Results from the CLIC X-BAND structure test program at the NLCTA

As part of a SLAC-CERN-KEK col­lab­o­ra­tion on high gra­di­ent X-band struc­ture re­search, sev­er­al pro­to­type struc­tures for the CLIC lin­ear col­lid­er study have been test­ed using two of the high power (300 MW) X-band rf sta­tions in the NLCTA fa­cil­i­ty at SLAC. These struc­tures dif­fer in terms of their man­u­fac­tur­ing (brazed disks and clamped quad­rants), gra­di­ent pro­file (amount by which the gra­di­ent in­creas­es along the struc­ture which op­ti­mizes ef­fi­cien­cy and max­i­mizes sus­tain­able gra­di­ent) and HOM damp­ing (use of slots or waveg­uides to rapid­ly dis­si­pate dipole mode en­er­gy). The CLIC goal in the next few years is to demon­strate the fea­si­bil­i­ty of a CLIC-ready base­line de­sign and to in­ves­ti­gate al­ter­na­tives which could bring even high­er ef­fi­cien­cy. This paper sum­ma­rizes the high gra­di­ent test re­sults from the NLCTA in sup­port of this ef­fort.