Private Address, Los Alamos, USA
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
C-Band structures research is of increasing interest to the accelerator community. The RF frequency range of 4-6 GHz gives the opportunity to achieve significant increase in the accelerating gradient, and having the wakefields at the manageable levels, while keeping the geometric dimensions of the structure technologically convenient. Strong team of scientists, including theorists researching properties of metals under stressful thermal conditions and high electromagnetic fields, metallurgists working with copper as well as alloys of interest, and accelerator scientists developing new structure designs, is formed at LANL to develop a CERF-NM facility. A 50 MW, 5.712 GHz Canon klystron, was purchased in 2019, and laid the basis for this facility. As of Jan-21, the construction of the Test Stand has been finished and the high gradient processing of the waveguide components has been started. Future plans include high gradient testing of various accelerating structures, including benchmark C-band accelerating cavity, a proton ß=0.5 cavity, and cavities made from different alloys. An upgrade to the facility is planned to allow for testing accelerator cavities at cryogenic temperatures.
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
This poster will report the results of high gradient testing of the two proton β=0.5 C-band accelerating cavities. The cavities for proton acceleration were fabricated at SLAC and tested at high gradient C-band accelerator test stand at LANL. One cavity was made of copper, and the second was made of a copper-silver alloy. LANL test stand was constructed around a 50 MW, 5.712 GHz Canon klystron and is capable to provide power for conditioning single cell accelerating cavities for operation at surface electric fields up to 300 MV/m. These β=0.5 C-band cavities were the first two cavities tested on LANL C-band test stand. The presentation will report achieved gradients, breakdown probabilities, and other characteristics measured during the high power operation.
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
In the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) accelerator, there are about 220 500-L/s ion pumps running all the time. The oldest pumps recorded in the current system were installed in 1983. All the ion pumps are diode type ion pumps. In 2017, we started to suffer from ion pumps trips in an accelerator module 15 (M15) that includes 3 500-L/s ion pumps and they caused beam down times of the accelerator during the production run cycles. This paper reports the details of these trips, how we found it was argon gas that was causing the trips and how we tried to reduce it.
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA