Beam break-up estimates for the ERL at BNL
A prototype Ampere-class superconducting energy recovery linac (ERL) is under advanced construction at BNL. The ERL facility is comprised of a five-cell SC Linac plus a half-cell SC photo-injector RF electron gun, both operating at 703.75 MHz. The facility is designed for either a high-current mode of operation up to 0.5 A at 703.75 MHz or a high-bunch-charge mode of 5 nC at 10 MHz bunch frequency. The R&D facility serves a test bed for an envisioned electron-hadron collider, eRHIC. The high-current, high-charge operating parameters make effective higher-order-mode (HOM) damping mandatory, and requires the determination of HOM tolerances for a cavity upgrade. The niobium cavity has been tested at superconducting temperatures and has provided measured quality factors (Q) for a large number of modes. These numbers were used for the estimate of the beam breakup instability (BBU). The facility will be assembled with a highly flexible lattice covering a vast operational parameter space for verification of the estimates and to serve as a test bed for the concepts directed at future projects.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
- Sponsoring Organization:
- DOE - Office Of Science
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-98CH10886
- OSTI ID:
- 1013476
- Report Number(s):
- BNL--90789-2010-CP; KB0202011
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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