Design of an accelerating cavity for the Superconducting Super Collider Low-Energy Booster

Author

Friedrichs, C.C. ; Walling, L. ; Campbell, B.M.

Author_Institution

Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

6-9 May 1991

Firstpage

1020

Abstract

The authors present the history and status of the design of the accelerator cavity to be incorporated into the Low-Energy Booster (LEB) of the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC). The LEB is a proton synchrotron, 540 m in circumference, and having 108 buckets around the ring. Acceleration programs, each 50-ms long, take place at a rate of 10/s. The beta change of the particles from injection to extraction is from 0.8 to 0.997. Since the RF excitation frequency must track beta, the RF frequency must shift from 47.5 to 60 MHz over the 50-ms acceleration program. The cavity will use ferrite in a perpendicular control bias mode to effect the required tuning.<>

Keywords

beam handling equipment; proton accelerators; synchrotrons; LEB; RF excitation frequency; SSC; Superconducting Super Collider Low-Energy Booster; accelerating cavity; beta change; buckets; extraction; ferrite; injection; perpendicular control bias mode; proton synchrotron; tuning; Acceleration; Ferrites; Frequency; Impedance; Laboratories; Protons; Radiofrequency amplifiers; Synchrotrons; Testing; Tuning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1991. Accelerator Science and Technology., Conference Record of the 1991 IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0135-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1991.164524

Filename

164524