ABSTRACT
This paper presents a detailed design and development methodology of Gun-Collector Test Module (GCTM) for 6 MW peak and 24 kW average power, S-band klystron. Electron gun has been designed through Vaughn’s synthesis, which was later optimized using TRAK code. The final optimized design was cross verified using MAGIC code. Thermal design of the collector was done first from analytical formulae and then verified with ANSYS. Then a GCTM was fabricated and hot tested. This paper also represents the hot testing results of GCTM which was found to very much close to that of the simulated values.
