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MOOCA01 Production and Testing Experience with the SRF Cavities for the CEBAF 12 GeV Upgrade cavity, cryomodule, HOM, higher-order-mode 26
 
  • A. Burrill, G.K. Davis, F. Marhauser, C.E. Reece, A.V. Reilly, M. Stirbet
    JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
 
  Funding: Authored by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC under U.S. DOE Contract No. DE-AC05-06OR23177.
The CEBAF recirculating CW electron linear accelerator at Jefferson Lab is presently undergoing a major upgrade to 12 GeV. This project includes the fabrication, preparation, and testing of 80 new 7-cell SRF cavities, followed by their incorporation into ten new cryomodules for subsequent testing and installation. In order to maximize the cavity Q over the full operable dynamic range in CEBAF (as high as 25 MV/m), the decision was taken to apply a streamlined preparation process that includes a final light temperature-controlled electropolish of the rf surface over the vendor-provided bulk BCP etch. Cavity processing work began at JLab in September 2010 and will continue through December 2011. The excellent performance results are exceeding project requirements and indicate a fabrication and preparation process that is stable and well controlled. The cavity production and performance experience to date will be summarized and lessons learned reported to the community.
 
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MOODA01 Experience with the Cornell ERL Injector SRF Cryomodule during High Beam Current Operation cavity, HOM, cryomodule, damping 35
 
  • M. Liepe, D.L. Hartill, G.H. Hoffstaetter, S. Posen, P. Quigley, V. Veshcherevich
    CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
 
  Funding: Supported by NSF award DMR-0807731
Cornell University has developed and fabricated a SCRF injector cryomodule for the acceleration of high current, low emittance CW beams. This cryomodule is based on superconducting RF technology with five 2-cell SRF cavities operated in CW mode. Strong Higher-Order-Mode (HOM) damping and high power RF input couplers support accelerating beam currents of tens of mA. The cryomodule is currently under extensive testing in the Cornell ERL injector prototype with CW beam currents exceeding 25 mA. This paper gives an overview of the experience gained during the high beam current operation of the cryomodule, with a focus on the intrinsic cavity quality factors, input coupler performance, and HOM damping.
 
 
MOODA02 S1-Global Module Tests at STF/KEK cavity, cryomodule, feedback, linac 38
 
  • D. Kostin, K. Jensch, L. Lilje, A. Matheisen, W.-D. Möller, P. Schilling, M. Schmökel, N.J. Walker, H. Weise
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  • C. Adolphsen, C.D. Nantista
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • M. Akemoto, S. Fukuda, K. Hara, H. Hayano, N. Higashi, E. Kako, H. Katagiri, Y. Kojima, Y. Kondo, T. Matsumoto, H. Matsushita, S. Michizono, T. Miura, H. Nakai, H. Nakajima, K. Nakanishi, S. Noguchi, N. Ohuchi, T. Saeki, M. Satoh, T. Shidara, T. Shishido, T. Takenaka, A. Terashima, N. Toge, K. Tsuchiya, K. Watanabe, S. Yamaguchi, A. Yamamoto, Y. Yamamoto, K. Yokoya
    KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
  • T.T. Arkan, S. Barbanotti, M.A. Battistoni, H. Carter, M.S. Champion, A. Hocker, R.D. Kephart, J.S. Kerby, D.V. Mitchell, T.J. Peterson, Y.M. Pischalnikov, M.C. Ross, W. Schappert, B.E. Smith
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
  • A. Bosotti, C. Pagani, R. Paparella, P. Pierini
    INFN/LASA, Segrate (MI), Italy
 
  S1-Global collaborative effort of INFN, DESY, FNAL, SLAC and KEK, recently successfully finished at KEK as a part of ILC GDE, is an important milestone for the ILC. International collaboration of three regions, Asia, North America and Europe, proved to be efficient on the construction and cold tests of the accelerating module consisting of 8 SRF cavities; 2 from FNAL, 2 from DESY and 4 from KEK. Three different cavity tuning systems were tested together with two types of high power couplers. The module was cooled down three times which enabled extensive high power tests with cavities, performance limits investigation, Lorentz force detuning tests, simultaneous multiple cavities operation and other activities such as an operation test of distributed RF scheme with low level RF feedback. The results of this S1-Global module test are presented and discussed.  
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MOPC053 Mechanical Design and Fabrication Studies for SPL Superconducting RF Cavities cavity, niobium, linac, proton 199
 
  • S. Atieh, G. Arnau-Izquierdo, I. Aviles Santillana, O. Capatina, T. Renaglia, T. Tardy, N. Valverde Alonso, W. Weingarten
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  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.  
 
