Beam Dynamics Studies of an Accelerating Tube for 6 MeV Electron LINAC

Side coupled standing wave accelerating tubes are widely used in a low energy linear accelerator because of relatively high accelerating gradient and low sensitivity to construction tolerances. The effective interaction of particles and electromagnetic fields is important for accelerate electrons to intended energy with the greatest efficiency and beam quality output. In this paper, we present the beam dynamics of a 6 MeV Side coupled standing wave accelerating tube using a space charge tracking algorithm (ASTRA). The designed accelerating tube that feeds by a maximum power of 2.6 MW resonant at frequency of 2998.5 MHz in pi/2 mode. 37.5 percent capture efficiency, 6.82 pi-mm-mrad horizontal emittance, 6.78 pi-mm-mrad vertical emittance, 2.24 mm horizontal and vertical beam size and 1079 keV energy spread of the output beam have been determined from the results of beam dynamics studies in ASTRA