SuperKEKB suffers from sudden beam loss(SBL) during operation. It causes collimator damage, QCS quench and large beam background to the Bell-II detector. Beam aborts triggered by SBL hinder us from storing large beam current. Since cause of SLB is unclear, we launched an effort to investigate it and consider measures to be taken. In this paper, we discuss phenomena of SBL and various hypotheses to explain SBL.

New S-band disk-loaded TM01-2pi/3-travelling-wave structures and pulse compressors have been developed for upgrades of the injector linac for SuperKEKB and Photon-factory storage rings in KEK. The structures 2-m long have ingenious disk irises with oval fillets reducing discharge in high-power operation and modulations in radius suppressing beam break-up instabilities arising from HEM11 wakefields. The pulse compressors are of compact spherical-cavity-type resonating at the degenerate TE112 dipole modes with a high Q-value of 98,000 and yield a peak power gain of 6.2. The structures generate an acceleration gradient of 25.9 MV/m in power operation of 40 MW by using the pulse compressor and stably accelerate a two-bunch beam with a bunch charge of 4 nC.