Generating, Detecting, and Analyzing High Frequency Acoustic Signals in Accelerator-Grade Copper
One of the major limitations on the Next Linear Collider (NLC), a high-gradient particle accelerator in development, is that sparks form within the copper structure, damaging the material. The sparks also generate high frequency acoustic signals that can be used as diagnostics to solve the problem. First, however, the signals' location, attenuation, and propagation must be established, so an effective method for generating and detecting these signals in a simple copper block is necessary. Impact trials with ball bearings and a BB gun as well as tests with a grinder, a laser, and a sparker were conducted to determine how to produce the greatest ratio of high to low frequency acoustic signals. The laser had the largest ratio, but the sparker was chosen because it also had high ratios and was both more practical and more analogous to the actual signals in the accelerator. Further tests were then conducted to determine the best sensor; an International Transducer Corporation 9020 1 N57 was chosen. Subsequent analysis of signals using this setup could establish the location and types of signals and, ultimately, how to solve the problem in the structure.
- Research Organization:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00515
- OSTI ID:
- 808692
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-PUB-9383; TRN: US0302569
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 11 Dec 2002
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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