Commissioning of the Fermilab High Energy Linac during September and October of 1993 has increased the energy of the H- linac from 200 to 400 MeV. The Linac Upgrade is one portion of the Fermilab Upgrad and is intended to reduce the incoherent space-charge tuneshift at injection into the 8 GeV Booster. To accomplish this increase in energy within the existing enclosure, four 201.25 MHz drift-tube linac tankshave been replaced by seven 805 MHz side-coupled cavity modules to accelerate the beam from 116 MeV to 400 MeV. Each module is driven with a klystron amplifier delivering 10 MW of peak power for 60 [mu]sec with a maximum pulse repetition rate of 15 Hz. Nominal beam current is 35 mA with a pulselength of 40 [mu]sec. Results from commissioning and operational experience during Fermilab Collider Run 1B are presented.

These proceedings aim to provide a comprehensive overview of research, technology and applications in the field of accelerators. Contributions from the entire field of accelerators are presented, including low and high energy machines, and medical and industrial accelerators.

The high energy portion of the Fermilab 400 MeV Linac is made of high gradient (37 MV/meter surface field) side-coupled cavity section which were conditioned over a 10 month period before their installation in August of 1993. We have continued to monitor the conditioning of these cavities since that time while the cavities have been operation, and those results are presented here. The sparking rate and the X-ray production are measured and compared with the 1992/1993 pre-operational and 1993/1994 early operational measurements. These rates are consistent with a continued diminishing of these phenomena. Predictions and spark management strategies presented in earlier reports are evaluated in light of present experiences. We also have been measuring the sparking rate within this structure with and without our 50 mA peak beam. We find that the sparking rate is 20% higher with beam in the accelerator.

The Fermilab Linac Upgrade in planned to increase the energy of the H[sup [minus]] linac from 200 to 400 MeV. This is intended to reduce the incoherent space-charge tuneshift at injection into the 8 GeV Booster which limit either the brightness or the total intensity of the beam. The Linac Upgrade will be achieved by replacing the last four 201.25 MHs drift-tube linac (DTL) tanks which accelerate the beam from 116 to 200 MeV, with seven 805 MRs side-coupled cavity modules operating at an average axial field of about 7.5 MV/meter. This will allow acceleration to 400 MeV in the existing Linac enclosure. Each accelerator module will be driven with a 12 MW klystron-based rf power supply. Three of seven accelerator modules have been fabricated, power tested and installed in their temporary location adjacent to the existing DTL. All seven RF Modulators have been completed and klystron installation has begun. Waveguide runs have completed from the power supply gallery to the accelerator modules. The new linac will be powered in the temporary position without beam in order to verify overall system reliability until the laboratory operating schedule permits final conversion to 400 MeV operation.

Fermilab has plans for a comprehensive accelerator upgrade to open new possibilities for both the fixed target and collider experimental programs. An early step in this program is to increase the energy of the linac from 200 to 400 MeV by replacing the last four of its nine 201 MHz Alvarez tanks with twenty-eight 805 MHz side-coupled cavity chains operating at about 8 MV/m average axial field. The principal purpose is to reduce the incoherent spacecharge tuneshift at injection into the Booster which currently limits both the brightness of the beam, an important determinant of collider luminosity, and total intensity to produce both the antiprotons for the collider and the beams to fixed target experimental areas. Other consequences of higher Booster injection energy expected to contribute to some degree of higher intensity limits and improved operational characteristics include improved quality of the guide field at injection, reduced frequency swing for the rf systems, and smaller emittance for the injected beam. The linac upgrade project has moved from a 1986 study through a development project including structure models and numerical studies to a full-feature module prototyping starting this year.