16–20 Oct 2023
INFN Frascati National Laboratories
Europe/Rome timezone

Fabrication and commissioning of the 1st high gradient (HG) module for the FERMI LINAC upgrade

17 Oct 2023, 10:20
20m
Aula Touschek - Auditorium Bldg. 36

Aula Touschek - Auditorium Bldg. 36

Speaker

NUAMAN SHAFQAT (Elettra Sincrotrone, Trieste, Italy)

Description

FERMI is the seeded Free Electron Laser (FEL) user facility at Elettra laboratory in Trieste, operating in the VUV to soft X-rays spectral range. In order to extend the FEL spectral range to shorter wavelengths, an upgrade plan for increasing the Linac energy from 1.5 GeV to 2.0 GeV is actually going on. After the successful testing of the short prototype of the new high gradient (HG) S-band accelerating structure up to an accelerating gradient of 40 MV/m, two full-length 3.0 m HG structures have been built and installed at the FERMI linac. In this paper, we report the low power measurement, conditioning results, and commissioning with the beam of the first HG module.

Primary author

NUAMAN SHAFQAT (Elettra Sincrotrone, Trieste, Italy)

Co-authors

Mr Andrea Milocco (Elettra Sincrotrone, Trieste, Italy) Claudio Masciovecchio (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste) Mr Federico Gelmetti (Elettra Sincrotrone, Trieste, Italy) Mr Ivan Cudin (Elettra Sincrotrone, Trieste, Italy) Mr Luca Giannessi (Elettra Sincrotrone, Trieste, Italy) Mr Massimo Milloch (Elettra Sincrotrone, Trieste, Italy) Mauro Trovo (Elettra Sicrotrone Trieste)

Presentation materials