Irene MONDINO (BE-RF-SRF)* WP1, ESR2 Mid Term Review Meeting, 26 September 2012

Mid Term Review Meeting, 26 September 2012 N. SURNAME1

* The research project has been supported by a Marie Curie Early Initial Training Network Fellowship of the European Community’s Seventh Programme under contract number (PITN-GA-2010-264330-CATHI)

I.Mondino

CATHIMarie Curie Initial Training Network

Cryogenics, Accelerators and Targets at HIE-ISOLDE

Irene MONDINO (BE-RF-SRF)*WP1, ESR2

Mid Term Review Meeting, 26 September 2012

Mid Term Review Meeting, 26 September 2012 N. SURNAME2I. Mondino

Outline

• Background

• Activities at CERN

• Project Status and Achievement

• Training

• Conclusions and future activities


Background

EDUCATION2003-2009Politecnico di TorinoElectronic Engineering – Master Programme

WORKING EXPERIENCE2009-2010AccentureManagement consulting – Business processes design and modelling2010-2011TERA Foundation and ADAMTraineeship Grant for a position in CERN - RF measurements on a prototype linear accelerator unit for protontherapy


Activities at CERN

HIE ISOLDE PROJECT

WORK PACKAGE 1: SC cavity development and test

ESR2: Cavity and Cryomodule tests:

• Setup of the cryomodule test stand

• Cold tests of the SC cavity

• Investigation of Q-drop effect

Since May 2011


Activities at CERN

Low-β cavity (12)

Nb over Cu technology

Required parameters

High-β cavity (20)

HIE ISOLDE SC CAVITIES

101.28 f (MHz) 101.286.3 β0 10.36 Designed Gradient

(MV/m)6

73 U/Eacc2 (mJ/(MV/m)2) 2073.2x108

Q0 for 6MV/m at 10W 4.7x108

5.4 Epk/Eacc 5.680 Hpk/Eacc (Oe/MV/m) 9610 Pcav (W) 10


Activities at CERN

Preparation and mounting of the cavity

Rinsing (b252)

Transport to Sm18

Assembly in Sm18 CRTransport to Sm18 RF test place

Insertion in cryostat


Activities at CERN

Warm RF tests:• on the cavities (resonance

frequency, loaded quality factor)• on the RF line (attenuation

measurements, check of the coupler and pick-up line with the network analyzer)

• characterization of different power coupler prototypes.

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7100.64100.66100.68100.7

100.72100.74100.76100.78100.8

100.82100.84

PROTO1 PROTO2

DeltaX [mm]

fres

[M

Hz]

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 71.000E+04

1.000E+05

1.000E+06

1.000E+07

1.000E+08

PROTO1 PROTO2

DeltaX [mm]

Qex

t


Activities at CERN

Cold RF tests:• Quality factor

measurements

• Frequency shift measurements


Project status and achievement

Research training theme and task description

Conceptual design and specifications for QWRs• Still on goingInternship in associated partners:• IPN, Orsay, France: Cold Test of HIE ISOLDE SC cavities• TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada: technical visit• INFN Laboratories, Legnaro, Italy: Cold Test of HIE

ISOLDE SC cavities• Setting up collaboration with industrial partners

(ZANON, CINEL, SDMS)


Training, Publications and technical visits

Attended schools:• Sixth International Accelerator School for Linear Collider,

Pacific Grove, California, USAAttended training courses:• “Radiobiological Protection” @CERN • “Travailler en salle propre” @CERN• “LABVIEW for beginners” @CERNAttended language courses:• “Written French” @CERN• Preparation for TOEFL exam @Wall Street Institute, GenevaAttended conferences:• Talk on RF tests at the 3rd Annual Review of the EuCARD

WP10-SRF collaboration, in Berlin, 29th-30th March 2012


Training, Publications, Conferences, and Technical Visits

Publications and reports:• W. Venturini Delsolaro et al. “Status of the superconducting

RF activities for the HIE ISOLDE project”, Proceedings of LINAC 2012

• RF measurements test reportsAttended technical visits:• INFN Laboratories, Legnaro, Italy: CERN HIE ISOLDE visit• INFN Laboratories, Legnaro, Italy: cold RF tests of a 1.3 GHz

SC cavities produced at CERN with the HIPIMS technique.Attended meetings:• HIE ISOLDE Kick off meeting (21/10/2011)• 1st and 2nd International Advisory Panel Meeting @ CERN


Conclusions and future activities

RF Tests:• Finalize the coating parameters to achieve the HIE ISOLDE

specifications• Tuning plate tests• Validation of the new LABVIEW interface to automate the

usage of processing and measuring equipment• Test of LLRF prototypesTraining:• Superconductivity for Accelerators, Erice, Italy, 25th April to

4th May 2013Conferences:• SRF 2013, 16th International Conference on RF

Superconductivity, Paris, France, September 22-28, 2013 (tbc)

• IPAC 2013, International Particle Accelerator Conference Shanghai, China, May 13-17, 2013


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Irene MONDINO (BE-RF-SRF)* WP1, ESR2 Mid Term Review Meeting, 26 September 2012