Author: Kim, S.H.
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THPWA030 Design and Prototype Test of C-band Standing-wave Accelerating Structure to Enhance RF Phase Focusing 3690
 
  • H. Yang, M.-H. Cho, W. Namkung, S.-G. Shin
    POSTECH, Pohang, Kyungbuk, Republic of Korea
  • S.H. Kim
    ANL, Argonne, USA
  • J.-S. Oh
    NFRI, Daejon, Republic of Korea
 
  Funding: This research was financially supported by the MOTIV, KIAT and Dongnam Institute for Regional Program Evaluation through the Leading Industry Development for Economic Region
A C-band standing-wave accelerator for X-ray and electron beam sources of medical radiotherapy is designed and being fabricated. The accelerator system is to be operated in two modes, using the X-ray and electron beams. Because of the energy loss in electron mode, the accelerator is capable of producing 6-MeV, 100-mA electron beams with peak 2-MW RF power, and 7.5-MeV, 20 mA electron beams with peak 2.5-MW RF power. The beam radius at the end of column was < 0.5 mm without focusing magnets in PARMELA simulations, because the bunching cells are designed to enhance the RF phase focusing. Each cavity in the bunching and normal cells was designed by the MWS code to maximize the effective shunt impedance with 3.8% inter-cell coupling in normal cells. The dimensions of normal cells were determined by the low power RF test of prototype cells with 5711.06-MHz resonant frequency and 3.5% inter-cell coupling. In this paper, we present details of the accelerator design and prototype test.