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Title: High power experimental studies of hybrid photonic band gap accelerator structures

Abstract

This paper reports the first high power tests of hybrid photonic band gap (PBG) accelerator structures. Three hybrid PBG (HPBG) structures were designed, built and tested at 17.14 GHz. Each structure had a triangular lattice array with 60 inner sapphire rods and 24 outer copper rods sandwiched between copper disks. The dielectric PBG band gap map allows the unique feature of overmoded operation in a TM02 mode, with suppression of both lower order modes, such as the TM11 mode, as well as higher order modes. The use of sapphire rods, which have negligible dielectric loss, required inclusion of the dielectric birefringence in the design. The three structures were designed to sequentially reduce the peak surface electric field. Simulations showed relatively high surface fields at the triple point as well as in any gaps between components in the clamped assembly. The third structure used sapphire rods with small pin extensions at each end and obtained the highest gradient of 19 MV/m, corresponding to a surface electric field of 78 MV/m, with a breakdown probability of 5×10–1 per pulse per meter for a 100-ns input power pulse. Operation at a gradient above 20 MV/m led to runaway breakdowns with extensive light emissionmore » and eventual damage. For all three structures, multipactor light emission was observed at gradients well below the breakdown threshold. As a result, this research indicated that multipactor triggered at the triple point limited the operational gradient of the hybrid structure.« less

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Research Org.:
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1313256
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OSTI ID: 1358562
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0010075
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Physical Review Accelerators and Beams Journal Volume: 19 Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9888
Publisher:
American Physical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

Citation Formats

Zhang, JieXi, Munroe, Brian J., Xu, Haoran, Shapiro, Michael A., and Temkin, Richard J. High power experimental studies of hybrid photonic band gap accelerator structures. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.19.081304.
Zhang, JieXi, Munroe, Brian J., Xu, Haoran, Shapiro, Michael A., & Temkin, Richard J. High power experimental studies of hybrid photonic band gap accelerator structures. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.19.081304
Zhang, JieXi, Munroe, Brian J., Xu, Haoran, Shapiro, Michael A., and Temkin, Richard J. Wed . "High power experimental studies of hybrid photonic band gap accelerator structures". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.19.081304.
@article{osti_1313256,
title = {High power experimental studies of hybrid photonic band gap accelerator structures},
author = {Zhang, JieXi and Munroe, Brian J. and Xu, Haoran and Shapiro, Michael A. and Temkin, Richard J.},
abstractNote = {This paper reports the first high power tests of hybrid photonic band gap (PBG) accelerator structures. Three hybrid PBG (HPBG) structures were designed, built and tested at 17.14 GHz. Each structure had a triangular lattice array with 60 inner sapphire rods and 24 outer copper rods sandwiched between copper disks. The dielectric PBG band gap map allows the unique feature of overmoded operation in a TM02 mode, with suppression of both lower order modes, such as the TM11 mode, as well as higher order modes. The use of sapphire rods, which have negligible dielectric loss, required inclusion of the dielectric birefringence in the design. The three structures were designed to sequentially reduce the peak surface electric field. Simulations showed relatively high surface fields at the triple point as well as in any gaps between components in the clamped assembly. The third structure used sapphire rods with small pin extensions at each end and obtained the highest gradient of 19 MV/m, corresponding to a surface electric field of 78 MV/m, with a breakdown probability of 5×10–1 per pulse per meter for a 100-ns input power pulse. Operation at a gradient above 20 MV/m led to runaway breakdowns with extensive light emission and eventual damage. For all three structures, multipactor light emission was observed at gradients well below the breakdown threshold. As a result, this research indicated that multipactor triggered at the triple point limited the operational gradient of the hybrid structure.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.19.081304},
journal = {Physical Review Accelerators and Beams},
number = 8,
volume = 19,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Aug 31 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Wed Aug 31 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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