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TY - CONF AU - Catalán Lasheras, N. AU - Baig, A. AU - Boronat, M. AU - Castilla, A. AU - Kimura, T. AU - Kolda, P.E. AU - McMonagle, G. AU - Michizono, S. AU - Syratchev, I. AU - Yamamoto, A. ED - Zimmermann, Frank ED - Tanaka, Hitoshi ED - Sudmuang, Porntip ED - Klysubun, Prapong ED - Sunwong, Prapaiwan ED - Chanwattana, Thakonwat ED - Petit-Jean-Genaz, Christine ED - Schaa, Volker R.W. TI - First Operation of a Klystron Fitted with a Superconducting MgB₂ Solenoid J2 - Proc. of IPAC2022, Bangkok, Thailand, 12-17 June 2022 CY - Bangkok, Thailand T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 13 LA - english AB - As part of the effort to reduce the energy consumption of large research facilities using accelerators, high efficiency klystrons are being developed by CERN. However, a large fraction of the wall-plug power required to operate these klystrons is used in the focusing magnetic elements around the klystron in the form of normal conducting solenoids. In 2019, a prototype solenoid made of MgB₂ was manufactured as a joint venture from CERN, Hitachi and KEK with the aim of reducing the power consumption by a factor ten using higher temperature superconductors. The characteristics of the magnet were measured upon manufacture and checked after the transport across the world. In 2020, the MgB₂ magnet was integrated around one of the klystrons in the X-band facility at CERN and put into operation in the beginning of 2021. We present in this paper the final performance of the klystron when fitted with the new SC solenoid and compare it with the standard normal conducting solenoid system. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 3138 EP - 3140 KW - klystron KW - solenoid KW - operation KW - vacuum KW - superconductivity DA - 2022/07 PY - 2022 SN - 2673-5490 SN - 978-3-95450-227-1 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-FROXSP3 UR - https://jacow.org/ipac2022/papers/froxsp3.pdf ER -