Design and Construction of a Cavity for 5 MeV Industrial Electron Accelerator in VHF Band Frequency with 50 kW Power

Abstract

Medium power electron accelerators have many applications in industrial irradiations. In order to meet the industry needs of Iran, several investigations for design and construction of the medium power linear electron accelerator in the VHF band frequency with the energy range of 1 MeV - 5 MeV have been started. The acceleration cavity is one of the important components of this design. In this article the design and construction of the cavity are reported and the results of the simulations and measurements are compered. Mean while the essential parameters, including resonance frequency, quality factor, shunt impedance, figure of merit and transit time factor are evaluated for several configuration of cylindrical cavity using (CST), (HFSS) and (SUPERFISH) codes in order to design an efficient cavity for electron beam with the maximum energy up to 5 MeV and 50 kW power with the lowest power loss. After repeating the simulations and reliability of the results, the designed cavity was constructed and its parameters were measured. The results showed that the measured parameters are in good agreement with simulation results.

Keywords

• industrial electron accelerator
• cylindrical cavity
• vhf band frequency