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Title: Status of engineering development of CCDTL for accelerator production of tritium

Abstract

The Coupled-Cavity Drift Tube Linac (CCDTL) is a relatively new RF accelerator structure which plays a major role in the APT Low-Energy Linac (LEL) design. Engineering development is pushing ahead on several fronts, including thermal management, fabrication procedures, cavity and coupling slot tuning, high-power prototype fabrication and testing, supports and alignment, vacuum, and provisions for beam diagnostics. Fabrication of the CCDTL Low-Beta Hot Model is nearly complete, and high-power RF tests will commence soon. In 1999, the authors will begin the fabrication of 11 meters of CCDTL to be added to the Low-Energy Demonstration Accelerator. In 2001, it will take the 100 mA beam from 6.7 MeV to 10.05 MeV, producing the world`s most powerful proton beam. The authors are also starting the design of a CCDTL 96 MeV Hot Model to demonstrate cooling of an intermediate-Beta version of the structure. The 14cm-long, 9cm diameter drift tube has roughly 5kW dissipated on it. This all leads to the final mechanical design of the 113m long CCDTL for the APT plant linac.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
350994
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-98-3630; CONF-980827-
ON: DE99002774; TRN: AHC29921%%180
DOE Contract Number:  
W-7405-ENG-36
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: 19. international linac conference, Chicago, IL (United States), 23-28 Aug 1998; Other Information: PBD: [1998]
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; DRIFT TUBES; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; RF SYSTEMS; FUNCTIONAL MODELS; DESIGN; MATERIALS; FABRICATION; TRITIUM; ISOTOPE PRODUCTION

Citation Formats

Wood, R L, Billen, J H, Hunter, W T, Leslie, P O, Roybal, R J, and Sigler, F E. Status of engineering development of CCDTL for accelerator production of tritium. United States: N. p., 1998. Web.
Wood, R L, Billen, J H, Hunter, W T, Leslie, P O, Roybal, R J, & Sigler, F E. Status of engineering development of CCDTL for accelerator production of tritium. United States.
Wood, R L, Billen, J H, Hunter, W T, Leslie, P O, Roybal, R J, and Sigler, F E. 1998. "Status of engineering development of CCDTL for accelerator production of tritium". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/350994.
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title = {Status of engineering development of CCDTL for accelerator production of tritium},
author = {Wood, R L and Billen, J H and Hunter, W T and Leslie, P O and Roybal, R J and Sigler, F E},
abstractNote = {The Coupled-Cavity Drift Tube Linac (CCDTL) is a relatively new RF accelerator structure which plays a major role in the APT Low-Energy Linac (LEL) design. Engineering development is pushing ahead on several fronts, including thermal management, fabrication procedures, cavity and coupling slot tuning, high-power prototype fabrication and testing, supports and alignment, vacuum, and provisions for beam diagnostics. Fabrication of the CCDTL Low-Beta Hot Model is nearly complete, and high-power RF tests will commence soon. In 1999, the authors will begin the fabrication of 11 meters of CCDTL to be added to the Low-Energy Demonstration Accelerator. In 2001, it will take the 100 mA beam from 6.7 MeV to 10.05 MeV, producing the world`s most powerful proton beam. The authors are also starting the design of a CCDTL 96 MeV Hot Model to demonstrate cooling of an intermediate-Beta version of the structure. The 14cm-long, 9cm diameter drift tube has roughly 5kW dissipated on it. This all leads to the final mechanical design of the 113m long CCDTL for the APT plant linac.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/350994}, journal = {},
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place = {United States},
year = {Thu Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1998},
month = {Thu Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1998}
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