Author: Novo, J.
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TUP111 Experimental Investigations of the Quench Phenomena for the Quench Localization by the Second Sound Wave Method 739
 
  • J. Plouin, J.-P. Charrier, C. Magne, J. Novo
    CEA/DSM/IRFU, France
  • L. Maurice
    CEA/IRFU, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
 
  The quench localization by the second sound method is now widely used in many laboratories. This method avoids the complicated implementation of temperature arrays around the surface cavities. Instead, specific sensors are placed around the cavity and the time of arrival of the second sound wave generated by the quench is measured on each sensor; then the distance from sensors to quench is deducted from the theoretical second sound wave velocity. In principle, the quench position can be localized with a triangulation by a limited number of sensors. However, many measurements have shown that the time of arrival of the wave was not corresponding to the theoretical second sound wave velocity: the “measured” velocity is often 50% higher than the theory. At CEA-Saclay we performed several measurements on single cell cavities to investigate these phenomena. Several hypotheses are studied: large quench spot, heat propagation by another phenomenon than the second sound near to the cavity where the heat power density is very high. These results and the discussions on these hypotheses will be presented.  
 
THP090 Compact Interlock System for Supratech High Power RF teststand 1138
 
  • A. Hamdi, M. Desmons, M. Luong, J. Novo
    CEA/DSM/IRFU, France
  • F. Ballester
    CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
 
  Supratech is a facility at CEA/Saclay that enables tests on superconducting and high power RF components for particle accelerators. The facility comprises a home-made hard tube HV modulator powering up to 95kV-20A at 2.1ms/50Hz and a 700MHz pulsed klystron developed by CPI able to produce RF up to 1MW-2ms/50Hz. A new compact HV and RF interlock system including klystron HV diagnostics has been implemented on Supratech test facility. This paper describes in more detail the klystron interlock system and the results of the first tests.