (from 10⁻⁴ down to 10⁻⁷) is sufficient to complicate the hands on maintenance in such accelerator. This paper reviews the theory and the codes for the design and simulation of MW ion linacs. Basics rules for the definition of their architecture and the results applied to existing machines and projects are covered., Proceedings of the 1st International Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC2010, Kyoto, Japan

A main interest in the high intensity ion linacs is the control of the particle loss in the vacuum chamber. A extremely low fraction of the beam (10⁻⁴ or 10⁻⁷) is sufficient to complicate the hands on maintenance in such accelerator. Beam mismatching being a major source of halo, it is proposed a non invasive technique to adapt the beam to a periodic focusing channel of a linac based on a FDO of FODO lattice. It is demonstrated that only the matched beam can correspond to a particular signature of the quadrupolar moment of the Beam Positions Monitors. This technique allows also to measure the emittance value or evolution along the channel., Proceedings of the 1st International Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC2010, Kyoto, Japan