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Overall Comments. Lots of progress since last ACE meeting CTF3 construction Structure demonstrations I agree CDR organization Collaboration development Group is on track to show the potential of the high-gradient TBA concept by 2010 Excellent progress on overall design concept
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Overall Comments • Lots of progress since last ACE meeting • CTF3 construction • Structure demonstrations I agree • CDR organization • Collaboration development • Group is on track to show the potential of the high-gradient TBA concept by 2010 • Excellent progress on overall design concept • World-wide interest in this effort • Need to understand what can and cannot be completed given the available resources
Overall Comments • What is needed to demonstrate feasibility • Two-beam accelerator demonstration • This is CTF3 • High gradient rf structures • Strong program I agree • Need to show a solid basis for design, not necessarily exact design parameters • High gradient operation OK • HOM damping OK • Some path to structure alignment Ideas have never been presented to the ACE • Concept for other LC subsystems • Can use scaling from other designs • Focus on CLIC specific issues (low emittance; drive beam) • Scale of the CLIC cost; not necessarily a full cost estimate
CLIC Parameters (2) • Specified a modified structure for 500 GeV parameters • Looser tolerances no and lower gradient • 150 degree phase advance; larger a/lambda • How does this fit into the structure development program? • What is necessary (if anything) to have confidence in this structure? Showing that waveguide damping is OK for gradient plus scaling enough for the moment. • Relaxed 500 GeV parameters important for feasibility • Think about how to fold into CDR
CLIC Collaborations • Developing strong collaborations around the world • CTF3 collaboration • CERN / KEK / SLAC high gradient collaboration Yes, plus others like CEA, HIP, Cockcroft, Greifswald, Ukraine, Uppsala, U. of Bochum, CEIMAT, Pakistan, FERMILAB? • Growing CLIC - ILC GDE collaboration • Other CLIC design collaborations: • Darsebury; Jlab, … • Continue to work with collaborators and grow collaborations • Overall effort needs to grow and collaborators provide a path • Requires careful management to maintain focus Top priority • Mobilize the CTF3 collaboration for increased participation in operating the test facility
High Gradient Structure Design • Working with empirical data supported by quasi-theoretical model to design structures Yes!!!! • Very good approach; adding new experimental data to directly support these models • Growing simulation effort (outside of CERN) good addition • Glad that structure design has settled on CLIC-G • Large international effort to demonstrate high-gradient performance • Coordinated effort is working very well • Success on 2010 timescale seems likely although important to define ‘success’ • Do not think need to develop full structure with all features Point taken – will distinguish feasibility and performance issues
T18 Testing Results Breakdown events versus position along length
Hour long question session was very important for clarification of testing program. Gradient Demonstrations • Demonstration of CLIC-VG1 (T18) is very important • Multi-pronged approach to demonstrate CLIC-G, HOM damping, scaling models (C10 structures) and fabrication • Committee agrees that this is an efficient approach • Focused on CLIC-VG1 for initial gradient, HOM, and fabrication is good • Useful to have many supporting tests – not just a single success • Urge completing tests of many VG1 structure to form solid basis for structure design • Construction and testing of CLIC-G (T24) in 2009 • Clearly important to validate scaling (along with C10’s) • Able to redirect program in mid-2009 if difficulties • Contingency planning is important and has been started
PETS • Very impressed with recent developments • Impressive fabrication and cold-tests I agree • Looking forward to imminent rf and beam tests us too… • Glad to see increased simulation effort for PETS wakefields and beam dynamics • System is critical to TBA concept and requires appropriate support Resources near 50/50 and we always try to attract collaborators to PETS. • Think about beam-dynamics demonstrations TBL • What can be measured at CTF3? • Are HOM’s possible to measure with beam? • What upgrades are necessary to fully understand PETS?