Department of Energy Phase II Contract : DEFG-02- 02ER83398
Anticipated Completion: Q4 2006

Universities and agencies in Europe, North America, and Asia are collaborating to design and build the International Linear Collider (ILC) to collide beams of electrons and their antiparticles, positrons. The resulting interactions will be used to probe the basic structure of matter, possibly uncovering an elusive particle called the Higgs boson, and answering other questions about the origins of matter. The collider will have a straight line geometry with a length of about 30 km (18 miles).The current ILC design envisons 1.5 msec electrical pulses at 130 kVolts and 150 Amperes repeated 5 times per second to accelerate the particle beams. Approximately 500 cavities to deliver the pulses must be driven.

DTI received a DoE Phase II SBIR grant to design and build a pulse modulator and test stand power supply which meets ILC requirements. The high voltage, pulsed power supply capable of full duty cycle (approximately 180 kw), will be tested at DTI facilities and then shipped to SLAC ( Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) in California for installation.

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Solid-model of the ILC modulator/power supply