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| MOPC053 | Mechanical Design and Fabrication Studies for SPL Superconducting RF Cavities | cavity, linac, SRF, proton | 199 |
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| CERN’s R&D programme on the Superconducting Proton Linac’s (SPL) superconducting radio frequency (SRF) elliptical cavities made from niobium sheets explores new mechanical design and consequently new fabrication methods, where several opportunities for improved optimization were identified. A stainless steel helium vessel is under design rather than a titanium helium vessel using an integrated brazed transition between Nb and the SS helium vessel. Different design and fabrication aspects were proposed and the results are discussed hereafter. | |||
| MOPC085 | Quality Assessment for Industrially Produced High-Gradient Superconducting Cavities | cavity, superconducting-cavity, SRF, linac | 274 |
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Funding: This work is supported by the Commission of the European Communities under the 7th Framework Programme “Construction of New Infrastructures – Preparatory Phase”, contract number 206711. A series of some 600 superconducting 1.3 GHz cavities will start being delivered to DESY by industry in early 2012. Although a considerably smaller gradient satisfies the needs for the European XFEL the electro-polished cavities (50% of the delivery) are deemed to be suitable for gradients in excess of 35 MV/m, the performance goal of the International Linear Collider (ILC). Specifically 24 cavities will be supplied without helium tank to enable further investigations. The results may serve to improve overall performance; limitations such as field emission and thermal breakdown of superconductivity ("quench") are still under investigation. For this matter the DESY ILC group has developed tools to monitor aspects of the cavity fabrication. An automated optical mapping system (OBACHT) is being commissioned and will be complemented by software for automated cavity surface feature recognition. For cold RF tests a Second Sound setup for locating the positions of the thermal breakdown is routinely used. These diagnostic tools will give guidance on post-processing cavities for best performance. The current status of these projects will be described. |
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| MOPC092 | Effect of Current Densities on Sulfur Generation at Electropolished Niobium Surface | cavity, cathode, electron, vacuum | 292 |
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| We conducted a series of electropolishing (EP) experiments in aged EP acid with high (≈50 mA/cm2) and low (≈30 mA/cm2) current densities on Nb surfaces. The experiments were carried out both for laboratory coupons and a real Nb single cell cavity with six witness samples located at three typical positions (equator, iris and beam pipe). All the samples surface were investigated by XPS (x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy), SEM (scanning electron microscope) and EDX (energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy). The surface analysis showed the EP with a high current density produced a huge amount sulfate particles at Nb surface whereas the EP with a low current density is very helpful to mitigate sulfate at Nb surface in both the experiments. | |||
| MOPC102 | RF and Surface Properties of Superconducting Samples | quadrupole, cavity, superconductivity, superconducting-cavity | 310 |
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Funding: Work supported by the German Doctoral Students program of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) The surface resistance Rs of superconducting cavities can be obtained from the unloaded quality factor Q0. Since Rs varies strongly over the cavity surface its value must be interpreted as averaged over the whole cavity surface. A more convenient way to investigate the surface resistance of superconducting materials is therefore to examine small samples, because they can be manufactured cheaply, duplicated easily and used for further surface analyses. At CERN a compact Quadrupole Resonator has been developed for the RF characterization of superconducting samples at different frequencies. In this contribution, results from measurements on bulk niobium and niobium film on copper samples are presented. It is shown how different contributions to the surface resistance depend on temperature, applied RF magnetic field and frequency. Furthermore, measurements of the maximum RF magnetic field as a function of temperature and frequency in pulsed and CW operation are presented. The study is accompanied by measurements of the surface properties of the samples by various techniques. |
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| MOPC103 | Cryostat for Testing HIE-ISOLDE Superconducting RF Cavities | cavity, vacuum, cryomodule, cryogenics | 313 |
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| The High Intensity and Energy ISOLDE (HIE-ISOLDE) project is a major upgrade of the existing ISOLDE and REX-ISOLDE facilities at CERN [1], with the objective of increasing the energy and the intensity of the delivered radioactive ion beams (RIB). This project aims to fill the request for a more energetic post accelerated beam by means of a new superconducting (SC) linac based on Quarter Wave Resonators (QWRs). A research and development program looking at all different aspects of the SC linac has started in 2008 and continued throughout 2010. In particular the R&D effort has focused on the development of the high β cavity (β = 10.3%), for which it has been decided to adopt the Nb sputtered on Cu substrate technology. Two prototype cavities were manufactured and are undergoing RF cold tests. The pre-series cavity fabrication is under way using 3D forged Cu billets. A single vacuum cryostat was designed and built to test these cavities at liquid helium temperatures. The paper details the main design concepts of the test cryostat as well as the results of the cryogenic behavior of the complete set-up including the cryostat, the RF cavity, the tuner and the main coupler. | |||
| MOPC104 | HIE-ISOLDE SRF Development Activities at CERN | cavity, cathode, vacuum, SRF | 316 |
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| The HIE-ISOLDE project has initiated a new development phase on the SRF domain at CERN. In particular, the HIE-ISOLDE project aims at the construction of the 32 Quarter Wave Resonators (QWRs) using the Nb on Cu sputtering technology. The paper describes the refurbishment of the test infrastructure and the activities from the cavity production to the cold test, including quality assurance procedure for the correct handling of the resonators. | |||
| MOPC108 | Cornell SRF New Materials Program* | cavity, SRF, controls, monitoring | 328 |
