Pulsed heating experiments at 34 GHz

Author

Nezhevenko, O.A. ; Yakovlev, V.P. ; Hirshfield, J.L. ; Serdobintse, G.V.

Author_Institution

Omega-P, Inc., New Haven, CT, USA

Volume

5

fYear

2003

fDate

12-16 May 2003

Firstpage

2881

Abstract

Pulsed heating is one of the main factors that limit accelerating gradient in normal conducting linear accelerators. In this paper a special test device is described that is designed to determine the maximum achievable surface electric field limit due to pulsed heating and metal fatigue. The power source for driving the test device is to be the Omega-P 34 GHz pulsed magnicon. Utilization of a few MW of μsec pulse width should allow one to obtain pulsed heating excursions exceeding 600°C. The test device is designed with a to allow measurements for copper, for other materials, and for different procedures of surface preparation.

Keywords

accelerator RF systems; accelerator cavities; linear accelerators; magnetrons; radiofrequency heating; 34 GHz; maximum achievable surface electric field limit; metal fatigue; normal conducting linear accelerators; pulsed heating experiments; pulsed magnicon; test device; Acceleration; Copper; Heating; Life testing; Materials testing; Power measurement; Pulse measurements; Space vector pulse width modulation; Stress; Temperature;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2003. PAC 2003. Proceedings of the

ISSN

1063-3928

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7738-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2003.1289753

Filename

1289753