CLIC Meeting (Breakdown Studies)

Friday 8 Apr 2011, 09:00 → 10:45 Europe/Zurich

6/2-024 - BE Auditorium Meyrin (CERN)

Frank Tecker (CERN), Gunther Geschonke (CERN)

09:00 → 09:05 Approval of minutes of the last meeting and follow up of actions

Speaker: Gunther Geschonke (CERN)

09:05 → 09:15 Short news of general interest (CSC, etc...)

Speaker: Jean-Pierre Delahaye (CERN)

09:15 → 10:15 A Review of CLIC Breakdown Studies

Vacuum discharges are one of the main limiting factors for CLIC; and although sparks and arcs are present in our everyday life since thousands of years, the phenomenon of vacuum discharges is surprisingly poorly understood. In the talk, a review of ongoing experimental and theoretical research in the field will be given, including results from the 'DC spark setup' and a multi-scale model of vacuum discharges describing amongst others possible trigger mechanisms, plasma build-up, and resulting surface damage. The second part of the talk will focus on latest results concerning plasma build-up, obtained with a two-dimensional particle-in-cell code written for this purpose.

Speaker: Helga Timko (Univ. of Helsinki, Fac. of Science-Unknown-Unknown)

Slides Timko_CLICmeeting_08042011.pdf Timko_CLICmeeting_08042011.pptx

10:15 → 10:25 Discussion

10:25 → 10:35 A.O.B.