Funding for the construction of the superconducting linac at Kansas State University was approved by the Department of Energy on May 15, 1985. The project is funded out of the Division of Chemical Sciences, USDOE. Initial design and staff technical training was initiated during 1984ndash;85 with laboratory personnel working at both Florida State University and Argonne National Laboratory. The linac under construction is based upon the Nb splithyphen;ring resonator technology developed at Argonne National Laboratory for ATLAS. The linac at Kansas State University will have 14 superconducting resonators with nine lowhyphen;bgr; (bgr;=0.06) and five highhyphen;bgr; (bgr;=0.105) units operating at 97 MHz. Work has progressed on both of the singlehyphen;resonator cryostats for time bunching and energy rebunching, respectively, with the major cryostat components presently under construction by C. E. Raymond Enterprise Manufacturing, a division of Combustion Engineering, with scheduled delivery of the single resonator cryostat vacuum housings, LN2hyphen;cooled heat shields, and LHe Dewars on January 17, 1986. Orders for all Nbhyphen;clad Cu resonators have been placed with Argonne National Laboratory and two lowhyphen;bgr; units are currently under construction. Requests for quotations for a 300hyphen;W LHe refrigerator (expandable to 500 W) 1000hyphen;l storage Dewar and LHe distribution system have been issued. The building addition which includes a new accelerator/experimental hall (sim;6000 ft2basement structure) and groundhyphen;level laboratory support space including additional experimental setup space, additional machine shop space, and mechanical equipment space, is currently under construction with a completion date scheduled for May 1986. Additional personnel training on LHe refrigeration systems is scheduled for January 1986, at the Texas Accelerator Center and at Florida State University.
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