On the Acceleration of a Superconducting Macroparticle in a Magnetic Travelling Wave Accelerator

Abstract

Abstract Two models for describing the operation of a magnetic travelling wave accelerator, the transmission line model and the lumped parameter model, are analyzed. For both cases the current distribution and the magnetic field are calculated. It is shown that the transmission line model can be obtained as the limiting case of the lumped parameter model. It is then assumed that a superconducting solenoid with large persistent currents is used as a projectile with a constant magnetic dipole moment. The motion of this projectile is studied in the case of ignorable flux interaction. The conditions for phase and rotational stability are obtained. It is shown that the projectile has a transverse translational instability. A derivation of the flux interaction current wave is included in the Appendix.