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Mel-BOX, the reinstallation of half of CERN’s XBOX3 test stand, has been operating at the University of Melbourne’s X-LAB for over few years. The facility provides 12 GHz high-power pulsed RF for testing high-gradient travelling-wave accelerating structures and associated X-band components relevant to the CLIC baseline.
Two TD24 structures, previously conditioned at CERN and stored for five years, were successfully reconditioned and tested at Mel-BOX, demonstrating that prolonged storage does not significantly degrade high-gradient performance. Additional high-power RF campaigns were carried out on a compact pillbox-type RF window supporting travelling-wave fields in the ceramic, high-power loads fabricated using 3D-printed titanium and long stainless-steel sections, and a set of SLED-I pulse compressors featuring a newly designed removable copper tuning plate. Each pulse-compressor cavity was independently tuned prior to conditioning, enabling stable operation and reproducible pulse compression during high-power tests.
These activities establish Mel-BOX as a dedicated and mature X-band platform for advancing high-gradient accelerator technology and supporting the development of compact accelerator systems for medical, industrial, and scientific applications.
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