DESIGN OF A STRIP-LINE EXTRACTION KICKER FOR CTF3

The new CLIC test facility (CTF3) is the latest stage to prove the technical feasibility of the CLIC project. An extraction kicker is necessary for the combiner ring, and it will be a strip-line type device due to lower coupling impedances and straightforward fabrication. The field uniformity together with a correct beam dynamics are the most challenging issues of this design. The main parameters of the kicker are analytically calculated using standard analytic formulae. The numeric modelling and simulation of several possible straight sections are reported, and the characteristic impedance is matched with the 50 Ω load. The field homogeneity, the kick angle and the scattering parameters are calculated in a 3D finite element model. Several manufacturing issues for the first prototype are also outlined.