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Project Organization: Secondary Beam WG, Project Team, Technical WG, Commissioning WG |
Reflector assembly and tests | August - November 2005 |
(see also the slides describing the "glass-ring story") | |
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23 August 2005: frame for reflector (horn-1 in the background) |
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30 August 2005: Reflector assembly starts |
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30 August 2005: Reflector assembly |
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30 August 2005: Reflector assembly |
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20 September 2005: inside the reflector (one spider holding the inner conductor in place) |
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26 September 2005: K. Tanaka visits the horn / reflector assembly lab |
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20 September 2005: Cutting the glass rings from a plate (water-sand jet) |
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20 September 2005: Cutting the glass rings from a plate - removing the ring |
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October 2005: GRAFOIL seal cut from plate |
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Assembly of the GRAFOIL seal for the reflector |
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Assembly of the GRAFOIL seal for the reflector |
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Assembly of the GRAFOIL seal for the reflector |
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Glass-ring placed on GRAFOIL seal |
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Glass-ring placed on GRAFOIL seal |
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Glass-ring placed on GRAFOIL seal |
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Fixing ARCLEX insulators in place |
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Quality control |
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Spacers made one by one "to fit" |
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Controlling the pressure with BELLEVILLE washers (in the final configuration, 6 of these were used) |
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Installing the assembled "sandwich" at the reflector exit side (connection of striplines) |
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Installing the assembled "sandwich" at the reflector exit side (connection of striplines) |
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Reflector connection side: ready |
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Reflector beam-entrance side (short-circuit side): waiting for the final plate to connect inner and outer conductor) |
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Reflector: inside the inner conductor |
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17 November 2005: Reflector installed on test bench in BA7 |
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18 November 2005: 180 kA double pulses for reflector tests |
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18 November 2005: Reflector test successful |
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30 November 2005: double valve system to switch cooling circuit on reflector |