Abstract
RF linacs for high-power beams are operated under the fully beam-loaded condition for power efficiency. Under this condition, initial energy spreads are generated by the transient beam-loading effect. Irradiation sources require a beam energy of less than 10 MeV for radiation safety. In order to maximize the beam power and maintain the beam energy at a safe level, we need to suppress the initial energy spreads. In an L-band traveling-wave linac for irradiation applications, the initial high-energy electrons are suppressed by beam current modulation with RF power modulation. In this study, the temporal profile of beam energy is calculated by a numerical method and verified by measurement. As a result, the average beam energy and the corresponding beam power are improved by nearly 60% compared with the case without any modulations. The effect of beam current modulation on bunching and acceleration is also discussed in this paper.
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