100 CONCLUSIONS AND OUTLOOK C<strong>on</strong>cerning the design procedure, the c<strong>on</strong>clusi<strong>on</strong> to draw is that the engineering procedures for an industrial producti<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> this kind <strong>of</strong> structures still need lots <strong>of</strong> work to simplify the c<strong>on</strong>structi<strong>on</strong> respect to the usual procedures used for the high energy physics linear accelerators. Even though, several innovative approaches have been carried out during the development. First <strong>of</strong> all, the design steps have been rewritten with a top-down methodology. The best advantage <strong>of</strong> this approach should be the study <strong>of</strong> an equivalent circuit model before the detailed design <strong>of</strong> the mechanical pieces, as the tiles. In this case, <strong>on</strong>e can fix the largest mechanical tolerances to satisfy the requested electromagnetic parameters <strong>of</strong> the structure. This preliminary study can be carried out by using either a full numerical approach, as the <strong>on</strong>e with Spice-like simulators, or a transmissi<strong>on</strong> matrix representati<strong>on</strong> that easily allows a perturbati<strong>on</strong> study <strong>of</strong> the structure. With this latter approach good results were reached. C<strong>on</strong>cerning the res<strong>on</strong>ant frequency <strong>of</strong> a coupled cavities chain, the deviati<strong>on</strong> depends <strong>on</strong>ly <strong>on</strong> the errors in the accelerating cavities, which are the charged <strong>on</strong>es for the mode π/2 mode. It is worth noting that this result was obtained <strong>on</strong>ly under the hypothesis <strong>of</strong> negligible n<strong>on</strong>adjacent cavities coupling, but it should be also true without the previous hypothesis, <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> leads to very interesting <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> simplified tuning procedure <strong>of</strong> such a structure: One could think to act <strong>on</strong> all the accelerating cavity frequencies <strong>of</strong> the same quantity, in order to change <strong>on</strong>ly the mean value. This point really simplified the tuning procedure. About the flatness <strong>of</strong> the axial field, it was found a manageable formula that could be used in a numerical program that makes the permutati<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> use a mean square error as optimizati<strong>on</strong> parameter. C<strong>on</strong>cerning this last point, it is worth noting that the errors in the cavities are experimentally measured <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g>, as we stated before, they are affect by a measurement error. Therefore, the procedure <strong>of</strong> optimizati<strong>on</strong> is effective when the measurement error is proporti<strong>on</strong>ally smaller than the measured values. The full numerical approach could be used as a further pro<strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong> the criteria expressed by the perturbati<strong>on</strong> approach. For the realizati<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> the first LIBO prototype module, the radi<strong>of</strong>requency measurement was the str<strong>on</strong>gest tool <strong>of</strong> correcti<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> underst<str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g>ing <strong>of</strong> the structure behaviour. With respect to the literature <strong>on</strong> the argument, the developed procedures seem to be easier <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> more underst<str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g>able. A further c<strong>on</strong>siderati<strong>on</strong> has to be made <strong>on</strong> the possibility to make automatic measurement: the use <strong>of</strong> simplified formulas, as the <strong>on</strong>es <strong>of</strong> the perturbati<strong>on</strong> approach, together with a skilled use <strong>of</strong> a network analyzer, a pers<strong>on</strong>al computer <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> some motors, etc., should permit the realizati<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> an automatic measurement stati<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> these structures, where the man power would not be high qualified.
CONCLUSIONS AND OUTLOOK 101 Finally, a comment <strong>on</strong> the next future possibility to make 6−11 GHz models <strong>of</strong> these structures. Actually, the optimizati<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>and</str<strong>on</strong>g> measurement criteria should allow a feasible design without the requirement <strong>of</strong> stringent tolerances that should grow up the costs.