Author: Crawford, D.J.
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TUP075 Commissioning Status of the ASTA Facility at Fermilab 537
 
  • A.H. Lumpkin, D.R. Broemmelsiek, D.J. Crawford, N. Eddy, D.R. Edstrom, E.R. Harms, A. Hocker, J.R. Leibfritz, J. Ruan, J.K. Santucci, G. Stancari, D. Sun, J.C.T. Thangaraj, R.M. Thurman-Keup, A. Warner, J. Zhu
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
 
  Funding: Work at Fermilab supported by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02- 07CH11359 with the United States Department of Energy.
Early com­mis­sion­ing re­sults and sta­tus of the Ad­vanced Su­per­con­duct­ing Test Ac­cel­er­a­tor (ASTA) at Fer­mi­lab will be de­scribed. The ASTA fa­cil­ity con­sists of an L-band rf pho­to­cath­ode (PC) gun, two su­per­con­duct­ing L-band rf booster cav­i­ties, trans­port lines, and an 8-cav­ity TESLA style cry­omod­ule. Early re­sults in­clude first pho­to­elec­trons from the Cs2Te pho­to­cath­ode and op­er­a­tions at 3-5 MeV from the rf PC gun. The beam line with one 4-di­pole chi­cane, ex­ten­sive di­ag­nos­tics, and 50-MeV spec­trom­e­ter are being in­stalled. The base beam pro­file imag­ing sta­tions have been equipped with both YAG:Ce scin­til­la­tors and op­ti­cal tran­si­tion ra­di­a­tion (OTR) screens, op­ti­cal trans­port, and with 5 Mpix dig­i­tal CCD cam­eras using Gig-E read­out. A set of rf BPMs, wall cur­rent mon­i­tors, and toroids are also being im­ple­mented. Trans­port of OTR to a C5680 Hama­matsu streak cam­era is also planned for lon­gi­tu­di­nal pro­file in­for­ma­tion at the pi­cosec­ond level. Down­stream of this lo­ca­tion is the 8-cav­ity cry­omod­ule in which most cav­i­ties have been op­er­ated at the tar­geted 31.5 MV/m gra­di­ent. Ini­tial beam mea­sure­ments at 20 MeV and up­dated cry­omod­ule re­sults will be pre­sented as avail­able.