RF System for "TARN II"

An rf acceleration system for the INS heavy-ion synchrotron proposal is being developed. The rf characteristics of full-size ferrite toroids have been measured in a test cavity to study tunable frequencies of an rf cavity. It is estimated from the measurement on the ferrite material TDK SY-6 that a single-gap rf cavity based upon two ferrite-loaded quarter-wave coaxial resonators with four turns each of main and supplementary bias windings will give frequencies of 0.71-7.02 MHz for adiabatic capture and of 0.86-8.00 MHz for synchronous capture. RF acceleration parameters and design features of the rf cavity are presented.