Mechanical Design of the HWR Cavities for the SARAF SRF LINAC

International audienceSNRC and CEA collaborate to the upgrade of the SARAF accelerator to 5 mA CW 40 MeV deuteron and proton beams (Phase 2). CEA is in charge of the design, construction and commissioning of the superconducting linac (SARAF-LINAC Project). The SCL consists in 4 cryomodules. The first two identical cryomodules host 6 half-wave resonator (HWR) low beta cavities (β = 0.09) at 176 MHz. The last two identical cryomodules will host 7 HWR high-beta cavities (β = 0.18) at 176 MHz. The fully equipped cavity includes the niobium cavity with its helium tank, the couplers and the frequency tuning system. In this paper, the mechanical design and the foreseen qualification procedures for both cavities and tuning systems are presented with compliance, to the best extent, to the rules of Unfired Pressure Vessels NF-EN 13445 (1-5) standards