Design of HOM coupler prototype for the APT superconducting RF cavities

Beam dynamics calculations for the Accelerator Production of Tritium (APT) proton linac suggest that wakefields, which are excited during beam operation, would not lead to beam-breakup instabilities. However, in the superconducting (SC) radio-frequency (RF) cavities of the APT linac, higher-order modes (HOMs), whose frequencies are below the beam tube cut-off frequency, can be sufficiently excited by the beam to add significantly to the heat load removed by the helium refrigerator. In this paper, we present a design of an HOM coupler for the APT RF cavities that will remove this power to a resistive load at room temperature.