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Despite its success, this method of energy recovery has not been used since. The<br />

subsequent material in this dissertation is focused solely on accelerators utilizing<br />

same-cell energy recovery in superconducting RF cavities.<br />

1.3.1 Jefferson Laboratory and ERLs<br />

Over the course of 12 years, from 1993 to 2005, Jefferson Laboratory successfully<br />

demonstrated same-cell energy recovery in four different accelerators. Due in large<br />

part to the success of the IR FEL Demo in the mid 1990’s, there has been a renewed<br />

interest in ERLs as drivers for applications ranging from electron-ion colliders, to<br />

electron coolers, to light sources and FELs.<br />

As discussed in Section 1.2, combining the principle of energy recovery with<br />

SRF cavities leads to an accelerator capable of generating an intense beam with ex-<br />

cellent beam qualities in an efficient and economical manner. Initial experience with<br />

SRF cavities, however, presented formidable challenges. In the early 1970s, when<br />

Stanford University began operation of the SCA, multipactoring in the SRF cavities<br />

severely limited the gradients and consequently the final beam energy. To overcome<br />

this obstacle, transport elements were installed to recirculate the beam multiple<br />

times through the linac [10, 11]. When the beam was recirculated, insufficiently<br />

damped HOMs caused beam breakup, thereby limiting the achievable average beam<br />

current. Thus, despite the great potential of SRF cavities, the first accelerator to<br />

implement SRF technology was limited in beam energy (due to multipactoring) and<br />

average beam current (due to BBU).<br />

When in 1985 it was proposed to build a 4 GeV electron accelerator for nuclear<br />

physics based on SRF technology at Jefferson Laboratory, a great effort was made<br />

to address the issues of implementing SRF technology on such a large scale [12]. By<br />

this time Cornell University had designed a cavity using an elliptical cell shape which<br />

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