CLIC X-band technologies

The objective of the X-band activity is to develop the high-gradient, high-power X-band rf system for the CLIC main linacs. The current focus is on constructing and operating 100 MV/m prototype accelerating structures and establishing a significant high-power testing capability through klystron-based test stands. Additional activities include studies of the fundamental physics of high-gradients, the use of high-gradient technology in other applications such as XFELs and medical linacs and the design of high-efficiency and high frequency klystrons.

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List of work packages CLIC-XBT

Recent publications and talks:

High-gradient rf testing results by W. Wuensch, LCWS14

Test stand development by I. Syratchev, LCWS14

X-band outreach – XFEL by G. D’Auria, LCWS14

Basic high-gradient studies by W. Wuensch

Advances in the Understanding of the Physical Processes of Vacuum Breakdown by W. Wuensch, CERN 2013

 Collaborators and projects

EuCARD2 WP12.3University of Oslo, NORWAY
Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), CHINAJoint Institute for Nuclear Research Dubna (JINR), RUSSIA
Tsinghua University of Beijing , CHINACockroft Institute, UK
Shangai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP), CHINAIstituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC), SPAIN
Tartu University, ESTONIAUppsala University, SWEDEN
Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), FINLANDPaul Scherrer Institute (PSI Villingen), SWITZERLAND
Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA), FRANCEInstitute of Applied Physics (IAP-NASU), UKRAINE
The Racah institute of Physics at the Hebrew University , ISRAELCentro de Investigationes Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnologicasc (CIEMAT), SPAIN
KEK, JAPANArgonne National Laboratory, USA
KVI University of Groningen, NETHERLANDSSLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA

 Activity Leader: 

Dr. Walter Wuensch