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CHAPTER 2<br />

CEBAF with Energy Recovery<br />

2.1 Motivation<br />

High energy (of order GeV), high current (of order 100 mA) beams would<br />

require gigawatt-class RF systems in conventional linacs - a prohibitively expensive<br />

proposition. Invoking energy recovery alleviates RF power demands, improves linac<br />

efficiency and increases cost effectiveness. Yet the previous demonstrations of energy<br />

recovery using SRF technology discussed in Section 1.3 were performed on relatively<br />

small machines. Consequently the beam energy never exceeded 100 MeV until<br />

the recent commissioning of the FEL Upgrade Driver. With the increased interest<br />

in using ERLs as drivers for synchrotron light sources, the beam energies must<br />

far exceed those presently used in FELs. To bridge the gap between the current<br />

state of ERLs, which exist on smaller scales, to the future ERLs, an experiment to<br />

energy recover the beam in Jefferson Laboratory’s CEBAF machine was proposed<br />

[19]. Consisting of 312 cavities and having a circumference of 1.3 km, a successful<br />

demonstration of energy recovery in CEBAF is an important step on the path to the<br />

next generation of ERLs. Such a demonstration requires addressing issues related<br />

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