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| MOPWO011 | Surface Field Optimization of Accelerating Structures for CLIC using ACE3P on Remote Computing Facility | 909 |
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Funding: Research Council of Norway This paper presents a computer program for searching for the optimum shape of an accelerating structure cell by scanning a multidimensional geometry parameter space. For each geometry, RF parameters and peak surface fields are calculated using ACE3P on a remote high-performance computational system. Parameter point selection, mesh generation, result storage and post-analysis are handled by a GUI program running on the user’s workstation. This pa- per describes the program, AcdOptiGui. AcdOptiGui also includes some capability for automatically selecting scan points based on results from earlier simulations, which en- ables rapid optimization of a given parameterized geome- try. The software has previously been used as a part of the design process for accelerating structures for a 500 GeV CLIC. |
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| TUPME032 | Update on Beam Induced RF Heating in the LHC | 1646 |
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| Since June 2011, the rapid increase of the luminosity performance of the LHC has come at the expense of increased temperature and pressure readings on specific near-beam LHC equipment. In some cases, this beam induced heating has caused delays whilie equipment cools down, beam dumps and even degradation of these devices. This contribution gathers the observations of beam induced heating attributable to beam coupling impedance, their current level of understanding and possible actions that are planned to be implemented during the long shutdown in 2013-2014. | ||
| TUPME049 | Status of the Exploration of an Alternative CLIC First Energy Stage Based on Klystrons | 1676 |
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| The Compact Linear Collider is based on a two-beam scheme to accelerate the main, colliding beams. This scheme allows to reach very high centre-of-mass energies. At low collision energies the main beams could be accelerated by powering the accelerating structures with X-band instead of a second beam. We explore this option and indicate the parameters and conceptual design. | ||
| TUPME054 | Experimental Study of the Effect of Beam Loading on RF Breakdown Rate in CLIC High-gradient Accelerating Structures | 1691 |
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| RF breakdown is a key issue for the multi-TeV high-luminosity e+e− Compact Linear Collider (CLIC). Breakdowns in the high-gradient accelerator structures can deflect the beam and decrease the desired luminosity. The limitations of the accelerating structures due to breakdowns have been studied so far without a beam present in the structure. The presence of the beam modifies the distribution of the electrical and magnetic field distributions, which determine the breakdown rate. Therefore an experiment has been designed for high power testing a CLIC prototype accelerating structure with a beam present in the CLIC Test Facility (CTF3). A special beam line allows extracting a beam with nominal CLIC beam current and duration from the CTF3 linac. The paper describes the beam optics design for this experimental beam line and the commissioning of the experiment with beam. | ||
| TUPWA042 | Lessons Learned and Mitigation Measures for the CERN LHC Equipment with RF Fingers | 1802 |
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| Beam-induced RF heating has been observed in several LHC components when the bunch/beam intensity was increased and/or the bunch length reduced. In particular eight bellows, out of the ten double-bellows modules present in the machine in 2011, were found with the spring, which should keep the RF fingers in good electrical contact with the central insert, broken. Following these observations, the designs of all the components of the LHC equipped with RF fingers have been reviewed. The lessons learnt and mitigation measures are presented in this paper. | ||
| TUPWA043 | Impedance Studies for VMTSA Module of LHC Equipped with RF Fingers | 1805 |
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| During 2011 run of LHC it was found that beam-induced heating causes many issues for accelerator components. Particularly some of the double-bellow modules, called VMTSA modules, were found to have deformed RF fingers and a broken spring which ensured good contact between them and a central insert. Impedance studies have been performed for different types of nonconformities and benchmarked against measurements. It was found that even a small gap between the fingers and a central insert could be fatal for the VMTSA operation. Results of this study were an input for the further thermal analysis. | ||
| WEPWO045 | RF Multipolar Characterization of the Latest LHC Deflecting Cavities | 2402 |
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Funding: The HiLumi LHC Design Study (a sub-system of HL-LHC) is cofunded by the European Commission within the Framework Programme 7 Capacities Specific Programme, Grant Agreement 284404. Deflecting cavity geometries considered for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)crab scheme lack axial symmetry resulting in non-zero higher-order components of the deflecting field. A formalism to express the higher-order multipoles was developed and applied on previous cavity designs to characterize their influence on the beam stability. In this paper, the radio frequency (RF) multipoles are numerically estimated for the latest cavity geometries and compared to the older versions. A sensitivity study is carried to understand the numerical error levels and define mechanical tolerances. |
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| WEPWO048 | Investigation of a Ridge-loaded Waveguide Structure for CLIC X-band Crab Cavity | 2411 |
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| In conventional crab cavities the TM11 mode is used to deflect the beam. In a linear collider such as CLIC, it is necessary to damp all the other modes, namely the accelerating i.e. lower order mode (LOM), same order mode (SOM) and higher order modes (HOMs). In addition to this, as the TM11 mode is not the fundamental mode, it is generally not excited with the highest shunt impedance. This necessitates damping of the high shunt impedance modes to acceptable level. Here we report on the investigation of an alternative design of the X-band crab cavity for CLIC based on ridge-loaded waveguide. In this type of cavity, the deflecting mode is the fundamental mode and has the maximum shunt impedance. However, the geometry of the cavity is chosen to optimise the ratio of group velocity to shunt impedance to minimise the effect of beam loading. The other modes are excited above the crabbing mode and are damped using wave-guides. Another advantage of this type of cavity is, unlike the conventional TM11 mode cavities, the e.m. surface fields do not peak at the iris. This provides ample margin to optimise the cavity geometry and reach the desired field distribution. | ||
| WEPFI018 | Comparison of High Gradient Performance in Varying Cavity Geometries | 2741 |
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| Four types of CLIC prototype TW accelerator structures were high-gradient tested at Nextef, KEK, up to 100 MV/m level and the fifth is under test now. The ramping speed of each processing and the resultant breakdown rate were compared among them. From this comparison, it was found that the ramping speed of the structures with opening ports for HOM damping with magnetic coupling became slow and the resultant breakdown rate became high. It was also found that that with lower surface magnetic field showed faster ramping in processing and lower breakdown rate. This indicates the role of the magnetic field on vacuum breakdowns in copper structure at the region of several tens to 100 MV/m. In this paper, we review the processing stage and the high gradient performance of these structures trying to discuss the relevant parameters, surface electric field, surface magnetic field and other parameters such as Sc, “complex pointing vector”, to the performance difference. | ||