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The threshold is inversely proportional to the HOM impedance and is also<br />

sensitive to the polarization of the mode. The ratio (Rd/Qo) is a quantity that<br />

depends purely on the geometry of the cavity structure. The goal in designing RF<br />

cavities for high current applications is to provide strong HOM damping and thereby<br />

decrease the QL of HOMs. For a physically viable solution, the threshold current<br />

must be positive, which requires that the quantity M ∗ sin(ωTr) be less than zero.<br />

The regions for which the formula is valid are discussed more fully in Section 4.2.1.<br />

As a brief aside, note that there can sometimes arise confusion when it comes<br />

to defining the ratio (R/Q) for dipole HOMs [66]. Codes such as MAFIA track<br />

particles a distance, a, off-axis through the cavity and use the accelerating voltage<br />

to compute (Rd/Qo) as<br />

Rd<br />

Qo<br />

= V 2<br />

a<br />

ωU<br />

88<br />

(4.22)<br />

with units of Ω/cm 2 . This can be misleading because it implies that (Rd/Qo) is a<br />

function of the off-axis displacement. The convention throughout this dissertation<br />

uses the definition<br />

Rd<br />

Qo<br />

= V 2 ⊥<br />

ωU<br />

(4.23)<br />

where V⊥ is the transverse deflecting voltage and (Rd/Qo) is in units of Ohms. The<br />

transverse voltage is proportional to the magnetic field, which for a TM110 mode, is<br />

constant for small values of the off-axis displacement. Converting between the two<br />

definitions is achieved using the relation<br />

where k (= ω/c) is the wavenumber.<br />

Va = (ka)V⊥<br />

(4.24)

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