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| MOPAS072 | First Measurements of RF Properties of Large Ferroelectric Rings for RF Switches and Phase Shifters | 596 |
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Funding: Research supported by the Department of Energy, Division of High Energy Physics Fast, electrically-controlled ferroelectric RF vector modulators are under development for different accelerator applications in the frequency range 0.4 - 1.3 GHz. The exact design of a vector modulator depends on the electrical parameters of particular ferroelectric material to be used, namely its dielectric constant, loss tangent and tunability. The exact values of these parameters were unknown in this frequency domain for low loss BST material that is planned to be used. A special two-disc test cavity has been designed and built that allows direct measurements of these parameters for large (100 mm in diameter) ferroelectric rings that are to be used in vector modulators. The results of measurements are presented. |
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| MOPAS073 | 700 MHz Low-Loss Electrically-Controlled Fast Ferroelectric Phase Shifter For ERL Application | 599 |
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Funding: Research supported by the Department of Energy, Division of High Energy Physics A fast, electrically-controlled phase shifter is described with parameters suitable for operation with the SC acceleration structure of the electron cooling system of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at BNL. The phase shifter is a key element of the external RF vector modulator that is capable of fast tuning of the cavities against microphonics, Lorentz force and beam instabilities in a way that can possibly lead to an order of magnitude reduction in the required RF power. The phase shifter is based on a shortened low-impendence coaxial line with ferroelectric rings. The dielectric constant of the ferroelectric rings is altered by applying a 4.2 kV voltage that provides an RF phase shift from 0 to 180 deg. |
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| MOPAS087 | Ferroelectric Based Technologies for Accelerator Component Applications | 634 |
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Funding: This work is supported by the US Department of Energy We present recent results on development of a BST(M) ferroelectric composition synthesized for use in advanced technology components for X-band and Ka-band RF systems in high gradient accelerators and offer significant advantages for high power RF manipulation in the 300-1'000 MHz frequency range as well. These low loss ferroelectric materials can be used as key elements of both tuning and phase shifting components. We have identified BST ferroelectric-oxide compounds as suitable materials for a fast electrically-controlled 700 MHz, 50 kW tuner for ERL (BNL) and for high-power fast RF phase shifters to be used for SNS vector modulation applications. We have also developed large diameter (11 cm) BST(M)-based ferroelectric rings planned to be used at high average power (10 kW range) for L-band phase-shifters intended for the ILC. This phase shifter will allow coupling adjustment and control of the power consumption during the process of SC cavity filling. |
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| WEPMN066 | Progress Towards Development of a Superconducting Traveling Wave Accelerating Structure | 2182 |
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| In the ILC project the required accelerating gradient is higher than 35 MeV/m. For current technology the maximum acceleration gradient in SC structures is limited mainly by the value of the surface RF magnetic field. In order to increase the gradient, the RF magnetic field is distributed homogeneously over the cavity surface (low-loss structure), and coupling to the beam is improved by introducing aperture ?noses? (re-entrant structure). These features allow gradients in excess of 50 MeV/m to be obtained for a singe-cell cavity. Further improvement of the coupling to the beam may be achieved by using a TW SC structure with small phase advance per cell. Calculations show that an additional gradient increase by up to 40% is possible if a p/2 TW SC structure is employed. However, a TW SC structure requires a SC feedback waveguide to return the few GW of circulating RF power from the structure output back to the structure input. We describe a single-cell test TW SC structure with a feedback waveguide. The test cavity is designed to demonstrate the possibility of achieving a significantly higher gradient than existing SC structures. | ||
| WEPMS086 | Design of a 26 GHz Wakefield Power Extractor | 2535 |
