RESULTS AND PERFORMANCE SIMULATIONS OF THE MAIN LINAC DESIGN FOR BERLinPro

The Berlin Energy Recovery Linac Project BERLinPro is designed to develop and demonstrate CW LINAC technology for 100 mA class ERLs. High current operation requires an effective damping of higher ordermodes HOMs of the 1.3 GHz main linac cavities. We have studied elliptical seven cell cavities damped by five waveguides at the adjacent beam tubes. Eigenmode calculations for geometrical figures of merit show that the present design should allow successful cw linac operation at the maximum beam current of 100 mA 77pC bunch charge. In this paper the progress in HOM calculations to avoid beam breakup instabilities for the favored cavity structure is presented