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The Low Energy RHIC electron Cooler (LEReC) is currently under commissioning at BNL to improve RHIC luminosity for heavy ion beam energies below 10 GeV/nucleon. The linac of LEReC consists of a DC photoemission gun, one 704 MHz…

The Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) was the first large-scale accelerator to employ superconducting radiofrequency (SRF) cavities for continuous-wave operation. Ongoing research and development efforts continue to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Pashupati Dhakal

A proposal for a 10-120 mA proton linac employing superconducting beta-graded, CERN type, four cell cavities at 352 MHz is presented. The high energy part (100 MeV-1 GeV) of the machine is split in three beta-graded sections, and transverse…

acc-phys · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Pagani , G. Bellomo , P. Pierini

There is demand for the construction of a medium-energy ion linear accelerator based on superconducting rf (SRF) technology. It must be capable of producing several hundred kilowatts of CW beams ranging from protons to uranium. A…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2011-07-18 P. N. Ostroumov , J. A. Nolen , K. W. Shepard

Superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) guns are promising candidates to deliver high brightness continuous-wave (CW) electron beams for new generations of coherent linac light sources, ultrafast electron diffractions, MeV pulsed beam…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 H. Jia , T. Li , T. Wang , Y. Zhao , X. Zhang , H. Xu , Z. Liu , J. Liu , L. Lin , H. Xie , L. Feng , F. Wang , F. Zhu , J. Hao , S. Quan , K. Liu , S. Huang

Fermilab has developed a novel concept for an industrial electron linac using Nb3Sn coating technology and conduction cooling. These conduction-cooled linacs can generate electron beam energies up to 10 MeV in continuous-wave operation and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-08-03 J. C. T. Thangaraj , R. C. Dhuley

Future particle accelerators such as the the SLAC ``Linac Coherent Light Source-II'' (LCLS-II) and the proposed Cornell Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) require hundreds of superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities operating in continuous…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-02-23 Dan Gonnella , John Kaufman , Matthias Liepe

To date, linear accelerators (linacs) as electron sources used to produce ionizing radiation for industrial purposes have been limited to less than 100 kW. When the electron beam is used directly, this is sufficient for most potential…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-02-17 Thomas K. Kroc

The JAERI/KEK Joint Project for the high-intensity proton accelerator facility has been proposed with a superconducting (SC) linac option from 400 MeV to 600MeV. System design of the SC linac has been carried out based on the…

The continue wave (CW) high current proton linac has wide applications as the front end of the high power proton machines. The low energy part is the most difficult one and there is no widely accepted solution yet. Based on the analysis of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-07-14 Zhihui Li

Superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) thin film cavities on copper substrates are employed in several particle accelerators. However, these SRF cavities historically featured a progressive performance degradation with the accelerating field…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-04-28 Antonio Bianchi , Giovanna Vandoni , Walter Venturini Delsolaro

This paper reports on a surface impedance measurement of a niobium titanium superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavity in a magnetic field (up to $10\,{\rm T}$). A novel method is employed to decompose the surface resistance contributions…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 T. Braine , G. Rybka , A. A. Baker , J. Brodsky , G. Carosi , N. Du , N. Woollett , S. Knirck , M. Jones

Radio frequency (RF) superconductivity has become a key technology for many modern particle accelerators. One of its most salient features of this technology is the ability of superconducting RF cavities to deliver high accelerating…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-04-16 Hasan Padamsee

Superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) resonators are critical components for particle accelerator applications, such as free-electron lasers, and for emerging technologies in quantum computing. Developing advanced materials and their…

In-situ plasma processing of superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities is a performance recovery technique used to mitigate the field emission limiting phenomenon. It has been proved very effective at major particle accelerator…

A 325 MHz aluminum prototype of a spatially periodic rf quadrupole focusing linac was developed at the Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, as a promising candidate for the front end of a high-current linac. It consists…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-01-18 Peiyan Yu , Bin Zhang , Fengfeng Wang , Chenxing Li , Guozhen Sun , Zhijun Wang , Lubei Liu , Chenzhang Yuan , Yuan He , Hushan Xu

Compact conductively cooled SRF industrial linacs can provide unique parameters of the electron beam for industrial applications. (up to 10MeV, 1MW). For ERDC project we designed normal conducting RF injector with thermal RF gridded gun…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-09-13 N. Solyak , I. Gonin , A. Saini , V. Yakovlev , C. Edwards , J. C. Thangaraj , R. Kostin , C. Jing

Superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities coupled to transmon circuits have proven to be a promising platform for building high-coherence quantum information processors. An essential aspect of this realization involves designing high…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-08-24 Alessandro Reineri , Silvia Zorzetti , Tanay Roy , Xinyuan You

The thermionic gridded gun is described which generates short electron bunches for further acceleration in a Nb3Sn conduction cooled SRF linac. The gun is built into the first cavity of the 250 keV injector [1] for the 20 kW, 10 MeV, 1.3…