Commissioning and Operation of the ARIEL Electron Linac at TRIUMF

ARIEL is the new TRIUMF facility for production of radioactive ion beams that will enable the delivery of three simultaneous RIB beams to the ISAC experimental stations. Two additional target stations will produce beams by using either a 50 kW proton or from 500 kW electrons via photofission. The electron beam driver is going to be a 50 MeV 10 mA CW superconducting electron linac. The first stage of the e-linac installation is completed and commissioning is underway. The paper will present the e-linac design characteristics, installation, commissioning strategy and current results.