CTF3 (CERN)

The CLIC Test Facility 3 (CTF3)[1] at CERN aims to demonstrate the feasibility of the Compact Linear Collider.[2]

It primarily consist in a scaled version of the CLIC drive beam: a 4 A, 1.5 GHz, ~120 MeV, 1.2 μs beam is a generated in a fully loaded linac. The so called delay loop and combiner ring are then used to compress the beam pulse into a 140 ns, 28 A, 12 GHz pulse.

In parallel a 200 MeV probe-beam is generated by the so called CALIFES injector.[3]

The two beams are then used to demonstrate the two-beam acceleration in the Two-Beam-Module installed into the CLEX area: the drive beam is decelerated in special Power Extraction and Transfer Structures (PETS), and the power produced used to accelerate the probe-beam with a gradient up to 145 MeV/m.

Further reading

Official CLIC website.

References

  1. ↑ "CTF3 Design Report". CERN Document Server. Retrieved 2016-01-17.
  2. ↑ "CLIC Conceptual Design Report". doi:10.5170/cern-2012-005.
  3. ↑ Navarro Quirante, Jose Luis; Corsini, Roberto; Grudiev, Alexej; Lefèvre, Thibaut; Mazzoni, Stefano; Pan, Rui; Tecker, Frank; Farabolini, Wilfrid; Peauger, Franck; Gamba, Davide; Khan, Muhammad Asif; Yaqub, Kashif; Ögren, Jim; Ruber, Roger; Vitoratou, Niki (1 December 2014). "CALIFES: A Multi-Purpose Electron Beam for Accelerator Technology Tests": MOPP030.


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