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Title: Interactions of multipactor and rf circuit

Conference ·
OSTI ID:419814
; ;  [1];  [2]
  1. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
  2. Science Applications International Corp., McLean, VA (United States)

Multipactor is an important resonant discharge phenomenon in microwave cavities, windows, satellite rf payloads, and accelerator structures. The authors use a simple model to analyze the interaction of multipactor with an rf circuit ad obtain the following results. Multipactor current may, transiently, reach a high level, especially in a high Q cavity. It saturates at a much lower level in the steady state, primarily by its loading of the cavity; the space charge effects play a relatively minor role. At saturation, the electron impact energy equals the lowest value that gives unity in the secondary yield curve. There is a new phase focusing mechanism, whereby the leading edge of the multipactor discharge grows at the expense of the trailing edge, in spite of the mutual repulsion among the electrons. This phase focusing mechanism may shape the steady state multipactor in the form of a very tight bunch of electrons. A synthesis of the above results allows one to predict the conditions under which steady state multipactor will occur, once the material of the multipactoring surface is specified. Laboratory experiments are being planned.

OSTI ID:
419814
Report Number(s):
CONF-960634-; TRN: 97:002102
Resource Relation:
Conference: 1996 IEEE international conference on plasma science, Boston, MA (United States), 3-5 Jun 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of IEEE conference record -- Abstracts: 1996 IEEE international conference on plasma science; PB: 324 p.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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