Update on coaxial coupling scheme for International Linear Collider-type cavities

Abstract

This paper reports on our efforts to develop a flangeable coaxial coupler for both higher order mode and fundamental coupling for nine-cell ILC-type cavities, which were designed in the early 1990’s for pulsed operation with a duty factor less than 1%. The design of the coupler has been done in such a way that the rf magnetic flux B at the flange connection was minimized and only a field of <5 mT would be present for an operation at an accelerating field E_{acc}∼36 MV/m (B∼150 mT) in the cavity. Even though we achieved reasonably high Q values at low field, the cavity/coupler combination was limited in the cw mode to only ∼7 MV/m, where a thermally initiated degradation occurred. We believed that this limitation was caused by poor cooling of the shorting plate and inner tube in the coaxial coupler; therefore, we have improved the cooling conditions by initially drilling radial cooling channels every 30 degrees, then every 15 degrees into the shorting plate and eventually removing the “bridges” between the channels. This paper reports on our experiences with the modified coaxial coupler under cw and pulsed conditions.