Final cross section design of the stripline kicker for the CLIC damping rings

The CLIC design relies on the presence of Pre-Damping Rings (PDR) and Damping Rings (DR) to achieve, through synchrotron radiation, the very low emittance needed to fulfill the luminosity requirements. Kicker systems are required to inject and extract the beam from the Pre-Damping and Damping Rings. In order to achieve both low beam coupling impedance and reasonable broadband impedance matching to the electrical circuit, striplines have been chosen for the kicker elements. In this paper the final design for the DR kicker is presented, including an optimization of the geometric parameters to achieve the requirements for both characteristic impedance and field homogeneity. In addition, a sensitivity analysis of characteristic impedance and field homogeneity to geometric parameters is reported.