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sense it measures the strength of the coupling between the mode and beam. One of<br />

the primary challenges in designing a cavity is to ensure that the accelerating mode<br />

has a large (R/Q) while minimizing the (R/Q) of higher-order modes.<br />

1.2.2 ERLs Utilizing SRF Technology<br />

There is an increasing demand for accelerators to provide high duty factor, or<br />

cw, beams. The duty factor refers to the percentage of time the beam is on and a<br />

continuous wave beam is one in which the duty factor is 100%. In this case the beam<br />

pulse is continuously on at the RF repetition rate or at one of its subharmonics. The<br />

high Qo of SRF cavities means very little power is dissipated on the cavity walls,<br />

which in turn allows cavities to operate in cw mode while maintaining relatively<br />

high gradients. This is in stark contrast to normal conducting cavities. Because<br />

of the resistive heating in the normal conducting material (e.g. copper), the linac<br />

can only operate in pulsed mode, requiring large time gaps between accelerated<br />

bunches to allow the cavities to cool. Operating copper cavities in cw mode limits<br />

gradients to less than 2 MV/m. On the other hand, at the Jefferson Laboratory FEL<br />

SRF-based Driver, cw beam is provided by operating up to the 20 th subharmonic<br />

of the fundamental RF frequency, while maintaining cavity gradients in excess of<br />

10 MV/m. Thus, the operation of a high duty factor accelerator necessitates the<br />

use of SRF technology.<br />

Another important advantage of SRF cavities is the ability to increase the beam<br />

aperture. While this decreases the (Ra/Qo) of the fundamental mode, the effect can<br />

be absorbed by the extremely high Qo since the goal is to minimize the dissipated<br />

power, which from Eq. (1.5) is inversely proportional to (Ra/Qo)Qo. A larger aper-<br />

ture ensures increased beam quality by reducing the short range wakefields and<br />

thereby reducing emittance growth along the linac, it ensures greater beam stability<br />

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