Design considerations for high-current superconducting RFQ's

As part of our ongoing development program of high-current cw accelerators, we are investigating the use of superconducting RFQs to capture, bunch, and accelerate high-current, cw ion beams to energies where they can be further accelerated by more conventional independently-coupled superconducting cavities. This investigation addresses issues related to beam physics, thermal management, electromagnetic design, mechanical design, matching to the ion source, etc.<
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