Tag: WP4 – Crab Cavities and RF
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Welding of the Helium Vessel on a HL-LHC DQW Crab Cavity
A titanium grade 2 helium vessel was TIG welded around a superconducting Double-Quarter Wave LHC Crab Cavity.
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The SM18 test facility in the HL-LHC era | home.cern
The SM18 test facility in the HL-LHC era | home.cern By Anaïs Schaeffer (CERN) on home.cern The SM18 test facility, located in France, near the Meyrin site, was originally built to test and validate the magnets and radiofrequency (RF) cavities of LEP (the Large Electron–Positron Collider). It has since seen over 1700 such components pass through it – including, of
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2022 USPAS Early-Career Award to Rama Calaga
2022 USPAS Early-Career Award to Rama Calaga Rama Calaga, HL-LHC WP4 Leader, has been awarded the 2022 USPAS Prize for Achievement in Accelerator Science and Technology for his outstanding leadership bringing the crab cavities in hadron colliders from concept to reality and for the first demonstration of crabbing on a hadron beam. Of the three prizes awarded every three
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Crab cavities enter next phase | CERN Courier
Crab cavities enter next phase | CERN Courier By Rama Calaga in the CERN Courier Rama Calaga describes the latest progress in building the superconducting radio-frequency “crab” cavities needed to maximise the scientific output of the High-Luminosity LHC. Read in the CERN Courier Read more news
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First welded DQW series cavity for HL-LHC
First welded DQW series cavity for HL-LHC By Thomas Demaziere and Alejandro Castilla, on behalf of WP4 On 11th February, the first of the HL-series Double Quarter Wave (DQW) cavity was welded, with a frequency close to expectations. Once the last sheet metal forming and machining steps were performed on the cavity parts with outstanding precision,
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United States crab cavity program springs forward into production after successful test of prototypes | Accelerating News
United States crab cavity program springs forward into production after successful test of prototypes | Accelerating News By Rama Calaga (CERN) and Leonardo Ristori (Fermilab) in Accelerating News By Rama Calaga (CERN) and Leonardo Ristori (Fermilab) – Crab cavities are critical to increase the number of interactions. After successful prototyping and testing, the US programme
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RF Dipole 2 ready for shipment to the UK
RF Dipole 2 ready for shipment to the UK By Rama Calaga, WP4 Leader (CERN) Following the very successful RF test, the RF Dipole 2 dressed cavity was equipped with a beam screen in the adjacent vacuum chamber that runs parallel to the cavity inside the Helium tank assembly. The fully assembled RF dipole 2
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Qualifying HL-LHC magnets and cavities at Uppsala University | Accelerating News
Qualifying HL-LHC magnets and cavities at Uppsala University | Accelerating News By Roger Ruber (CERN), Kevin Pepitone, and Akira Miyazaki (Uppsala University) in Accelerating News Uppsala University in Sweden has been a valuable partner to CERN since the Laboratory’s foundation. In the 1950s, Uppsala, having just constructed its own cyclotron, contributed to the development of
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Visit and crab cavities workshop for RI
Visit and crab cavities workshop for RI By N. Valverde, WP4 RI Research Instruments, the German company in charge of the fabrication of DQW crab cavities for HL-LHC project, visited CERN on 2 February. The aim of the visit was to profit from the knowledge gained at CERN during the fabrication of prototype cavities. Numerous
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Ready for testing
Ready for testing Read more news