European XFEL Linac RF System Conditioning and Operating Test

Abstract

96 accelerating modules with 768 TESLA / European XFEL type superconducting cavities were installed in the European XFEL LINAC tunnel (XTL) in fall 2016. Warm conditioning of the RF system - High/Low Level RF System and main input couplers - begun even before finishing the accelerator installation works. All modules were conditioned and tested prior to the installation in the tunnel in the AMTF test stand at DESY. Nevertheless, due to some repair activities on warm Input coupler parts, warm conditioning was needed on a few modules/couplers. Cooling down to 2K begun in December 2016 and was finished in January 2017. Since then cold conditioning and tests are running. A few Input couplers did have problems with conditioning and were disconnected, limiting otherwise the system performance. Some cavities in the modules showed multipacting (MP) effects, mostly because the cavity vacuum was vented with dry nitrogen gas because of mentioned repairs on couplers in some modules. Such MP effects did appear in AMTF as well. All MP effects were successfully conditioned until now

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