Design of a versatile ESQ transport system

A versatile precision beam transport channel was built with inexpensive parts requiring minimum precision machining. The critical items, an optical bench and sliding bases are commercially available standard items. The only important precision machining is a small section of an optical bench used as a quadrupole assembly holding fixture. With this type of fixturing there is no loss of precision during the transfer of the quadrupole assembly from the EDM setup onto the final assembly, other than the manufacturer-specified mounting and dismounting tolerance. Displacement measurements of the pole tips taken on ten different quadrupole assemblies determined that RMS displacement in the ''x'' direction was .000307'' and in the ''y'' direction was .000290''