• J. P. Ozelis, R. H. Carcagno, C. M. Ginsburg, Y. Huang, B. Norris, T. Peterson, V. Poloubotko, R. Rabehl, I. Rakhno, C. Reid, D. A. Sergatskov, C. Sylvester, M. Wong, C. Worel
  Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois

As part of a program to improve cavity performance reproducibility for the ILC, Fermilab is developing a facility for vertical testing of SRF cavities. It operates at a nominal temperature of 2K, using an existing cryoplant that can supply LHe in excess of 20g/sec and provides steady-state bath pumping capacity of 125W at 2K. The below-grade cryostat consists of a 4.9m long vacuum vessel and 4.5m long LHe vessel. The cryostat is equipped with external and internal magnetic shielding to reduce the ambient magnetic field to <10mG. Internal fixed and external movable radiation shielding ensures that radiation levels from heavily field-emitting cavities remain low. In the event that radiation levels exceed allowable limits, an integrated personnel safety system consisting of RF switches, interlocks, and area radiation monitors disables RF power to the cavity. In anticipation of increased throughput requirements that may be met with additional test stand installations, sub-systems have been designed to be easily upgradeable or to already meet these anticipated needs. Detailed facility designs, performance during system commissioning, and results from initial cavity tests are presented.

• D. R. Dechow, D. T. Abell, P. Stoltz
  Tech-X, Boulder, Colorado
• J. F. Amundson
  Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois
• L. Curfman McInnes, B. Norris
  ANL, Argonne, Illinois

A component-based beam dynamics application for modeling collective effects in particle accelerators has been developed. The Common Component Architecture (CCA) software infrastructure was used to compose a new Python-steered accelerator simulation from a set of services provided by two separate beam dynamics packages (Synergia and MaryLie/Impact) and two high-performance computer science packages (PETSc and FFTW). The development of the proof-of-concept application was accomplished via the following tasks:

1. addressing multilanguage interoperability in the MaryLie/Impact code with Babel;
2. creating components by making the selected software objects adhere to the Common Component Architecture protocol;
3. assemblying the components with a newly developed, Component Builder gui; and
4. characterizing the performance of the space charge (Poisson) solver that was originally used in Synergia 1.0 versus the PETSc-based space charge solver that has been developed for Synergia2.