Cryomodule and cryosystem optimization
Compiled 14 February 2008

Notes and presentations from a 7 February 2008 Webex meeting discussing SRF cryomodule optimization, including presentations from CERN about their LHC dipole cryostat thermal optimization and cost studies. 
        Meeting notes (Tom Peterson) (MS Word, 36 KB)
        Study of a 5 K active screen for LHC cryo-magnets -- cryogenic considerations (Laurent Tavian, CERN) (pdf, 192 KB)
        Arc cryostat heat loads revisited . . .  or final decision on 10 K active screen (Alain Poncet, CERN, 1999) (pdf, 4.4 MB)
        CMT3, The latest evolution of the cryostat thermal model:  thermal performance measurements of the first run from March to May 1998 (C. Darve, A. Ponce, and D. Willems, CERN, 1998, LHC-CRI Technical Note 98-19)  (MS Word, 2.2 MB)
        Summary of the MARIC (LHC Main Ring Committee) meeting of 20 January 1999.  This contains a concise, two paragraph summary of the decision NOT to include a 5 K actively cooled thermal shield in the CERN LHC dipoles.  (pdf, 76 KB)
        5K shield --Webex Meeting, presentation of 5 K thermal shield studies (Norihito Ohuchi, KEK) (PowerPoint, 444 KB)
        5K thermal shield, presentation of 5 K thermal shield studies (Paolo Pierini, INFN) (PowerPoint, 1.2 MB)

An earlier talk, autumn 2007. 
        Examples of ILC Cryogenic Systems Cost Optimization (Tom Peterson, Fermilab, 28 September 2007) (PowerPoint, 464 KB)
       
       
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updated 14 February 2008



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