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A Proposal of a Superconducting Linac in CW Operation for Multi-Purposes

arXiv:1807.07692 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.22.041602

Abstract

A superconducting (SC) linac is expected to lead to outstanding discoveries in various scientific fields because its beam current is a few orders of magnitude larger than in a normal-conducting linac. However, the widespread use of SC linac is limited by the high construction and operation costs. To resolve this problem, we propose a continuous wave (CW) operation of a SC linac shared by electron/positron beams for effective multi-purposes utilization. A high current positron/electron beam is required for high-energy physics projects such as linear collider and muon collider while high-current and high-quality electron beams is expected to realize the next generation X-ray light sources. As an example, we discuss the injector of the International Linear Collider, an X-ray free-electron laser and an energy-recovery linac light source. We found a feasible solution for the proposed multibeam operation despite the high-quality beam requirements and complicated opertion: control of mixed beams without pulsed magnets, lower beam loss and heat load in the cavity, high stability of beam energy, and operation at high average current.

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