01 Circular Colliders

A21 Accelerators and Storage Rings, Other

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TUPEB054 Design of Positron Damping Ring for Super-KEKB 1641
 
  • M. Kikuchi, T. Abe, K. Egawa, H. Fukuma, K. Furukawa, N. Iida, H. Ikeda, T. Kamitani, K. Kanazawa, K. Ohmi, K. Oide, K. Shibata, M. Tawada, M. Tobiyama, D.M. Zhou
    KEK, Ibaraki
 
 

Super-KEKB, an upgrade plan of the present KEKB collider, has recently changed its scheme from 'high current' option to 'nano-beam' scheme. In the latter the current is relatively low(4A/2.3A for LER/HER ring) compared to that of the high-current option(9.4A/4.1A), while the vertical beam size is squeezed to 60 nm at the interaction point to get the high luminosity. The emittance of the injected beam should be low and, since the Tousheck lifetime is very short(600 sec), the intensity of the positron beam is as high as 8 nC/pulse. For the electron beam a low-emittance high-intensity RF gun is adopted. For the positron beam a damping ring has been proposed. The design of the damping ring has been performed for the high-current option*. In this paper an updated design for the nano-beam scheme is presented.


* Nucl. Instr. Meth. A 556 (2006) 13-19

 
TUPEB055 Optics correction at BEPCII Storage Ring 1644
 
  • D. Ji, Y. Jiao, Q. Qin, Y. Wei
    IHEP Beijing, Beijing
 
 

Optics correction is an important issue at BEPCII. Due to the errors in all kinds of components of a storage ring, the real optics of a storage ring is different from the design one. This paper introduces some developments of optics calibration at BEPCII storage ring. We use the method that fit the measured response matrix to the model response matrix to get the fudge factor of the quadrupole field and the sextupole field. On the other hand, in considering fringing fields of quadrupole magnet and interaction of quadrupole magnet iron core and sextupole magnet iron core, the model is calibrated.

 
TUPEB056 Operation Experience with the LHC RF System 1647
 
  • L. Arnaudon, P. Baudrenghien, O. Brunner, A.C. Butterworth
    CERN, Geneva
 
 

The LHC ACS RF system is composed of 16 superconducting cavities, eight per ring, housed in a total of four cryomodules each containing four cavities. Each cavity is powered by a 300 kW klystron. The ACS RF power control system is based on industrial Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), but with additional fast RF interlock protection systems. Operational performance and reliability are described. A full set of user interfaces, both for experts and operators has been developed, with user feedback and maintenance issues as key points. Operational experience with the full RF chain, including the low level system, the beam control, the synchronisation system and optical fibres distribution is presented. Last but not least overall performance and reliability based on experience with beam are reviewed and perspectives for future improvement outlined.

 
WEOAMH03 Low Secondary Electron Yield Carbon Coatings for Electron-cloud Mitigation in Modern Particle Accelerators 2375
 
  • C. Yin Vallgren, A. Ashraf, S. Calatroni, P. Chiggiato, P. Costa Pinto, H.P. Marques, H. Neupert, M. Taborelli, W. Vollenberg, I. Wevers, K. Yaqub
    CERN, Geneva
 
 

Electron-cloud is one of the main limitations for particle accelerators with positively charged beams of high intensity and short bunch spacing, as SPS at CERN. The Secondary Electron Yield (SEY) of the inner surface of the vacuum chamber is the main parameter governing the phenomenon. The effect could be eliminated by coating the magnets vacuum chambers with a material of low SEY, which does not require bake-out and is robust against air exposure. For such a purpose amorphous carbon coatings were produced by magnetron sputtering of graphite targets. They exhibit maximum SEY between 0.9 and 1.1 after air transfer to the measuring instrument. After 1 month air exposure the SEY rises to values between 1.1 and 1.4. Storage under nitrogen or by packaging in Al foil makes this increase negligible. The coatings have a similar XPS C1s spectrum for a large set of deposition parameters and exhibit an enlarged line-width compared to pure graphite. The static outgassing without bake-out depends on deposition parameters and is in a range from 1 to 10 times higher than that of stainless steel. Instead, electron stimulated outgassing is lower than for stainless steel and is dominated by CO.

 

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