The design of RF crab cavities for particle accelerators

Author

Burt, G. ; Ambattu, P. ; Goudket, P. ; Hall, B. ; McIntosh, P. ; Dexter, A. ; Beard, C. ; Tahir, I. ; Carter, R. ; Jones, R. ; Dykes, M. ; Kalinin, A. ; Ma, L.

Author_Institution

Cockcroft Inst., Lancaster Univ., Lancaster

fYear

2009

fDate

26-26 Feb. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

A number of particle accelerators worldwide require RF crab cavities for a number of applications, including maximizing collision luminosity, production of short X- ray pulses, and diagnostics. The Cockcroft Institute has led the development crab cavities for the LHC, ELC and CLIC colliders. The design for each of these cavities is very different due to the different bunch structures in each accelerator. For the CLIC accelerator we have chosen an X-band traveling wave normal conducting cavity, the ILC uses an S-band superconducting cavity and the LHC is proposed to use a novel compact shape superconducting cavity with an operating frequency between 200-800 MHz. The general design considerations for crab cavities will be discussed as well as special constraints for each of the three systems and their current designs.

Keywords

accelerator RF systems; accelerator cavities; linear colliders; particle beam bunching; particle beam diagnostics; CLIC accelerator; CLIC colliders; Cockcroft Institute; ELC colliders; LHC; RF crab cavities; S-band superconducting cavity; X-band traveling wave; beam loading; bunch structures; collision luminosity; diagnostics; frequency 200 MHz to 800 MHz; linear collider; particle accelerators; short X- ray pulses;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

High Power RF Technologies, 2009. IET. Conference on

Conference_Location

London

Print_ISBN

978-1-84919-060-2

Type

conf

Filename

4816093