Status of the HE-Linac project at GSI

The High-Energy (HE) Linac project is defined by the substitution of the existing post-stripper (Alvarez) section of the UNILAC. The substition of the existing Alvarez section is one of the major steps towards an adequate FAIR injector linac. Nevertheless the whole accelerator chain has to be taken into account. Starting from the ion sources to the SIS18 transfer channel every section is reinvestigated for improvements in beam quality and intensity. Workpackages are defined together with the Institute of Applied Physics (IAP) at Frankfurt University [1]: