A Seamless Quarter-wave Resonator for HIE-ISOLDE

The superconducting linac booster for the HIE ISOLDE project, in operation at CERN, is based on NB/Cu coated Quarter Wave Resonators. The performance of the series cavities has been limited by defects in the copper substrates close to the EB weld. A novel cavity design has been developed and prototyped, in order to make it possible manufacturing of the resonators by machining them from the bulk, without any weld. The RF design was optimized for the customary figures of merit, and fully integrated in the HIE ISOLDE cryomodule. Mechanical tolerances were assessed in relation to the available range of pre tuning, and demonstrated on a dummy prototype. Beam dynamics simulations were carried out to check the effects on the beams when the new cavities will be installed in the high energy end of the linac. The presentation will cover the design and the first experimental results of the first Nb/Cu seamless QWR for HIE ISOLDE.