MOPC081 Pulsed Mode Operation and Longitudinal Parameter Measurement of the Rossendorf SRF Gun gun, cavity, cathode, laser 262
 
  • J. Teichert, A. Arnold, H. Büttig, M. Justus, U. Lehnert, P. Michel, P. Murcek, Ch. Schneider, R. Schurig, R. Xiang
    HZDR, Dresden, Germany
  • T. Kamps, J. Rudolph, M. Schenk
    HZB, Berlin, Germany
  • I. Will
    MBI, Berlin, Germany
 
  Funding: The European Community-Research Infrastructure Activity under the FP7 program (EuCARD, contract number 227579) the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research grant 05 ES4BR1/8.
The Rossendorf SRF gun with a 3 1/2 cell cavity has been operated since 2007. It has produced CW beam with the electron energy of 3 MeV and the average current up to 16 μA. The electron beam of the gun has successfully injected the ELBE superconducting linac since 2010. The Nb cavity has shown constant quality during the operation and for the Cs2Te photocathode life time of months could be obtained. Recently the gun started to run in the pulsed mode with higher gradient. The longitudinal parameters have been measured in this mode. The dark current arose from the high gradient is studied. The main field emission source has been found to be the half cell. Meanwhile, two modified 3+1/2 cell niobium cavities have been fabricated and tested in Jlab. In this paper the new status of the SRF gun will be presented, and the latest results of the beam experiments will be discussed.
 
 
MOPC085 Quality Assessment for Industrially Produced High-Gradient Superconducting Cavities cavity, niobium, superconducting-cavity, linac 274
 
  • F. Schlander, S. Aderhold, E. Elsen, D. Reschke, M. Wenskat
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
 
  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.
 
 
MOPC086 Description and First Experience with the RF Measurement Procedure for the European XFEL SC Cavity Production cavity, HOM, cryomodule, superconducting-cavity 277
 
  • A.A. Sulimov, Th. Buettner, A. Gössel, D. Kostin, G. Kreps, W.-D. Möller, D. Reschke, J.H. Thie, K. Twarowski
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
 
  Cavity production for the European XFEL was recently started with first Nb sheets arriving. From this stage to the accelerating module being ready for the linac installation, many critical RF measurements are necessary. During the mechanical cavity fabrication the cavity half-cells, dumb-bells and end-groups are measured and sorted. The cavity spectrum and field profiles are measured and tuned. The HOM (Higher Oder Modes) couplers filter tuning, vertical cavity RF tests, cavity checks during the string assembly and final cavity performance measurements in the module as well as the fundamental mode and HOM RF spectra measurements complete the sequence. We present the procedures of the RF measurements and discuss the first results for the XFEL prototype modules with special attention for the cavity tuning.  
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MOPC093 Novel Field Emission Scanner for Surface Study of Niobium SRF Cavity cavity, electron, site, controls 295
 
  • S. Kato, M. Nishiwaki, T. Noguchi
    KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
  • V. Chouhan
    GUAS, Kanagawa, Japan
  • P.V. Tyagi
    Sokendai, Ibaraki, Japan
 
  It is mandatory to investigate field emission on Nb SRF cavity systematically since strong field emission often limits the cavity performance. The field emission strength and the number of emission sites strongly depend on Nb surface properties which are determined by its surface treatment and handling. Field emission scanner (FES) developed allows us to measure a distribution of the field emitting sites over a sample surface at a given field strength along with its FE-SEM observation and energy dispersive x-ray analysis. FES consists of an anode needle driven by precise 3D stepping motors and an eucentric sample stage. The compact scanner was installed into the space between the object lens and the SEM sample holder. In addition, this system was newly equipped with a sample load-lock system for existing UHV suitcases. Therefore a sample coupon to be observed is hardly exposed to contaminants and dust particles during the transportation. In-situ heating of a sample coupon can be done during an experiment to simulate a baking process of a SRF cavity. This article describes development of the field emission scanner and its preliminary results of the application to niobium samples.  
 
