CERN Accelerating science

Article
Title	Status of 34 GHZ, 45 MW Pulsed Magnicon
Author(s)	Nezhevenko, Oleg A ; Hirshfield, Jay L ; Kozyrev, Evgueni ; La Pointe, Michael A ; Shchelkunov, Sergey V ; Yakovlev, Vyacheslav P
Affiliation	(BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk) ; (Columbia University, New York) ; (Omega-P, Inc., New Haven, Connecticut) ; (Omega-P, Inc., New Haven, Connecticut; Yale University, New Haven, CT) ; (Yale University, New Haven, CT)
Publication	2005
In:	21st IEEE Particle Accelerator Conference, Knoxville, TN, USA, 16 - 20 May 2005, pp.1922
Subject category	Accelerators and Storage Rings
Abstract	A high efficiency, high power magnicon at 34.272 GHz has been designed and built as a microwave source to develop RF technology for a future multi-TeV electron-positron linear collider. To develop this technology, this new RF source is being perfected for necessary tests of accelerating structures, RF pulse compressors, RF components, and to determine limits of breakdown and metal fatigue. After preliminary RF conditioning the magnicon produced an output power of 10.5 MW in 0.25 microsecond pulses, with a gain of 54 dB. The new results of the experimental tests after the tube conditioning was resumed are presented in the paper.