Next linear collider test accelerator injector upgrade

Conference · Tue Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1995

OSTI ID:132788

Yeremian, A D; Miller, R H

The Next Linear Collider Test Accelerator (NLCTA) being built at SLAC will integrate the new technologies of X-band Accelerator structures and RF systems for the Next Linear Collider, demonstrate multibunch beam-loading energy compensation and suppression of higher-order deflecting modes, and measure the dark current generated by RF field emission in the accelerator. The current injector being constructed for phase 1 of the NLCTA tests is a simple injector consisting of a gun with a 150 ns long pulse and X-band bunching and accelerating system. While the injector will provide average currents comparable to what is needed for NLC it will not provide the bunch structure since every X-band RF bucket will be filled. The injector upgrade will produce a similar bunch train as planned for NLC mainly a train of bunches 1.4 ns apart with 3 nC in each bunch up to 50 to 60 MeV. The bunching system for the upgrade is more elaborate than the current injector and the plan is to produce a bunch train right at the gun. The difference between the NLCTA injector upgrade and the planned injector for NLC is that the NLCTA injector will not have polarized beam and the accelerator sections are X-band rather than S-band. If the authors are able to produce beams comparable to the NLC requirements with the X-band injector then it should be easier to do with the S-band.

• Research Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 132788
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB--95-6980; CONF-9508156--3; ON: DE96002399
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
BEAM BUNCHERS
BEAM EMITTANCE
BEAM INJECTION
BEAM TRANSPORT
DESIGN
ELECTRON GUNS
LINEAR COLLIDERS
MODIFICATIONS
RF SYSTEMS
THERMIONIC EMITTERS