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| High frequency, high output power, and high efficiency RF sources have compelling applications in accelerators for high energy physics. The 26 GHz RF power extractor proposed in this paper provides a practical approach for generating high power RF in this particular frequency range. The extractor is designed to couple out RF power generated from the high charge electron bunch train at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator (AWA) facility traversing dielectric loaded or corrugated waveguides. In this paper we evaluate two different techniques for extracting the beam energy at the AWA: one is based on a completely metallic corrugated waveguide and coupler; and the other is based on a dielectric lined circular waveguide and coupler. Designs for both RF power extractors will be presented including parameter optimization, the electromagnetic modeling of structures and RF couplers, and the analysis of beam dynamics. | ||
| WEPMS087 | Conceptual Design of an L-Band Recirculating Superconducting Traveling Wave Accelerating Structure | 2538 |
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Funding: This research is supported by the US Department of Energy We describe a conceptual design for a superconducting traveling wave accelerator for the ILC. The RF feedback system plus phase shifter can redirect the accelerating wave that passed through the STWA section back to the input of the accelerating structure. In this paper, the STWA cell shape optimization, coupler cell design and rat race ring coupler in the feedback loop are presented. The STWA cell shape is similar to the LL cavity with a 60 mm disk diameter. A 9-cell STWA operates at the mode with group velocity as low as 0.0106 c. Both the ratio of peak electric field and magnetic field to the axial electric field are smaller than in the TESLA 9-cell cavity. The STWA structure has more cells per unit length than a TESLA structure but provides an accelerating gradient higher than a TESLA structure, consequently reducing the cost. The designed rat race directional coupler with four ports has ?3 dB direct coupling coefficients, 16.5 MHz bandwidth between ?30 dB isolations and 1.1 MHz bandwidth between ?30 dB reflection coefficients. Effects of the mechanical tolerances are also discussed. |
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| THPMN092 | Design and Prototyping of the AMD for the ILC | 2924 |
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The Adiabatic Matching Device (AMD), a tapered magnetic field with initial on-axis magnetic field up to 5 Tesla, is required in ILC positron capturing optics. An option of using a pulsed normal conducting structure based on flux concentrator technique can be used to generate high magnetic field*. By choosing the AMD geometry appropriately, one can shape the on-axis magnetic field profile by varying the inner shape of a flux concentrator. In this paper, we present an equivalent circuit model of a pulsed flux concentrator based on frequency domain analysis. The analysis shows a very good agreement with the experiment results from reference*. We have also constructed a prototype flux concentrator based on the circuit model, and experimental results are presented to verify the effectiveness of the model. Using the equivalent circuit model, a flux concentrator based AMD is designed for ILC positron matching. The beam capturing simulation results using the designed AMD are presented in this paper.
* H. Brechna, D. A. Hill and B. M. Bally, "150 KOe Liquid Nitrogen Cooled Flux Concentrator Magnet", Rev. Sci. Instr., 36 1529,1965. |
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| THPMS020 | Beam-Driven Dielectric Wakefield Accelerating Structure as a THz Radiation Source | 3041 |
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Funding: United States Department of Energy Experimental work is planned to study the performance of a beam-driven cylindrical dielectric wakefield accelerating structure as a source of THz coherent Cerenkov radiation. For an appropriate choice of dielectric tube geometry and driving electron bunch parameters, the device operates in a single-mode regime, producing narrow-band radiation in the THz range. This source can potentially produce high power levels relative to currently available sources, with ~50 μJ radiated energy per pulse achievable using the electron beam currently in operation at the Neptune Advanced Accelerator Research Laboratory at UCLA (~13 MeV beam energy, ~200 μm RMS bunch length, ~500 pC bunch charge). Preparations underway for installation of the experiment are discussed. |
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| THPMS027 | Dielectric Wakefield Accelerator Experiments at the SABER Facility | 3058 |
