Conceptual design of the 26.7 MHz RF system for RHIC

Author

Rose, J. ; Deng, D.P. ; McKenzie-Wilson, R. ; Pirkl, W. ; Ratti, A.

Author_Institution

Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, Brookhaven Nat. Lab., Upton, NY, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

17-20 May 1993

Firstpage

1172

Abstract

The 26.7 MHz (harmonic # h=342) RF system will be used to capture the injected bunched beam from the AGS and accelerate it to a kinetic energy of up to 250 GeV for protons; 100 GeV/u for gold ions. All ions except protons cross transition, and are finally transferred to a storage RF system working at 196 MHz. Each RHIC ring will be provided with two single-ended capacitively loaded quarter-wave cavities; each of these can be dynamically tuned by 100 kHz to compensate for the change in speed of the beam, and can deliver at least 200 kV voltage. A 100 kW tetrode amplifier with local RF feedback is directly coupled to the cavity to minimize phase delay. Prototypes of cavity and amplifier have been built and first test results are presented

Keywords

beam handling equipment; cavity resonators; ion accelerators; storage rings; synchrotrons; tetrodes; 250 GeV; 26.7 MHz; RHIC; injected bunched beam; local RF feedback; single-ended capacitively loaded quarter-wave cavities; storage RF system; tetrode amplifier; Acceleration; Energy capture; Gold; Kinetic energy; Particle beam injection; Particle beams; Protons; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency amplifiers; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1993., Proceedings of the 1993

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1203-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1993.308653

Filename

308653