Superconducting Crab Cavities Research Articles

Numerical calculation of the Lorentz force detuning and the pressure sensitivity for the HL-LHC crab cavity

Crab cavities are fundamental components of the HL-LHC upgrade project. These Radio Frequency cavities, operated at the appropriate frequency, ‘tilt’ the proton bunches to increase the luminosity at the collision points IP1 (ATLAS) and IP5 (CMS). Two different superconducting crab cavities were developed: RF Dipole (RFD) for horizontal deflection and Double Quarter Wave (DQW) for vertical deflection. During operation, the cavity walls are deformed due to the loading conditions. This deformation changes the electro-magnetic field inside the cavity and consequently its RF frequency. In the present study, the numerical evaluation of the Lorentz Force Detuning (LFD) and the Pressure Sensitivity (PS) of the DQW cavity, using COMSOL Multiphysics, is presented. The LFD is the fundamental frequency change of the cavity due to the electro-magnetic forces acting on its walls, while the PS is the frequency shift when the cavity is subjected to pressure fluctuations of the helium bath. Finally, a comparison with the results measured during the cold test of the manufactured cavities, and with the previous simulations results obtained for the RFD cavity is done.

Beam gap transient analysis and mitigations in high-current storage rings for an electron-ion collider

The U.S. electron ion collider will utilize high current electron and ion storage rings with many bunches and large rf systems. Because of the dissimilarity of the two rings, the rf transients created by gaps or variations in the current distributions will be very different in the two rings. These transients cause a shift in the synchronous phase of the beams as a function of rf bucket position, can impact the luminosity through shifts in longitudinal position of the IP, will affect the performance of the rf and LLRF control loops, and may require significant rf power overhead to control. A machine design that uses superconducting crab cavities will also have sensitivity to gap transients and synchronous phase variations along the bunch train with variations in crab cavity voltage seen by each bunch, since the high $Q$ of the crab cavities precludes modulating them to compensate for the time of arrival shifts caused by the gap transients in the main rf systems. All these effects make the problem of managing gap transients crucial to the operation of the EIC. This work presents methods to study the dynamics of the rf and LLRF systems for these heavily beam loaded facilities. An illustrative machine design example is presented and used to investigate the expected magnitudes of the rf gap transients, and exploration of various possible remedies to match the gap transients in the two dissimilar EIC rings. In addition to the study of the power required and gap transients, this work also estimates longitudinal coupled-bunch instabilities due to the baseline cavity fundamental impedance. The work is motivated to emphasize the importance of tools and methods to estimate these effects as part of the early design phase of the Electron-Ion Collider or any high current storage ring design.

Design, Procurement, Installation and Commissioning of the Cryogenic Infrastructure for a New Superconducting RF Test Facility with Beam at CERN

The High-Luminosity LHC project (HL–LHC), aiming at peak luminosity above 5.0 × 1034 cm −2 s −1, considers replacing the matching sections on both sides of the ATLAS and CMS experiments. To complement new focusing quadrupoles, this upgrade considers using the so-called superconducting crab cavities, never operated before with protons and therefore requiring qualification with beam. To this aim, a new cryogenic infrastructure for a superconducting RF test facility was initiated and recently installed at CERN SPS accelerator in 2018. From the early studies of heat load and design principles to the successful tests passed during late 2018, this paper describes the main cryogenic requirements for such a test facility, its design challenges, procurement, installation, and commissioning up to stable operation of the crab cavities module in superfluid helium at 2 K.

Design, prototyping, and testing of a compact superconducting double quarter wave crab cavity

A novel design of superconducting Crab Cavity was proposed and designed at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The new cavity shape is a Double Quarter Wave or DQWCC. After fabrication and surface treatments, the niobium proof-of-principle cavity was cryogenically tested in a vertical cryostat. The cavity is extremely compact yet has a low frequency of 400 MHz, an essential property for service for the Large Hadron Collider luminosity upgrade. The electromagnetic properties of the cavity are also well matched for this demanding task. The demonstrated deflecting voltage of 4.6 MV is well above the requirement for a crab cavity in the future High Luminosity LHC of 3.34 MV. In this paper we present the design, prototyping and test results of the DQWCC.

Performance and Operation Results of the RF Systems for the KEK B-Factory

KEK B-Factory (KEKB) was terminated in 2010 after achieving the world record luminosity of 2.11 × 1034 cm−2s−1. This paper describes the design features, performance, and operation results of the KEKB RF systems, which include a lot of original RF technologies and methods to store an electron/positron beam over 1 A stably. To cope with beam instabilities caused by large beam currents, two new types of normal and superconducting (SC) cavities with large stored energy were developed and successfully operated. For a new beam colliding scheme called crab crossing, two SC crab cavities were introduced and boosted the peak luminosity. Performance of these cavities is reported, along with the lowlevel and high-power RF systems, and the cryogenic system for the SC cavities. The status of the RF system upgrade towards SuperKEKB, which aims at a luminosity of 8.0 × 1035 cm−2s−1, is briefly described. © The Author(s) 2013. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Physical Society of Japan. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Disclaimer: Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department. Copyright © 2013 The Physical Society of Japan Other Oxford University Press sites: Oxford University Press

超伝導クラブ空洞

Complete overlapping of the electron and positron bunches at colliding point can be attained by using the strong time-depending electromagnetic RF field in the superconducting crab cavity. Commissioning of the crab cavities started in February 2007 at KEKB. Effective head-on collision of electron and positron has been achieved successfully. After introduction of crab crossing and crab cavity, the structure and the fabrication of the KEKB superconducting crab cavity are discussed.

RF systems for the KEK B-Factory

This paper describes the design features and operational status of the RF systems for the KEK B-Factory (KEKB). Two types of new RF cavities have been developed to store very high-intensity beams with many short bunches. The design and performance of the cavities and other critical components, such as the input couplers and HOM dampers, are reported. The configuration of the RF systems is given and descriptions of various control loops are made, including a direct RF feedback loop and a 0-mode damping loop. The effects of transient beam loading due to a bunch gap on bunch phase modulations were simulated and measured. The development of a superconducting crab cavity, which is a component of luminosity upgrade strategy, is also presented.