Design and manufacturing of the antechamber for BEPCII storage rings

Antechamber which composes the arc vacuum chamber of storage rings is one of the key devices of BEPCII. It has the characteristic of various specifications, large size, complex structure, and high dimension accuracy. This paper gives a review on the structure features and the procedure of production, including the mechanical machining process, cleaning and welding process of high vacuum aluminum alloy, ultrahigh vacuum test and so on. In view of the occurrence of the concave deformation, the reasons are analyzed and the correction method developed is introduced too.