CERN, Geneva
UMAN, Manchester
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
The High Intensity and Energy ISOLDE (HIE-ISOLDE) proposal is a major upgrade of the existing ISOLDE and REX-ISOLDE facilities with the objective of increasing the energy and the intensity of the delivered radioactive ion beam. For the energy increase a staged construction of a superconducting linac based on sputtered quarter wave cavities is foreseen downstream of the present normal conducting linac. A funded R&D program has been launched at the end of 2007 in order to prepare a full Technical Design Report covering all the issues of such a linac, including cavity prototyping and testing, cryomodule design, beam dynamics and beam diagnostics. We report here on the status and planning of the R&D activities for the SCREX-ISOLDE linac.
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
The UK's new light source project was officially launched on April 11th 2007, which will be based on advanced conventional and free electron lasers, with unique and world leading capabilities. User consulation exercises have already been initiated to determine the fundamental photon output requirements for such a machine. In order to match a nominal requirement for high repetition rates (extending up to 1 MHz), a series of superconducting rf (SRF) linac options have been investigated, reflecting varied beam loading conditions and subsequent high and low power rf solutions.
Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster
UMAN, Manchester
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
The CLIC linear collider will require a crab cavity to align bunches prior to collision. Consideration of the bunch structure leads us to favour the use of X-band copper cavities. Due to the large variation of train to train beam loading, it is necessary to minimise the consequences of beam loading. One solution is to use a travelling wave structure with a large group velocity allowing rapid propagation of amplitude errors from the system. Such a design makes this structure significantly different from previous travelling wave deflecting structures. This paper will look at the implications of this on other cavity parameters and the optimization of the cavity geometry.
Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
Fermilab, Batavia
UMAN, Manchester
CERN, Geneva
Crab cavities have been proposed for a wide number of accelerators and interest in crab cavities has recently increased after the successful operation of a pair of crab cavities in KEK-B. In particular crab cavities are required for both the ILC and CLIC linear colliders for bunch alignment. Consideration of bunch structure and size constraints favours a 3.9 GHz superconducting, multi-cell cavity as the ILC solution, whilst bunch structure and beam-loading considerations suggest an X-band copper travelling wave structure for CLIC. These two cavity solutions are very different in design but share complex design issues. Phase stabilisation, beam loading, wakefields and mode damping are special issues for these crab cavities. Requirements and potential design solutions will be discussed for both colliders.