PAC2013 - List of Authors (D'Ambra, J.A.)

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THPHO09	High Intensity RHIC Limitations Due to Signal Heating of the Cryogenic BPM Cables	1319
	P. Thieberger, J.A. D'Ambra, A.K. Ghosh, K. Hamdi, K. Mernick, T.A. Miller, M.G. Minty, C. Pai BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
	Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The signal cables from the beam position monitors (BPMs) in the cryogenic sections of RHIC need to satisfy somewhat conflicting requirements. On the one hand, the cryogenic load due to heat conduction along the cable needs to be small, which led to the use of stainless steel jacketed cables with Tefzel insulation. On the other hand, radio frequency losses need to be reasonably small to reduce heating due to dissipated signal power. As the beam intensity in RHIC increased over the years, and the bunches become shorter, a point is being rapidly approached where these cables will soon become a performance limiting factor. Here we describe an extensive study of this problem including cable loss measurements as a function of temperature and frequency, characterization of the copper center conductor, and Particle Studio and ANSYS simulations.

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High Intensity RHIC Limitations Due to Signal Heating of the Cryogenic BPM Cables

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P. Thieberger, J.A. D'Ambra, A.K. Ghosh, K. Hamdi, K. Mernick, T.A. Miller, M.G. Minty, C. Pai
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA

Funding: Work supported by Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 with the U.S. Department of Energy.
The signal cables from the beam position monitors (BPMs) in the cryogenic sections of RHIC need to satisfy somewhat conflicting requirements. On the one hand, the cryogenic load due to heat conduction along the cable needs to be small, which led to the use of stainless steel jacketed cables with Tefzel insulation. On the other hand, radio frequency losses need to be reasonably small to reduce heating due to dissipated signal power. As the beam intensity in RHIC increased over the years, and the bunches become shorter, a point is being rapidly approached where these cables will soon become a performance limiting factor. Here we describe an extensive study of this problem including cable loss measurements as a function of temperature and frequency, characterization of the copper center conductor, and Particle Studio and ANSYS simulations.