Author: Valles, N.R.A.
Paper Title Page
MOPWA070 Beam Position Monitor within the Cornell Energy Recovery Linac Cavity Assembly 840
 
  • M.G. Billing, M. Liepe, V.D. Shemelin, N.R.A. Valles
    CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
 
  In an energy recovery Linac (ERL) the low energy beam is very sensitive to deflections due to the RF fields as it passes through the accelerator cavities. Therefore, to avoid the possible effects of beam breakup, it will be important to determine the optimum transverse position for the beam within the first several sets of cavity cells in the cryostat assembly and to maintain this position over long periods. As a result a beam position monitor (BPM) has been designed to be located between the higher-order modes (HOM) loads and the seven-cell RF structures. This BPM’s design reduces the coupling of RF power from the fundamental mode and HOMs into the BPM, while maintaining acceptable position sensitivity and resolution. We analyzed the coupling of the probe to the HOMs of realistically shaped cavities by generating geometries for hundreds of cavities having small shape variations from the nominal dimensions consistent with present machining tolerances, and solved for their monopole and dipole spectra. Our results show that the peak, dissipated power within BPM cables, which pass through the cryostat, is well within the permissible levels.  
 
WEPWO059 Cornell's HOM Beamline Absorbers 2441
 
  • R. Eichhorn, J.V. Conway, Y. He, G.H. Hoffstaetter, M. Liepe, T.I. O'Connell, P. Quigley, J. Sears, V.D. Shemelin, N.R.A. Valles
    CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
 
  The proposed energy recovery linac at Cornell aims for high beam currents and short bunch lengths, the combination of which requires efficient damping of the higher order modes (HOMs) being present in the superconducting cavities. Numerical simulations show that the expected HOM power could be as high as 200 W per cavity with frequencies ranging to 40 GHz. Consequently, a beam line absorber approach was chosen. We will review the design, report on first results from a prototype and discuss further improvements.  
 
WEPWO061 Readiness for the Cornell ERL 2447
 
  • G.H. Hoffstaetter, A.C. Bartnik, I.V. Bazarov, D.H. Bilderback, M.G. Billing, J.D. Brock, J.A. Crittenden, L. Cultrera, D.S. Dale, J. Dobbins, B.M. Dunham, R.D. Ehrlich, M. P. Ehrlichman, R. Eichhorn, K. Finkelstein, E. Fontes, M.J. Forster, S.J. Full, F. Furuta, D. Gonnella, S.W. Gray, S.M. Gruner, C.M. Gulliford, D.L. Hartill, Y. He, R.G. Helmke, K.M.V. Ho, R.P.K. Kaplan, S.S. Karkare, V.O. Kostroun, H. Lee, Y. Li, M. Liepe, X. Liu, J.M. Maxson, C.E. Mayes, A.A. Mikhailichenko, H. Padamsee, J.R. Patterson, S.B. Peck, S. Posen, P. Quigley, P. Revesz, D.H. Rice, D. Sagan, J. Sears, V.D. Shemelin, D.M. Smilgies, E.N. Smith, K.W. Smolenski, A.B. Temnykh, M. Tigner, N.R.A. Valles, V. Veshcherevich, A.R. Woll, Y. Xie, Z. Zhao
    CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
 
  Funding: Supported by NSF award DMR-0807731 and NY State
Energy-Recovery Linacs (ERLs) are proposed as drivers for hard x-ray sources because of their ability to produce electron bunches with small, flexible cross sections and short lengths at high repetition rates. Cornell University has pioneered the design and hardware for ERL lightsources. This preparatory research for ERL-lightsource construction will be discussed. Important milestones have been achieved in Cornell's prototype ERL injector, including the production of a prototype SRF cavity that exceeds design specifications, the regular production of long-lived and low emittance cathodes, the acceleration of ultra-low emittance bunches, and the world-record of 65 mA current from a photoemission DC gun. We believe that demonstration of the practical feasibility of these technologies have progressed sufficiently to allow the construction of an ERL-based lightsource like that described in [erl.chess.cornell.edu/PDDR].
 
 
WEPWO068 Cornell ERL Main Linac 7-cell Cavity Performance in Horizontal Test Cryomodule Qualifications 2459
 
  • N.R.A. Valles, R. Eichhorn, F. Furuta, G.M. Ge, D. Gonnella, Y. He, K.M.V. Ho, G.H. Hoffstaetter, M. Liepe, T.I. O'Connell, S. Posen, P. Quigley, J. Sears, V. Veshcherevich
    CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
 
  Funding: NSF DMR-0807731
Cornell has recently finished producing and testing the first prototype 7-cell main linac cavity for the Cornell Energy Recovery Linac, and completed the prototype cavity qualification program. This paper presents quality factor results from the horizontal test cryomodule (HTC) measurements, from the HTC-1 through HTC-3 experiments, reaching Q's up to 6 x 1010 at 1.6 K. We investigate the effect of thermal cycling on cavity quality factor and show that high quality factors can be preserved from initial mounting to fully outfitting the cavity with side-mounted input coupler and beam line absorbers. We also discuss the production of six additional main-linac cavities as we progress toward constructing a full 6-cavity cryomodule.
 
 
WEPWO069 HOM Studies of the Cornell ERL Main Linac Cavity: HTC-1 Through HTC-3 2462
 
  • N.R.A. Valles, R. Eichhorn, G.H. Hoffstaetter, M. Liepe
    CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
 
  Funding: Supported by NSF grant DMR-0807731
The Cornell energy recovery linac is designed to run a high energy (5 GeV), high current (100 mA), very low emittance beam (30 pm at 77 pC bunch charge). A major challenge to running such a large current continuously through the machine is the effect of strong higher-order modes(HOMs) that can lead to beam breakup. This paper presents the results of HOM studies for the prototype 7-cell cavity installed in a horizontal test cryomodule (HTC) from initial RF test, to being fully outfitted with side-mounted input coupler and beam line absorbers. We compare the simulated results of the optimized cavity geometry with measurements from all three HTC experiments.
 
 
THOBB202
Temperature Waves in SRF Research  
 
  • A. Ganshin, D.L. Hartill, G.H. Hoffstaetter, X. Mi, E.N. Smith, N.R.A. Valles
    CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
 
  Previously Cornell University developed Oscillating Superleak Transducers (OST) to locate quench spots on superconducting cavities in superfluid helium. This work builds upon this research and presents a technique to automatically visualize quench locations from OST data [1]. This system is now fully automated. The current system consists of between 8 and 16 OSTs, a high gain low noise preamplifier, and a data acquisition card that can log up to 16 simultaneously recorded inputs. The developed software allows computing quench locations on various cavity geometries, adjustment of the location of each OST and a choice between several quench finding algorithms. Observed results are in excellent agreement with optical inspection and temperature map data.
http://newsline.linearcollider.org/2011/04/21/the-sound-of-accelerator-cavities
 
slides icon Slides THOBB202 [3.166 MB]