Plans for an ERL Test Facility at CERN

Conference · Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2014

OSTI ID:1189941

Jensen, Erik ^[1]; Bruning, O S ^[1]; Calaga, Buchi Rama Rao ^[1]; Schirm, Karl-Martin ^[1]; Torres-Sanchez, R ^[1]; Valloni, Alessandra ^[1]; Aulenbacher, Kurt ^[2]; Bogacz, Slawomir ^[3]; Hutton, Andrew ^[3]; Klein, M ^[4]

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1. CERN
2. Mainz
3. JLAB
4. University of Liverpool

The baseline electron accelerator for LHeC and one option for FCC-he is an Energy Recovery Linac. To prepare and study the necessary key technologies, CERNhas started – in collaboration with JLAB and Mainz University – the conceptual design of an ERL Test Facility (ERL-TF). Staged construction will allow the study under different conditions with up to 3 passes, beam energies of up to about 1 GeV and currents of up to 50 mA. The design and development of superconducting cavity modules, including coupler and HOM damper designs, are also of central importance for other existing and future accelerators and their tests are at the heart of the current ERL-TF goals. However, the ERL-TF could also provide a unique infrastructure for several applications that go beyond developing and testing the ERL technology at CERN. In addition to experimental studies of beam dynamics, operational and reliability issues in an ERL, it could equally serve for quench tests of superconducting magnets, as physics experimental facility on its own right or as test stand for detector developments. This contribution will describe the goals and the concept of the facility and the status of the R&D.

• Research Organization: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-06OR23177
• OSTI ID: 1189941
• Report Number(s): JLAB-ACC-14-1959; DOE/OR/23177-3406
• Resource Relation: Conference: LINAC14, 31 August-5 September 2014, Geneva, Switzerland
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English