F. Gerigk, S. Ramberger, R. Wegner, G. DeMichele , P. Tirado, M. Schuh, and R. De Prisco

General

• THALES: New branch, offers integration works, possible option for test stand upgrade

Linac4

• Meeting with THALES for Linac4 ceramic windows. Preliminary specs presented based on previous projects. Window length reduced from 1m to 40cm

ESS

• Bilbao: New technique presented to close dirft tube with a chemical bath, further studies are ongoing
• Visit test stand at CERN:
  • Support for stand upgrade
  • Test cavies at CERN

DTL

• Drift tube prototype production delayed
• Exchange drift tube in hot prototype when new drift tube ready

CCDTL

• Summary of visit at Novosibirsk is online

Cavity conditioning software

• Test of code under various conditions before Easter
• Code has to be adjusted for not preconditioned cavities

PIMS

• The different simulation results with HFSS/Microwave Studio vs Superfish/GdidL are understood (wrong setting for symmetry plane).
• Measurements and simulation data agree very well
• Measurements done with one remachined disk, good match with predicted values
• Only one tuning step will be needed, save one month on construction

HOM

• Results presented at DPG Spring Meeting 2010 Bonn
• Started writing beam dynamic summary for a journal paper publication

-- MarcelSchuh - 29-Mar-2010