Test results of the proton injector of the Proton Engineering Frontier Project accelerator

One of the goals of the Proton Engineering Frontier Project (PEFP) is to develop a 100 MeV proton accelerator. As a low energy part, a 20 MeV proton linac has been developed and tested. The 20 MeV accelerator consists of a 50 keV proton injector, a 3 MeV radio frequency quadrupole, and a 20 MeV drift tube linac. The proton injector includes a duoplasmatron type ion source and a low energy beam transport. After a preliminary test with 1 mA peak current of the 20 MeV accelerator, the proton injector was modified with the goal of increasing the 20 MeV beam current up to 20 mA peak value. The modifications include the reduction of the proton injector length, installation of a beam current monitor, and electron trap and supplement of the solenoid and steering magnets. In this paper, the modifications of the PEFP proton injector are described and initial test results are presented.