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Funding: Work supported by NSF Career award PHY-0841213, DOE award ER41628, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation The SRF group at Cornell has recently pioneered an extensive program to investigate alternative materials for superconducting cavities. We have developed facilities to fabricate Nb3Sn, a superconductor which will theoretically be able to reach more than twice the maximum accelerating field of Nb in a cavity under the same operating conditions. In addition, with the critical temperature of Nb3Sn being twice that of Nb, Nb3Sn would allow operation of SRF cavities with a much higher cryogenic efficiency. We have also manufactured two TE cavities that measure the RF properties of small, flat samples, ideal for material fabrication methods in development. This paper presents an overview of the materials research program. First results from tests of Nb3Sn samples are presented. |
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| MOPC111 | Progress of ILC High Gradient SRF Cavity R&D at Jefferson Lab | cavity, SRF, accelerating-gradient, cryogenics | 334 |
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Funding: US Department of Energy Latest progress of ILC high gradient SRF cavity R&D at Jefferson Lab will be presented. 9 out of 10 real 9-cell cavities reached an accelerating gradient of more than 38 MV/m at a unloaded quality factor of more than 8·109. New understandings of quench limitation in 9-cell cavities are obtained through instrumented studies of cavities at cryogenic temperatures. Our data have shown that present limit reached in 9-cell cavities is predominantly due to localized defects, suggesting that the fundamental material limit of niobium is not yet reached in 9-cell cavities and further gradient improvement is still possible. Some examples of quench-causing defects will be given. Possible solutions to pushing toward the fundamental limit will be described. |
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| MOPC115 | JLab SRF Cavity Fabrication Errors, Consequences and Lessons Learned | cavity, cryomodule, target, SRF | 346 |
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Funding: Authored by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC under U.S. DOE Contract No. DE-AC05-06OR23177 Today, elliptical superconducting RF (SRF) cavities are preferably made from deep-drawn niobium sheets as pursued at Jefferson Laboratory (JLab). The fabrication of a cavity incorporates various cavity cell machining, trimming and electron beam welding (EBW) steps as well as surface chemistry that add to forming errors creating geometrical deviations of the cavity shape from its design. An analysis of in-house built cavities over the last years revealed significant errors in cavity production. Past fabrication flaws are described and lessons learned applied successfully to the most recent in-house series production of multi-cell cavities. |
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| MOPC117 | Advance in Vertical Buffered Electropolishing on Niobium for Particle Accelerators* | cavity, SRF, cathode, radio-frequency | 352 |
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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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| MOPC118 | Effects of the Thickness of Niobium Surface Oxide Layers on Field Emission* | controls, cavity, SRF, HOM | 355 |
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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. Field emission on the inner surfaces of niobium superconducting radio frequency cavities is still one of the major obstacles for reaching high accelerating gradients for SRF community. Our previous experimental results* seemed to imply that the threshold of field emission was related to the thickness of Nb surface oxide layers. In this contribution, a more detailed study on the influences of the surface oxide layers on the field emission on Nb surfaces will be reported. By anodization technique, the thickness of the surface pentoxide layer was artificially fabricated from 3 nm up to 460 nm. A home-made scanning field emission microscope was employed to perform the scans on the surfaces. Emitters were characterized using a scanning electron microscope together with an energy dispersive x-ray analyzer. The SFEM experimental results were analyzed in terms of surface morphology and oxide thickness of Nb samples and chemical composition and geographic shape of the emitters. A model based on the classic electromagnetic theory was developed trying to understand the experimental results. Possibly implications for Nb SRF cavity applications from this study will be discussed. * A.T. Wu et al., Proc. of IPAC 2010, Kyoto, Japan, WEPEC081, p. 3067 (2010). Authored by The Southeastern Universities Research Association, Inc. under U.S. DOE Contract No. DE-AC05-84ER40150. |
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| MOPC119 | Fastest Electropolishing Technique on Niobium for Particle Accelerators* | cavity, SRF, cathode, linear-collider | 358 |
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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. Field emission on the inner surfaces of niobium (Nb) superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities is still one of the major obstacles for reaching high accelerating gradients for SRF community. Our previous experimental results [1] seemed to imply that the threshold of field emission was related to the thickness of Nb surface oxide layers. In this contribution, a more detailed study on the influences of the surface oxide layers on the field emission on Nb surfaces will be reported. By anodization technique, the thickness of the surface pentoxide layer was artificially fabricated from 3nm up to 460nm. A home-made scanning field emission microscope (SFEM) was employed to perform the scans on the surfaces. Emitters were characterized using a scanning electron microscope together with an energy dispersive x-ray analyzer. The experimental results could be understood by a simple model calculation based on classic electromagnetic theory as shown in Ref.1. Possibly implications for Nb SRF cavity applications from this study will be discussed. Authored by The Southeastern Universities Research Association, Inc. under U.S. DOE Contract No. DE-AC05-84ER40150. |
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| MOPC122 | Etching of Niobium Sample Placed on Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavity Surface in Ar/CL2 Plasma | cavity, plasma, SRF, diagnostics | 367 |
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| Plasma based surface modification is a promising alternative to wet etching of superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities. It has been proven with flat samples that the bulk Niobium (Nb) removal rate and the surface roughness after the plasma etchings are equal to or better than wet etching processes. To optimize the plasma parameters, we are using a single cell cavity with 20 sample holders symmetrically distributed over the cell. These holders serve the purpose of diagnostic ports for the measurement of the plasma parameters and for the holding of the Nb sample to be etched. The plasma properties at RF (100 MHz) and MW (2.45 GHz) frequencies are being measured with the help of electrical and optical probes at different pressures and RF power levels inside of this cavity. The niobium coupons placed on several holders around the cell are being etched simultaneously. The etching results will be presented at this conference. | |||