LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico
Funding: This work supported by the US National Nuclear Security Agency and the US Department of Energy under contract DE-AC52-06NA25396
The mission of the Dual Axis Radiograph Hydrodynamic Test (DARHT) Facility is to conduct experiments on dynamic events of extremely dense materials. The PSS control system is designed specifically to prevent personnel from becoming exposed to radiation and explosive hazards during machine operations and/or the firing site operation. This paper will outline the Radiation Safety System (RSS) and the High Explosive Safety System (HESS) which are computer-controlled sets of positive interlocks, warning devices, and other exclusion mechanisms that together form the PSS.
CERN, Geneva
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
TRIUMF, Vancouver
The objective of the CLIC Test Facility CTF3 is to demonstrate the feasibility issues of the CLIC two-beam technology. CTF3 consists of an electron linac followed by a delay loop, a combiner ring and a two-beam test area. One issue studied in CTF3 is the efficient generation of a very high current drive beam, used in CLIC as the power source to accelerate the main beam to multi-TeV energies. The beam current is first doubled in the delay loop and then multiplied by a factor four in the combiner ring by interleaving bunches using transverse deflecting rf cavities. The combiner ring and the connecting transfer line have been put into operation in 2007. In this paper we give the status of the commissioning, present the results of the combination tests and illustrate in some detail the beam optics measurements, including response matrix analysis, dispersion measurement and applied orbit correction algorithms. We discuss as well the observation of a vertical beam break-up instability which is due to the vertical transverse mode in the horizontal rf deflectors used for beam injection and combination. We outline the attempted methods to mitigate the instability and their effectiveness.
Fermilab, Batavia
The present status and plans for Fermilab's Project X will be reviewed.
Fermilab, Batavia
Funding: Operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the United States Department of Energy.
Fermilab is involved in an effort to design, build, test and deliver four 3.9 GHz superconducting rf cavities within a single cryomodule to be delivered to DESY as a 'third harmonic' structure for the FLASH facility to improve the longitudinal emittance. In addition to an overall status update we will present recent results from single 'dressed' cavity horizontal tests and shipping and alignment measurements.
Fermilab, Batavia
Funding: Operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the United States Department of Energy.
3.9 GHz SRF cavities have been built and tested at Fermilab for use in the DESY FLASH facility. Six cavities have undergone testing in various scenarios. Comparisons of performance in these different conditions, from bare cavities in a vertical dewar to 'dressed' in the horizontal test stand and intermediate test configurations are presented. We also report on analysis of expected maximum performance and an estimate of same.
KEK, Ibaraki
Nextef is a new X-band (11.4GHz) test facility in KEK. All of the key devices of this facility are from our old X-band Test Facility(XTF). By combining the power from two klystrons, 100 MW maximum X-band rf power is produced and 75MW is available in the bunker where the high power test of the high gradient accelerator structures will be done. The commissioning of the facility for the structure testing has almost done. The status of the facilityis is reported.
KEK, Ibaraki
High-gradient experiments have been performed using a narrow waveguide that has a field of approximately 200 MV/m at an rf power of 100 MW. The study investigates the characteristics of different materials at high-gradient rf breakdown. This paper reports the results of high-gradient experiments and observations of the surface of stainless-steel waveguides.
CERN, Geneva
A new local field quantity which gives the high gradient performance limit of accelerating structures in the presence of vacuum rf breakdown is presented. A model of the breakdown trigger based on the pulsed heating of a potential breakdown site by the field emission currents and driven by a new field quantity, a modified Poynting vector, has been derived. The field quantity Sc takes into account both active and reactive power flow on the surface. This new quantity has been evaluated for many X-band and 30 GHz rf tests, both travelling wave and standing wave, and the value of Sc achieved in the experiments agrees well with analytical estimates.
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico
Funding: Work supported by the NNSA, U. S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC52-06NA25396.
The LANSCE Refurbishment Project (LANSCE-R) will revitalize the LANSCE accelerator infrastructure. Much of the equipment has been in use for over 36 years and is approaching the end of its design lifetime. As obsolescence issues make like-for-like replacements increasingly more expensive, modern systems with lower costs become a reasonable alternative. As part of the LANSCE-R project, four of the seven HV power supplies for the 805 MHz rf klystrons will be replaced. The present and future requirements for these power supplies influence the selection of replacement options. Details of the HV power supply replacement requirements and the different replacement options will be discussed. One option is to use four 95 kV, 21 A dc power supplies originally installed nearby as part of the Low Energy Demonstration Accelerator (LEDA) project. Significant material and labor cost savings can be achieved by leaving these supplies installed where they are and building a HV transport system to bring high voltage power from the existing LEDA facility to the LANSCE facility. The different replacement options will be compared based on material and labor costs as offset by long-term energy savings.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC02-76SF00515
A Marx-topology klystron modulator is under development as an 'Alternative Conceptual Design' for the International Linear Collider project. It is envisioned as a smaller, lower cost, and higher reliability alternative to the present, bouncer-topology, 'Baseline Conceptual Design'. The application requires 120 kV (±0.5%), 140 A, 1.6 ms pulses at a rate of 5 Hz. The Marx constructs the high voltage pulse by combining, in series, a number of lower voltage cells. The Marx employs solid state elements; IGBTs and diodes, to control the charge, discharge and isolation of the cells. The developmental testing of a first generation prototype, P1, is nearing completion. Development of a second generation prototype, P2, is underway. Status updates for both prototypes will be presented.