Author: Bowden, G.B.
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WEPFI080 Waveguide Component R&D for the ILC 2881
 
  • C.D. Nantista, C. Adolphsen, G.B. Bowden, A.A. Haase, B.D. McKee, F.Y. Wang
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC02-76SF00515.
Several years of effort have gone into refining the design of the International Linear Collider. The direction the design has evolved in response to driving considerations has resulted in a more sophisticated waveguide system for delivering RF power to the cavities. In particular, the desire to eliminate parallel service tunnels along the main linacs led to the proposal of the Klystron Cluster Scheme (KCS)*, involving plumbing the combined power from groups of klystrons down from the surface at several locations in overmoded waveguide. Additionally, to increase superconducting cavity yield, the acceptance criteria were relaxed to encompass a ±20% range in sustainable operating gradient, which must be accommodated by tailoring of the RF power distribution. Designs and prototype testing of some of the novel waveguide components developed to allow these changes are described here.
* Christopher Nantista and Chris Adolphsen, “Klystron Cluster Scheme for ILC High Power RF Distribution,” presented at the 2009 Particle Accel. Conf., Vancouver, B.C., Canada, May 2009.