Resonant interaction of the electron beam with a synchronous wave in controlled magnetrons for high-current superconducting accelerators

TL;DR

This paper presents an analytical model and experimental validation for resonant interaction in magnetrons, enabling fast, efficient power control suitable for high-current superconducting accelerators.

Contribution

The paper introduces a simplified analytical model for magnetron-beam interaction and demonstrates a novel power control method validated through experiments, advancing high-current accelerator technology.

Findings

Model accurately predicts magnetron behavior under resonant conditions.

Experimental results confirm the model's validity and the power control method.

The method achieves up to 10 dB power variation with high efficiency and stability.

Abstract

A simplified analytical model of the resonant interaction of the beam of Larmor electrons drifting in the crossed constant fields of a magnetron with a synchronous wave providing a phase grouping of the drifting charge was developed to optimize the parameters of an rf resonant injected signal driving the magnetrons for management of phase and power of rf sources with a rate required for superconducting high-current accelerators. The model, which considers the impact of the rf resonant signal injected into the magnetron on the operation of the injection-locked tube, substantiates the recently developed method of fast power control of magnetrons in the range up to 10 dB at the highest generation efficiency, with low noise, precise stability of the carrier frequency, and the possibility of wideband phase control. Experiments with continuous wave 2.45 GHz, 1 kW microwave oven magnetrons have verified the correspondence of the behavior of these tubes to the analytical model. A proof of the principle of the novel method of power control in magnetrons, based on the developed model, was demonstrated in the experiments. The method is attractive for high-current superconducting rf accelerators. This paper also discusses vector methods of power control with the rates required for superconducting accelerators, the impact of the rf resonant signal injected into the magnetron on the rate of phase control of the injection-locked tubes, and a conceptual scheme of the magnetron transmitter with highest efficiency for high-current accelerators.