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all but eliminated multipactoring. And while the Cornell cavity exhibited greater<br />

HOM damping than the cavities used in the SCA, much was done to address the<br />

potential problem of multipass, multibunch BBU.<br />

During the initial construction of CEBAF, the injector linac was used in con-<br />

junction with a single recirculation line to experimentally investigate the problem of<br />

BBU [13, 14]. The injector was capable of providing over 200 µA of average beam<br />

current. Beam was injected into the linac at 5.5 MeV and accelerated to 43 MeV by<br />

two cryomodules. Next, the beam was recirculated and sent through the linac for a<br />

second pass where it could either be accelerated to 80 MeV or the recirculator could<br />

be configured for energy recovery in which the beam was decelerated to 5.5 MeV.<br />

With no energy recovery, over 200 µA was successfully transported through the sys-<br />

tem. In the energy recovery mode, the average current was limited to 30 µA due to<br />

poor transmission of the second pass beam which led to intolerable beam losses. In<br />

neither operating scenario were there indications of the development of BBU.<br />

Even before CEBAF was completed, proposals were made for using an SRF<br />

linac as a driver for an FEL [15]. In addition to the ability of an SRF linac to main-<br />

tain superior beam quality, the ability for cw operation opened up the possibility of<br />

achieving high average output power while using bunches of modest charge. It had<br />

been recognized that invoking energy recovery would increase the system efficiency<br />

while at the same time reducing the need for expensive, high power RF sources [16].<br />

An initial design for an ERL-based driver for an FEL at Jefferson Laboratory was<br />

developed in 1991 [17]. This design was significant in that it marked the first time<br />

energy recovery was implemented as the nominal mode of operation.<br />

By 1998 the Jefferson Laboratory IR FEL Demo successfully energy recovered<br />

5 mA of average beam current through a single cryomodule from 48 MeV to the<br />

injection energy of 10 MeV [18]. By the end of 2001, as the IR Demo was being de-<br />

commissioned to prepare for an upgrade, the machine had operated at, or exceeded,<br />

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