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Funding: Work supported in part by Department of Energy contracts DE-AC02-76SF00515, DE-FG02-92-ER40745, DE-FG03-92ER40693 and W-7405-ENG-48 Electron bunches with the unparalleled combination of high charge, low emittances, and short time duration, as first produced at the SLAC FFTB, are foreseen to be produced soon at the SABER facility. These types of bunches have enabled wakefield driven accelerating schemes of >10 GV/m. In the context of the Dielectric Wakefield Accelerators (DWA) such beams, having rms bunch length as short as 20 um, have been used to drive 100 μm and 200 μm ID hollow tubes above 20 GV/m surface fields. These FFTB tests enabled the measurement of a breakdown threshold in excess of 4 GV/m (2 GV/m accelerating field) in fused silica. With the construction and commissioning of the SABER facility at SLAC, new experiments are made possible to test further aspects of DWAs including materials, tube geometrical variations, direct measurements of the Cerenkov fields, and proof of acceleration in tubes >10 cm in length. The E169 collaboration will investigate breakdown thresholds and accelerating fields in new materials including CVD diamond. Here we describe the experimental plans, beam parameters, simulations, and progress to date as well as future prospects for machines based of DWA structures. |
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| THPMS073 | Progress towards a Gap Free Dielectric-Loaded Accelerator | 3151 |
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One of the major concerns in the development of Dielectric-Loaded Accelerating (DLA) structures is the destructive breakdown at dielectric joints caused by a local electric field enhancement induced by the discontinuity of the dielectric constant on the surface of the joint gap. Our previous X-band traveling wave DLA structure design*, for example, incorporated two separate impedance matching sections with at least two dielectric joints. In this paper, we present a new design to avoid this problem. This scheme is based on a coaxial type coupler which is able to implement mode conversion and impedance matching at the same time and therefore to eliminate joint gap induced breakdown. The new structure is under construction; bench test results will be presented
* C. Jing, W. Gai, J. Power, R. Konecny, S. Gold, W. Liu and A. Kinkead, IEEE, Trans. PS, vol.33 No.4, Aug. 2005, pp.1155-1160. |
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| THPMS074 | High Transformer Ratios in Collinear Wakefield Accelerators | 3154 |
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Funding: DOE SBIR Phase II, DE-FG02-02ER83418. Based on our previous experiment that successfully demonstrated wakefield transformer ratio enhancement in a 13.625 GHz dielectric-loaded collinear wakefield accelerator using the ramped bunch train technique, we present here a redesigned experimental scheme for even higher enhancement of the efficiency of this accelerator. Design of a collinear wakefield device with a transformer ratio R>>2, is presented. Using a ramped bunch train (RBT) rather than a single drive bunch, the enhanced transformer ratio (ETR) technique is able to increase the transformer ratio R above the ordinary limit of 2. To match the wavelength of the fundamental mode of the wakefield with the bunch length (σz=2 mm) of the new Argonne Wakefield Accelerator (AWA) drive gun, where the experiment will be performed, a 26.625 GHz dielectric based accelerating structure is required. This transformer ratio enhancement technique based on our dielectric-loaded waveguide design will result in a compact, high efficiency accelerating structure for future wakefield accelerators. |
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| THPMS076 | Development of Dual Layered Dielectric-Loaded Accelerating Structure | 3160 |
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Funding: DOE SBIR Phase I, DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-05ER84356
Due to the high magnetic field-induced surface currents on its conducting sleeve, a conventional single layer Dielectric-Loaded Accelerating (DLA) structure exhibits a relatively high RF loss. One possible way to solve this problem is to use multilayered DLA structures*. In these devices, the RF power attenuation is reduced by making use of the Bragg Fiber concept: the EM fields are well confined by multiple reflections from multiple dielectric layers. This paper presents the design of an X-band dual layer DLA structure as well as the results of bench tests of the device. We will also present results on the design, numerical modeling, and fabrication of structures for coupling RF into multilayer DLAs such as a novel TM03 mode launcher and a TM01-TM03 mode converter using dielectric-loaded corrugated waveguide.
