Irene MONDINO (BE-RF-SRF)* WP1, ESR2 Mid Term Review Meeting, 26 September 2012

1. CATHIMarie Curie Initial Training NetworkCryogenics, Accelerators and Targets at HIE-ISOLDE Irene MONDINO (BE-RF-SRF)* WP1, ESR2 Mid Term Review Meeting, 26 September 2012

2. Outline • Background • Activities at CERN • Project Status and Achievement • Training • Conclusions and future activities

3. Background EDUCATION 2003-2009 Politecnico di Torino Electronic Engineering – Master Programme WORKING EXPERIENCE 2009-2010 Accenture Management consulting – Business processes design and modelling 2010-2011 TERA Foundation and ADAM Traineeship Grant for a position in CERN - RF measurements on a prototype linear accelerator unit for protontherapy

4. Activities at CERN • HIE ISOLDE PROJECT • WORK PACKAGE 1: SC cavity development and test • ESR2: Cavity and Cryomodule tests: • Setup of the cryomodule test stand • Cold tests of the SC cavity • Investigation of Q-drop effect • Since May 2011

5. Activities at CERN HIE ISOLDE SC CAVITIES Low-β cavity (12) Requiredparameters High-β cavity (20) Nb over Cu technology

6. Activities at CERN Preparation and mounting of the cavity Rinsing (b252) Transport to Sm18 Insertion in cryostat Assembly in Sm18 CR Transport to Sm18 RF test place

7. Activities at CERN • Warm RF tests: • on the cavities (resonance frequency, loaded quality factor) • on the RF line (attenuation measurements, check of the coupler and pick-up line with the network analyzer) • characterization of different power coupler prototypes.

8. Activities at CERN • Cold RF tests: • Quality factor measurements • Frequency shift measurements

9. Project status and achievement Research training theme and task description • Conceptual design and specifications for QWRs • Still on going • Internship in associated partners: • IPN, Orsay, France: Cold Test of HIE ISOLDE SC cavities • TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada: technical visit • INFN Laboratories, Legnaro, Italy: Cold Test of HIE ISOLDE SC cavities • Setting up collaboration with industrial partners (ZANON, CINEL, SDMS)

10. Training, Publications and technical visits • Attended schools: • Sixth International Accelerator School for Linear Collider, Pacific Grove, California, USA • Attended training courses: • “Radiobiological Protection” @CERN • “Travailler en sallepropre” @CERN • “LABVIEW for beginners” @CERN • Attended language courses: • “Written French” @CERN • Preparation for TOEFL exam @Wall Street Institute, Geneva • Attended conferences: • Talk on RF tests at the 3rd AnnualReview of the EuCARD WP10-SRF collaboration, in Berlin, 29th-30th March 2012

11. Training, Publications, Conferences, and Technical Visits • Publications and reports: • W. Venturini Delsolaro et al. “Status of the superconducting RF activities for the HIE ISOLDE project”, Proceedings of LINAC 2012 • RF measurements test reports • Attended technical visits: • INFN Laboratories, Legnaro, Italy: CERN HIE ISOLDE visit • INFN Laboratories, Legnaro, Italy: cold RF tests of a 1.3 GHz SC cavities produced at CERN with the HIPIMS technique. • Attended meetings: • HIE ISOLDE Kick off meeting (21/10/2011) • 1st and 2nd International Advisory Panel Meeting @ CERN

12. Conclusions and future activities • RF Tests: • Finalize the coating parameters to achieve the HIE ISOLDE specifications • Tuning plate tests • Validation of the new LABVIEW interface to automate the usage of processing and measuring equipment • Test of LLRF prototypes • Training: • Superconductivityfor Accelerators, Erice, Italy, 25th April to 4th May 2013 • Conferences: • SRF 2013, 16th International Conference on RF Superconductivity, Paris, France, September 22-28, 2013 (tbc) • IPAC 2013, International Particle Accelerator Conference Shanghai, China, May 13-17, 2013

13. Thank you for your attention Contact : irene.mondino@cern.ch