| Paper | Title | Page |
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| WEPP085 | RF Coupler Kicks and Wake-fields in SC Accelerating Cavities | 2719 |
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| The main accelerating cavities of the ILC provide acceleration of both positron and electron beams to 250 GeV per beam and 500 GeV per beam in a proposed upgrade. The wake-field excited by each ultra-relativistic beam in the accelerating cavities can seriously dilute the emittance of the particles within the beams. Each cavity is supplied with both fundamental and higher order mode couplers. The geometrical configuration of these RF couplers results in an asymmetrical field and this gives rise to both an RF kick being applied to the beam and transverse wake-field. Detailed e.m. fields are simulated in the vicinity of the couplers in order to assess the impact on the beam dynamics. We investigate modified geometries with a view to alleviating the emittance dilution resulting from the e.m. field associated with the RF couplers. |