* C. Jing, W. Liu, W. Gai, J. G. Power, and T. Wong, Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phy. Res. A 539 (2005) 445-454. |
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| THPMS077 | Progress towards Development of a Diamond-Based Cylindrical Dielectric Accelerating Structure | 3163 |
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Funding: This research is supported by the US Department of Energy In this talk, we present our recent developments on a high gradient diamond-based cylindrical dielectric loaded accelerator (DLA). The final goal of this research is to achieve a record accelerating gradient (~ 600 MV/m) in a demonstration of the structure at high power and with accelerated beam. We discuss here a new technology for the development of cylindrical diamond-based waveguides and the design, fabrication and high power testing of a cylindrical diamond-based DLA accelerating structure. The electrical and mechanical properties of diamond make it an ideal candidate material for use in dielectric accelerators: high RF breakdown level, extremely low dielectric losses and the highest thermoconductive coefficient available. Multipacting of the CVD diamond can be suppressed by diamond surface dehydrogenation. A plasma supported Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) technology to produce low loss high quality cylindrical diamond layers is presented. Special attention is devoted to the numerical optimization of the coupling section, where the surface magnetic and electric fields are minimized relative to the accelerating gradient and within known metal surface breakdown limits. |
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| THPMS078 | Status of the Microwave PASER Experiment | 3166 |
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Funding: Work supported by US Department of Energy The PASER is a new method for particle acceleration, in which energy from an active medium is transferred to a charged particle beam. The effect is similar to the action of a maser or laser with the stimulated emission of radiation being produced by the virtual photons in the electromagnetic field of the beam. We are developing a demonstration PASER device operating at X-band, based on the availability of a new class of active materials that exhibit photoinduced electron spin polarization. We will report on the status of active material development and measurements, numerical simulations, and preparations for microwave PASER experiments at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator facility. |
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| THPMS079 | Nonlinear Permittivity Effects in Dielectric Accelerating Structures | 3169 |
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Funding: Work supported by the US Department of Energy
New low loss ferroelectric ceramic materials* possessing large variations in the permittivity as a function of the electric field present interesting and potentially useful applications for dielectric loaded accelerating structures, both wakefield-based and driven by an external rf source. We will consider X-band cylindrical dielectric structures and report numerical results on frequency multiplication, wave steepening and shock formation, and the effect of nonlinearities on the mode structure of these devices. We will examine applications of nonlinear dielectric devices to high gradient acceleration, rf sources, and beam diagnostics.
* ''Fast Switching Ferroelectric Materials for Accelerator Applications'', A. Kanareykin et al., Proceedings of Advanced Accelerator Concepts 2006 (in press) |
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| FRPMN064 | Applications of Cherenkov Radiation in Dispersive and Anisotropic Metamaterials to Beam Diagnostics | 4156 |
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Funding: US Department of Energy Cherenkov radiation (CR) is extensively used for detection of charged particles. The prompt nature of the radiation is one major advantage for diagnostics that measure temporal properties of the beam. However, low signal levels and small angles of radiation with respect to the particle trajectory present limitations on the use of traditional detector media. Using modern artificial metamaterials as Cherenkov radiators can provide essential advantages. As a rule metamaterials are characterized by strong dispersion and anisotropy that can be engineered to the requirements of the detector. We present theoretical and numerical analyses of CR in bulk anisotropic and dispersive media and in waveguides. The properties exhibited by these materials (large angles of radiation, two maxima in the angular distributions, etc.) allow the design of detectors with unusual characteristics, like a detector that registers almost all moving particles, and simultaneously only particles with velocity exceeding a predetermined threshold. We consider the case of a material that is approximately equivalent to an isotropic left-handed medium that also presents advantages as a Cherenkov medium. |
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| FRPMS094 | Beam Breakup Instabilities in Dielectric Structures | 4300 |
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Funding: This research is supported by the US Department of Energy We report on the experimental and numerical investigation of beam breakup (BBU) effects in dielectric structures resulting from parasitic wakefields. The experimental program focuses on measurements of BBU in a number of wakefield devices: (a) a 26 GHz power extraction structure; (b) a high gradient dielectric wakefield accelerator; (c) a wakefield structure driven by a high current ramped bunch train for multibunch BBU studies. New beam diagnostics will provide methods for studying parasitic wakefields that are currently unavailable at the AWA facility. The numerical part of this research is based on a particle-Green's function based beam breakup code we are developing that allows rapid, efficient simulation of beam breakup effects in advanced linear accelerators. The goal of this work is to be able to compare the accurate numerical results obtained from the new BBU code with the results of the detailed experimental measurements. An external focusing system for the control of the beam in the presence of strong transverse wakefields is considered. |