Author: Hermansson, L.
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TUPB108 Uppsala High Power Test Stand for ESS Spoke Cavities 711
 
  • R.A. Yogi, T.J.C. Ekelöf, V.A. Goryashko, L. Hermansson, M. Noor, R. Santiago Kern, V.G. Ziemann
    Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
  • D.S. Dancila, A. Rydberg
    Uppsala University, Department of Engineering Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
  • K.J. Gajewski, T. Lofnes, R. Wedberg
    TSL, Uppsala, Sweden
  • R.J.M.Y. Ruber
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  The European Spallation Source (ESS) is one of the world’s most powerful neutron source. The ESS linac will accelerate 50 mA of protons to 2.5 GeV in 2.86 ms long pulses at a repetition rate of 14 Hz. It produces a beam with 5 MW average power and 125 MW peak power. ESS Spoke Linac consists of 28 superconducting spoke cavities, which will be developed by IPN Orsay, France. These Spoke Cavities will be tested at low power at IPN Orsay and high power testing will be performed at a test stand which will be set up at Uppsala University. The test stand consists of tetrode based RF amplifier chain at 352 MHz, 350 kW power and related RF distribution. Outputs of two tetrodes shall be combined with the hybrid coupler to produce 350 kW power. Preamplifier for a tetrode shall be solid state amplifier. As the spoke cavities are superconducting, the test stand also includes horizontal cryostat, Helium liquefier, test bunker etc. The paper describes features of the test stand in details.