Author: Shemelin, V.D.
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MOPC109 Suppression of Coupler Kicks in 7-Cell Main Linac Cavities for Cornell's ERL 331
 
  • N.R.A. Valles, M. Liepe, V.D. Shemelin
    CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
 
  Funding: Supported by NSF award DMR-0807731
Cornell is developing a 5 GeV Energy Recovery Linac operating at 100 mA with very small emittances (~30 pm at 77 pC bunch charge) in the horizontal and vertical directions. We investigate the effect of the fundamental RF power couplers of the main linac SRF cavities on the beam using the ACE3P software package. The cavities in the ERL main linac will be operated at very high loaded quality factors of up to 6.5·107, corresponding to a full bandwidth of only 20 Hz. Cavity microphonics will detune the cavities by more than one bandwidth during operation, thereby causing a time dependent change of the coupler kick in addition to its fast oscillation at the RF frequency. In order to investigate the dependence of the coupler kick on the cavity frequency, we calculate the coupler kick given to the beam for the case of a detuned RF cavity. We show that a compensation stub geometry located opposite to the input coupler port can be optimized to reduce the overall kick given to the beam and the emittace growth caused by its time dependence.