MOPC097 LLRF Control System for PKU DC-SC Photocathode Injector controls, cavity, LLRF, superconducting-cavity 304
 
  • H. Zhang, Y.M. Li, K.X. Liu, F. Wang, B.C. Zhang
    PKU/IHIP, Beijing, People's Republic of China
 
  A 1.3 GHz 3.5 Cell LG niobium cavity is installed for the new PKU DC-SC injector as its accelerating cavity with working temperature is 2K. High amplitude and phase stability is required for the updated SRF photocathode injector. This paper describes the design of Low Level RF control system based on FPGA, including hardware and software,and the communication function is realized by Tri-State Ethernet. The system should be operated on the precision with the amplitude of ±0.1% and phase stability of ±0.1°.  
 
MOPC101 Vertical Test of PEFP Prototype SRF Cavity cavity, accelerating-gradient, electron, linac 307
 
  • H.S. Kim, Y.-S. Cho, H.-J. Kwon
    KAERI, Daejon, Republic of Korea
 
  Funding: This work was supported by Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of the Korean Government.
The PEFP Proton linac is a 100-MeV machine which consists of a proton injector, a 3-MeVRFQ and 100-MeV DTL. For the extension of the machine beyond 100 MeV, SRF technology is under consideration. As a prototyping activity, a superconducting RF cavity with a geometrical beta of 0.42 and a resonant frequency of 700 MHz has been designed, fabricated and tested. The cavity is an elliptical shape with 5 cells stiffened by double-ring structure. A design accelerating gradient is 8.0 MV/m at the operating temperature of 4.2 K and maximum duty factor is 9%. For the vertical test of the cavity, a cryostat with a vacuum jacket and multi-layer insulation was prepared. The RF system for driving the cavity is based on PLL to track the resonant frequency. In case of lack of RF power, a two-way RF power combiner based on splitted coaxial transmission line is considered. The details of the vertical test setup and test results will be presented in this paper.
 
 
MOPC104 HIE-ISOLDE SRF Development Activities at CERN cavity, cathode, vacuum, niobium 316
 
  • M. Therasse, O. Brunner, S. Calatroni, J.K. Chambrillon, B. Delaup, M. Pasini
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  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.  
 
MOPC107 HOM and FP Coupler Design for the NLSF High Gradient SC Cavity cavity, HOM, simulation, damping 325
 
  • R.M. Jones, N. Juntong
    UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
 
  The design of both higher order mode (HOM) and fundamental power (FP) couplers for the New Low Surface Field (NLSF) cavity* is presented. Here we study using the ILC baseline couplers for this new superconducting cavity. A Balleyguier method** of calculating external quality factor is used and the results validated using both Microwave studio and HFSS.
* N. Juntong and R.M. Jones, SRF2009, THPPO024, 2009.
** P. Balleyguier, LINAC98, MO4037, 1998
 
 
MOPC108 Cornell SRF New Materials Program* cavity, niobium, controls, monitoring 328
 
  • S. Posen, M. Liepe, Y. Xie
    CLASSE, Ithaca, New York, USA
 
  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.
 
 
MOPC111 Progress of ILC High Gradient SRF Cavity R&D at Jefferson Lab cavity, niobium, accelerating-gradient, cryogenics 334
 
  • R.L. Geng, J. Dai, G.V. Eremeev, A.D. Palczewski
    JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
 
  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.
 
