On operation and control of CW magnetrons for superconducting accelerators

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Autori principali: Kazakevich, G., Johnson, R. P., Gonin, I., Yakovlev, V., Derbenev, Ya., Wang, H.
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Kazakevich, G.
Johnson, R. P.
Gonin, I.
Yakovlev, V.
Derbenev, Ya.
Wang, H.
author_facet Kazakevich, G.
Johnson, R. P.
Gonin, I.
Yakovlev, V.
Derbenev, Ya.
Wang, H.
contents CW magnetrons, developed for industrial RF heaters, were suggested to feed RF cavities of superconducting accelerators due to higher efficiency and lower cost of RF power than provide traditionally used klystrons, IOTs or solid-state amplifiers. RF amplifiers driven by a master oscillator serve as coherent RF sources. CW magnetrons are regenerative RF auto generators with a huge regenerative gain. This causes regenerative instability with a notable noise when a magnetron operates as an auto generator i.e., with the anode voltage above the threshold of self-excitation. Traditionally, an injection locking by a small signal is used for phase stabilization of magnetrons. In this case CW magnetrons with the injection-locked (coherent) oscillations generate a notable level of noise. This may preclude use of CW magnetrons in this mode in the Superconducting RF (SRF) accelerators. This paper reviews PIC modeling and previously obtained experimental results for the operation and control of CW magnetrons, which led to the development of techniques most suitable for various SRF accelerators using forced RF oscillation of magnetrons, when the magnetron is launched by an injected forcing signal, and regenerative noise is suppressed.
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spellingShingle On operation and control of CW magnetrons for superconducting accelerators
Kazakevich, G.
Johnson, R. P.
Gonin, I.
Yakovlev, V.
Derbenev, Ya.
Wang, H.
Accelerator Physics
CW magnetrons, developed for industrial RF heaters, were suggested to feed RF cavities of superconducting accelerators due to higher efficiency and lower cost of RF power than provide traditionally used klystrons, IOTs or solid-state amplifiers. RF amplifiers driven by a master oscillator serve as coherent RF sources. CW magnetrons are regenerative RF auto generators with a huge regenerative gain. This causes regenerative instability with a notable noise when a magnetron operates as an auto generator i.e., with the anode voltage above the threshold of self-excitation. Traditionally, an injection locking by a small signal is used for phase stabilization of magnetrons. In this case CW magnetrons with the injection-locked (coherent) oscillations generate a notable level of noise. This may preclude use of CW magnetrons in this mode in the Superconducting RF (SRF) accelerators. This paper reviews PIC modeling and previously obtained experimental results for the operation and control of CW magnetrons, which led to the development of techniques most suitable for various SRF accelerators using forced RF oscillation of magnetrons, when the magnetron is launched by an injected forcing signal, and regenerative noise is suppressed.
title On operation and control of CW magnetrons for superconducting accelerators
topic Accelerator Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22215