Rostock University, Faculty of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Rostock, Germany
HZB, Berlin, Germany
DELTA, Dortmund, Germany
The main scope of this work is the automation of the extraction procedure of the external quality factors Qext of Higher Order Modes (HOMs) in Superconducting (SC) radio frequency cavities [*]. The HOMs are generated by charged particle beams traveling at the speed of light through SC cavity. The HOMs decay very slowly, depending on localization inside the structure and cell-to-cell coupling, and may influence succeeding charged particle bunches. Thus it is important, at the SC cavity design optimization stage, to calculate the Qext of HOMs. The Traveling Poles Elimination (TPE) scheme has been used on scattering parameters spectra to obtain external quality factors. The combination of Coupled S-Parameter Calculations (CSC) method and vector fitting procedure allows us to study very complicated structures in much better details and almost automated extraction of HOMs' Qext factors. The results are also reasserted by careful eigenmode analysis of the SC cavity. The S-Parameter and eigenmode simulations were performed using CST Microwave Studio.
*Axel Neumann et al., "Status of the HOM Calculations for the BERLinPro Main Linac Cavity", FRAAC3 (this conference)
Rostock University, Faculty of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Rostock, Germany
The prediction of RF properties of complex accelerating structures is an important issue in computational accelerator physics. This paper describes the derivation of state space equations for complex structures based on real eigenmodes of sections of the decomposed complex structure. The state space equations enable the calculation of system responses due to port excitations by means of standard ordinary differential equation solvers. Therefore, the state space equations are referred to as lumped equivalent models of such complex RF structures. Besides fast computation of system responses, the equivalent models enable the calculation of secondary quantities such as external quality factors. The present contribution discusses theoretical aspects and illustrates an application example.
HZB, Berlin, Germany
Rostock University, Faculty of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Rostock, Germany
DELTA, Dortmund, Germany
The Berlin Energy Recovery Linac Project (BERLinPro) is designed to develop and demonstrate CW LINAC technology and expertise required to drive next-generation Energy Recovery Linacs (ERLs). Strongly higher order mode (HOM) damped multicell 1.3 GHz cavities are required for the main linac. The cavity under study is an integrated design of the Cornell base cell with JLab HOM waveguide couplers. Modifications to the end group design have also been pursued, including the substitution of one waveguide by a HZB-modified TTF-III power coupler. In this talk the progress in HOM calculations to avoid beam-breakup instabilities for the favored cavity structure will be presented.