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Multipacting studies of beta_g=0.61 and beta_g =0.9, 650 MHz Elliptical SRF Cavities

Multipacting is seen as a performance limiting phenomenon for the superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities. Numerical simulations are essential to pre-empt the experimentally observed multipacting conditions. Readily available codes(e.g. FISHPACT, MULTIPACT,CST etc.) are widely used to simulate the phenomenon of multipacting in such cases. Most of the contemporary two dimensional (2D) codes are unable to detect multipacting in the elliptical cavities because they use a simplistic secondary emission model, where a constant value of emission kinetic energy of secondary electrons is assumed. Some three-dimensional (3D) codes, which use a more realistic and sophisticated secondary emission model (Furman model) by following a probability distribution for the emission kinetic energy of secondary electrons, are able to correctly predict the occurance of multipacting. These 3D softwares however require large data handling and are slower than contemporary 2D codes. We have developed a 2D code for the multipacting analysis for axisymmetric structures, which is based on the Furman model. Since our code is 2D, it is faster than the 3D codes. This makes it possible to perform an accurate multipacting analysis of multipacting within a resaonalble computational time, thus achieving an accuracy as good as in the case of 3D codes, but requiring significantly less computing time. We have used our code for determining the multipacting prone range of values for Eacc in beta_g =0.61 and beta_g =0.9, 650 MHz mid-cell elliptical cavities that we have recently designed for the medium and high energy section of the proposed Indian Spallation Neutron Source (ISNS) project.