Front End Design of A Multi-GeV H-Minus Linac

The proposed 8-GeV driver at FNAL [1] is based on ∼ 430 independently phased SC resonators. Significant cost savings are expected by using an rf power fan-out from high-power klystrons to multiple cavities. Successful development of superconducting (SC) multi-spoke resonators operating at ∼ 345-350 MHz provides a strong basis for their application in the front end of multi-GeV linear accelerators. Such a front-end operating at 325 MHz would enable direct transition to high-gradient 1300 MHz SC TESLA-style cavities at ∼ 400 MeV. The proposed front end consists of 5 sections: a conventional RFQ, room-temperature (RT) cross-bar H-type (CH) cavities, single-, double-and triple-spoke superconducting resonators. It is effective to use short RT CH-cavities between the RFQ and SC sections in the energy range 3-10 MeV as is discussed below.