SRF2011 - List of Authors (Pande, S.A.)

Paper	Title	Page
MOPO068	Reliability Improvements of the Diamond Superconducting Cavities	267
	P. Gu, M. Jensen, M. Maddock, P.J. Marten, S.A. Pande, S. Rains, A.F. Rankin, D. Spink, A.V. Watkins Diamond, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
	For successful operation of superconducting cavities in light sources, high reliability and minimal beam losses are essential. Diamond started operation with users in January 2007 and since then, the Diamond storage ring superconducting cavities have been the largest single contributor to unplanned beam trips. We have dedicated extensive effort to improve our data acquisition, numerical modelling and fault analysis to improve our understanding of the main causes of the trips and how to prevent trips or reduce their frequency. In the past seven months, the performance of the cavities has improved significantly. We present here our analysis of some of the trips and their underlying causes and discuss improvements carried out.

THPO010	Multipactor Studies for DIAMOND Storage Ring Cavities	718
	S.A. Pande, M. Jensen Diamond, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
	The Diamond storage ring is presently operating with two CESR type Superconducting (SC) RF cavities operating at 499.654 MHz. The cavities are suffering from a significant number of trips due to a sudden loss of accelerating field believed to be caused by Multipacting. It is observed that operating the cavities at lower voltages reduces the trip frequency significantly. In order to estimate the multipacting thresholds and to determine safe (multipactor free) parameter zones, we have initiated a detailed simulation study of multipacting in the cavities and the coupling waveguide. The cavities have fixed coupling, and therefore the match of the cavities varies with beam current, radiation loss and cavity voltage. A change in any of these parameters leads to a different standing wave in the waveguide. This requires the simulations to account for the different operating conditions. In addition to the waveguide and the cavity cell, the simulations also indicate the possibility of multipactor in the connecting beam tubes. In this paper, we summarise the results of our simulations obtained using CST Studio PIC and Tracking solvers.

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Reliability Improvements of the Diamond Superconducting Cavities

267

P. Gu, M. Jensen, M. Maddock, P.J. Marten, S.A. Pande, S. Rains, A.F. Rankin, D. Spink, A.V. Watkins
Diamond, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

For successful operation of superconducting cavities in light sources, high reliability and minimal beam losses are essential. Diamond started operation with users in January 2007 and since then, the Diamond storage ring superconducting cavities have been the largest single contributor to unplanned beam trips. We have dedicated extensive effort to improve our data acquisition, numerical modelling and fault analysis to improve our understanding of the main causes of the trips and how to prevent trips or reduce their frequency. In the past seven months, the performance of the cavities has improved significantly. We present here our analysis of some of the trips and their underlying causes and discuss improvements carried out.

THPO010

Multipactor Studies for DIAMOND Storage Ring Cavities

718

S.A. Pande, M. Jensen
Diamond, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

The Diamond storage ring is presently operating with two CESR type Superconducting (SC) RF cavities operating at 499.654 MHz. The cavities are suffering from a significant number of trips due to a sudden loss of accelerating field believed to be caused by Multipacting. It is observed that operating the cavities at lower voltages reduces the trip frequency significantly. In order to estimate the multipacting thresholds and to determine safe (multipactor free) parameter zones, we have initiated a detailed simulation study of multipacting in the cavities and the coupling waveguide. The cavities have fixed coupling, and therefore the match of the cavities varies with beam current, radiation loss and cavity voltage. A change in any of these parameters leads to a different standing wave in the waveguide. This requires the simulations to account for the different operating conditions. In addition to the waveguide and the cavity cell, the simulations also indicate the possibility of multipactor in the connecting beam tubes. In this paper, we summarise the results of our simulations obtained using CST Studio PIC and Tracking solvers.