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The ESS Linac

The ESS Linac. Dave McGinnis Chief Engineer – Accelerator Division. www.europeanspallationsource.se 15 October 2014. The ESS Linac. The European Spallation Source (ESS) will house the most powerful proton linac ever built . Average beam power of 5 MW. Peak beam power of 125 MW

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The ESS Linac

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  1. The ESS Linac Dave McGinnis Chief Engineer – Accelerator Division www.europeanspallationsource.se 15 October 2014

  2. The ESS Linac • The European Spallation Source (ESS) will house the most powerful proton linac ever built. • Average beam power of 5 MW. • Peak beam power of 125 MW • Acceleration to 2 GeV • Peak proton beam current of 62.5 mA • Pulse length of 2.86 ms at a rate of 14 Hz (4% duty factor) • 97% of the acceleration is provided by superconducting cavities. • The linac will require over 150 individual high power RF sources • with 80% of the RF power sources requiring over 1.1 MW of peak RF power • We expect to spend over 200 M€ on the RF system alone

  3. ESS Schedule • Full funding and ground-break in Fall 2014 • 1.25 MW of proton beam power by 2019 • 5 MW of proton beam power by 2022

  4. Neutron Spallation Sources • Traditional neutron sources are reactor based • Neutron flux is limited by reactor cooling • Neutron energy spectrum is measured by time of flight using neutron choppers • Chopping throws away neutrons and limits neutron brightness • Spallation sources consist of a: • pulsed accelerator that shoots protons into: • a metal target to produce the neutrons • The pulsed nature of the accelerator makes the neutron brightness • much higher for a spallation source • for the same average neutron flux as a reactor • The accelerator complex of atypical spallation sources consist of a: • Linac to accelerator the protons • A storage ring to compress the linac beam pulse Linac Target and Instruments Storage Ring

  5. What is Different About ESS? • The average proton beam power will be 5 MW • Average neutron flux is proportional to average beam power • 5 MW is five times greater than SNS beam power • The total proton energy per pulse will be 360 kJ • Beam brightness (neutrons per pulse) is proportional to total proton energy per pulse • 360 kJ is over 20 times greater than SNS total proton energy per pulse

  6. Short Pulse Neutron Spallation Sources • The neutrons are cooled by a moderator downstream of the target • The time constant of the moderation process is about 100 ms • Proton beam pulses shorter than 100 us serve only to stress the metal target and limit the beam power • Typical short pulse spallation sources have storage ring circumferences ~300 meters which produce 1 ms beam pulses • To build a storage ring with a 100 ms pulse would require a ring 30 km in circumference • The target stress from the short beam pulse places a limit on: • proton beam power • and ultimately neutron flux and brightness • The proton beam power of SNS (Oak Ridge Tennessee, USA) is limited to 1MW (17 MW peak)

  7. Long Pulse Concept • 360 kJ packed into a short pulse of 1 ms (360 GW peak) would destroy a target • ESS will not use a compressor ring • The linac will send the beam directly to the target over a period of 3 ms at a rate of 14 Hz. • Peak beam power on the target is less than 125 MW • The tradeoff is that ESS will • Have longer neutron guides between experiments and the target • Require a neutron choppers for precision energy measurements

  8. The Long Pulse Concept • Advantage - No compressor ring required • No space charge tune shift so peak beam current can be supplied at almost any energy • Relaxed constraints on beam emittance • This is especially true if the beam expansion system for the target is based on raster scanning of the beam on the target. • No H- and associated intra-beam stripping losses • Permits the implementation of target raster scanning • Disadvantage - Experiment requirements “imprint” Linac pulse structure • Duty factor is large for a copper linac • Duty factor is small for a superconducting linac

  9. ESS Linac Evolution

  10. Cost Targets • Although the 2008 design with 150 mA of beam current has higher technical risk, it has an inherently lower construction cost than the October 2012 baseline. • Large fraction of the 2008 linac consists of normal conducting structures which are significantly less expensive to build than superconducting structures • Lower energy (but higher beam current) requires a significantly shorter linac with less accelerating structures • However the current cost targets are based on the 2008 design even though the October 2012 design: • Has many more superconducting structures • But provides less technical risk • The only way to close the gap between the cost estimate and cost target is • to modify the October 2012 baseline by adding technical risk • or increasing the cost target

  11. Cost Reduction Strategy • The cost of the elliptical cryomodules and associated RF systems are the largest cost driver in the ESS Linac • Reducing the number of superconducting cavities will have the largest impact on cost and design contingency • each cavity that is removed from the design not only removes the cost of the cavity • but also removes the need (and cost) for the RF power sources that feed the cavity. • Therefore, the design contingency strategy will hold the average beam power constant while looking for avenues to minimize the number of superconducting cavities. Keep constant Reduce

