Spoke Cavity Developments for the EURISOL Driver

EURISOL is the next generation of Radioactive Ion Beam (RIB) facility which aims at the provision of high intensity beams of radioactive nuclei with variable energy, from a few keV to greater than 100 MeV per nucleon, at an intensity several orders of magnitude higher than those currently available. The driver of EURISOL has to accelerate protons at a final energy of 1 GeV and 5 mA current, but also deuterons at 200 MeV (total energy). For the intermediate energy part of the driver, a solution based on superconducting (SC) spoke cavities is under study at the IPN Orsay laboratory. In this paper are presented the experimental results on the beta 0.15 spoke cavity, as well as achievements on the power coupler and cold tuning system. A new horizontal cryostat for performing a test of a fully equipped spoke cavity is also presented.