RISE, Tokyo
KEK, Ibaraki
ISIR, Osaka
AIST, Tsukuba, Ibaraki
At Waseda University, we have been developing a high quality electron source based on photo-cathode rf-gun and its application experiments. To produce a high current electron beam, we installed a Cs-Te cathode which has higher quantum efficiency and improved the structure of the rf cavity. By adopting a Cs-Te cathode, it is expected that the production of the higher charged single bunch electron beam with a low emittance can be achieved. Moreover, the generation of high quality multi-bunch electron beam is also expected to be possible due to the high quantum efficiency of Cs-Te. For understanding of a Cs-Te cathode and higher quantum efficiency operation, we have performed the fundamental studies by single bunch beam. On the other hand, we have also developed a multi-pulse UV laser for generating the multi-bunch electron beam. Our laser system is composed by all-solid-state Nd:YLF for the stable operation, and the specification of this laser is expected to generate a 100bunch/train with the bunch charge of 800pC/bunch. In this conference, the experimental results of Cs-Te and new laser system and the recent progress of multi-bunch electron beam generation will be reported.
KEK, Ibaraki
A 6-m cryomodule, which includes four Tesla-like 9-cell cavities, was assembled and installed in the STF tunnel in April, 2008. After cooldown of the cryomodule, high power tests of four cavities had been carried out at 2 K from September to December, 2008. A cavity package consists of a 9-cell niobium cavity with two HOM couplers, an input coupler with a cold and a warm rf window, and a frequency tuning system with a mechancal and a piezo tuner. The performance as a total sc cavity system was checked in the cryomodule test with high rf power. One of the cavities was achieved a stable pulsed operation at 32 MV/m higher than the specific operating gradient (31.5 MV/m) in ILC. The maximum accelerating gradients (Eacc,max) obtained in the vertical cw tests was maintained or slightly improved in the cryomodule tests with a pulsed operation of 1.5 msec and 5 Hz. Compensation of Lorentz force detuning at 31 MV/m was successfully demonstrated by using piezo tuner and pre-detuning.
KEK, Ibaraki
KAKEN Inc., Mito
Sokendai, Ibaraki
In order to achieve higher and more stable performance of super conducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities, extensive effort in development and application has been done for surface treatment and conditioning methods. Those methods have been evaluated with vertical tests showing lots of remarkable results in cavity performance. However it cannot be well understood yet how surface treatment or conditioning contributed to the results and which step of process in the treatment or conditioning affected the results. In this article, we describe our try to understand those questions focusing on the surface analyses with scanning electron microscope (SEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) for electro-polishing (EP) processed niobium sample coupons.
KEK, Ibaraki
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia
The Electro-polishing process is the best candidate of final surface treatment for the production of ILC cavities. Nevertheless, the broad distribution of the gradient caused by field emitters in cavities is sitll a serious problem for the EP process. Ethanole- and degreaser-rinse processes after the EP process were found to be effective to decrease the field emmitter in recent studies, however, these are not perfect yet. We tried to test the sponge cleaning as the post EP process to remove the field emitter inside the cavcity. This article describe the results of series tests with a proto-type sponge-cleaning tool for single-cell cavity at KEK.
KEK, Ibaraki
Kyoto ICR, Uji, Kyoto
The inspections of the superconducting RF cavities seem essential in achieving high accelerating gradient. The Kyoto camera system is a good tool to survey a defect location and to be analysis a defect shape in the inner surface of the superconducting rf cavities. The cavity inspections of the AES, ACCEL, ZANON and STF Baseline cavities were inspected to study relations between a defect shape and a heating gradient of the superconducting rf cavities. The STF Baseline #5 and #6 cavities with each surface treatment (as received, after Pre-EP, after EP-1, and after vertical test with EP-2) were inspected to trace a changing spots shape. The full inspection of the EBW seam, the HAZ (heat affected zone) and hot spots region were carried out before EP-2 process and a vertical test then the shape analysis of a discovered spots was done. The vertical tests of these cavities with T-map of fixed 9-cell type were measured at STF from September 2008. The inspection and shape analysis of these cavities were made after vertical tests for based on T-map data. The result of vertical tests and changing a shape of a discovered spots with EP-2 process will be presented.
KEK, Ibaraki
ISSP/SRL, Chiba
TIPC, BeiJing
A new vertical test facility for L-band multi-cell cavities has been completed in support of development efforts of ILC (International Linear Collider) and ERL (Energy Recovery Linac) projects at STF (Superconducting rf Test Facility) of KEK. The facility possesses a clean booth for pre-tuning the cavities, four cavity stands to prepare the cavities prior to vertical testing, a half-underground pit which accommodates up to two vertical cryostats which can be pumped and operated separately under a movable iron shield. Vertical testing of the cavities, with a 400 W high-power amplifier and with a temperature-mapping (T-mapping) and additional monitoring systems, is supervised from a control room which overlooks the entire facility. This paper describes the specific details of the facility and results from its initial pilot operation that was conducted in Summer-Fall of 2008.
