RW Bruce Associates, was working with Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), is developing means to join short ceramic sections into a continuous accelerator tube by ceramic brazing using a millimeter-wave beam. The installation and testing of the first dielectric-loaded test accelerator, including injector, DLA structure, and spectrometer was to take place in 2005. The facility will be used for testing DLA structures using a variety of materials and configurations, and also for testing other X-band accelerator concepts. The initial goal is to produce a compact 20-MeV dielectric-loaded test accelerator.
