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Experimental evaluation of 350 MHz RF accelerator windows for the Low Energy Demonstration Accelerator

Year: 2002

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Radio frequency (RF) windows are historically a point where failure occurs in input power couplers for accelerators. To obtain a reliable, high-power, 350 MHz RF window for the Low Energy Demonstration Accelerator (LEDA) project of the Accelerator Production of Tritium program, RF window prototypes from different vendors were tested. Experiments were performed to evaluate the RF windows by the vendors to select a window for the LEDA project. The Communications and Power Industries, Inc. (CPI) windows were conditioned to 445 kW in roughly 15 hours. At 445 kW a window failed, and the cause of the failure will be presented. The EEV windows were conditioned to 944 kW in 26 hours and then tested at 944 kW for 4 hours with no indication of problems.

Source: Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC)

DOI: 10.1109/pac.1997.753149

Authors: K. Cummings, D. Rees, W. Roybal, S. Lenci, S. Risbud, C. Shang, D. Wilcox

Institutions: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Communications & Power Industries (United States), University of California, Davis, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Teledyne e2v (United Kingdom)

Language: English

Topic: Particle accelerators and beam dynamics

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: Argonne National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory

OpenAlex ID: W2102502104

FWCI: 2.988

Cites: 3

Cited by: 3

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