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Solid-state for high power RF application is an attracting and interesting technology which is now become popular in accelerator field. To adopt and master such technique, a 500MHz, 80kW solid-state amplifier is thus developed in NSRRC. The amplifier is consisted of 100 900W amplifier modules which are driving by identical modules. Each module contains input and output directional couplers and status monitoring circuits. To have longer life time and better performance, the RF power transistors are integrated with water cooled heat sink directly. In such a way, the transistors have higher output power and better efficiency. The RF power of each module is combined through coaxial combiner while its DC power is provided by parallel connected DC power supplies which can provide better redundancy and reliability. The home-made solid-state amplifier is demonstrated to have quite high quality RF power and reliability with acceptable power combination efficiency.

We study a lattice model of an interacting uniform self-avoiding star polymer with f branches. A 1/d -expansion for the limiting reduced free energy is derived through order 1/d for general f and, for f = 3, to order 1/d 2 . The terms in the expansion are independent of f and agree term by term with the corresponding expansion for interacting self-avoiding walks. We also present a miscellany of numerical results obtained by more conventional series and Monte Carlo techniques. All our results, both past and present, support the conjecture that the limiting reduced free energies of f -stars, walks and polygons are identical for all values of the interaction parameter .

We consider uniform star polymers on a variety of lattices, with an additional contact interaction between pairs of vertices which are unit distance apart and are not joined by an edge of the star. We present some rigorous results and other evidence which indicate that these systems have the same limiting free energy as self-interacting self-avoiding walks. We discuss the extension of these results to other homeomorphism types and to systems with an additional surface interaction term.

A superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) module is commonly used for a high-energy accelerator; its purpose is to provide energy to the particle beam. Because of the low power dissipation and smaller impedance of a higher-order mode for this module, it can provide more power to the particle beam with better stability through decreasing the couple bunch instability. A RF coupler is necessary to transfer the high power from a RF generator to the cavity. A coupler of coaxial type is a common choice. With high-power operation, it might suffer from multipacting, which is a resonance phenomenon due to re-emission of secondary electrons. Applying a bias voltage between inner and outer conductors of the coaxial coupler might increase or decrease the strength of the multipacting effect. We studied the effect of a bias voltage on multipacting using numerical simulation to track the motion of the electrons. The simulation results and an application for SRF operation with a large beam current are presented in this paper.