A 2856 MHz RF cavity for the MIT-Bates South Hall Ring

A single-cell 2856 MHz RF cavity for the MIT-Bates Linear Accelerator Laboratory South Hall Ring (SHR) has been designed and built at AECL's Chalk River Laboratories. The SHR is an electron beam storage ring designed to operate with all (1812) RF buckets filled and a circulating current of 80 mA. The RF cavity, designed for CW operation with 10 kW wall dissipation, has a 40 mm diameter beam aperture, on-axis higher-order mode damping and an iris-coupled RF input. This paper describes the cavity RF and mechanical design, the system fabrication and the results of measurements on the completed cavity.<
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