The fabrication and characterization of an S-band RF-gun cavity

A single cell rf-gun cavity is designed and fabricated for the purpose of examining the feasibility of installing a thermionic rf-gun at NSRRC instead of a photocathode rf- gun considered previously. The operating frequency of the rf-gun cavity is set at 2856 MHz in order to utilize the available XK-5 klystron and linac. The fabricated parts of the OFHC copper cavity are brazed together in-house and then the cavity is characterized by rf measurement. It shows that the cavity gives very good character in terms of high quality factor, relaxed tuning range, adequate coupling coefficient, and reasonable reproducibility. The properties of the cavity are further explored by measuring the field profile and its response to an rf pulse in which the filling time is deduced. The measurement results of this brazed cavity are described and summarized in this report.