  12. Cost Reduction Strategies Keep constant • Increase • duty factor, D • peak surface field, Epk • peak beam current, Ib • average value of EaccT sum by adjusting the power profile • ratio of EaccT/Epk by appropriate choice of bg • energy of the front end linac, EFE Reduce

  13. Increasing The Duty Factor • The choice of a superconducting linac becomes obvious as the duty factor increases. • From an accelerator design point of view, increasing the duty factor has the least impact on the configuration of the accelerator. • As the duty factor is increased • by either increasing the pulse length or the repetition rate, • the final energy of the linac can be decreased and still provide the same average beam power. • However, increasing the duty factor will reduce the peak neutron flux

  14. New Baseline • New Baseline Headline Parameters • 5 MW Linac • 2.0 GeVEnergy (30 elliptical cryomodules) • 62.5 mA beam current • 4% duty factor (2.86 mS pulse length, 14 Hz) • First beam by 2019 (1.0 MW at 570 MeV) • The new baseline was achieved by: • Increasing beam current by 25% • Increasing Peak Surface Field by 12% • Setting High Beta bg to 0.86 • Adopting maximum voltage profile • Adopting a uniform lattice cell length in the elliptical section to permit • design flexibility • schedule flexibility.

  15. Lattice Cell Length • For the October 2012 baseline design, the cell length along the linac changes substantially. • 4.18 meters in the spokes, • 7.12 metersin the medium beta sectionwith one cryomodule per cell • 15.19 meters in the high beta section with two cryomodules per cell. • For a maximized voltage profile, a high beta bg=0.86, and an Ib=62mA, • over half the medium beta cryomodules are eliminated • the beginning of the high beta region is now 520 MeV • At this energy, the current long high beta cells is too weak at to provide the desired phase advance per cell of 87 degrees with reasonable gradients in the quadrupoles. • Thus a fourth type of cell with one high beta cryomodule per cell would be needed in this region.

  16. Uniform Lattice Cell Length • A tunnel design with many different cell lengths is very undesirable with the perspective of considering: • design contingency • future upgrades. • In the future, it might be advantageous to interchange • spoke cryomodules with medium beta cryomodules. • medium beta cryomodules with high beta cryomodules. • At the added expense of a longer linac, the new baseline has: • Spoke cell Length = 0.5 x Medium beta cell length • Medium beta cell length = High beta cell length • A uniform cell length provides the possibility that the medium and high beta cryomodules could be interchangeable and possibly identical. • 6 cell medium beta cavities that would be close to the same length of the high beta cavities. • This would reduce the prototyping schedule (and cost) significantly because only one type cryomodule prototype would need to be constructed. • Also a 6 cell medium beta cryomodule requires one less high beta cryomodule to achieve 5 MW of beam power

  17. 6 Cell Medium Beta Cavities • For a uniform lattice cell length, • the current 5 cell medium beta cavities need a drift of 0.2 meters after each cavity • Might require a specialized port on the cryomodule to access the tuner package for both species of geometrical beta • If 6 cell medium beta cavities (bg=0.67) are used, • the extra drift is reduced to 0.06 meters • One less high beta cryomodule required

  18. New Baseline Layout Done by a professional: M. Eshraqi

  19. New Baseline Lattice

  20. Design Risk • Reduced the number of elliptical cryomodules from 45 to 30 • Each cryomodule + RF to power the cryomodule costs ~6.5 M€ • Elimination of 15 cryomodules yields 78 M€ savings (6.5 M€ x 15 x 80% (power factor) ) • By accepting large technical risk • Power Couplers: • Maximum coupler power is 1200 kW • Went from 850 kW/coupler to 1100 kW/coupler • Reduced our design margin by 70% • Cavity Peak Surface Field • Maximum surface field is 50 MV/meter • Went from 40 MV/meter to 45 MV/meter • Reduced our design margin by 50%

  21. Design Contingency • ESS uses the Long Pulse concept • No compressor ring is required • Peak beam current can be supplied at almost any energy • If we fail to meet our goals on: • Beam current • Cavity gradient • Power coupler power • The accelerator complex will still function but at a reduced beam power • With the exception of reduced gradient on the spokes (energy acceptance in medium betas) • We can buy back the beam power in the future by adding high beta cryomodules to the end of the linac • As long as the additional space is reserved. • We proposed to mitigate these risks by reserving the tunnel space for 15 cryomodules (127.5 meters) as “design contingency”.

