The Illinois Cascade Microtron a Proposal for a High Duty Factor, Intermediate Energy Electron Accelerator

The Nuclear Physics Laboratory at the University of Illinois currently operates a 6-traversal Microtron Using a Superconducting Linac, MUSL-2, which provides 100% duty factor electron beams with energies between 2 and 80 MeV. We have submitted to the National Science Foundation a proposal to construct a 750 MeV cascade microtron capable of delivering 100% duty factor beams with currents of up to 100 ¿A. Subharmonic RF splitting of the output beam will provide up to three simultaneous beams for experiments, with independently controllable currents (summing to 100 ¿A). The proposal also includes two large building additions and the major new experimental equipment needed to exploit fully the research potential of this new accelerator.