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TUBA01 | Status of the SRF Systems at HIE-ISOLDE | 481 |
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The HIE-ISOLDE project has been approved by CERN in 2009 and gained momentum after 2011. The final energy goal of the upgrade is to boost the radioactive beams of REX-ISOLDE from the present 3 MeV/u up to 10 MeV/u for A/q up to 4.5. This is to be achieved by means of a new superconducting linac, operating at 101.28 MHz and 4.5 K with independently phased quarter wave resonators (QWR). The QWRs are based on the Nb sputtering on copper technology, pioneered at CERN and developed at INFN-LNL for this cavity shape. Transverse focusing is provided by Nb-Ti superconducting solenoids. The cryomodules hosting the active elements are of the common vacuum type. In this contribution we will report on the recent advancements of the HIE-ISOLDE linac technical systems involving SRF technology. The paper is focused on the cavity production, on the experience with the assembly of the first cryomodule (CM1), and on the results of the first hardware commissioning campaign. | ||
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Slides TUBA01 [27.129 MB] | |
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TUPB027 | Developments on SRF Coatings at CERN | 617 |
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The thin films techniques applied to Superconducting RF (SRF) has a long history at CERN. A large panel of cavities have been coated from LEP, to LHC. For the current and future projects (HIE-ISOLDE, HL-LHC, FCC) there is a need for further higher RF-performances with focus on minimizing residual resistance Rres and maximizing quality factor Q0 of the cavities. This paper will present CERN’s developments on thin films to achieve these goals through the following main axes of research: The first one concerns the application of different coating techniques for Nb (DC-bias diode sputtering, magnetron sputtering and HiPIMS). Another approach is the investigation of alternative materials like Nb3Sn. These lines of development will be supported by a material science approach to characterize and evaluate the layer properties by means of FIB-SEM, TEM, XPS, XRD, etc. In addition a numerical tool for plasma simulation will be exploited to develop adapted coating systems and optimize the coating process, from plasma generation to thin film growth. | ||
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Poster TUPB027 [1.070 MB] | |
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TUPB051 | Development of Nb3Sn Coatings by Magnetron Sputtering for SRF Cavities | 691 |
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Funding: The work is part of EuCARD-2, partly funded by the European Commission, GA 312453 Cost and energy savings are an integral requirement in the design of future particle accelerators. Very low losses SRF accelerating systems, together with high-efficiency cryogenics systems, have the potential of low running costs. The association to the capital cost reduction allowed by thin films coated copper cavities may represent the best overall cost-performance compromise. This strategy has been applied for instance in LEP, the LHC and HIE-ISOLDE with the niobium thin films technology. New materials must be considered to improve the quality factor of the cavities, such as Nb3Sn, which could also ideally operate at higher temperature thus allowing further energy savings. The study considers the possibility to coat a copper resonator with an Nb3Sn layer by means of magnetron sputtering using an alloyed target. We present the impact of the process parameters on the as-deposited layer stoichiometry. The latter is in good agreement with previous results reported in the literature and can be tuned by acting on the coating pressure. The effect of post-coating annealing temperature on the morphology, crystallinity and superconducting properties of the film was also investigated. |
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TUPB077 | The Influence of Cooldown Conditions at Transition Temperature on the Quality Factor of Niobium Sputtered Quarter-Wave Resonators for HIE-ISOLDE | 765 |
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Funding: This work has been supported partly by a Marie Curie Early Initial Training Network Fellowship of the European Community’s 7th Programme under contract number PITN-GA-2010-264330-CATHI. Superconducting quarter-wave resonators (QWRs) are to be used in the ongoing linac upgrade of the ISOLDE facility at CERN. The cavities are made of niobium sputtered on copper substrates. They will be operated at 101.28 MHz at 4.5 K providing 6 MV/m accelerating gradient with 10 W power dissipation. In recent measurements, we found the thermal gradient along the cavity during the niobium superconducting transition has an impact on the cavity quality factor. On the other hand, the speed of the cooling down through the superconducting transition turned out to have no influence on the cavity Q-factor. |
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