CesrTA collaborators work to improve the ILC’s damping ring design
The CesrTA (Cornell Electron Storage Ring Test Accelerator) collaboration at Cornell University, US, made important contributions to the design of the ILC damping rings for the recently completed Technical Design Report, including finding ways to reduce a phenomenon known as the electron cloud effect. Post-TDR, the collaboration is pursuing ways to make the damping rings […]
The next generation of particle accelerators will contain intense bunches of particle beams. These intense beams have the disadvantage that they create electron clouds that result from beam scattering off residual molecules in the vacuum chambers. The concern is that the presence of electron clouds can reduce performance by scattering and defocusing the incoming particle […]
Taking on white papers and electron clouds, Mark Palmer brings his own energy to the CesrTA programme.
For many involved with the ILC, Mark Palmer exemplifies what it means to be a nexus. Palmer is the connection between the Cornell Electron-Positron Storage Ring Test Accelerator (CesrTA) programme – a prototyping project for the ILC damping ring – and the larger ILC community. Working with his team at home and taking their findings […]
From 25 to 26 June, about 40 attendees gathered at the Industrial and Labor Relations Conference Center at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, to attend a workshop on the Cornell Electron Storage Ring Test Accelerator programme and to discuss R&D progress on the damping rings and electron clouds. It was the first dedicated workshop […]
Part three of a series on how the CESR storage ring turns into the CesrTA damping ring
When you have a set of new hardware and a clear mission ahead of you, the first step to complete the mission is to commission the hardware. After reconfiguring their storage ring and light source CESR, Cornell University and the international ILC team working on damping ring studies switched on the machine in early October […]
CesrTA kick-off meeting marks the beginning of the damping ring test programme
There may not have been a ribbon-cutting ceremony or speeches by heads of state. But the official kick-off of Cornell University’s CESR storage ring as ILC damping ring test facility pleased the nearly 40 participants at this week’s “Joint CesrTA Kickoff Meeting and ILC Damping Rings R&D Workshop (ILCDR08)” enormously. “CesrTA will give us a […]
Director’s Corner 5 June 2008 Barry Barish Critical electron cloud studies at Cornell Last week we reported on the beginning of our important experimental programme on electron cloud effects, using the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) accelerator at Cornell University. This is one of our highest-priority R&D goals during the ILC Technical Design Phase 1 (TDP-1) […]
Part one of a series on how a storage ring at Cornell University morphs into a damping ring test accelerator
Sometimes even pretty straightforward and remarkably logical ideas take several moves before they become a reality. Take the planned damping rings for the ILC, for example. In the ILC, compact bunches of electrons and positrons are made to collide at very high energy. In order to ensure a high rate of particle collisions, the bunches […]