 
MOPC114 Design, Fabrication and Testing of Medium-Beta 650 MHz SRF Cavity Prototypes for Project-X cavity, linac, electron, vacuum 343
 
  • F. Marhauser, W.A. Clemens, J. Henry, P. Kneisel, R. Martin, R.A. Rimmer, G. Slack, L. Turlington, R.S. Williams
    JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
 
  Funding: Authored by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC under U.S. DOE Contract No. DE-AC05-06OR23177.
A new type of superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavity shape with a shallow equator dome to reduce electron impact energies for suppressing multipacting barriers has been proposed. The shape is in consideration for the first time in the framework of Project-X to design a potential multi-cell cavity candidate for the medium-beta section of the SRF proton CW linac operating at 650 MHz. Rationales covering the design of the multi-cell cavity, the manufacture, post-processing and high power testing of two single-cell prototypes are presented.
 
 
MOPC115 JLab SRF Cavity Fabrication Errors, Consequences and Lessons Learned cavity, cryomodule, target, niobium 346
 
  • F. Marhauser
    JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
 
  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.
 
 
MOPC116 Development of Nb and Alternative Material Thin Films Tailored for SRF Applications ECR, cavity, ion, electron 349
 
  • A-M. Valente-Feliciano, H.L. Phillips, C.E. Reece, J.K. Spradlin, B. Xiao, X. Zhao
    JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
  • H. Baumgart, D. Gu
    ODU, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
  • D. Beringer, R.A. Lukaszew
    The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, USA
  • K.I. Seo
    NSU, Newport News, Virginia, USA
 
  Funding: Authored by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC under U.S.DOE Contract No. DE-AC05-06OR23177.
Over the years, Nb/Cu technology, despite its shortcomings due to the commonly used magnetron sputtering, has positioned itself as an alternative route for the future of superconducting structures used in accelerators. Recently, significant progress has been made in the development of energetic vacuum deposition techniques, showing promise for the production of thin films tailored for SRF applications. JLab is pursuing energetic condensation deposition via techniques such as Electron Cyclotron Resonance and High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering. As part of this project, the influence of the deposition energy on the material and RF properties of the Nb thin film is investigated with the characterization of their surface, structure, superconducting properties and RF response. It has been shown that the film RRR can be tuned from single digits to values greater than 400. This paper presents results on surface impedance measurements correlated with surface and material characterization for Nb films produced on various substrates, monocrystalline and polycrystalline as well as amorphous. A progress report on work on NbTiN and AlN based multilayer structures will also be presented.
 
 
MOPC117 Advance in Vertical Buffered Electropolishing on Niobium for Particle Accelerators* cavity, cathode, niobium, radio-frequency 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.
 
 
MOPC118 Effects of the Thickness of Niobium Surface Oxide Layers on Field Emission* controls, cavity, niobium, HOM 355
 
  • A.T. Wu, S. Jin, J.D. Mammosser, R.A. Rimmer
    JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
  • 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.
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.
 
 
MOPC119 Fastest Electropolishing Technique on Niobium for Particle Accelerators* cavity, cathode, niobium, linear-collider 358
 
  • A.T. Wu, S. Jin, R.A. Rimmer
    JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
  • 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.
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.
 
 
MOPC120 Design of Superconducting Parallel-bar Deflecting/Crabbing Cavities cavity, coupling, luminosity, proton 361
 
  • J.R. Delayen, S.U. De Silva
    ODU, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
 
  The superconducting parallel-bar cavity is a deflecting/crabbing cavity with attractive properties, compared to other conventional designs, that is being considered for a number of applications. We present an analysis of several designs of parallel-bar cavities and their electromagnetic properties.  
 
MOPC122 Etching of Niobium Sample Placed on Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavity Surface in Ar/CL2 Plasma cavity, plasma, niobium, diagnostics 367
 
  • J. Upadhyay, M. Nikolić, S. Popović, L. Vušković
    ODU, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
  • H.L. Phillips, A-M. Valente-Feliciano
    JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
 
  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.  
 
