Author: Seung, S.
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WEPFI088 High-power Tests of an Ultra-high Gradient Compact S-band (HGS) Accelerating Structure 2902
 
  • L. Faillace, R.B. Agustsson, P. Frigola, A.Y. Murokh, S. Seung
    RadiaBeam, Santa Monica, USA
  • S.G. Anderson
    LLNL, Livermore, California, USA
  • V.A. Dolgashev
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • J.B. Rosenzweig
    UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • V. Yakimenko
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
 
  RadiaBeam Technologies reports on the RF design, fabrication and high-power tests of a ultra-high gradient S-Band accelerating structure (HGS) operating in the pi-mode at 2.856 GHz. The compact HGS structure offers a drop-in replacement for conventional S-Band linacs in research and industrial applications such as drivers for compact light sources, medical and security systems. The electromagnetic design (optimization of the cell shape in order to maximize RF efficiency and minimize surface fields at very high accelerating gradients) has been carried out with the codes HFSS and SuperFish while the thermal analysis has been performed by using the code ANSYS. The high-power conditioning was carried out at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).