CTF3 - a staged test facility - why is it so important for CLIC?

by F. Tecker

Thursday 19 Sept 2002, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Zurich

PS Auditorium (CERN)

The design of CLIC (Compact LInear Collider) is based on a two-beam acceleration scheme, where pulses of high power 30 GHz RF are generated by a drive beam running parallel to the main beam. The third generation CLIC Test Facility (CTF3) is to demonstrate the feasibility of the drive beam generation with the appropriate time structure, the extraction of 30 GHz RF power from this beam, as well as acceleration of a probe beam with 30 GHz RF cavities. CTF3 is based on much of the former LEP Pre-Injector (LPI) equipment and is constructed in several phases as new components become available. The talk will present the drive beam generation scheme with a focus on the different key issues to be addressed in CTF3. It will outline the different phases to reach the goals and will give a report of the status of the program. Some remarkable results of the present phase will also be shown.