Author: Kurennoy, S.S.
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TUPPD017 Electromagnetic Design of RF Cavities for Accelerating Low-Energy Muons 1446
 
  • S.S. Kurennoy
    LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
 
  A high-gradient linear accelerator for accelerating low-energy muons and pions in a strong solenoidal magnetic field has been proposed for homeland defense and industrial applications.* The acceleration starts immediately after collection of pions from a target in a solenoidal magnetic field and brings decay muons, which initially have kinetic energies mostly around 15-20 MeV, to 200 MeV over a distance of ~10 m. At this energy, both ionization cooling and further, more conventional acceleration of the muon beam become feasible. A normal-conducting linac with external-solenoid focusing can provide the required large beam acceptances. The linac consists of independently fed zero-mode (TM010) RF cavities with wide beam apertures closed by thin conducting edge-cooled windows. Electromagnetic design of the cavity, including its RF coupler, tuning and vacuum elements, and field probes, has been developed with the CST MicroWave Studio, and will be presented.
* S.S. Kurennoy, A.J. Jason, H. Miyadera, “Large-Acceptance Linac for Accelerating Low-Energy Muons.” Proceed. IPAC10, p. 3518.
 
 
WEPPP035 Pushing the Gradient Limitations of Superconducting Photonic Band Gap Structure Cells 2801
 
  • E.I. Simakov, W.B. Haynes, S.S. Kurennoy, J.F. O'Hara, E.R. Olivas, D.Y. Shchegolkov
    LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
 
  Funding: This work is supported by the Department of Defense High Energy Laser Joint Technology Office through the Office of Naval Research.
We present a design of a superconducting photonic band gap (PBG) accelerator cell operating at 2.1 GHz. The cell is designed with the PBG rods that are specially shaped to reduce the peak magnetic fields and at the same time to preserve its effectiveness for suppression of the higher order modes (HOMs). It has been long recognized that PBG structures have great potential in reducing and even completely eliminating HOMs in accelerators. This is especially beneficial for superconducting electron accelerators for high power free-electron lasers (FELs), which are intended to provide high current continuous duty electron beams. Using PBG structures to reduce the prominent beam-breakup phenomena due to HOMs will allow significantly increased beam-breakup thresholds, and consequently will allow the increase of the frequency of SRF accelerators and the development of novel compact high-current accelerator modules for FELs. High gradient limitations of PBG resonators and the optimal arrangement of the wakefield couplers will be discussed in details in this presentation.
 
 
THPPC032 Conditioning and Future Plans for a Multi-purpose 805 MHz Pillbox Cavity for Muon Acceleration 3353
 
  • G.M. Kazakevich, A. Dudas, G. Flanagan, R.P. Johnson, F. Marhauser, M.L. Neubauer, R. Sah
    Muons, Inc, Batavia, USA
  • S.S. Kurennoy
    LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
  • A. Moretti, M. Popovic, G.V. Romanov, K. Yonehara
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
  • Y. Torun
    IIT, Chicago, Illinois, USA
 
  Funding: Supported in part by grant 4735 · 10 LANL and Dept. of Energy STTR grant DE-FG02-08ER86352.
An 805 MHz RF pillbox cavity has been designed and constructed to investigate potential muon beam acceleration and cooling techniques for a Muon Collider or Neutrino Factory. The cavity can operate in vacuum or under pressure to 100 atmospheres, at room temperature or in a liquid nitrogen bath at 77 K. The cavity has been designed for easy assembly and disassembly with bolted construction using aluminum seals. To perform vacuum and high pressure breakdown studies of materials and geometries most suitable for the collider or factory, the surfaces of the end walls of the cavity can be replaced with different materials such as copper, aluminum, beryllium, or molybdenum, and with different geometries such as shaped windows or grid structures. The cavity has been designed to fit inside the 5-Tesla solenoid in the MuCool Test Area at Fermilab. In this paper we present the vacuum conditioning results and discuss plans for testing in a 5-Tesla magnetic field. Additionally, we discuss the testing plan for beryllium (a material research has shown to be ideal for the collider or factory) end walls.