IPAC2011 - List of Authors (Tuzel, W.M.)

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MOPZ029	Aperture Windows in High-Gradient Cavities for Accelerating Low-Energy Muons	862
	S.S. Kurennoy, A.J. Jason, W.M. Tuzel LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
	A high-gradient linear accelerator for accelerating low-energy muons and pions in a strong solenoidal magnetic field has been proposed for homeland defense and industrial applications. The acceleration starts immediately after collection of pions from a target in a solenoidal magnetic field and brings muons to a kinetic energy of about 200 MeV over a distance of the order of 10 m. At this energy, both ionization cooling of the muon beam and its further acceleration become feasible. A normal-conducting linac with external-solenoid focusing can provide the required large beam acceptances. The linac consists of independently fed zero-mode (TM010) RF cavities with wide beam apertures closed by thin conducting windows. The high gradients lead to significant heat deposition on the aperture windows. Here we explore options for the edge-cooled thin windows in the zero-mode cavities. Electromagnetic and thermal-stress computations are complemented by thermal-test experiments to select the best solution for the aperture windows. S.S. Kurennoy, A.J. Jason, H. Miyadera, “Large-Acceptance Linac for Accelerating Low-Energy Muons,” Proc. of IPAC10, p. 3518 (2010).

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Aperture Windows in High-Gradient Cavities for Accelerating Low-Energy Muons

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S.S. Kurennoy, A.J. Jason, W.M. Tuzel
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

A high-gradient linear accelerator for accelerating low-energy muons and pions in a strong solenoidal magnetic field has been proposed for homeland defense and industrial applications*. The acceleration starts immediately after collection of pions from a target in a solenoidal magnetic field and brings muons to a kinetic energy of about 200 MeV over a distance of the order of 10 m. At this energy, both ionization cooling of the muon beam and its further acceleration become feasible. A normal-conducting linac with external-solenoid focusing can provide the required large beam acceptances. The linac consists of independently fed zero-mode (TM010) RF cavities with wide beam apertures closed by thin conducting windows. The high gradients lead to significant heat deposition on the aperture windows. Here we explore options for the edge-cooled thin windows in the zero-mode cavities. Electromagnetic and thermal-stress computations are complemented by thermal-test experiments to select the best solution for the aperture windows.
* S.S. Kurennoy, A.J. Jason, H. Miyadera, “Large-Acceptance Linac for Accelerating Low-Energy Muons,” Proc. of IPAC10, p. 3518 (2010).