Use of multimode cavities with equidistant spectrum for increasing the energy accumulation rate of particles in linear supercolliders

We propose a new accelerating structure for teraelectronvolt linear electron–positron colliders 1–4]. The structure is based on acceleration of a sequence of particle bunches (accelerated beam) by means of a periodic system of quasioptical cavities. Each cavity is operated at several eigenmodes with equidistant frequencies which are excited by a drive beam bunched with the same spatial period as the accelerated beam. The accelerating field represents a time-periodic sequence of narrow peaks separated by wide intervals of a field close to zero. This makes it possible to significantly decrease the effective time of exposure of the structure surface by ultrahigh microwave fields compared with the single-frequency structure. To maximize filling of the structure by accelerating-field regions and minimize ohmic losses, we suggest using a set of modes with a nonzero number of longitudinal variations strictly proportional to the frequencies of these modes. Such modes are able to provide long effective interaction of the total microwave field with a bunch of particles passing across the cavity. In this way, the acceleration gradient averaged over the structure length can be increased. A variant of the accelerating structure which is based on two-mirror cavities with small curvature of the mirrors is proposed. Such cavities can provide approximate frequency equidistance of a large number of modes with nonzero longitudinal variations.