Cheng Luo (Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
TUP21
Study on properties of NEG deposited on the titanium alloy lined vacuum chamber
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A ramping rate of 12 T/s is designed for the dipole magnet of BRing at HIAF. To reduce eddy current effects, a titanium alloy lined chamber with a 0.3 mm titanium alloy inner liner by 3D printing and an ultra-thin stainless steel outer wall has been adopted. To reduce the internal pressure and enhance the beam lifetime, a film of TiZrV is coated on the chamber. The ultimate vacuum of the titanium alloy-lined vacuum chamber is tested, which indicates that after coating with TiZrV, the pressure at the middle of the chamber reduced, effectively reducing the pressure in the central region. The life of the TiZrV film was studied by repeated activation and venting cycles under two conditions of N2 and air filling. With N2 filling, after 15 activation cycles, the vacuum in the middle of the chamber showed no significant change. However, with air filling, after 7 activation cycles, the vacuum in the middle degraded, indicating a decline in the pumping performance of the TiZrV film. Air exposure significantly impacts the life of the film, necessitating that TiZrV films be protected with N2 in applications and minimizing exposure time.
Paper: TUP21
DOI: reference for this paper: 10.18429/JACoW-HIAT2025-TUP21
About: Received: 18 Jun 2025 — Revised: 24 Jun 2025 — Accepted: 24 Jun 2025 — Issue date: 27 Jun 2025
Study on the performance of titanium alloy-lined thin-walled vacuum chamber
HIAF-BRing, the main synchrotron accelerator of the High Intensity Heavy-Ion Accelerator Facility, requires an average pressure lower than $1 × 10^{−9}$ Pa and the magnetic field increase rate of no less than 12 T/s to fulfill radioactive beam physics and high energy density physics experiments. To reduce the eddy current effect and the gap size of dipoles, a titanium alloy-lined thin-walled vacuum chamber with a wall thickness of 0.3 mm is proposed by IMP, which has been developed from the initial ceramic-lined vacuum chamber. By mechanical loading testing, when the internal stress of titanium alloy rings made by 3D selective laser melting (SLM) reaches 639 MPa, it is still within the elastic deformation range, in fact, the yield strength of the 3D printed titanium alloy material is 912 MPa. In order to reduce the pressure gradient inside the thin-walled vacuum chamber caused by the surface outgassing of the rings, TiZrV thin fflms have been deposited on the rings by planar target magnetron sputtering. Through TiZrV deposited on the rings, the pressure at the middle of the thin-walled vacuum chamber has been dropped from 1.5 × $10^{−9}$ Pa to 1.0 × $10^{−9}$ Pa.