Design and Manufacture of the RF Power Supply and RF Transmission Line for SANAEM Project Prometheus

TL;DR

This paper details the design, manufacturing, and testing of RF power supply and transmission line components for the SANAEM Project Prometheus, aiming for local production capabilities in a proton beamline facility.

Contribution

It introduces the design and local manufacturing of RF components for a proton beamline, including performance comparisons with commercial parts.

Findings

Locally produced RF components meet performance standards.

Successful RF testing demonstrates viability of local manufacturing.

The project enhances local capabilities in accelerator technology.

Abstract

A 1-5 MeV proton beamline is being built by the Turkish Atomic Energy Authority in collaboration with a number of graduate students from different universities. The primary goal of the project, is to acquire the design ability and manufacturing capability of all the components locally. SPP will be an accelerator and beam diagnostics test facility and it will also serve the detector development community with its low beam current. This paper discusses the design and construction of the RF power supply and the RF transmission line components such as its waveguide converters and its circulator. Additionally low and high power RF test results are presented to compare the performances of the locally produced components to the commercially available ones.