MOPC140 Phase and Frequency Locked Magnetrons for SRF Sources controls, cavity, resonance, shielding 406
 
  • M.L. Neubauer, M.A.C. Cummings, A. Dudas, R.P. Johnson, R. Sah
    Muons, Inc, Batavia, USA
  • A. Moretti, M. Popovic
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
 
  Typically, high power sources for accelerator applications are multi-megawatt microwave tubes that may be combined together to form ultra-high-power localized power stations. The RF power is then distributed to multiple strings of cavities through high power waveguide systems which are problematic in terms of expense, efficiency, and reliability. Magnetrons are the lowest cost microwave source in dollars/kW, and they have the highest efficiency (typically greater than 85%). However, the frequency stability and phase stability of magnetrons are not adequate, when magnetrons are used as power sources for accelerators. Novel variable frequency cavity techniques have been developed which will be utilized to phase and frequency lock magnetrons, allowing their use for either individual cavities, or cavity strings. Ferrite or YIG (Yttrium Iron Garnet) materials will be attached in the regions of high magnetic field of radial-vaned, π−mode structures of a selected ordinary magnetron. The microwave characteristics of several materials have been tested with magnetic fields to control the frequency of the magnetron. These results will be presented and an optimum material chosen.  
 
MOPC163 Low-level RF Control System for the Taiwan Photon Source cavity, LLRF, controls, low-level-rf 463
 
  • M.-S. Yeh
    NSRRC, Hsinchu, Taiwan
 
  The low-level RF (LLRF) control system is an essential component of the RF system for Taiwan Photon Source. The LLRF control system will perform various functions including control loops for the cavity gap voltage and the phase feedback, RF system interlock protection and the diagnostics for a machine trip. The LLRF system is manufactured in house using the most recent commercial RF chips. The LLRF system has an analogue architecture similar to that used in the 1.5-GeV Taiwan Light Source (TLS). An overview of the system architecture and its functionality is presented herein.  
 
MOPS027 Stability Charts for the IFMIF SRF-Linac emittance, linac, resonance, space-charge 658
 
  • W. Simeoni, N. Chauvin
    CEA/IRFU, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • A. Mosnier, P.A.P. Nghiem, D. Uriot
    CEA/DSM/IRFU, France
 
  Among the most recent projects, the IFMIF-EVEDA accelerators break the record of high intensity, leading to a multi-MW beam power at relatively low energy. The concern for such accelerated beams is the predominance of the self-field energy upon the beam energy. In these conditions, the space charge effect is at its maximum, which triggers different nonlinear mechanisms implying emittance growth, halo formation and sudden particle lost. In this proceeding we show the stability charts constructed for the IFMIF SRF-Linac, with which are identified the collective space charge resonances responsible of transverse-longitudinal emittance exchange and emittance growth.  
 
TUZB01 Superconducting RF Technology for Proton and Ion Accelerators cavity, linac, cryomodule, proton 966
 
  • G. Devanz
    CEA/DSM/IRFU, France
 
  The worldwide status of superconducting RF cavities and cryomodules for low velocity ion and proton particles is reviewed, with emphasis on the construction and tests of prototypes. A number of different multicell structures at a range of operating frequencies have been successfully realized. This review will cover the progress of several facilities under construction or being proposed: Spiral2, IFMIF-EVEDA, SPL, ESS, FRIB and ADS drivers.  
slides icon Slides TUZB01 [10.630 MB]  
 
TUPC131 Overview of ESS Beam Loss Monitoring System ion, beam-losses, proton, neutron 1329
 
  • L. Tchelidze, A. Jansson
    ESS, Lund, Sweden
 
  European Spallation Source (ESS) is a multi-MW proton linear accelerator that will be built in Lund, Sweden. Due to the high power of the machine, losses need to be minimized to avoid damaging the accelerator components and quenching superconducting magnets. Loss monitors have to be positioned all across the accelerator, so that they form a reliable protection system. A careful analysis of the loss nature for ESS is in progress to determine the locations for the loss detectors. This paper presents preliminary results of the simulations for the detector response functions, which are calculated for several different energies and incident angles of protons, at certain parts of the accelerator. A simple, baseline geometry configuration is used in the calculations. This paper also gives an overview of the considered ESS beam loss monitoring system. It describes the types of the detectors which are planned to be used at ESS, and discusses the number of detectors needed along different parts of the machine. As planned, a primary tool for measuring losses at ESS will be ionization chambers, the conceptual design of which is given in this paper based on the response time considerations.  
 
