ANL, Argonne, Illinois, USA
We have designed, fabricated and tested two new half-wave resonators following the successful development of a series of niobium superconducting quarter-wave cavities. The half-wave resonators are optimized for β = 0.11 ions, operate at 162.5 MHz and are intended to provide up to 2 MV effective voltage for particles with the optimal velocity. Testing of the first two half-wave resonators is complete with both reaching accelerating voltages greater than 3.5 MV with low-field residual resistances of 1.7 and 2.3 nΩ respectively. The intention of this paper is to provide insight into how Argonne achieves low-residual resistances and high surface fields in low-beta cavities by describing the cavity design, fabrication, processing and testing.
ANL, Argonne, Illinois, USA
RadiaBeam, Santa Monica, California, USA
AES, Medford, New York, USA
A pair of 20 kW CW adjustable RF power couplers optimized for 1.4 GHz have been designed and are being built as part of the APS-U bunch lengthening system. The system uses one superconducting RF cavity to be installed into the APS Upgrade electron storage ring and will provide a tremendous practical benefit to the majority of users by increasing the beam lifetime by 2-3 times. The 80 mm diameter, 50 Ω coaxial couplers include 4 cm (~20 dB) of adjustability. This allows optimization of bunch lengthening for a range of storage ring beam currents and fill patterns while, simultaneously, maintaining the required 0.84 MV harmonic cavity voltage. To provide bunch lengthening, the cavity/coupler system must extract RF power (up to 32 kW) from the beam. Each coupler will transmit roughly half of the total extracted power to external water-cooled loads. The design extends upon on a well-tested ANL two RF window concept, using a pair of simple rugged 80 mm diameter alumina disks. A new feature is the ‘hourglass-shaped’ inner conductor chosen to maximize transmission at 1.4 GHz. Results of electromagnetic and thermal simulations, as well as, prototyping and initial RF testing are presented.