  22. Conventional Facility Costs • The approximate costs for conventional facilities are: • Tunnel: 22,900 €/m (3270 k€ / m2) including berm, auxiliary costs • Gallery: 46,200 €/m (2800 k€ / m2) • The cost of accelerator equipment is: • 6.5 M€ / cryomodule which includes the RF power • Average cost of superconducting RF accelerator equipment is: • 790,000 €/m • 35x more expensive than tunnel cost • 11.4x more expensive than total CF cost • Average beam power cost for the accelerator equipment in a cryomodule cell is 18kW / M€. • The cost of the 127 meter contingency space without stubs and gallery is 2.9 M€ • Equivalent to the cost of accelerator equipment needed to supply 0.052 MW of average beam power (1% of 5 MW)

  23. Linac Design Choices • User facilities demand high availability (>95%) • ESS will limit the peak beam current below 65 mA • Linac Energy > 2 GeV to accomplish 125 MW peak power. • The linac will be mostly (>97%) superconducting • Front end frequency is 352 MHz (CERN Standard) • High energy section is at 704 MHz

  24. Front End Section • The RFQ and DTL will be similar to the CERN Linac 4 design. • The RFQ • will be 4.5 meters long • and reach an energy of 3.6 MeV • The DTL • Will consist of five tanks • Each tank ~7.5 meters in length • Final energy will be 88 MeV • Six klystrons • at 352 MHz • with a maximum saturated power of 2.8 MW • and a duty factor of 4% are required for the Front End

  25. Spoke Cavities • ESS will transition to superconducting cavities at 88 MeV • ESS will be the first accelerator to use 352 MHz double spoke cavity resonators • Twenty-eight cavities with an accelerating gradient of 9 MV/m are required. • Each cavity will operate at a nominal peak power of 320 kW • What type of power source to choose? • Tetrode • Klystron • IOT • Solid State

  26. Elliptical Cavities • Universal Cryomodule • Cryomodules are expensive and difficult to fabricate • Pick cavity bg and number of cells • Optimize power transfer • Optimize length • Power in couplers is limited to 1200 MW (peak) • Medium Beta bg = 0.67 • 6 cell cavities • Cavity length = 0.86 m • 32 cavities packaged in 8 cryomodules • Maximum peak RF power = 800kW • High Beta bg = = 0. 86 • 5 cell cavities • Cavity length = 0.92 m • 88 cavities packaged in 22 cryomodules • Maximum peak RF power = 1100kW

  27. Lorentz De-tuning • Because of the enormous gradients in superconducting cavities, • the radiation pressure deforms the cavities • We expect over 400 Hz of detuning in the ESS cavities. • Unloaded cavity bandwidth = 0.07 Hz • Loaded cavity bandwidth = 1 kHz • The mechanical time constant of the cavities is about 1 ms compared to the pulse length of 3 ms • Static pre-detuning as done in SNS will not be sufficient • Dynamic de-tuning compensation using piezo-electric tuners is a must! • Or else pay for the extra RF power required

  28. Cavity Power Configuration • Because of fabrication techniques, • superconducting cavity strings are usually much shorter (< 1 m) than copper cavity strings (> 5m). • The Lorentz de-tuning coefficient varies from cavity to cavity • Therefore, each superconducting cavity has its own RF power source

  29. Transit Time Factor • For proton linacs using copper RF cavities • the cavity cell structure is tuned to match the changing proton velocity as it accelerates. • The power profile is usually flat • Because of high fabrication costs and difficulty, • The cell structure of superconducting cavities is tuned for only one beam velocity. • Multiple families of cell velocities are chosen. ESS cell velocities: • Spoke: bg = 0.5 • Medium beta: bg = 0.67 • High beta: bg = = 0. 86 • There is a limit on the surface field in a SCRF cavity (ESS 45 MV/m) • Since, the particle velocity does not match the geometrical velocity for the entire acceleration range, • The power profile is not flat

  30. ESS Linac Cavity Power Profile High Beta Medium Beta Spoke Transitions

  31. ESS Linac RF System

  32. Spoke linac (352 MHz) RF System Layout 26 Double Spoke cavities Power range 280-330 kW Combination of two tetrodes Other options: Solid State Amplifiers Large power supply (330 kVA) to supply 8 stations (16 tetrodes)

  33. Elliptical (704 MHz) RF System Layout • One cavity per klystron • 4 klystrons per modulator • 16 klystrons per tunnel penetration Tunnel

  34. Elliptical (704 MHz) RF System Layout Klystrons Modulator Racks and Controls WR1150 Distribution 4.5 Cells of 8 klystrons for Medium Beta 10,5 Cells of 8 klystrons (IOTs) for High Beta

  35. Summary

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