A tapered damped accelerating structure for CLIC

A new 30 GHz multibunch accelerating structure incorporating both damping and detuning has been designed for the Compact LInear Collider (CLIC). Each cell of the 150-cell structure is damped by its own set of four radial waveguides resulting in a Q of 16 for the lowest dipole mode. A simple linear taper of the beampipe dimension provides a detuning frequency spread of 2 GHz (5.4%). Predictions of the transverse wakefield levels in this structure have been made using both uncoupled, and two-band coupled equivalent circuit models with non-perfect loads. The short-range wakefield has been calculated to be about 1000 V/(pC.mm.m) decreasing to less than 1% at the second bunch (0.67 ns) and with a long time level below 0.1%.