By July 15, 2002, the SNS Front End Systems had been built and commissioned at Berkeley Lab and delivered to the SNS construction site at Oak Ridge on schedule and within budget, fulfilling or even exceeding all major beam-parameter requirements.

The SNS Front End can be seen as the prototype of a generic Linac Injector for so-called proton-driver accelerators that are being planned world-wide for various purposes in the area of high-energy physics.

After the completion of the FES construction project, part of the team has stayed together and presently works on two aspects of SNS-related accelerator technology, i.e., Low-Level Radio Frequency control systems and H- Ion-Source development.

Below are MEBT emittance pictures from SNS-ORNL

(Table of results to come...)

View the FES Assembly Animation
View the Project Specifications
View the Project Parameters