Modeling of electromagnetic heating in RF copper accelerating cavities

Electromagnetic heating is a critical issue in normal conducting copper RF cavities that are employed in particle accelerators. With several tens to hundreds of kilowatts dissipated RF power, there must be an effective cooling scheme whether it is water or air based or even a combination of both. In this paper we investigate the electromagnetic heating in multiple cavities that were designed at Fermilab exploring how the electromagnetic and thermal analyses are coupled together to properly design the cooling of such cavities.