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| THP70 | Experimental Study of an 805 MHz Cryomodule for the Rare Isotope Accelerator | 773 |
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The Rare Isotope Accelerator (RIA) driver linac will use superconducting, 805 MHz, 6-cell elliptical cavities with geometric β values of 0.47, 0.61 and 0.81. Each elliptical cavity cryomodule will have four cavities [1]. Room temperature sections between each cryomodule will consist of quadrupole doublets, beam instrumentation, and vacuum systems. Michigan State University (MSU) has designed a compact cryostat that reduces the tunnel cross-section and improves the linac real estate gradient. The cold mass alignment is accomplished with a titanium rail system supported by adjustable nitronic links from the top vacuum plate, and is similar to that used for existing MSU magnet designs. The same concept has also been designed to accommodate the quarter-wave and half-wave resonators with superconducting solenoids used at lower velocity in RIA. Construction of a prototype β=0.47 cryomodule was completed in February 2004 and is presently under test in realistic operating conditions. Experimental results will be presented including: alignment, electromagnetic performance, frequency tuning, cryogenic performance, low-level rf control, and control of microphonics.
[1] “Cryomodule Design for the Rare Isotope Accelerator”, T.L. Grimm, M. Johnson and R.C. York, PAC2003, Portland OR (2003) |