Status Report on the French High-intensity Proton Injector Project at SACLAY (IPHI)

The construction of IPHI (High Power Proton Accelerator) is in its final step of installation. The high intensity light ion source (SILHI) has been built first to produce regularly CW high intensity (over 100 mA) proton beams. The low energy front end of IPHI is based on a 352 MHz, 6 m long Radiofrequency Quadrupole (RFQ) cavity. The RFQ will accelerate beam up to 100 mA with energy up to 3 MeV. A diagnostics line has been built to measure all the main characteristics of the beam at the RFQ output. In this paper we will present the status for the main components of the injector, in particularly the RF power facility, the RFQ fabrication, and the RF tuning.