IPAC2011 - List of Authors (Lin, L.)

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MOPC117	Advance in Vertical Buffered Electropolishing on Niobium for Particle Accelerators*	352
	A.T. Wu, S. Jin, J.D. Mammosser, C.E. Reece, R.A. Rimmer JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA L. Lin, X.Y. Lu, K. Zhao PKU/IHIP, Beijing, People's Republic of China
	Funding: The U.S. Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce this manuscript for U.S. Government purposes. Niobium (Nb) is the most popular material that has been employed for making superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities to be used in various particle accelerators over the last couple of decades. One of the most important steps in fabricating Nb SRF cavities is the final chemical removal of 150 μm of Nb from the inner surfaces of the SRF cavities. This is usually done by either buffered chemical polishing (BCP) or electropolishing (EP). Recently a new Nb surface treatment technique called buffered electropolishing (BEP) has been developed at Jefferson Lab. It has been demonstrated that BEP can produce the smoothest surface finish on Nb ever reported in the literature while realizing a Nb removal rate as high as 10 μm/min that is more than 25 and 5 times quicker than those of EP and BCP(112) respectively. In this contribution, recent advance in optimizing and understanding BEP treatment technique is reviewed. Latest results from RF measurements on BEP treated Nb single cell cavities by our unique vertical polishing system will be reported. Authored by The Southeastern Universities Research Association, Inc. under U.S. DOE Contract No. DE-AC05-84ER40150.

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Advance in Vertical Buffered Electropolishing on Niobium for Particle Accelerators*

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A.T. Wu, S. Jin, J.D. Mammosser, C.E. Reece, R.A. Rimmer
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
L. Lin, X.Y. Lu, K. Zhao
PKU/IHIP, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Funding: The U.S. Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce this manuscript for U.S. Government purposes.
Niobium (Nb) is the most popular material that has been employed for making superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities to be used in various particle accelerators over the last couple of decades. One of the most important steps in fabricating Nb SRF cavities is the final chemical removal of 150 μm of Nb from the inner surfaces of the SRF cavities. This is usually done by either buffered chemical polishing (BCP) or electropolishing (EP). Recently a new Nb surface treatment technique called buffered electropolishing (BEP) has been developed at Jefferson Lab. It has been demonstrated that BEP can produce the smoothest surface finish on Nb ever reported in the literature while realizing a Nb removal rate as high as 10 μm/min that is more than 25 and 5 times quicker than those of EP and BCP(112) respectively. In this contribution, recent advance in optimizing and understanding BEP treatment technique is reviewed. Latest results from RF measurements on BEP treated Nb single cell cavities by our unique vertical polishing system will be reported.
Authored by The Southeastern Universities Research Association, Inc. under U.S. DOE Contract No. DE-AC05-84ER40150.