Author: Kamps, T.
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TUP109 Fabrication, Treatment and Testing of a 1.6 Cell Photo-injector Cavity for HZB 1047
 
  • P. Kneisel
    JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
  • T. Kamps, J. Knobloch, O. Kugeler, A. Neumann
    HZB, Berlin, Germany
  • R. Nietubyc
    The Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Centre Swierk, Swierk/Otwock, Poland
  • J.K. Sekutowicz
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
 
  Funding: This manuscript has been authored by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC under U.S. DOE Contract No. DE-AC05-06OR23177..
As part of a CRADA (Cooperative Research and Development Agreement) between Forschungszentrum Dresden (FZD) and JLab we have fabricated and tested after appropriate surface treatment a 1.5 cell, 1300 MHz RRR niobium photo-injector cavity to be used in a demonstration test at BESSY*. Following a baseline test at JLab, the cavity received a lead spot coating of ~8 mm diameter deposited with a cathode arc at the Soltan Institute on the endplate made from large grain niobium. It had been demonstrated in earlier tests with a DESY built 1.5 cell cavity – the original design – that a lead spot of this size can be a good electron source, when irradiated with a laser light of 213 nm . In the initial test with the lead spot we could measure a peak surface electric field of ~ 29 MV/m; after a second surface treatment, carried out to improve the cavity performance, but which was not done with sufficient precaution, the lead spot was destroyed and the cavity had to be coated a second time. This contribution reports about the experiences and results obtained with this cavity.
* A. Neumann et al., “CW Superconducting RF Photoinjector Development for Energy Recovery Linacs”, LINAC10, September 13-17, 2010, Tsukuba, Japan.