The Global Design Effort (GDE) has successfully completed the R&D programme outlined back in 2006, and with the Technical Design Report (TDR) effectively complete and a cost estimate based on the TDR design done, the future programme must be addressed. The major new factor is the very real possibility that Japan may proceed with a […]
The mass production of SRF linac cavities
Today's issue features a Director's Corner from Marc Ross, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort.
A significant fraction of ILC R&D has focused on the production of accelerating cavities, which requires a thorough understanding of the behaviour and properties of niobium, the metal of choice for ILC cavities. The 2007 ILC Reference Design Report showed that the better part of the construction project effort will be taken up by comparatively […]
Seamless cavity performance
Laboratories in the US begin to take a serious look at hydroforming as a method for creating ILC-type cavities.
Researchers in the US may soon be pumping their cavities into shape. Last year Fermilab scientists put out a call to industrial companies to propose a procedure for hydroforming ILC-type cavities. They hope that by next year, the selected company will provide Fermilab with three hydroformed nine-cell cavities for testing. “Hydroforming’s a good idea whose […]
New cavity production facility for future industrialisation
Director’s Corner 30 April 2009 Kaoru Yokoya New cavity production facility for future industrialisation Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Kaoru Yokoya, Global Design Effort Asian Regional Director. As most of you may know, I have just managed to complete my duty as a chairman of the TILC09 Local Organising Committee last week, and […]
Renewing links with superconducting cavity manufacturers
Director’s Corner 26 March 2009 Marc Ross Renewing links with superconducting cavity manufacturers Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Marc Ross, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort. The most important performance parameter for a linear accelerator is its cost per electronvolt of accelerated beam, or cost per watt of delivered beam power. In […]
Fermilab Cools First TESLA Cavity from DESY
On Monday, 6 February, a team of cryogenic engineers and accelerator physicists at Fermilab successfully cooled the first TESLA 9-cell 1.3 GHz cavity to 4.5 K (Kelvin) in the ILC Test Area in the Meson Detector Building (ILCTA-MDB). Travelling to Hamburg, Germany, Fermilab personnel assisted DESY in preparing the “ILC-like” cavity, called Capture Cavity II […]