IPAC2015 - List of Authors (Dodson, G.W.)

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MOPHA013	Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavity Degradation Due to Errant Beam	805
	C.C. Peters, D. Curry, G.D. Johns ORNL RAD, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA A.V. Aleksandrov, W. Blokland, M.T. Crofford, C. Deibele, G.W. Dodson, J. Galambos, T.A. Justice, S.-H. Kim, T.A. Pelaia II, M.A. Plum, A.P. Shishlo ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
	Funding: ORNL is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05- 00OR22725 for the U.S. Department of Energy. In 2009, the Superconducting Radio Frequency (SRF) cavities at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) began to experience significant operational degradation [1]. The source of the degradation was found to be repeated striking of cavity surfaces with errant beam pulses. The Machine Protection System (MPS) was designed to turn the beam off during a fault condition in less than 20 μseconds [2] as these errant beam pulses were not unexpected. Unfortunately an improperly operating MPS was not turning off the beam within the designed 20 μseconds, and the SRF cavities were being damaged. The MPS issues were corrected, and the SRF performance was restored with cavity thermal cycling and RF processing. However, the SRF cavity performance has continued to degrade, though at a reduced rate compared to 2009. This paper will detail further study of errant beam frequency, amount lost per event, causes, and the corrective actions imposed since the initial event.
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Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavity Degradation Due to Errant Beam

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C.C. Peters, D. Curry, G.D. Johns
ORNL RAD, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
A.V. Aleksandrov, W. Blokland, M.T. Crofford, C. Deibele, G.W. Dodson, J. Galambos, T.A. Justice, S.-H. Kim, T.A. Pelaia II, M.A. Plum, A.P. Shishlo
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

Funding: ORNL is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05- 00OR22725 for the U.S. Department of Energy.
In 2009, the Superconducting Radio Frequency (SRF) cavities at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) began to experience significant operational degradation [1]. The source of the degradation was found to be repeated striking of cavity surfaces with errant beam pulses. The Machine Protection System (MPS) was designed to turn the beam off during a fault condition in less than 20 μseconds [2] as these errant beam pulses were not unexpected. Unfortunately an improperly operating MPS was not turning off the beam within the designed 20 μseconds, and the SRF cavities were being damaged. The MPS issues were corrected, and the SRF performance was restored with cavity thermal cycling and RF processing. However, the SRF cavity performance has continued to degrade, though at a reduced rate compared to 2009. This paper will detail further study of errant beam frequency, amount lost per event, causes, and the corrective actions imposed since the initial event.

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