Due to Iran's growing need for accelerators in various
applications, NSTRI (Nuclear Science and Technology Research
Institute) has defined a 6 MeV e-Linac (electron linear
accelerator) project for medical and inspection applications. This
electron accelerator has a side-coupled standing wave tube that
operates in π/2 mode at the frequency of 2998.5 MHz. This paper
presents a summary of the construction and cold test stage of the
prototype tube for this accelerator. The prototype tube was
constructed from aluminum and clamped with bolts.In the cold test
stage, low-power RF measurements werecarried out using a
side-coupled cavity tuning method and a bead-pull measurement
technique. Using a network analyzer, magnetic and electric probes,
and a mechanical structure constructed for this tube made the RF
tuning possible. After tuning, the resonant frequency, unloaded
quality factor, and effective shunt impedance of the aluminum tube
were achieved at 2998.57 MHz, 7970, and 83.25 MΩ/m
respectively.