FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
INFN/LNL, Legnaro (PD), Italy
ANL, Argonne, USA
During the last two years the HWR pneumatic tuner development at FRIB evolved from the first prototypes to the final production design. A lot of warm testing and several cryogenic integrated tests with cavity were performed to optimize the tuner features. The main challenges included the bellow bushings binding and very tight space limitations for the assembly on the rail. The final design, based on the acquired experience, was prepared in collaboration with ANL and entered the preproduction phase.
FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
JLab, Newport News, Virginia, USA
Three β=0.041 cryomodules are required for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) accelerator. Cleanroom assembly of all three coldmasses for these cryomodules has been completed. The cleanroom assembly includes; the superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities, the superconducting solenoids, fundamental power couplers (FPC), beam position monitors, alignment rail, and transport cart. This paper will provide an overview of the techniques and procedures used to assemble this cavity string such that it can be used in the FRIB accelerator.
FRIB, East Lansing, USA
INFN/LNL, Legnaro (PD), Italy
KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
ANL, Argonne, Illinois, USA
TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada
JLab, Newport News, Virginia, USA
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), under con-struction at Michigan State University, will utilize a driver linac to accelerate stable ion beams from protons to ura-nium up to energies of >200 MeV per nucleon with a beam power of up to 400 kW. Superconducting technology is widely used in the FRIB project, including the ion sources, linac, and experiment facilities. The FRIB linac consists of 48 cryomodules containing a total of 332 superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) resonators and 69 superconducting solenoids. We report on the design and the construction of FRIB cryomodules.
FRIB, East Lansing, USA
The original Fundamental Power Coupler (FPC) of Half-Wave Resonator (HWR) for the Facility of Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) requires multipacting conditioning at operating RF power which is up to 5 kW Continue Wave (CW). Conditioning takes a lot of time and RF power, and its elimination is highly desirable. To significantly shorten the RF conditioning, we developed a multipacting-free coupler design. This paper reports the latest progress in the optimization and prototype tests of multipacting-free coupler. The choke structure is removed and coupler geometry is further modified to protect the coupler RF window from the electron bombardment. The comparison result of multipacting-free coupler with original coupler was performed on automatic conditioning system, which showed significantly time reducing for RF conditioning.
FRIB, East Lansing, USA
The driver linac for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) comprises four kinds of cavities (=0.041, 0.085, 0.29, and 0.53) and six types of cryomodules including matching modules. FRIB has started the fabrication of a β=0.53 preproduction cryomodule, which is the first prototype for a half-wave (=0.29 and 0.53) cavity. This paper describes the fabrication progress and the lessons learned from the β=0.53 preproduction cryomodule.
FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Cryogenic magnetic shielding (A4K) is generally used in SRF cryomodules which is much more expensive than mu-metal used in room temperature. In order to reduce the cost, FRIB QWR and HWR magnetic shieldings were redesign to improve the shielding performance so that mu-metal can be implemented as an alternative shielding material. The magnetic shielding of first FRIB β=0.085 cryomodule was made up of 50% by A4K and 50% by mu-metal. Cavities were tested in 4K and 2K, the results showed that the Q0 of cavities were similar for both shielding materials, which is a success as a validation test for mu-metal magnetic shielding.