Journal of Microwave Power and Electromagnetic Energy (JMPEE)
TITLE	The Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility Accelerator [PDF]
AUTHORS	R.A. Jameson and D.C. Hagerman 1968 3 2 75-80
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Abstract The Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility (LAMPF) will be a national center for medium energy physics investigations of nuclear structure, providing beams of nucleons and mesons, some ten thousand times more intense than now available. These beans will be generated by impinging an intense beam of protons on a target. The proton beam is generated by a linear accelerator (linac) about 2600 feet long which forms the heart of the facility and incorporates many substantial advances in the state-of-the-art of microwave power technology. The linac operates at 201.25 MHz and 805 MHz requiring about 10 MW and 45 MW of peak power respectively, at a high duty factor of 12%. The phase and amplitude of the fields produced must be continuously controlled to within ± 1º and ± 1% in the presence of 30% load disturbances.