Commissioning of Ih-RFQ and Ih-DTL for the Gsi High Current Linac
  The new 1.4 MeV/u front end HSI (HochStromInjektor) of the Unilac accelerates ions with A/q ratios of up to 65 and with beam intensities in emA of up to 0.25 A/q. The maximum beam pulse power is up to 1300 kW. During the stepwise linac commissioning from April to Septem-ber 1999 the beam behind of each cavity was analysed within two weeks. A very stable Ar1+ beam out of a vol-ume plasma source MUCIS was used mainly. The meas-ured norm. 80 % emittance areas around 0.45 pi mm mrad are close to the results from beam simulations. Up to 80 % of the design intensity at the linac exit were achieved. In February 2000 an U4+ beam from the MEVVA source was accelerated for the first time. 
W. Barth, P. Forck, J. Glatz, W. Gutowski, G. Hutter, J. Klabunde, R.   Schwedhelm, P. Strehl, W. Vinzenz, D. Wilms, U. Ratz...