Fundamentals of Vacuum Breakdown in High-Field Systems

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Auteurs principaux: Wuensch, Walter, Calatroni, Sergio, Djurabekova, Flyura, Kyritsakis, Andreas, Ashkenazy, Yinon
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author Wuensch, Walter
Calatroni, Sergio
Djurabekova, Flyura
Kyritsakis, Andreas
Ashkenazy, Yinon
author_facet Wuensch, Walter
Calatroni, Sergio
Djurabekova, Flyura
Kyritsakis, Andreas
Ashkenazy, Yinon
contents This review consolidates experimental, theoretical, and simulation work examining the behavior of high-field devices and the fundamental process of vacuum arc initiation, commonly referred to as breakdown. Detailed experimental observations and results relating to a wide range of aspects of high-field devices, including conditioning, field and temperature dependence of breakdown rate, and the ability to sustain high electric fields as a function of device geometry and materials, are presented. The different observations are then addressed theoretically, and with simulation, capturing the sequence of processes that lead to vacuum breakdown and explaining the major observed experimental dependencies. The core of the work described in this review was carried out by a broad multi-disciplinary collaboration in an over a decade-long program to develop high-gradient, 100 MV/m-range, accelerating structures for the CLIC project, a possible future linear-collider high-energy physics facility. Connections are made to the broader linear collider, high-field, and breakdown communities.
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spellingShingle Fundamentals of Vacuum Breakdown in High-Field Systems
Wuensch, Walter
Calatroni, Sergio
Djurabekova, Flyura
Kyritsakis, Andreas
Ashkenazy, Yinon
Applied Physics
Materials Science
Accelerator Physics
Plasma Physics
This review consolidates experimental, theoretical, and simulation work examining the behavior of high-field devices and the fundamental process of vacuum arc initiation, commonly referred to as breakdown. Detailed experimental observations and results relating to a wide range of aspects of high-field devices, including conditioning, field and temperature dependence of breakdown rate, and the ability to sustain high electric fields as a function of device geometry and materials, are presented. The different observations are then addressed theoretically, and with simulation, capturing the sequence of processes that lead to vacuum breakdown and explaining the major observed experimental dependencies. The core of the work described in this review was carried out by a broad multi-disciplinary collaboration in an over a decade-long program to develop high-gradient, 100 MV/m-range, accelerating structures for the CLIC project, a possible future linear-collider high-energy physics facility. Connections are made to the broader linear collider, high-field, and breakdown communities.
title Fundamentals of Vacuum Breakdown in High-Field Systems
topic Applied Physics
Materials Science
Accelerator Physics
Plasma Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03967