Funneling with the two-beam RFQ

By ion beam funneling the beam current can be multiplied without changing the emittance, which is proposed for new high current accelerator facilities like HIDIF or ESS. There the required beam current can not be produced by a single pass rf-linac. The increase in brightness in such a driver linac is done by several funneling stages at low energies, in which two identically bunched ion beams are combined into a single beam with twice the frequency, current and brightness. Our funneling experiment is a setup of two ion sources, a two beam RFQ, a funnel deflector and beam diagnostic equipment to demonstrate funneling of ion beams as a model for the first funneling stage of a HIIF driver. The progress of the funneling experiment and results of simulations will be presented.