MAGNET TESTS AND STATUS OF THE SUPERCONDUCTING ELECTRON-CYCLOTRON-RESONANCE SOURCE SERSE

At Laboratorio Nazionale del Sud a superconducting 14.5 GHz electron c yclotron resonance (ECR) source will be used as injector for the K-800 superconducting cyclotron. The original project of its magnetic syste m has been upgraded by taking into account the results of the high B m ode operation of the 6.4 GHz SC-ECRIS at MSU-NSCL and now the mirror f ield may achieve 2.7 T, which is much higher than the confining field of any other ECR source. The magnet design will allow us to operate in a wide range of magnetic configurations making it easy to tune the so urce. The status of the project will be outlined and the preliminary r esults of the tests of the superconducting magnets will be described. A brief description of the tests to be carried out on the source durin g the first period of operation on the test bench in Grenoble follows. (C) 1996 American Institute of Physics.