Author: Pellegrino, F.
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MOPMW004 Realization and High Power Tests of Damped C-Band Accelerating Structures for the ELI-NP Linac 399
 
  • D. Alesini, M. Bellaveglia, S. Bini, R. Boni, P. Chimenti, F. Cioeta, R.D. Di Raddo, A. Falone, A. Gallo, V.L. Lollo, L. Palumbo, S. Pioli, A. Variola
    INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy
  • F. Cardelli, M. Magi, A. Mostacci, L. Palumbo, L. Piersanti
    University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
  • F. Cardelli, L. Piersanti
    INFN-Roma1, Rome, Italy
  • P. Favaron, F. Poletto
    INFN/LNL, Legnaro (PD), Italy
  • L. Ficcadenti, F. Pellegrino, V. Pettinacci
    INFN-Roma, Roma, Italy
 
  The ELI-NP C-Band structures are 1.8 m long travelling wave accelerating structures, quasi-constant gradient, with a field phase advance per cell of 2pi/3. They operate at a repetition rate of 100 Hz and, because of the multi-bunch operation, they have been designed with a dipole HOM damping system to avoid beam break-up (BBU). The structures have symmetric input and output couplers and integrate, in each cell, a waveguide HOM damping systems with silicon carbide RF absorbers. An optimization of the electromagnetic and mechanical design has been done to simplify the fabrication and to reduce their cost. After the first full scale prototype successfully tested at the nominal gradient of 33 MV/m, the production of the twelve structures started. In the paper we illustrate the main design criteria, the realization process and the high power test results.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ DOI:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2016-MOPMW004  
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MOPMW005 Design of Linac with the New Gaskets Clamping Fabrication Technique 403
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  • F. Cardelli
    INFN-Roma1, Rome, Italy
  • D. Alesini
    INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy
  • M. Magi, L. Palumbo
    University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
  • F. Pellegrino, V. Pettinacci
    INFN-Roma, Roma, Italy
 
  Recently, a new technique for the realization of high gradient accelerating structures based on the use of gaskets without brazing processes, has been successfully tested at high power on a 1.6 cells RF gun (D. Alesini, et al, PRST 18, 02001, 2015). The new technique developed at the Laboratories of Frascati of the INFN (Italy) in the framework of the SPARC_LAB project has been also adopted for the ELI-NP RF gun. The use of the special gaskets that simultaneously guarantee the vacuum seal and a perfect RF contact allow to avoid the brazing process, strongly reducing the cost, the realization time and the risk of failure. Moreover, without copper annealing due to the brazing process, it is possible, in principle, to decrease the breakdown rate increasing, at the same time, the maximum achievable gradient. The extension of this new fabrication process to complex LINAC structures is the next step on the application of this new technique on particle accelerator. In the paper, we discuss how to extend this process to S-band and C-band Travelling Wave accelerating structures illustrating their electromagnetic design and their mechanical realization.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ DOI:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2016-MOPMW005  
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