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MO405 | Construction and Commissioning of KEKB Superconducting Crab Cavities | 63 |
| - K. Hosoyama, K. Hara, A. Honma, A. Kabe, Y. Kojima, Y. Morita, H. Nakai, K. Nakanishi, K. Akai, K. Ebihara, T. Furuya, S. Mitsunobu, M. Ono, Y. Yamamoto
KEK - K. Okubo, K. Sennyu, H. Hara, T. Yanagisawa
MHI Kobe
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| The superconducting crab cavities for KEKB were
constructed and installed into KEKB electron-positron
collider in January 2007. After cool-down of the crab
cavities, the commissioning of the crab cavities started in
February 2007 and continued until end of June. Effective
head on collision of electron and positron has been
achieved successfully for the first time during this spring
operation of the KEKB. A luminosity of above
10^34/cm2/sec could be obtained at high beam currents
operation (1.3A in the low energy positron and 0.7A in
high energy electron). | |
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TUP04 | Cryogenic System for the KEKB Crab Cavities | 106 |
| - H. Nakai, K. Hara, T. Honma, K. Hosoyama, A. Kabe, Y. Kojima, Y. Morita, K. Nakanishi
KEK - T. Kanekiyo
Hitachi Co. LTD - T. Yanagisawa
MHI Kobe
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| The superconducting crab cavities, which change the
direction of beam bunches to increase the luminosity of
the KEKB accelerator, are successfully installed in the
KEKB and operated with the stable operation of the large
helium refrigerator for the KEKB.
Since the crab cavities requires unique devices, such
as long coaxial couplers, the cryostats for the crab
cavities have various special features in their design and
also in their cooling schemes. This paper describes such
features and cooling schemes of the cryogenic system for
the KEKB superconducting crab cavities.
Calorimetric measurements on Q-factors of the crab
cavities and static heat load (static loss) measurements of
the crab cavity cryostats are carried out after the cryostat
assembly. The results of these measurements are
acceptable, and from these results, it is found that the
crab cavity performance does not degrade so much
during the cryostat assembly. | |
WEP27 | Horizontal tests for crab cavities in KEKB | 520 |
| - Y. Yamamoto, K. Akai, K. Ebihara, T. Furuya, K. Hara, T. Honma, K. Hosoyama, A. Kabe, Y. Kojima, S. Mitsunobu, Y. Morita, H. Nakai, K. Nakanishi, M. Ono
KEK - H. Hara, K. Sennyu, T. Yanagisawa
MHI Kobe - T. Kanekiyo
HITACHI - T. Nakazato
JASRI
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| Two Crab cavities were fabricated at KEK in 2006.
After the completion of the assembly, a horizontal test is
normally carried out for a superconducting cavity in KEK.
The horizontal test is an overall test for the cavity without
a beam. Both cavities achieved above an operational kick
voltage of 1.4MV. Although the HER (High Energy Ring
for electron) Crab cavity had no trouble, the LER (Low
Energy Ring for positron) had a trouble of tuner operation.
Due to the limited time, both cavities were installed into
the tunnel at the beginning of Jan. in 2007. After the beam
commissioning, it was found that this problem was not so
much significant for the operation. The LER Crab cavity
is being operated above 1A at present. | |
WEP50 | Input Couplers for KEKB Crab Cavities | 606 |
| - K. Nakanishi, K. Hara, K. Hosoyama, Y. Kojima, S. Mitsunobu, Y. Yamamoto
KEK - K. Okihira, K. Sennyu
MHI Kobe - T. Tanaka
Broad Wireless Corporation
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| The RF input couplers for KEKB crab cavities were designed,
fabricated and installed. The input coupler is shown
in figure 1. The RF input coupler has a ceramic RF window
and a T-stub structure. The shape of T-stub structure
and length of the probe were decided using RF simulation
program. The RF window and the doorknob translator may
cause some reflection. The RF windows for superconducting
accelerator cavities for KEKB (KEKB-SCC) and the
doorknob translators for TRISTAN were used. According
to the procedure of assembling the RF input coupler
for KEKB-SCC, they were rinsed and assembled. Aging
was done individually. After that, they were installed into
cryostats for crab cavities. These cryostats were installed
to KEKB and have been working. Three input couplers,
which are included for prototype cryostat, were prepared. | |
WEP55 | Beam-induced RF modes and RF power in the crab cavity for KEKB | 623 |
| - Y. Morita, K. Akai, T. Furuya, T. Honma, K. Hosoyama, S. Mitsunobu, Y. Yamamoto
KEK
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| Two superconducting crab cavities were installed in the
KEKB rings and the crab crossing operation started early
in 2007. Each crab cavity has two ferrite RF absorbers
(HOM dampers), which were developed for the
superconducting accelerating cavities of KEKB. One is
attached in a beam pipe and the other is attached in a
coaxial coupler. The dampers have to damp not only the
higher order modes but the lower order modes, since the
crabbing mode is not the lowest mode. These parasitic
modes should be sufficiently damped for the high current
operation. Several antennas were set on the beam pipe to
monitor beam-induced RF modes. The most dangerous
mode, TM010-like mode, was detected in the RF
spectrum. However, its Q-factor was below the instability
criterion and consistent with the measured value at the
horizontal test before installation. No dangerous modes
with high Q-factor were observed in the beam-induced
RF spectrum. KEKB stored the beam currents of 1.7A and
1.35 A in the low energy positron ring and the high energy
electron ring, respectively. No serious beam instabilities
caused by the parasitic modes were observed and the
HOM dampers successfully absorbed the beam-induced
RF power up to 12 kW. We will present HOM dampers
used for the KEKB crab cavities, and measurement results
of the beam-induced RF modes and RF power. Simulation
results for the beam-induced RF power will be also
discussed. | |
WEP57 | Commissioning and Beam Operation of KEKB Crab RF System | 632 |
| - K. Akai, K. Ebihara, T. Furuya, K. Hara, T. Honma, K. Hosoyama, A. Kabe, Y. Kojima, S. Mitsunobu, Y. Morita, H. Nakai, K. Nakanishi, M. Ono, Y. Yamamoto
KEK
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| Two heavily damped superconducting crab cavities were
installed in KEKB, one for the low-energy positron ring
(LER) and the other for the high-energy electron ring
(HER). After adjusting the RF system and conditioning the
cavities, beam operation started in February 2007. During
the four-and-a-half-month operation until summer shut
down, the crab cavities have been operating very stably
to conduct crab crossing experiment. They have shown
excellent performance with high stored beam currents up
to 1.7 A in the LER and 1.35 A in the HER. It was also
demonstrated that the crab crossing works at a high luminosity
over 10^34/cm2s that exceeds the KEKB design luminosity.
Machine tuning with crab crossing will continue
for achieving a big boost in luminosity, as expected from
beam-beam simulations. In this paper, we present an RF
system for the crab cavities, commissioning process, performance
of the crab cavities with high-current beams, and
beam-loading-related issues on the crabbing mode. | |