Applied research using a 30 GHz free-electron maser: Experimental study of interacton of high-power pulsed radiation with metals

Abstract

We describe a facility for testing the properties of different objects affected by a sequence of highpower pulses of the microwave electromagnetic field. The facility performance is implemented due to the power level and stability of the single-mode generation of a free electron maser with an output frequency of 30 GHz, which have been achieved at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. This paper describes the experiments on studying of the thermal fatigue of the copper surface in a test cavity, which models the thermal regime of the accelerating structure of the CLIC project (CERN), as well as the experiments on irradiation of biological tissues, metal films, and nanoclusters.