Accelerator Structures for Linear Colliders

Abstract

Linear Colliders require high gradient (to reduce length dependent costs), high shunt impedance (to reduce power dependent costs) accelerator structures in which the long range dipole wakefields have been reduced by 2 to 3 orders of magnitude. The precise dipole wake reduction factor required depends on many factors. These include the beam intensity and time structure, the accelerator aperture and accelerating gradient, the strength of the focusing, the alignment precision and position stability of accelerator structures and the focusing elements, the effectiveness of the tuning procedure and feedback system, the pulse to pulse stability of the injected beam, and the required emittance at the final focus. For the purposes of this paper the authors accept that large reduction factors are required and discuss various approaches to achieving them. There are basically two approaches: detuning and damping, which are often used in combination. Damping can be accomplished either by introducing loss selectively into the accelerating structure cells, or by coupling the dipole modes out of the accelerating region and absorbing them in external loads or lossy materials. Detuning can greatly reduce the amount of damping required by causing the dipole modes to decohere, and it is possible to achieve destructive interferencemore » so that the wakefields from different cells in the accelerator cancel each other as seen by the bunches of electrons travelling through the linac. Several different approaches have achieved large reduction in the long-range dipole wakefields so that they pose no restriction on the length of the bunch trains which can be used for linear colliders.« less