Author: Doran, D.S.
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WEPPP025 A Test-bed for Future Linear Collider Technology: Argonne Wakefield Accelerator Facility (AWA) 2778
 
  • M.E. Conde, D.S. Doran, W. Gai, R. Konecny, W. Liu, J.G. Power, Z.M. Yusof
    ANL, Argonne, USA
  • S.P. Antipov, C.-J. Jing
    Euclid TechLabs, LLC, Solon, Ohio, USA
  • E.E. Wisniewski
    Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.
Research at the AWA Facility has been focused on the development of electron beam driven wakefield structures. Accelerating gradients of up to 100 MV/m have been excited in dielectric loaded cylindrical structures operating in the microwave range of frequencies. Several upgrades, presently underway, will enable the facility to explore higher accelerating gradients, and also be able to generate longer RF pulses of higher intensity. The upgraded 75 MeV drive beam will consist of bunch trains of up to 32 bunches spaced by 0.77 ns with up to 100 nC per bunch. The RF pulses generated by the drive bunches are expected to reach GW power levels, establishing accelerating gradients of hundreds of MV/m.
 
 
WEPPP041 Wakefield Breakdown Test of a Diamond-loaded Accelerating Structure at the AWA 2813
 
  • S.P. Antipov, J.E. Butler, C.-J. Jing, A. Kanareykin, P. Schoessow, S.S. Zuo
    Euclid TechLabs, LLC, Solon, Ohio, USA
  • S. Baryshev, M.E. Conde, D.S. Doran, W. Gai, R. Konecny, J.G. Power, Z.M. Yusof
    ANL, Argonne, USA
 
  Funding: DOE SBIR
Diamond has been proposed as a dielectric material for dielectric loaded accelerating (DLA) structures. It has a very low microwave loss tangent, the highest available thermoconductive coefficient and high RF breakdown field. In this paper we report results from a wakefield breakdown test of diamond-loaded rectangular accelerating structure. The high charge beam from the AWA linac (~70 nC, σz = 2.5mm) will be passed through a rectangular diamond - loaded resonator and induce an intense wakefield. A groove is cut on the diamond to enhance the field. Electric fields up to 0.5 GV/m will be present on the diamond surface to attempt to initiate breakdown. A surface analysis of the diamond is be performed before and after the beam test.