Press Forming Tests of Superconducting Spoke Cavity for Laser Compton Scattered Photon Sources

We are developing the superconducting spoke cavity for laser Compton scattered (LCS) photon sources. We adopt the superconducting spoke cavity for electron beam drivers to realize a wide use of LCS X-ray and '-ray sources in academic and industrial applications. The spoke cavity can make the accelerator more compact than an elliptical cavity because the cavity size is small at the same frequency and the packing factor is good by installing couplers on outer conductor. Though our proposal design for the photon source consists of the 325 MHz spoke cavities in 4K operation, we are fabricating the half scale model of 650 MHz spoke cavity in order to accumulate our cavity production experience by effective utilization of our limited resources. Since the spoke has more complicated structure than an elliptical cavity, we performed press forming tests for the half spoke and estimated the formed shapes with 3-dimensional measurement.
Proceedings of the 8th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2017, Copenhagen, Denmark