Development and high-gradient test of a two-half accelerator structure

摘要

This paper reports on the design,fabrication,RF measurement,and high-power test of a prototype accelerator—such as 11.424 GHz with 12 cells—and a traveling wave of two halves.It was found that the unloaded gradient reached 103 MV/m during the high-power test and the measured breakdown rate,after 3.17×10^(7) pulses,was 1.62×10^(-4)/pulse/m at 94 MV/m and a 90 ns pulse length.We thus concluded that the high-gradient two-half linear accelerator is cost-effective,especially in high-frequency RF linear acceleration.Finally,we suggest that silverbased alloy brazing can further reduce costs.