1. Development of a Dielectric-Loaded Accelerator Test Facility Based on an X-Band Magnicon Amplifier.
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Gold, S. H., Kinkead, A. K., Gai, W., Power, J. G., Konecny, R., Jing, C., Tantawi, S. G., Nantista, C. D., Hu, Y., Du, X., Tang, C., Lin, Y., Bruce, R. W., Bruce, R. L., Fliflet, A. W., and Lewis III, D.
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TESTING laboratories ,OPTICAL amplifiers ,ELECTRONIC amplifiers ,DIELECTRIC amplifiers ,ELECTRONS ,PHYSICS - Abstract
The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), in collaboration with the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), are developing a dielectric-loaded accelerator (DLA) test facility powered by the 11.424-GHz magnicon amplifier that was developed jointly by NRL and Omega-P, Inc. Thus far, DLA structures developed by ANL have been tested at the NRL Magnicon Facility without injected electrons, including tests of alumina and magnesium calcium titanate structures at gradients up to ∼8 MV/m. The next step is to inject electrons in order to build a compact DLA test accelerator. The Accelerator Laboratory of Tsinghua University in Beijing, China has developed a 5-MeV electron injector for the accelerator, and SLAC is developing a means to combine the two magnicon output arms, and to drive the injector and an accelerator section with separate control of the power ratio and relative phase. Also, RWBruce Associates, working with NRL, is developing a means to join ceramic tubes to produce long accelerating sections using a microwave brazing process. The installation and commissioning of the first dielectric-loaded test accelerator, including injector, DLA structure, and spectrometer, should take place within the next year. © 2005 American Institute of Physics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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