Fermilab is planning to enhance the capabilities of the existing accelerator complex to support the delivery of 1.2 MW beam power for a world-leading neutrino program over the next
several decades. The heart of the Proton Improvement Plan-II (PIP-II) is an 800-MeV superconducting linear accelerator which includes five types of superconducting cavities, grouped in 25 cryomodules, to cover the...
The talk gives an overview of the main achievements presented in my doctoral dissertation, defended at the University of Pisa on January 2017. The focus is on the RF characterization of the cavity BPM designed for the CLIC Test Facility (CTF3). The experimental results on the Final PACMAN Alignment Bench (FPAB) prove the feasibility of the innovative alignment methodology established in the...
In order to achieve high luminosities in the future CLIC machine, it is vital to avoid emittance growth along the accelerator. A major contributor to emittance growth is transverse wakefields in the accelerating structures, and in order to combat this the structures will be equipped with wakefield monitors (WFMs) that will be used as input to the alignment strategies. The presentation reports...
In the framework of the PACMAN project we have developed a test set-up to measure the electromagnetic center of high gradient accelerating structures for alignment purposes. We have hypothesized with previous simulation studies that a resolution of 1 mm is possible using a stretched conductor wire along the structure and a network analyzer to detect the minimum perturbation when the wire is in...
LIGHT (Linac for Image Guided Hadron Therapy) is a linear proton accelerator dedicated to protontherapy. LIGHT is designed to accelerate protons up to 230 MeV.
In this talk, an overview of the accelerator will be given starting from the RF design through manufacturing, low and high power RF testing.
