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Visentin, B.

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MOPCH140 Compensation of Lorentz Force Detuning of a TTF 9-cell Cavity with a New Integrated Piezo Tuner 378
 
  • G. Devanz, P. Bosland, M. Desmons, E. Jacques, M. Luong, B. Visentin
    CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette
  
  The high gradient operation of superconducting elliptical multicells in pulsed mode is required for linear colliders or free-electron lasers based on the superconducting technology. Such an operation is limited by dynamic Lorentz force detuning if no compensation for this effect is attempted. The RF power headroom required for accelerating field amplitude and phase stabilisation by low-level RF control techniques solely would be too costly. A new active tuner with integrated piezo actuators has been developped in the framework of the european CARE/SRF program solve this issue. The design is based on the lever-arm concept of the Saclay tuner already installed on running TTF cavities. We have carried out integrated tests of the 9-cell cavity equipped with the piezo tuner and power coupler in the CryHoLab horizontal test cryostat. Characterisation of the electromechanical system consisting of the cavity and piezo-tuner assembly and full power pulsed tests will be presented.  
MOPCH141 Fast Argon-Baking Process for Mass Production of Niobium Superconducting RF Cavities 381
 
  • B. Visentin, J.-P. Charrier, Y. Gasser, S. Regnaud
    CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette
  
  Baking is a necessary stage to reach high gradients with niobium superconducting cavities. In the standard process, so called "in-situ UHV baking", Nb cavity is baked at 110°C, during 2 days. During this treatment the inner part of the cavity is pumped out under Ultra High Vacuum conditions. In order to save time, "fast UHV baking" at 145 °C during 3 hours, under UHV pumping, has been successfully demonstrated* with similar improvements for cavity performances compare to the standard treatment. With the same simplification concern, we report here about an alternative method to avoid restrictive UHV requirements. Experiments have been carried out to perform "fast baking" in oxygen-free atmosphere, because bad performances have been observed with "fast baking" in air. These degradations are closely connected with a strong oxygen penetration in bulk analysed by Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopyon on Nb samples .

*Proceedings of SRF Workshop – Ithaca (July 2005) – TuP05.