Author: Ravindranath, V.
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WEPPD026 Design and Fabrication of NSLS-II Storage Ring Vacuum Chambers and Components 2558
 
  • H.-C. Hseuh, A.T. Anderson, L. Doom, M.J. Ferreira, C. Hetzel, C. Longo, V. Ravindranath, K. Roy, S.K. Sharma, J.L. Tuozzolo, K. Wilson
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
 
  Funding: Work performed under the auspices of U.S. Department of Energy, under contract DE-AC02-98CH10886
The National Synchrotron Light Source II, a 3-GeV, 792-meter circumference, synchrotron radiation facility with ultra-high-flux and –brightness, is under construction at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The storage ring vacuum chambers are mainly made of extruded aluminium but with a few made of stainless steel and inconel. The synchrotron radiation from bending magnets is intercepted at discrete photon absorbers made of GlidCop. NEG strips in the ante-chamber provide the distributed pumping, while lumped ion pumps and titanium sublimation pumps at photon absorbers remove the desorbed gas. The complex vacuum system is being assembled and integrated in-house. This paper describes the design and fabrication of both standard and special vacuum chambers, the low impedance RF shielded bellows and the photon absorbers. The vacuum system is now moving into the conditioning, installation and testing phase. Details and experience from the large scale production, testing and lesson learned will also be presented.