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| MOPLT013 | Fatigue Testing of Materials by UV Pulsed Laser Irradiation | 557 |
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| The energy dissipated by the RF currents in the cavities of high-power pulsed linacs induces cycles of the surface temperature. In the case of the CLIC main linac the expected amplitude of the thermal cycles is about hundred degrees, for a total number of pulses reaching 10e11. The differential thermal expansion due to the temperature gradient in the material creates a cyclic stress that can result in surface break-up by fatigue. The materials for cavity fabrication must therefore be selected in order to withstand such constraints whilst maintaining an acceptable surface state. The fatigue behaviour of Cu and CuZr alloy has been tested by inducing larger surface peak temperatures, thus reducing the number of cycles to failure, irradiating the surface with 50 ns pulses of UV light (308 nm) from an excimer laser. Surface break-up is observed after different number of laser shots as a function of the peak temperature. CuZr appears to withstand a much larger number of cycles than Cu, for equal peak temperature. The characterization of the surface states and possible means of extrapolating the measured behaviour to the expected number of pulses of CLIC are discussed in detail. | ||
| MOPLT032 | Breakdown Resistance of Refractory Metals Compared to Copper | 614 |
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The behaviour of Mo, W and Cu with respect to electrical breakdown in ultra high vacuum has been investigated by means of a capacitor discharge method. The maximum stable electric field and the field enhancement factor, beta, have been measured between electrodes of the same material in a sphere/plane geometry for anode and cathode, respectively. The maximum stable field increases as a function of the number of breakdown events for W and Mo. In contrast, no systematic increase is observed for Cu. The highest values obtained are typically 500 MV/m for W, 350 MV/m for Mo and only 180 MV/m for Cu. This conditioning, found for the refractory metals, corresponds to a simultaneous decrease of beta and is therefore related to the field emission properties of the surface and their modification upon sparking. Accordingly, high beta values and no applicable field increase occur for Cu even after repeated breakdown. The results are in agreement with rf breakdown experiments [*] performed on prototype 30 GHz accelerating structures for the CLIC accelerator.
* W. Wuensch, C. Achard, S. Döbert, H. H. Braun, I. Syratchev, M. Taborelli, I. Wilson, "A Demonstration of High Gradient Acceleration", CERN-AB-2003-048-RF; CLIC-Note-569, Proc. PAC2003. |