KEK, Ibaraki
JAEA/ERL, Ibaraki
ISSP/SRL, Chiba
The 9-cell superconducting cavities have been developed for realizing the high current ERLs. Along with high accelerating gradient of 15-20 MV/m, strong HOM damping is also important issue for ERL main linacs, to avoid the Beam Breakup instabilities. For this aim, cavity cell shapes were optimized with large iris diameter, and large diameter beampipe HOM dampers were applied for effective HOM damping. Eccentric fluted beampipe structure was also proposed for damping of quadrupole HOMs. A prototype of niobium 9-cell cavity was fabricated. After a series of surface treatments, vertical tests were performed for the cavity. At present, the accelerating gradient is limited to 16-17MV/m due to field emissions. A developed rotating X-ray mapping system was used at the measurements and observed some X-ray traces. It is a powerful tool to locate a place of an emitter. We report on these activities with focus on the results of vertical testing.
KEK, Ibaraki
ISSP/SRL, Chiba
JAEA/ERL, Ibaraki
We started to develop an input coupler for a 1.3GHz ERL superconducting cavity. Required input power is about 20kW for the cavity acceleration field of 20MV/m and the beam current of 100 mA in energy recovery operation. The input coupler is designed based on the STF-BL input coupler and some modifications are applied to the design for the CW 20kW power operation. We fabricated input coupler components such as ceramic windows and bellows and carried out the high-power test of the components by using a 30kW IOT power source and a test stand constructed for the high-power test. In this report, we mainly describe the design strategy of the input coupler for the 1.3GHz CW superconducting cavity and results of the high-power test of ceramic window and bellows.
KEK, Ibaraki
JAEA/ERL, Ibaraki
ISSP/SRL, Chiba
A construction of the Compact ERL is planned in KEK, in order to test the key technology to realize the future ERL based X-ray light sources. The operation of 60-200 MeV beam energy and 100 mA beam current are proposed. The superconducting cavity is one of the key components and applied for the injector part and the main acceleration part. At the injector part, three 2-cell cavities accelerate the electron beams up to 5-10 MeV. Each cavity has two input couplers and fire HOM couplers. Large beam loading, however, requires the handling of more than 100 kW for each input coupler. The main linac part consists of 9-cell cavities, whose main issue is a suppression of the Beam Breakup instability. Strong HOM damping is realized by optimized cell shapes and large diameter of beampipes. Tests of these cavities and components have been actively performed. The design of cryomodules has been also under way. These statuses are reported.