KEK, Ibaraki
TIPC, BeiJing
A pulsed RF operation of four units of 9-cell L-band (1.3 GHz) cavities in a horizontal cryostat (cryo-module) was conducted in 2008 as part of R&D efforts at STF at KEK for ILC. A series of compensation experiments were conducted for Lorentz-detuning effects, which are critically important for pulsed RF operation of high-gradient linacs based on superconducting cavity technologies. The experiments were done at a repetition rate of 5 Hz with RF pulses of a width of 1.5 msec, and the typical accelerating gradient within the cavities was 20 32 MV/m. Two types of compensation techniques have been tested. In a “feed-forward” method, piezo actuators on individual cavity tuners are activated to mechanically control the tuning of the cavity in synchronization with the RF pulses. In a “feed-back” method, the low-level RF system is driven so as to maintain the average of “I” and “Q” components of the cavities as constant. This paper reports the experimental results using the various parameters of the piezo control to compensate the effect of Lorentz-detuning. These results are consistent with the numerical calculation postulating that two mechanical modes mainly contribute to the effect.
KEK, Ibaraki
ISSP/SRL, Chiba
TIPC, BeiJing
A new cavity diagnostic system has been introduced for vertical testing of nine-cell L-band superconducting cavities at KEK-STF. The present system is based on approximately 300 carbon resistors for temperature-mapping (T-mapping), and approximately 40 PIN photo diodes for detecting emission of X-rays. The system can accommodate up to total 600 sensors in needed in the future. While most of the sensors are attached to the cavity exterior in a pre-determined regular pattern, some sensors can be strategically placed at non-regular positions so as to watch the areas which are considered “suspicious” as per the surface inspection done prior to vertical testing. Data from the sensors can be collected every 100 msec. The data can be graphically displayed online and are stored for offline analysis. This paper describes the details of this system, together with results from its initial pilot operation which was done with a nine-cell cavity on loan from FNAL (AES#001). Effectiveness of the combined use of T-mapping and PIN photo diodes in operation of the pi-mode and other pass-band modes in conjunction with surface inspection is discussed.
KEK, Ibaraki
The super-conducting RF test facility (STF) at KEK has been functional since 2005, and the STF phase-I, which involves the testing of a cryomodule with four superconducting cavities, was performed at the end of 2008. In this test, intense study of the power distribution system for the possible linear collider scheme was performed. Linear power distribution and tree-like distribution were compared and also the effects of eliminating circulator are studied. Current status of RF source of KEK STF are reported.
KEK, Ibaraki
The kicker of the damping ring for the International linear collider(ILC) requires fast rise/fall times(3 or 6ns) and high repetition rate(3 MHz). A multiple strip-line kicker system is developing to realize the specification*. We present results of the beam test at KEK-ATF by the strip-line kicker**. The multi-bunch beam, which has 5.6ns bunch spacing in the damping ring, is extracted with 308ns duration. Two units of the strip-line electrodes are used to extract the beam. The scheme of the beam extraction is same as the kicker of the ILC. A bump orbit and an auxiliary septum magnet are used with the kicker to clear the geometrical restriction.
*T. Naito et. al., Proc. of PAC07, pp2772-2274
**T. Naito et. al., Proc. of EPAC08, pp601-603
KEK, Ibaraki
Fermilab, Batavia
INFN/LASA, Segrate (MI)
DESY, Hamburg
In an attempt at demonstrating an average field gradient of 31.5 MV/m as per the design accelerating gradient for ILC, a program called S1-Global is in progress as an international research collaboration among KEK, INFN, FNAL, DESY and SLAC. The S1-Global cryomodule will contain eight superconducting cavities from FNAL, DESY and KEK. The cryomodule will be constructed by joining two half-size cryomodules, each 6 m in length. The module containing four cavities from FNAL and DESY will be constructed by INFN. The design of this module is based on an improved 3rd generation TTF design. KEK will modify the 6-meter STF cryomodule to contain four KEK cavities. The designs of the cryomodules are ongoing between these laboratories, and the operation of the system is scheduled at the KEK-STF from June 2010. In this paper, the S1-Global cryomodule plan and the module design will be presented. ‘S1-Global collaboration’ as a co-author.
JAI, Egham, Surrey
Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey
OXFORDphysics, Oxford, Oxon
KEK, Ibaraki
Funding: STFC LC-ABD Collaboration, Royal Society, Daiwa Foundation, Commission of European Communities under the 6th Framework Programme Structuring the European Research Area, contract number RIDS-011899
The KEK Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) extraction line laser-wire system has been upgraded, enabling the measurement of micron scale transverse size electron beams. The most recent measurements using the upgraded system are presented, including the major hardware upgrades to the laser transport, the laser beam diagnostics line, and the mechanical control systems.
SLAC, Menlo Park, California
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire
JAI, Oxford
KEK, Ibaraki
IHEP Beijing, Beijing
LAL, Orsay
Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey
IN2P3-LAPP, Annecy-le-Vieux
OXFORDphysics, Oxford, Oxon
ATOMKI, Debrecen
CERN, Geneva
DESY, Hamburg
Fermilab, Batavia
Kyungpook National University, Daegu
PAL, Pohang, Kyungbuk
Kyoto ICR, Uji, Kyoto
ICEPP, Tokyo
University of Tokyo, Tokyo
UCL, London
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York
Tohoku University, Graduate School of Science, Sendai
UMAN, Manchester
Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Science, Higashi-Hiroshima
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire
ATF2 is a final-focus test beam line that attempts to focus the low-emittance beam from the ATF damping ring to a beam size of about 37 nm, and at the same time to demonstrate nm beam stability, using numerous advanced beam diagnostics and feedback tools. The construction is well advanced and beam commissioning of ATF2 has started in the second half of 2008. ATF2 is constructed and commissioned by ATF international collaborations with strong US, Asian and European participation.