CLASSE, Ithaca, New York
CERN, Geneva
Carleton University, College of Natural Sciences, Ottawa, Ontario
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
LBNL, Berkeley, California
Grove City College, Grove City, Pennsylvania
INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma)
ASCo, Clayton, Victoria
KEK, Ibaraki
Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
ANL, Argonne
CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, CA
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
Fermilab, Batavia
Technion, Haifa
Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois
The Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) has been reconfigured as a test accelerator (CesrTA) for a program of electron cloud (EC) research at ultra low emittance. The instrumentation in the ring has been upgraded with local diagnostics for measurement of cloud density and with improved beam diagnostics for the characterization of both the low emittance performance and the beam dynamics of high intensity bunch trains interacting with the cloud. Finally a range of EC mitigation methods have been deployed and tested. Measurements of cloud density and its impact on the beam under a range of conditions will be presented and compared with simulations. The effectiveness of a range of mitigation techniques will also be discussed.
CLASSE, Ithaca, New York
CERN, Geneva
ANL, Argonne
KEK, Ibaraki
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
Over the course of the CesrTA program, the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) has been instrumented with several retarding field analyzers (RFAs), which measure the local density and energy distribution of the electron cloud. These RFAs have been installed in drifts, dipoles, quadrupoles, and wigglers; and data have been taken in a variety of beam conditions and bunch configurations. This paper will provide an overview of these results, and give a preliminary evaluation of the efficacy of cloud mitigation techniques implemented in the instrumented vacuum chambers.
CERN, Geneva
Amorphous carbon coatings with low secondary electron yield have been applied to the liners in the electron cloud monitors and to vacuum chambers of three dipole magnets in the SPS. The electron cloud is completely suppressed for LHC type beams in these monitors even after 3 months air venting and no performance deterioration is observed after more than one year of SPS operation. Upon variation of the magnetic field in the monitors the electron cloud current maintains its intensity down to weak fields of some 40 Gauss, where fast conditioning is observed. This is in agreement with dark traces observed on the RF shields between dipoles. The dynamic pressure rise has been used to monitor the behavior of the magnets. It is found to be about the same for coated and uncoated magnets, apart from a weak improvement in the carbon coated ones under conditions of intense electron cloud. Inspection of the coated magnet is foreseen in order to detect potential differences with respect to the coated monitors. Measurements of the stray fields outside the dipoles show that they are sufficiently strong to induce electron cloud in these regions.
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.
CERN, Geneva
Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster
Niobium thin film cavities have shown good and reliable performance for LEP and LHC, although there are limitations to overcome if this technique should be used for new accelerators such as the ILC. New coating techniques like High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering (HiPIMS) has shown very promising results and we will report on its possible improvements for Nb thin film cavity performance. Current materials used in accelerator SRF technologies operate at temperatures below 4 K, which require complex cryogenic systems. Researchers have investigated the use of High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) to form RF cavities, with limited success*. We propose a new approach to achieve a high-temperature SRF cavity based on the superconducting 'proximity effect'**. The superconducting proximity effect is the effect through which a superconducting material in close proximity to a non-superconducting material induces a superconducting condensate in the latter. Using this effect we hope to overcome the problems that have prevented the use of HTS for accelerating structures so far. We will report the preliminary studies of magnetron sputtered thin films of Cu on Nb.
* E. J. Minehara et al, Superconductivity 3, p277 (1990)
** R. Seviour et al, Superlattices and Microstructures, 25, p647 (1999)
CERN, Geneva
IHEP Protvino, Protvino, Moscow Region
TRIUMF, Vancouver
The LHC has two dedicated cleaning insertions: IR3 for momentum cleaning and IR7 for betatron cleaning. The collimation system has been specified and built with tight mechanical tolerances (e.g. jaw flatness ~ 40 μm) and is designed to achieve a high accuracy and reproducibility of the jaw positions. The practically achievable cleaning efficiency of the present Phase-I system depends on the precision of the jaw centering around the beam, the accuracy of the gap size and the jaw parallelism against the beam. The reproducibility and stability of the system is important to avoid the frequent repetition of beam based alignment which is currently a lengthy procedure. Within this paper we describe the method used for the beam based alignment of the LHC collimation system, its achieved accuracy and stability and its performance at 450GeV.
CERN, Geneva
BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk
The CLIC damping rings should produce the ultra-low emittance necessary for the high luminosity performance of the collider. This combined to the high bunch charge present a number of beam dynamics and technical challenges for the rings. Lattice studies have been focused on low emittance cells with optics that reduce the effect Intra-beam scattering. The final beam emittance is reached with the help of super-conducting damping wigglers. Results from recent simulations and prototype measurements are presented, including a detailed absorption scheme design. Collective effects such as electron cloud and fast ion instability can severely limit the performance and mitigation techniques have been identified and tested. Tolerances for alignment and technical system design such as kickers, RF cavities, magnets and vacuum have been finally established.