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Plans for cryogenic C-band prototype tests for LANL pRad booster linac

WEP4314
20 May 2026, 16:00
2h
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Deauville, France
Poster Presentation MC4.A08: Hadron accelerators: Linear Accelerators Poster session

Speaker

Evgenya Simakov (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Description

We report the plans for testing a four-cell C-band (5.712 GHz) normal conducting radiofrequency (RF) accelerator cavity at liquid-nitrogen temperature under high accelerating gradient, being prototyped and proposed for the booster linear accelerator (linac) upgrade for the proton radiography (pRad) facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Operating RF structures at cryogenic temperature enhances copper conductivity, enabling higher accelerating gradients and greater RF-to-beam power efficiency. The prototype cavity will be housed inside a cryomodule with foam insulation for both low-power and high-power tests. Pulsed RF power up to 12 MW will be available for the high-power experiment. We also report the engineering and mechanical design of the prototype cavity.

Funding Agency

Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy through the Laboratory Directed Research and Development program of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, under project number 20260012DR.

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Author

Haoran Xu (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Co-authors

Evgenya Simakov (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Kevin Shipman (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Michael Kaemingk (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Sergey Kurennoy (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Dr Tsuyoshi Tajima (Los Alamos National Laboratory) William B Haynes (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Wonjin Choi (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

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