The Superconducting Proton Linac (SPL)

by Vittorio Parma (CERN)

Tuesday 5 Oct 2010, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

30/7-012 (CERN)

The Superconducting Proton Linac (SPL) study is now part of CERN’s Mid Term Plan, and has grown in the last two years into an international collaboration. The goal of this study is to develop a multi-megawatt proton linac, based on state-of-the-art RF superconducting technology, aimed at being used as a driver for non-LHC physics programs such as neutrino and Radioactive Ion Beam (RIB) physics. The growing interest for this technology from international partners involved in high-power proton linacs (ESS, Project X, SNS, Myrrha, JPARC), has now matured into a number of collaborations with CERN. In the frame of the SPL study, CERN aims at developing, in collaboration with external labs, bulk niobium 704 MHz elliptical cavities, operating at 2 K, and in the construction of a ½ length cryo-module for testing 4 cavities around the beginning of 2013. In this seminar I will give a general overview of the SPL study and will detail the ongoing development of the cryo-module, which falls under the responsibility of TE-MSC.

Slides SPL_seminar_5th_October_2010.pdf