Author: Mitchell, J.A.
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MOPB079 HOM Coupler Alterations for the LHC DQW Crab Cavity 249
 
  • J.A. Mitchell
    Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
  • G. Burt, N.C. Shipman
    Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
  • R. Calaga
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • S. Verdú-Andrés, Q. Wu, B. P. Xiao
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
 
  As part of the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) project, 16 crab cavities are to be installed in the LHC in 2025. The two crab cavity designs are the Double Quarter Wave (DQW) and Radio Frequency Dipole (RFD). Preliminary beam tests in the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) are planned for both cavity types, with the DQW scheduled for testing in 2018. In reference to to Higher Order Mode (HOM) damping, the DQW has three identical on-cell HOM couplers. These HOM couplers provide a band-stop response at the frequency of the fundamental mode and act as a transmission path for the cavity HOMs. For the SPS cavity design, several geometric constraints exist. These give rise to dimensional limitations which in-turn impose limitations on the RF performance of the HOM couplers. As such, for the LHC assembly, the HOM coupler design is re-visited to take into account the relaxed geometric limitations, hence allowing the feasibility of an increased RF performance to be investigated. In addition to the RF performance, several geometric alterations were incorporated to ease manufacturing processes, tolerances and costs.  
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TUPB014 In-situ Bulk Residual Resistivity Ratio Measurement on Double Quarter Wave Crab Cavities 415
 
  • N.C. Shipman, A. Castilla, K.G. Hernández-Chahín, A. Macpherson
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • I. Ben-Zvi
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  • G. Burt, N.C. Shipman
    Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
  • K.G. Hernández-Chahín
    Universidad de Guanajuato, División de Ciencias e Ingenierías, León, Mexico
  • J.A. Mitchell
    Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
  • N.C. Shipman
    UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
 
  A four wire measurement was used to measure the bulk RRR on two DQW Crab Cavities. The measurement procedure is explained and the values obtained for each cavity are compared together with the values obtained from Niobium samples of the same stock from which the cavities were manufactured. Measurement errors and carefully analysed and further improvements to the measurement procedure are suggested.  
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TUPB100 Determining BCP Etch Rate and Uniformity in High Luminosity LHC Crab Cavities 635
 
  • T.J. Jones
    STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • G. Burt
    Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
  • R. Calaga, O. Capatina, L.M.A. Ferreira, R. Leuxe
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • T.J. Jones, J.A. Mitchell
    Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
  • S.M. Pattalwar
    STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
  • S. Verdú-Andrés, B. P. Xiao
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
 
  The compact SRF Crab Cavities required for HL-LHC have complex geometries making prediction of average and local BCP etch rates a difficult task. This paper describes a series of experiments and simulations used to determine the etch uniformity and rate within these structures. An initial experiment was conducted to determine the correlation between etch rate and flow rate in a Nb tube. These results were then incorporated into Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations of acid flow in the Double Quarter Wave (DQW) cavity to predict etch rates across the surface and allow optimisation of the BCP setup. There were several important findings from the work; one of which is that the flow rate in the relatively large body of the cavity is predominantly driven by natural convection due to the exothermic reaction. During BCP processing of the DQW cavity a significant difference in etching was observed between upper and lower horizontal surfaces which was mitigated by etching in several orientations. Two DQW cavities manufactured by CERN have received a heavy BCP of 200μm followed by 2 light BCPs of 30μm each with subsequent vertical cold tests showing performance exceeding specification.  
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THPB059 Simulation and Measurements of Crab Cavity HOMs and HOM Couplers for HL-LHC 881
 
  • J.A. Mitchell, T.J. Jones
    Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
  • R. Apsimon, G. Burt, N.C. Shipman
    Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
  • I. Ben-Zvi, S. Verdú-Andrés, B. P. Xiao
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  • R. Calaga, A. Castilla, A. Macpherson, N.C. Shipman, A. Zwozniak
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • T. Powers, H. Wang
    JLab, Newport News, Virginia, USA
  • N.C. Shipman
    UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
 
  Two Superconducting Radio-Frequency (SRF) crab cavities are foreseen for the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) upgrade. Preliminary beam tests of the Double Quarter Wave (DQW) crab cavity will take place in the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) in 2018. For damping of the cavity's Higher Order Modes (HOMs) the DQW has three identical on-cell, superconducting HOM couplers. The couplers are actively cooled by liquid heluim. In this paper, electromagnetic simulations of the HOMs and HOM couplers are presented. A novel approach to pre-installation spectral analysis of the HOM couplers is then presented, detailing both simulated and measured data. Measurements of the cavity HOMs at warm and in Vertical Test Facilities (VTFs) at both JLAB and CERN are detailed, comparing the measured characteristics of each mode to that of the simulated data-sets. Finally, the measured cavity data is compared with the test box measurements to see by what extent any reduction in damping can be predicted.  
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