thyb01
thyb01
cording to well-defined “test reasons”. Depending on the quench gradient (quench limited);
result a categorized “decision” was taken and documented gradient at which Q0 drops below 1010 (Q0 lim-
in the cavity and cryomodule managing system [11] of the ited);
AMTF as well as in the XFEL cavity data base [12,13]. gradient at which either X-ray detector ex-
Cavities without non-conformities (see below) and with ceeds the threshold (field-emission limited).
acceptable performance usual have only one vertical ac- At the beginning of production, the criterion for ac-
ceptance test (“as received”) after which they receive the ceptance for module assembly was specified as
decision “send to string assembly”. In case of non- Eacc,us ≥ 26 MV/m. In May 2014 it was reduced to
conformities (e.g. insufficient cavity performance, RF Eacc,us ≥ 20 MV/m, in order to optimise the number of
problem, vacuum leak, mechanical deviation, etc.) the vertical tests while still maintaining an average module
cavity was retested, retreated or sent back to the vendor gradient of 23.6 MV/m [17].
eventually resulting in additional vertical tests [14]. Cavities with Eacc,us < 20 MV/m were considered for
further processing or re-treatment. The exact nature of the
handling of low-performance cavities was judged on a
case-by-case basis. As there was no vendor performance
guarantee, retreatments were in general the responsibility
of DESY. Nevertheless both vendors did agree to perform
several retreatments depending on the case.
Usable
Gradient
Figure 3: Comparison of performance distribution and Figure 4: Performance distribution and yield for usable
yield for maximum gradient (top) and usable gradient gradient “Send to String assembly”.
(bottom) “As received” from RI (red) and EZ (green).
CRYOMODULE TEST RESULTS
The trend in average usable gradient over the produc- The string and module assembly at CEA Saclay is de-
tion until August 2015 is described in [17]. For the final scribed in [21, 22]. As of April 27, 2016 93 cryomodules
months of production both Q-value and usable gradient have been assembled, of which 87 have been RF tested
remained constant compared to the previous production. [3,4,24] at the AMTF (Fig. 5). This includes the pre-series
Impact of “Retreatment” modules XM-1 and XM-2, which are equipped with EU-
XFEL series cavities.
geometry of the x-ray monitors in the CT are significantly “Usable / Operational Gradient” in CT vs. VT
different; and third, the individual cavity measurements in In Fig. 7 the average operational gradients for all cry-
the CT are limited to 31 MV/m by the RF power system. omodules tested so far are presented and compared to the
Only cavities observed quench limits in both tests can be respective average vertical test results. For a fairer com-
strictly compared (see [21] for details). parison all vertical test gradients above 31 MV/m are
Table 2: Averages (±1.std.dev) of VT and CT measured clipped before averaging. Table 2 shows the mean opera-
performance (maximum and usable/operational) of all tional gradients over all cryomodules with the CT gradi-
cavities assembled into cryomodules. IMPORTANT: For ent meeting the VT gradients within 4%.
comparison the VT gradients are clipped to the CT limit Except for XM26 the order of assembly is in agreement
of 31 MV/m before averaging. with ascending cryomodule numbering. An average gra-
dient loss can be observed in about the first third of as-
Tests Maximum Eacc Operational sembled cryomodules, which then improved significantly
[MV/m] Eacc for more recently assembled modules. This is due to im-
[MV/m] provements in the cleanroom procedures and additional
VT 695 30.3 ± 1.8 28.7 ± 2.9 operator training, which are described in detail in [22,
]. XM20, XM33, XM45, XM58 and XM68 show the
CT 695 28.7 ± 3.9 27.6 ± 4.5 lowest performance. As XM33, XM58 and XM68 are
equipped
23 with cavities showing VT gradients of
“Maximum gradient” in CT vs. VT MV/m, 23 MV/m and 21MV/m, respectively, no high-
Figure 6 shows the maximum achieved CT gradients er gradients can be expected in CT. The strong degrada-
for all individual tested cavities in comparison to their VT tion of XM45 can be correlated with an accidental loss of
22
test results. The horizontal dashed red line indicates the electricity in the cleanroom during string assembly.
RF power limit in the CT (31 MV/m). In an ideal case all
results should scatter around a line with a slope = 1. A
number of cavities clearly show a reduced performance in
the CT after a good to excellent behaviour in the VT
(lower right section of the plot). The third column of
Table 2 gives the means for the maximum gradients for
the VT and CT respectively. The average systematic RF
measurement error in VT and CT is discussed in [15].
More details and possible correlations of the performance
to non-conformities during the module assembly process Figure 7: Average cryomodule operational gradients
are given in [22]. (orange) compared to the respective average vertical test
results (blue). IMPORTANT: For comparison the VT
gradients are clipped to the CT limit of 31 MV/m before
averaging.
Quality Factor at Operational Gradient in CT
vs. VT