A method to compensate the energy loss of a continuous stacked beam with a large momentum spread

A system of rectangular drift tube loaded cavities resonating in the TE 101 mode combined with a cyclic scaling guide field can be used to accelerate an unbunched beam of charged particles. The system is superior to phase displacement because the cavities are driven at a fixed frequency with certain phase differences between each other. The range of particle momenta is limited by rf-knock out. Rf-induced betatron oscillations and phase dependent momentum changes can be compensated by means of sixteen cavities on the circumference of the accelerator. The amplitude of the betatron oscillations and the energy gain were calculated numerically for storage devices consisting of a spiral-sector FFAG guide field and one or sixteen cavities, respectively, using measured rf-feld data. The systems seem to be practical only for electrons with an energy up to 100 MeV. The rf-system works within an energy width of several MeV. (Auth.)