COSY-SCL, the superconducting injector linac for COSY

The superconducting injector linac COSY-SCL is being designed and constructed at the Forschungszentrum Juelich. The train goal of the new injector is to fill the cooler synchrotron COSY with polarized protons as well as with polarized deuterons up to the space-charge limit at injection energy. COSY-SCL is characterized by a base frequency of 160 MHz, 25 kV ion-source extraction voltage, a pulse length of up to 500 μs, a maximum repetition rate of 2 Hz, injection into the linac at β=0.073 and injection into COSY at kinetic energies of 52 MeV for protons and 56 MeV for deuterons, respectively. The injector configuration is presented, and its main subsystems-ion source (CIPIOS from IUCF for polarized H^- and D^-), RFQ (built in co-operation with the University of Frankfurt), linac (based on half-wave resonators operating at 160 and 320 MHz)- are described and discussed. The present status of the project is reported.