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CLARA at STFC Daresbury laboratory is undergoing an upgrade to phase-II to deliver a 250 MeV electron beam comprised of ultrashort, low emittance electron bunches for wide ranging user experiments from medical to laser plasma acceleration at designated beam areas via the FEBE arc and as a precursor to a possible phase-III FEL upgrade. Here we report on the high power RF conditioning of CLARA’s normal conducting structures, including high repetition rate standing wave photoinjector gun capable of 400 Hz, a TDC, travelling wave linacs and a 4th harmonic lineariser. They were simultaneously conditioned using an in house developed automated conditioning code, NO-ARC, that safely applied a robust, research-lead algorithm. We present the overall individual conditioning processes using scaled breakdown rate plots with fitted power law curves and comment on their agreement, or otherwise, with results from other similar facilities.
| Region represented | Europe |
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| Paper preparation format | LaTeX |
