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RF cavity for the Medium Energy Booster (MEB) for SSCL

Conference ·
OSTI ID:6385497
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  1. Budker Inst. of Nuclear Physics (Russian Federation)
  2. Superconducting Super Collider Lab., Dallas, TX (United States)
The RF cavity for the Medium Energy Booster (MEB) is required to accept beam from the low energy booster (LEB) at a momentum of 12 GeV/c (possibly 10 GeV/c) and accelerate it to 200 GeV/c. Each cavity must provide a maximum gap voltage of 250 kV, and must be tunable from 59.7 MHz to 59.96 MHz with a maximum sweep rate of 450 kHz/s. This requires a ferrite-tuned cavity with a high quality factor. A quarter-wave cavity was designed which meets these requirements while minimizing beam-loading problems (minimizes R/Q). This paper describes the design of this cavity, results from measurements of a corresponding cold model, and several proposed Higher Order Mode (HOM) damping system designs.
Research Organization:
Superconducting Super Collider Lab., Dallas, TX (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC35-89ER40486
OSTI ID:
6385497
Report Number(s):
SSCL-Preprint-380; CONF-930511--60; ON: DE93014064
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English