INSTALLATION AND FIRST BEAM OF SPES SOURCE AT INFN-LNL

Since the fall of 2000 proton beams are available from the source TRIPS, a high intensity microwave discharge ion source, the goal of which is the injection of a proton current of 40 mA in the following RFQ, with a rms normalized emittancelowerthan0.2 mm mradforanoperatingvoltageof80kV.TRIPShasrecentlymovedtoLNLanditisnowundercommissioningforafurtheroptimizationnecessarytoachieveSPESrequirements.Detailsoftheplatforminstallationandpreliminarycharacterizationofextractedbeamarepresented.