Status of the Polarix-TDS Project

9th International Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC'18, Vancouver, Canada, 29 Apr 2018 - 4 May 2018; Geneva, Switzerland : JACoW Publishing 3808-3811 (2018). doi:10.18429/JACOW-IPAC2018-THPAL068
A collaboration between DESY, PSI and CERN has been established to develop and build an advanced modular X-band transverse deflection structure (TDS) system with the new feature of providing variable polarization of the deflecting force. This innovative CERN design requires very high manufacturing precision to guarantee highest azimuthal symmetry of the structure to avoid the deterioration of the polarization of the streaking field. Therefore, the high-precision tuning-free production process developed at PSI for the C-band and X-band accelerating structures will be used for the manufacturing. We summarize in this paper the status of the production of the prototype and the waveguide networks foreseen in the different facilities.
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