The Development of Cavity Frequency Tracking Type RF Control System for SRF-TEM

Abstract

Superconducting accelerating cavities used in high-energy accelerators can generate high electric fields of several 10 MV/m by supplying radio frequency waves (RF) with frequencies matched with resonant frequencies of the cavities. Generally, frequencies of input RFs are fixed, and resonant frequencies of cavities that are fluctuated by Lorentz force detuning and Microphonics are corrected by feedbacks of cavity frequency tuners and input RF power. Now, we aim to develop the cavity frequency tracking type RF control system where the frequency of input RF is not fixed and consistently modulated to match the varying resonant frequency of the cavity. In KEK (Tsukuba, Japan), we are developing SRF-TEM that is a new type of transmission electron microscope using special-shaped superconducting cavity. By applying our new RF control system to the SRF-TEM, it is expected to obtain stable accelerating fields so that we can acquire good spatial resolution. In this presentation, we will explain the required stabilities of accelerating fields for SRF-TEM and the feasibility of SRF-TEM in the case of applying the cavity frequency tracking type RF control system.