ESS Drift Tube Linac Manufacturing, Assembly and Tuning

The Drift Tube Linac (DTL) for the ESS Linac will accelerate H⁺-beams of up to 62.5 mA peak current from 3.62 to 90 MeV. The structure consists of five cavities. The first cavity (DTL1) is a 7.6 m long tank containing 60 drift tubes, 23 fixed tuners, 3 movable tuners and 24 post-couplers, operating at a frequency of 352.21 MHz and an average accelerating field of 3.0 MV/m. The cavity is now assembled at ESS, the results of alignment and tuning are here presented. The DTL1 "as-built" as been analyzed from the beam dynamics point of view. The manufacturing of DTL4 and DTL3 is completed and they are now under assembly at ESS. DTL2 and DTL5 manufacturing will be completed within 2021. The paper describes the production and assembly stages, with a focus on the statistics of quality check in terms of metrology, alignment, leak tests.
Proceedings of the 12th International Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC2021, Campinas, SP, Brazil