The ESS Spoke cryomodule and its test valve box

The European Spallation Source project aims at being the most powerful neutron source feeding multidisplinary researches. Based on superconducting radiofrequency technologies, the linear accelerator will operate for the first time a 56 meter long section of niobium double Spoke cavities. Paired in 1...

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Main Authors: Duthil, P., Pierens, M., Reynet, D., Brault, S., Chatelet, F., Duchesne, P., Olry, G., Gandolfo, N., Bousson, S., Darve, C., Ellias, N., Fydrych, F.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Fluids
Holes
Liquid helium
Magnetic shielding
Neutrons
Niobium
Prototypes
Radio frequency
Spallation
Superconductivity
Superfluidity
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Summary:The European Spallation Source project aims at being the most powerful neutron source feeding multidisplinary researches. Based on superconducting radiofrequency technologies, the linear accelerator will operate for the first time a 56 meter long section of niobium double Spoke cavities. Paired in 13 cryomodules, each cavity will generate an accelerating pulsed field of 9MV/m. A prototype cryomodule housing two superconducting Spoke cavities and their RF power couplers is now being fabricated and assembled. It provides the cryogenic environment for their operation in a 2K saturated superfluid helium bath: a 50 K thermal shield, a cold magnetic shield, and integrates all the interfaces necessary to be operational within the linac machine. This prototype will be tested in 2016 at IPNO site and then at Uppsala university FREIA facilities. A valve box was designed to take into account the specific features of this prototype cryomodule and of both test sites. This valve box is also considered as a prototype of the cryogenic distribution of the linac Spoke section. This element will then be used for the tests of the series cryomodules.
ISSN:1757-8981
1757-899X
DOI:10.1088/1757-899X/171/1/012037