JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
HZB, Berlin, Germany
The Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Centre Swierk, Swierk/Otwock, Poland
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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.
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
ANL, Argonne, USA
Two single-cell, superconducting, squashed elliptical crab cavities with waveguides to damp Higher Order Modes (HOM) and Lower Order Mode (LOM) have been designed and prototyped for the Short Pulse X-ray (SPX) project at the Advanced Photon Source (APS). The Baseline cavity with LOM damper on the beam pipe has been vertically tested and exceeded its performance specification with over 0.5MV deflecting voltage. The Alternate cavity design which uses an “on-cell” waveguide damper is preferred due to its larger LOM impedance safety margin. Its prototype cavity has been fabricated by a Computer Numerical Controlled (CNC) machine and is subject to further testing. The conceptual design, layout and analysis for various cryomodule components are presented.
ANL, Argonne, USA
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
The Advanced Photon Source Upgrade project (APS-U) at Argonne includes implementation of Zholents’* deflecting cavity scheme for production of short x-ray pulses. This is a joint project between Argonne National Laboratory, Thomas Jefferson National Laboratory, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This paper describes performance characteristics of the proposed source and technical issues related to its realization. Ensuring stable APS storage ring operation requires reducing quality factors of these modes by many orders of magnitude. These challenges reduce to those of the design of a single-cell SC cavity that can achieve the desired operating deflecting fields while providing needed damping of all these modes. The project team is currently prototyping and testing several promising designs for single-cell cavities with the goal of deciding on a winning design in the near future.
*A. Zholents et al., NIM A 425, 385 (1999).