| Published Articles | |
| Report number | CERN-ACC-2017-336 |
| Title | Commissioning of XBox-3: A very high capacity X-band test stand |
| Author(s) | Catalán Lasheras, Nuria (CERN) ; Argyropoulos, Theodoros (Valencia U., IFIC) ; Esperante Pereira, Daniel (Valencia U., IFIC) ; Eymin, Cedric (CERN) ; Giner Navarro, Jorge (Valencia U., IFIC) ; McMonagle, Gerard (CERN) ; Rey, Stephane (CERN) ; Solodko, Anastasiya (CERN) ; Syratchev, Igor (CERN) ; Volpi, Matteo (Melbourne U.) ; Woolley, Benjamin (CERN) ; Wuensch, Walter (CERN) ; Tagg, J (Natl. Instruments, Baden) |
| Publication | 2017 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| In: | 28th Linear Accelerator Conference, East Lansing, Michigan, 25 - 30 Sep 2016, pp.TUPLR047 |
| DOI | 10.18429/JACoW-LINAC2016-TUPLR047 |
| Subject category | Accelerators and Storage Rings |
| Abstract | The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) beam-based acceleration baseline uses high-gradient travelling wave accelerating structures at a frequency of 12 GHz. In order to prove the performance of these structures at high peak power and short pulse width RF, two klystron-based test facilities have been put in operation in the last years. The third X-band testing facility at CERN (Xbox3) has recently been commissioned and has tripled the number of testing slots available. Xbox3 uses a novel way of combining relatively low peak power (6 MW) but high average power klystron units whose power is steered to feed four testing slots with RF to the required power with a repetition rate of up to 400 Hz. Besides the repetition rate, peak power, pulse length and pulse shape can be customized to fit the test requirements. This novel way of combining pulsed RF high power can eventually be used for many other applications where multiple test slots are required. |
| Copyright/License | CC-BY-3.0 |
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