Basic Research on RF Absorbing Ceramics for Beam Line HOM Absorbers

Higher Order Mode (HOM) absorbers for future high current machines have been a challenging component for many years. Even though many different materials are commercially, none of them seems to fully qualify for accelerator applications. Some of them are brittle or chippy, others porous, have small bandwidth of absorption, a high dc resistivity leading to charge-up or are unreliable in terms of batch to batch variations. Alfred University and Cornell University have recently partnered in developing a dedicated absorber ceramic material that tries to overcome these limitations. We will report on results from small samples of different compositions we produced based on SiC, graphene and graphite.
Proceedings of the 5th Int. Particle Accelerator Conf., IPAC2014, Dresden, Germany