Development of a 20 MeV Dielectric-Loaded Accelerator Test Facility

Journal Article · Tue Dec 07 00:00:00 EST 2004 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1842554· OSTI ID:20655213

Gold, Steven H; Fliflet, Arne W ^[1]; Kinkead, Allen K ^[2]; Wei, Gai; Power, John G; Konecny, Richard; Chunguang, Jing ^[3]; Tantawi, Sami G; Nantista, Christopher D ^[4]; Hu, Y; Chen, H; Tang, C; Lin, Y ^[5]; Bruce, Ralph W; Bruce, Robert L ^[6]; Lewis, David III ^[7]

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1. Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375 (United States)
2. LET Corporation, Washington, DC 20007 (United States)
3. Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439 (United States)
4. Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA 94025 (United States)
5. Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084 (China)
6. RWBruce Associates, Inc., Arnold, MD 21012 (United States)
7. Material Science and Technology Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375 (United States)

This paper describes a joint project by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), in collaboration with the StanFord Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), to develop a dielectric-loaded accelerator (DLA) test facility powered by a high-power 11.424-GHz magnicon amplifier. The magnicon can presently produce 25 MW of output power in a 250-ns pulse at 10 Hz, and efforts are in progress to increase this to 50 MW. The facility will include a 5 MeV electron injector being developed by the Accelerator Laboratory of Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. The DLA test structures are being developed by ANL, and some have undergone testing at NRL at gradients up to {approx}8 MV/m. SLAC is developing a means to combine the two magnicon output arms, and to drive an injector and accelerator with separate control of the power ratio and relative phase. RWBruce Associates, Inc., working with NRL, is developing a means to join short ceramic sections into a continuous accelerator tube by ceramic brazing using an intense millimeter-wave beam. The installation and testing of the first dielectric-loaded test accelerator, including injector, DLA structure, and spectrometer, should take place within the next year. The facility will be used for testing DLA structures using a variety of materials and configurations, and also for testing other X-band accelerator concepts. The initial goal is to produce a compact 20 MeV dielectric-loaded test accelerator.

• OSTI ID: 20655213
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 737, Issue 1; Conference: 11. advanced accelerator concepts workshop, Stony Brook, NY (United States), 21-26 Jun 2004; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.1842554; (c) 2004 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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