TUPO026 Developments towards a Full Energy Recovery Linac cavity, gun, HOM, cathode 1494
 
  • P. vom Stein, J.H. Hottenbacher, A. Metz
    RI Research Instruments GmbH, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
 
  Energy Recovery Linacs (ERLs) are high potential candidates for driving light sources based on laser Compton scattering with high brilliance photon beams and sub pico second time structure. We report on developments for an advanced ERL design, which allows the recovery of nearly full electron beam energy up to the limits set by the energy width of the beam. This “Full” Energy Recovery Linac (FERL) allows a substantial reduction of the complexity of the accelerator systems resulting into a very compact light source design suitable for industrial and medical applications.  
 
TUPO033 Emittance Minimization by Courant-Snyder Parameter Scan in Merger Section at the Compact Energy Recovery Linear Accelerator. emittance, space-charge, betatron, dipole 1506
 
  • J.G. Hwang
    Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
  • E.-S. Kim
    KNU, Deagu, Republic of Korea
  • T. Miyajima
    KEK, Tsukuba, Japan
 
  The project of compact-Energy Recovery Linac(c-ERL) at Photon Factory in KEK is a test facility for the 5 GeV ERL, which is one of the candidates of next generation light source. It consists of injector system, merger section, main SRF section, return arc, long straight section and beam dump. The injector system produces beams with a low-energy of 5 MeV and low-emittance less than 1 mm-mrad. It causes the large emittance growth by space charge force in merger section, which consists of two rectangular type dipole magnets and one sector type magnet. Dispersion also causes the displacement of bunch sllice on horizontal plane. The displacement of bunch slice is laid on the kick angle induced by space charge force. Also, each slice has the orientation of the phase ellipse on horizontal phase space. Therefore, the emittance growth due to the displacement of bunch sllice induced by space charge force in the horizontal phase space can be minimized by matching the displacement to the orientation of the phase ellipse at the exit of merger. We present the results of the emittance minimization performed by mathcing of the angle of the phase ellipse by scan of CS (Courant-Snyder) parameter.  
 
WEPC157 Post-mortem Analysis at TLS diagnostics, insertion, insertion-device, controls 2352
 
  • Y.R. Pan, Y.-T. Chang, J. Chen, P.C. Chiu, K.T. Hsu, K.H. Hu, C.H. Kuo, C.-Y. Liao
    NSRRC, Hsinchu, Taiwan
 
  High availability and stability of the beam are important issues for the synchrotron light source. Analyzing of the post-mortem data is one of the most important approaches to reflect the machine error and identify the reason of beam trip. The post-mortem system has been developed at Taiwan Light Source (TLS) in 2008. This diagnostic data can provide useful information for troubleshooting and improve the beam reliability. The various diagnostic signals are read from hardware buffer and written to the file system by the post-mortem event trigger, which is generated by the signals of the beam trip detector, the superconducting RF system interlock and the superconducting insertion device interlock. In this report a processing is running to check whether a new trip event, promptly find out the unusual signals, and generate an analyzing result message. The detail will be discussed and summarized.  
 
WEPO030 Fabrication and Testing of the First Magnet Package Prototype for the SRF Linac of LIPAc solenoid, cavity, linac, vacuum 2463
 
  • S. Sanz, J. Calero, F.M. De Aragon, J.L. Gutiérrez, I. Moya, I. Podadera, F. Toral, J.G.S. de la Gama
    CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain
  • N. Bazin, P. Bosland, P. Bredy, N. Grouas, P. Hardy, V.M. Hennion, J. Migne, F. Orsini, B. Renard
    CEA/DSM/IRFU, France
  • G. Disset, J. Relland
    CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • H. Jenhani
    CEA/IRFU, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • E.N. Zaplatin
    FZJ, Jülich, Germany
 
