Author: Dolgashev, V.A.
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TUPPR071 Experimental High-Gradient Testing of an Elliptical-Rod Photonic Band-Gap (PBG) Structure at X-Band 1987
 
  • B.J. Munroe, M.A. Shapiro, R.J. Temkin
    MIT/PSFC, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  • V.A. Dolgashev, S.G. Tantawi, A.D. Yeremian
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • R.A. Marsh
    LLNL, Livermore, California, USA
 
  An 11.4 GHz Photonic Band-gap (PBG) structure where the rods in the inner row have an elliptical cross-section has been designed at MIT and tested at high power and high repetition rate at SLAC. This structure exhibits lower surface magnetic fields on the rods relative to previous round-rod PBG structures tested at SLAC, which reduces the ohmic heating of the rod surface in an effort to reduce pulsed heating damage. This improved PBG structure was tested experimentally such as to avoid excessively high breakdown rates and surface temperature rise. The structure demonstrated performance comparable to disc-loaded waveguide (DLWG) structures with the same iris geometry, achieving greater than 100 MV/m gradient at a breakdown probability of less than 10-3 per pulse per m for 150 ns pulses. This level of performance demonstrates that elliptical-rod PBG structures could be candidates for future accelerator applications.  
 
WEEPPB007 Initial Testing of the Mark-0 X-band RF Gun at SLAC 2179
 
  • A.E. Vlieks, C. Adolphsen, V.A. Dolgashev, J.R. Lewandowski, C. Limborg-Deprey, S.P. Weathersby
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
 
  A new X band RF Gun (Mark-0) has been assembled, tuned and is being tested in the ASTA facility at SLAC. This gun has been improved from an earlier gun used in Compton-scattering experiments at SLAC by the introduction of a racetrack dual-input coupler to reduce quadrupole fields. Waveguide-to-coupler irises were also redesigned to reduce surface magnetic fields and therefore peak pulse surface heating. Tests of this photocathode gun will allow us to gain early operational experience for beam tests of a new gun with further improvements (Mark-1) being prepared for SLAC’s X-Band Test Accelerator (XTA) program and the LLNL MegaRay program. Results of current testing up to ≈ 200 MV/m peak surface Electric fields will be presented.  
 
THPPC039 Study of RF Breakdown in Normal Conducting Cryogenic Structure 3368
 
  • V.A. Dolgashev, J.R. Lewandowski, D.W. Martin, S.G. Tantawi, S.P. Weathersby, A.D. Yeremian
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
 
  Funding: *Work supported by DoE, Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515.
RF Breakdown experiments on short accelerating structures at SLAC have shown that properties of rf breakdown probability are reproducible for structures of the same geometry. At a given rf power and pulse shape, the rf breakdown triggers continuously and independently at a constant average rate. Hypotheses describing the properties of the rf breakdown probabilities involve defects of metal crystal lattices that move under forces caused by rf electric and magnetic fields. The dynamics of the crystal defects depend on the temperature of the structure. To study the dependence we designed and built an experimental setup that includes a cryogenically cooled single-cell, standing-wave accelerating structure. This cavity will be high power tested at the SLAC Accelerator Structure Test Area (ASTA).
 
 
THPPC046 Normal Conducting Radio Frequency x-band Deflecting Cavity Fabrication and Validation 3389
 
  • R.B. Agustsson, L. Faillace, A.Y. Murokh, S. Storms
    RadiaBeam, Santa Monica, USA
  • D. Alesini
    INFN/LNF, Frascati (Roma), Italy
  • V.A. Dolgashev
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • J.B. Rosenzweig
    UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • V. Yakimenko
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
 
  Funding: U.S. DOE SBIR grant DE-FG02-05ER84370
An X-band Traveling wave Deflector mode cavity (XTD) has been developed and fabricated at Radiabeam Technologies to perform longitudinal characterization of the sub-picosecond ultra-relativistic electron beams. The device is optimized for the 100 MeV electron beam parameters at the Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and is scalable to higher energies. An XTD is designed to operate at 11.424 GHz, and features short filling time, femtosecond resolution, and a small footprint. RF design, structure fabrication, cold testing results and commissioning plans are presented.
 
 
THPPC047 Fabrication and Initial Tests of an Ultra-High Gradient Compact S-Band (HGS) Accelerating Structure 3392
 
  • L. Faillace, R.B. Agustsson, P. Frigola, A.Y. Murokh
    RadiaBeam, Santa Monica, USA
  • V.A. Dolgashev
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • J.B. Rosenzweig
    UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • V. Yakimenko
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by US DOE grant # DE-SC000866.
RadiaBeam Technologies reports on the RF design and fabrication of a ultra-high gradient (50 MV/m) S-Band accelerating structure (HGS) operating in the pi-mode at 2.856 GHz. The compact HGS structure offers a drop-in replacement for conventional S-Band linacs in research and industrial applications such as drivers for compact light sources, medical and security systems. The electromagnetic design (optimization of the cell shape in order to maximize RF efficiency and minimize surface fields at very high accelerating gradients) has been carried out with the codes HFSS and SuperFish while the thermal analysis has been performed by using the code ANSYS. The initial cold tests are presented together with the plans for high-power tests currently ongoing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).