TY - JOUR AU - Alesini, D. AU - Boni, R. AU - Di Pirro, G. AU - Di Raddo, R. AU - Ferrario, M. AU - Gallo, A. AU - Lollo, V. AU - Marcellini, F. AU - Palumbo, L. AU - Spizzo, V. AU - Mostacci, A. AU - Campogiani, G. AU - Persichelli, S. AU - Enomoto, A. AU - Higo, T. AU - Kakihara, K. AU - Kamitani, T. AU - Matsumoto, S. AU - Sugimura, T. AU - Yokoyama, K. AU - Verdu-Andres, S. PY - 2013 DA - 2013// TI - The C-Band accelerating structures for SPARC photoinjector energy upgrade T2 - J. Instrum. JO - Journal of Instrumentation SP - P05004 - 24pp VL - 8 PB - Iop Publishing Ltd KW - Acceleration cavities and magnets superconducting (high-temperature superconductor KW - radiation hardened magnets KW - normal-conducting KW - permanent magnet devices KW - wigglers and undulators) KW - Accelerator Subsystems and Technologies KW - Instrumentation for FEL AB - The use of C-Band structures for electron acceleration and production of high quality beams has been proposed and adopted in several linac projects all over the world. The two main projects that adopted such type of structures are the Japanese Free Electron Laser (FEL) project in Spring-8 and the SwissFEL project at Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). Also the energy upgrade of the SPARC photo-injector at LNF-INFN (Italy) from 150 to more than 240 MeV will be done by replacing a low gradient S-Band accelerating structure with two C-band structures. The structures are Traveling Wave (TW) and Constant Impedance (CI), have symmetric axial input couplers and have been optimized to work with a SLED RF input pulse. The paper presents the design criteria of the structures, the realization procedure and the low and high power RF test results on a prototype. The high power tests have been carried out by the Frascati INFN Laboratories in close collaboration with the Japanese Laboratory KEK. Experimental results confirmed the feasibility of the operation of the prototype at 50 MV/m with about 10(6) breakdowns per pulse per meter. Such high gradients have not been reached before in C-Band systems and demonstrated the possibility to use C-band accelerators, if needed, at such high field level. The results of the internal inspection of the structure after the high power test are also presented. SN - 1748-0221 UR - https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/8/05/P05004 DO - 10.1088/1748-0221/8/05/P05004 LA - English N1 - WOS:000320726000014 ID - Alesini_etal2013 ER -