Minutes RF structure meeting 09.11.2007

F. Gerigk, M. Pasini, S. Ramberger, C. Rossi, M. Vretenar, R. Wegner

news & facts:

DTL cold model

• first bead-pull measurements have been done, but the system is not yet fully operational,

DTL hot model

• discussed outside the meeting: the work on the model to be built in Saudi Arabia will probably only start next year, when there are first results from the model that is being built in Italy,

PIMS

• a series of meetings with Pierre Bourquin and Jean-Michel Lacroix will start to define the mechanical design of a hot model and then the series version.

CCDTL tests:

• the vacuum pump for the CERN prototype is under repair,
• Rolf and Matteo have measured the field levels in two cavities of the Russian prototype for different duty cycles:

1st measurement: low duty cycle (0.05%): pulse period 500 ms, pulse length: 0.25 ms

2nd measurement, similar power, same duty cycle, detectors on tank1 and tank2 exchanged: pulse period: 500 ms, pulse length: 0.25 ms

3rd measurement, power increased, same duty cycle (0.05%): pulse period: 500 ms, pulse length: 0.25 ms

4th measurement, same power, same duty cycle, detectors on tank1 and tank2 exchanged: pulse period: 500 ms, pulse length: 0.25 ms

Results: The power-voltage conversion of detector 5 has changed since its calibration (all detectors was disassembled and assembled to remove metallic pieces that were inside these detectors). The good result is, that the power indicated by both detectors is similar in both CCDTL tanks (<5% difference) independent on the power level.

For further measurements, other detectors were used that were not disassembled.

5th measurement, high power, high duty cycle (5%): pulse period 20 ms, pulse length 1.0 ms, frequency 352.0741 MHz

6th measurement, high power, high duty cycle (5%), detectors swapped: pulse period 20 ms, pulse length 1.0 ms, frequency 352.0667 MHz

Results: for all power levels and duty cycles the power measured in tank1 is nearly the same as in tank2 (<6% difference). This is confirmed by the temperature increase of the cooling water in the drift tubes in both tanks (dT=10K). Furthermore there was less than 100W peak power in the coupling cell for all measurements.

A last measurement was taken to increase the duty cycle to its maximum (11%), which was limited by the vacuum. With further conditioning, the duty cycle can probably be increased further to or even above the design value of 15%:

7th measurement, high power, high duty cycle (11%): pulse period 9 ms, pulse length 1.0 ms, frequency 351.9777 MHz

The temperature in the drift tubes increased from 28 degrees Celsius to 50 degrees Celsius.

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-- FrankGerigk - 12 Nov 2007