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mode can translate into a transverse displacement at the cavity after recirculation.<br />

The recirculated beam induces an HOM voltage which depends on the magnitude<br />

and direction of the beam displacement. Thus, the recirculated beam completes the<br />

feedback loop which can become unstable if the average beam current exceeds the<br />

threshold current for stability.<br />

Beam breakup is of particular concern in the design of high average current<br />

ERLs utilizing superconducting RF (SRF) technology. If not sufficiently damped<br />

by the HOM couplers, dipole modes with quality factors several orders of magnitude<br />

higher than in normal conducting cavities can exist, providing a real threat for BBU<br />

to develop. The effect of the instability is to limit the average current that can be<br />

accelerated, which can severely affect machine performance when this occurs at<br />

currents below the designed operational current.<br />

1.2 Superconducting Radio Frequency Technol-<br />

ogy<br />

While in principle there is nothing that prohibits the use of normal conducting<br />

RF cavities for energy recovery, superconducting RF has many advantages which<br />

have made it the technology of choice for nearly all ERL designs, past and present.<br />

The primary features which make it so attractive are the high quality factor of the<br />

accelerating mode and the ability to operate in continuous wave (cw) mode while<br />

maintaining relatively high accelerating gradients.<br />

The basic building block of the linacs at Jefferson Laboratory’s electron acceler-<br />

ators - the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) and the 10 kW<br />

FEL Upgrade Driver - is the SRF cavity shown in Fig. 1.2. The standard CEBAF<br />

style cavity is based on a Cornell University design and consists of five elliptically<br />

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