SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
The Linac Coherent Light Source II (LCLS-II) super-conducting accelerator is fully installed and operational. Cryomodules were designed and manufactured by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) and Thomas Jefferson National Laboratory (JLab) during 2017-2020. From November 2018 through March 2021, SLAC Na-tional Accelerator Laboratory installed 37 Cryomodules. Full system cooldown was completed in March 2022. Installation processes were optimized at SLAC for best quality, especially during particle-free and UHV assem-bly. These processes and successful Cavity and Cry-omodule manufacturing resulted in installed gradient exceeding design requirements by more than 20%. No statistical variation in field emission onsets or magni-tudes were observed between manufacturing and site testing. This paper summarizes SLAC experience during installation, and relevant testing results.
FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
HZDR, Dresden, Germany
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
The Linac Coherent Light Source II High Energy (LCLS-II-HE) Project at SLAC includes the construction of a low-emittance injector (LEI) and a superconducting quarter-wave resonator (QWR) at 185.7 MHz. Several alternatives to a superconducting radio frequency (SRF) QWR gun were considered for the LEI, including nor-mal-conducting RF guns evolved from the LCLS-II gun design. Compared to normal-conducting designs, the combination of an intrinsically outstanding vacuum environment (for cathode lifetime), and the potential for a larger ultimate performance envelope, led to the deci-sion to pursue development of the QWR-SRF gun. A prototype gun is currently being designed and fabricated at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michi-gan State University (MSU). This paper presents perfor-mance goals for the new gun design, an overview of the prototype development effort, status, and future plans including fabrication.
