Author: Jana, M.R.
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TUPFI059 Summary of Dense Hydrogen Gas Filled RF Cavity Tests for Muon Acceleration 1481
 
  • K. Yonehara, M. Chung, M.R. Jana, M.A. Leonova, A. Moretti, A.V. Tollestrup
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
  • B.T. Freemire, P.M. Hanlet, Y. Torun
    IIT, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • R.P. Johnson
    Muons. Inc., USA
 
  Dense hydrogen gas filled RF cavity has a great potential to accelerate a large phase space muon beam in a strong magnetic field. The concept of novel RF cavity has been demonstrated by using an intense proton beam at Fermilab. The experimental result was agreed extremely well with the conventional dilute plasma physic. Based on the model, the beam-induced plasma in the gas filled RF cavity could be controlled by adding a small amount of electronegative gas in dense hydrogen gas. Overview of these experiments will be shown in this presentation.  
 
TUPFI064 Beam Induced Plasma Dynamics in a High Pressure Gas-Filled RF Test Cell for use in a Muon Cooling Channel 1496
 
  • B.T. Freemire, P.M. Hanlet, Y. Torun
    IIT, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • M. Chung, M.R. Jana, M.A. Leonova, A. Moretti, T.A. Schwarz, A.V. Tollestrup, K. Yonehara
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
  • M.G. Collura
    Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
  • R.P. Johnson
    Muons. Inc., USA
 
  Filling an RF cavity with a high pressure gas prevents breakdown when the cavity is place in a multi-Tesla external magnetic field. The choice of hydrogen gas provides the additional benefit of cooling a beam of muons. A beam of particles traversing the cavity, be it muons or protons, ionizes the gas, creating an electron-ion plasma which absorbs energy from the cavity. The ionization rate can be calculated from a beam intensity measurement. Energy loss measurements indicate the loading per RF cycle per electron-ion pair range from 10-18 to 10-16 Joules in pure hydrogen, and 10-20 to 10-18 Joules when hydrogen is doped with dry air. The addition of an electronegative gas (oxygen) has been observed to reduce the lifetime of ionization electrons in the cavity to below 1 nanosecond. Additionally, the recombination rate of electrons and hydrogen ions has been measured to be on the order of 10-6 cubic centimeters per second. The recombination mechanism and hydrogen ion species, along with the three-body attachment process of electrons to oxygen, will be discussed.