Author: Müller, W.F.O.
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MOPPC059 Various Approaches to Electromagnetic Field Simulations for RF Cavities 268
 
  • C. Liu, W. Ackermann, W.F.O. Müller, T. Weiland
    TEMF, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
 
  Funding: Work supported by BMBF under contract 05H09RD5.
The Superconducting Proton Linac (SPL) cavity is mainly designed and conducted by CERN. It is a part of the planned injector upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The SPL cavity is used to accelerate the ion beam from 160 MeV to 5GeV and served as a driver for neutrino facilities and radioactive beam facilities. In the Superconducting Proton Linac (SPL) cavity, it is very important to calculate the eigenmodes precisely, because many higher-order modes (HOMs) can lead to particle beam instabilities. We used and compared three different ways to calculate the eigenmodes in the SPL cavity: field simulation with hexahedron mesh in frequency domain, field simulation with hexahedron mesh in time domain, and field simulation with tetrahedral mesh and higher order curvilinear elements. In this paper the principles of the three numerical methods will be introduced and compared. Finally the calculated results will be presented.