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First Full Beam Loading Operation with the CTF3 Linac
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- R. Corsini, H.-H. Braun, G. Carron, O. Forstner, G. Geschonke, E. Jensen, L. Rinolfi, D. Schulte, F. Tecker, L. Thorndahl
CERN, Geneva
- M. Bernard, G. Bienvenu, T. Garvey, R. Roux
LAL, Orsay
- A. Ferrari
Uppsala University, Uppsala
- L. Groening
GSI, Darmstadt
- R.F. Koontz, R.H. Miller, R.D. Ruth, A.D. Yeremian
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
- T. Lefevre
NU, Evanston
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The aim of the CLIC Study is to investigate the feasibility of a high luminosity, multi-TeV linear e+e- collider. CLIC is based on a two-beam method, in which a high current drive beam is decelerated to produce 30 GHz RF power needed for high-gradient acceleration of the main beam running parallel to it. To demonstrate the outstanding feasibility issues of the scheme a new CLIC Test Facility, CTF3, is being constructed at CERN by an international collaboration. In its final configuration CTF3 will consist of a 150 MeV drive beam linac followed by a 42 m long delay loop and an 84 m combiner ring. The installation will include a 30 GHz high power test stand, a representative CLIC module and a test decelerator. The first part of the linac was installed and commissioned with beam in 2003. The first issue addressed was the generation and acceleration of a high-current drive beam in the "full beam loading" condition where RF power is converted into beam power with an efficiency of more than 90%. The full beam loading operation was successfully demonstrated with the nominal beam current of 3.5 A. A variety of beam measurements have been performed, showing good agreement with expectations.
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Video of talk
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Transparencies
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MOPLT054 |
High Current Operation of Pre-bunching Cavities in the CTF3 Accelerator
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- R. Roux, G. Bienvenu
LAL, Orsay
- E. Jensen
CERN, Geneva
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In the framework of the CLIC studies for a 3 TeV centre of mass linear collider the CLIC Test Facility-3 accelerator (CTF3) is developed to validate the novel concept of CLIC drive beam generation. The front end of the CTF3 linac uses a 140 kV thermionic gun capable to deliver a beam with currents of up to 10 A during 1.5 microseconds. Theμtime structure of this beam is generated with two standing wave single-cell 3 GHz pre-buncher cavities. The high current demands special care in the design of the pre-bunchers to preserve beam quality and transmission. A particular concern was beamloading in the second pre-buncher. In this paper, the design and the conditioning of the pre-bunchers are reported but the main focus is on the commissioning with the electron beam, which showed unexpected results. Indeed, contrary to our expectations, the unbunched beam seems to induce a kind of beamloading in the first pre-buncher while the second one shows none.
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