Author: Garbayo, A.
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THEPPB001 Design and Fabrication of The ESS-Bilbao RFQ Prototype Models 3228
 
  • I. Bustinduy, F.J. Bermejo, J. Feuchtwanger, N. Garmendia, A. Ghiglino, O. González, P.J. González, I. Madariaga, J.L. Muñoz, I. Rueda, F. Sordo Balbin, A. Vélez, D. de Cos
    ESS Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
  • V. Etxebarria, J. Portilla
    University of the Basque Country, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bilbao, Spain
  • A. Garbayo
    AVS, Eibar, Gipuzkoa, Spain
  • S. Jolly
    UCL, London, United Kingdom
  • S.R. Lawrie, A.P. Letchford
    STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
  • J.K. Pozimski, P. Savage
    Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
 
  As part of the development of the ESS-Bilbao Accelerator in Spain, two different sets of radio frequency quadrupole (RFQ) models have been developed. On one hand, a set of four oxygen free high conductivity copper weld test models has been designed and manufactured, in order to test different welding methods as well as other mechanical aspects involved in the fabrication of the RFQ. On the other hand, a 352.2 MHz four vane RFQ cold model, with a length of 1 meter, has been designed and built in Aluminum. It serves as a good test bench to investigate the validity of different finite element analysis (FEA) software packages. This is a critical part, since the design of the final RFQ will be based on such simulations. The cold model also includes 16 slug tuners and 8 couplers/pick-up ports, which will allow to use the bead-pull perturbation method, by measuring the electric field profile, Q-value and resonant modes. In order to investigate fabrication tolerances, the cold model also comprises a longitudinal test modulation in the vanes, which is similar to the one designed for the final RFQ.  
 
THPPP051 Status of the RAL Front End Test Stand 3856
 
  • A.P. Letchford, M.A. Clarke-Gayther, D.C. Faircloth, S.R. Lawrie
    STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
  • S.M.H. Alsari, M. Aslaninejad, A. Kurup, P. Savage
    Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
  • J.J. Back
    University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
  • G.E. Boorman, A. Bosco
    Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey, United Kingdom
  • C. Gabor, D.C. Plostinar
    STFC/RAL/ASTeC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
  • A. Garbayo
    AVS, Eibar, Gipuzkoa, Spain
  • S. Jolly
    UCL, London, United Kingdom
  • J.K. Pozimski
    STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
 
  The Front End Test Stand (FETS) under construction at RAL is a demonstrator for front end systems of a future high power proton linac. Possible applications include a linac upgrade for the ISIS spallation neutron source, new future neutron sources, accelerator driven sub-critical systems, a neutrino factory etc. Designed to deliver a 60mA H-minus beam at 3MeV with a 10% duty factor, FETS consists of a high brightness ion source, magnetic low energy beam transport (LEBT), 4-vane 324MHz radio frequency quadrupole, medium energy beam transport (MEBT) containing a high speed beam chopper plus comprehensive diagnostics. This paper describes the current status of the project and future plans.  
 
THPPP053 The Manufacture and Assembly of the FETS RFQ 3862
 
  • P. Savage, J.K. Pozimski
    Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
  • A. Garbayo
    AVS, Eibar, Gipuzkoa, Spain
  • A.P. Letchford
    STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
  • D.S. Wilsher
    STFC/RAL, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
 
  The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) Front End Test Stand (FETS) uses a 324 MHz 4-vane RFQ to accelerate H ions from 65keV to 3MeV. The RFQ is a copper structure that has been designed as 4 nominally one metre long assemblies. Each assembly consists of 2 major vanes and 2 minor vanes that are bolted together and sealed using an O ring. The mechanical design for the FETS RFQ is complete and the manufacture is underway. In order to achieve the designed physics performance the vanes must be machined and assembled to high degree of accuracy. This requirement has demanded a tight synergy between the design, manufacture and metrology services. Together they have developed detailed procedures for the manufacturing, inspection, alignment and assembly phases. The key points of these procedures will be detailed in this paper.