Calatroni, S.

Paper	Title	Page
MOPLS095	Investigations of DC Breakdown Fields	777
	T. Ramsvik, S. Calatroni, A. Reginelli, M. Taborelli CERN, Geneva
	The need for high accelerating gradients for the future 30 GHz multi-TeV e+e- Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) at CERN has triggered a comprehensive study of DC breakdown fields of metals in UHV. The experimental setup is based on a capacitor discharge across a gap junction. The simple design and fully automated computer control enable breakdown fields and dark current of numerous materials to be measured. The study shows that Mo, W and Ti reach high breakdown fields, and are thus good candidates for the iris material of CLIC structures. For untreated Mo the breakdown field is higher than Cu but the conditioning speed is slower. Ti, on the other hand, shows acceptable conditioning speeds, but material erosion makes this solution problematic. Feasible solutions to increase the spark conditioning speed for the case of Mo are presented together with attempts to prevent Ti erosion. For some of the materials studied a significant reduction in the saturated breakdown field was observed upon gas exposure during intensive spark conditioning. As an example, a 50% decrease of the breakdown field of Mo is recorded when spark conditioning is carried out in an environment of 10-5 mbar air.
MOPLS128	Status of the Fatigue Studies of the CLIC Accelerating Structures	858
	S.T. Heikkinen, S.T. Heikkinen HUT, Espoo S. Calatroni, H. Neupert, W. Wuensch CERN, Geneva
	The need for high accelerating gradients for the future Compact Linear Collider imposes considerable constraints on the materials of the accelerating structures. The surfaces exposed to high pulsed RF currents are subjected to cyclic thermal stresses possibly resulting in surface break up by fatigue. Since no fatigue data exists in the literature up to very large numbers of cycles, a comprehensive study has been initiated. Low cycle fatigue data (up to 108 cycles) has been collected by means of a pulsed laser surface heating apparatus. The surface damage has been characterized by SEM observations and roughness measurements. High cycle fatigue data (up to 1011 cycles) at various stress ratios have been collected in high frequency bulk fatigue tests using an ultrasonic apparatus. It is found that the appearance of surface fatigue damage in the laser experiments, and of fatigue cracks in the bulk specimen, happen at similar stress levels for similar numbers of cycles. This allows the two experimental techniques to be connected and to predict the surface damage at a high number of cycles. Up-to-date fatigue data for selected high conductivity, high strength Cu alloys are presented.
TUODFI01	The Final Collimation System for the LHC	986
	R.W. Assmann, O. Aberle, G. Bellodi, A. Bertarelli, C.B. Bracco, H.-H. Braun, M. Brugger, S. Calatroni, R. Chamizo, A. Dallocchio, B. Dehning, A. Ferrari, P. Gander, A. Grudiev, E.B. Holzer, J.-B. Jeanneret, J.M. Jimenez, M. Jonker, Y. Kadi, K. Kershaw, J. Lendaro, J. Lettry, R. Losito, M. Magistris, A.M. Masi, M. Mayer, E. Métral, R. Perret, C. Rathjen, S. Redaelli, G. Robert-Demolaize, S. Roesler, F. Ruggiero, M. Santana-Leitner, P. Sievers, M. Sobczak, E. Tsoulou, V. Vlachoudis, Th. Weiler CERN, Geneva I. Baishev, I.L. Kurochkin IHEP Protvino, Protvino, Moscow Region
	The LHC collimation system has been re-designed over the last three years in order to address the unprecedented challenges that are faced with the 360 MJ beams at 7 TeV. The layout of the LHC has now been fixed and a final approach for collimation and cleaning has been adopted. In total 132 collimator locations have been reserved in the two LHC rings and can be installed in a phased approach. Ninety collimators of five different types will be available for initial beam operation. The system has been fully optimized for avoiding quenches of super-conducting magnets during beam losses and for sufficient survival of beamline components against radioactive dose. The phased approach for LHC collimation is described, the various collimators and their functionalities are explained, and the expected system performance is summarized.
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