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Paper	Title	Page
MO405	Construction and Commissioning of KEKB Superconducting Crab Cavities	63
	K. Hosoyama, K. Hara, A. Honma, A. Kabe, Y. Kojima, Y. Morita, H. Nakai, K. Nakanishi, K. Akai, K. Ebihara, T. Furuya, S. Mitsunobu, M. Ono, Y. Yamamoto KEK K. Okubo, K. Sennyu, H. Hara, T. Yanagisawa MHI Kobe
	The superconducting crab cavities for KEKB were constructed and installed into KEKB electron-positron collider in January 2007. After cool-down of the crab cavities, the commissioning of the crab cavities started in February 2007 and continued until end of June. Effective head on collision of electron and positron has been achieved successfully for the first time during this spring operation of the KEKB. A luminosity of above 10^34/cm2/sec could be obtained at high beam currents operation (1.3A in the low energy positron and 0.7A in high energy electron).
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WEP27	Horizontal tests for crab cavities in KEKB	520
	Y. Yamamoto, K. Akai, K. Ebihara, T. Furuya, K. Hara, T. Honma, K. Hosoyama, A. Kabe, Y. Kojima, S. Mitsunobu, Y. Morita, H. Nakai, K. Nakanishi, M. Ono KEK H. Hara, K. Sennyu, T. Yanagisawa MHI Kobe T. Kanekiyo HITACHI T. Nakazato JASRI
	Two Crab cavities were fabricated at KEK in 2006. After the completion of the assembly, a horizontal test is normally carried out for a superconducting cavity in KEK. The horizontal test is an overall test for the cavity without a beam. Both cavities achieved above an operational kick voltage of 1.4MV. Although the HER (High Energy Ring for electron) Crab cavity had no trouble, the LER (Low Energy Ring for positron) had a trouble of tuner operation. Due to the limited time, both cavities were installed into the tunnel at the beginning of Jan. in 2007. After the beam commissioning, it was found that this problem was not so much significant for the operation. The LER Crab cavity is being operated above 1A at present.
WEP57	Commissioning and Beam Operation of KEKB Crab RF System	632
	K. Akai, K. Ebihara, T. Furuya, K. Hara, T. Honma, K. Hosoyama, A. Kabe, Y. Kojima, S. Mitsunobu, Y. Morita, H. Nakai, K. Nakanishi, M. Ono, Y. Yamamoto KEK
	Two heavily damped superconducting crab cavities were installed in KEKB, one for the low-energy positron ring (LER) and the other for the high-energy electron ring (HER). After adjusting the RF system and conditioning the cavities, beam operation started in February 2007. During the four-and-a-half-month operation until summer shut down, the crab cavities have been operating very stably to conduct crab crossing experiment. They have shown excellent performance with high stored beam currents up to 1.7 A in the LER and 1.35 A in the HER. It was also demonstrated that the crab crossing works at a high luminosity over 10^34/cm2s that exceeds the KEKB design luminosity. Machine tuning with crab crossing will continue for achieving a big boost in luminosity, as expected from beam-beam simulations. In this paper, we present an RF system for the crab cavities, commissioning process, performance of the crab cavities with high-current beams, and beam-loading-related issues on the crabbing mode.