  Funding: Work partially supported by Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under project AIC10-A-000441 and ENE2009-11230.
The IFMIF-EVEDA accelerator will be a 9 MeV, 125 mA CW deuteron accelerator which aims to validate the technology that will be used in the future IFMIF accelerator. The SRF Linac design is based on superconducting Half Wave Resonators (HWR) cavities operating at 4.4 K. Due to space charge associated to the high intensity beam, a short, but strong, superconducting focusing magnet package is necessary between cavities. The selected configuration has been a superconducting NbTi solenoid acting as a magnetic lens and a concentric outer solenoid in antiparallel configuration to reduce the dangerous stray field on the cavities. The selected arrangement for the steerers is a pair of parallel racetrack coils for each vertical and horizontal axis. This paper describes the manufacturing techniques of the different coils, and the test realized in warm and cold conditions, with special attention to the training test of the main solenoid, as the nominal working point in the load line is very high (86.2%).
 
 
WEPO036 Design of a Cryogenic Regulation Valve Box for SRF Operation at TPS cryogenics, cavity, feedback, coupling 2475
 
  • M.H. Chang, L.-H. Chang, L.J. Chen, F.-T. Chung, F. Z. Hsiao, M.-C. Lin, Y.-H. Lin, C.H. Lo, H.H. Tsai, Ch. Wang, T.-T. Yang, M.-S. Yeh, T.-C. Yu
    NSRRC, Hsinchu, Taiwan
  • L.L. Han, M.H. Tsai
    NTUT, Taiwan
 
  A 3-GeV light source named Taiwan Photon Source (TPS) at National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC) is under construction, and is scheduled for commissioning in 2013/2014. An SRF module of KEKB type has been selected for the TPS as the accelerating cavity of its storage ring. The SRF valve boxes, as part of the cryogenic transfer system, stabilize the cryogenic operational conditions required for various needs of SRF operation. The SRF operation requires a large dynamic variation in the cryogenic loading that challenges appropriate sizing of the cryogenic regulation valves to minimize the pressure drop and concurrently to maintain a fine regulation of pressure. Here, we report our design considerations for an SRF valve box with emphasis on highly stabilizing the helium pressure for SRF operation with a dual-return valve scheme. The estimated fluctuations of pressure due to finite accuracy of the valve opening decrease to a tenth of what is obtained from the conventional single return-valve scheme.  
 
WEPS058 The Medium Energy Beam Transport Line (MEBT) of IFMIF/EVEDA LIPAc rfq, cavity, vacuum, quadrupole 2628
 
  • I. Podadera, J.C. Calvo, J.M. Carmona, A. Ibarra, D. Iglesias, A. Lara, C. Oliver, F. Toral
    CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain
 
  Funding: Work partially supported by Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under project AIC10-A-000441 and ENE2009-11230.
The IFMIF-EVEDA Linear IFMIF Prototype Accelerator (LIPAc)will be a 9 MeV, 125 mA CW deuteron accelerator which aims to validate the technology that will be used in the future IFMIF accelerator. The acceleration of the beam will be carried out in two stages. An RFQ will increase the energy up to 5 MeV before a Superconducting RF (SRF) linac made of a chain of eight Half Wave Resonators bring the particles to the final energy. Between both stages, a Medium Energy Beam Transport line (MEBT) is in charge of transporting and matching the beam between the RFQ and the SRF. The transverse focusing of the beam is controlled by five quadrupole magnets with integrated steerers, grouped in one triplet and one doublet. Two buncher cavities surrounding the doublet handle the longitudinal dynamics. Two movable collimators are also included to purify the beam optics coming out the RFQ and avoid losses in the SRF. From the inputs of the beam dynamics group, CIEMAT is in charge of designing, manufacturing and integrating all the components of the beamline. In this contribution, the MEBT subsystem will be described and the main objectives and issues for each component will be discussed.
 
 
THPC105 An Electron Bunch Compression Scheme for a Superconducting Radio Frequency Linear Accelerator Driven Light Source linac, ion, photon, FEL 3134
 
  • C. Tennant, S.V. Benson, D. Douglas, P. Evtushenko, R.A. Legg
    JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
 
  Funding: Support by US DoE contract #DE-AC05-060R23177.
We describe an electron bunch compression scheme suitable for use in a light source driven by a superconducting radio frequency (SRF) linac. The key feature is the use of a recirculating linac to perform the initial bunch compression. Phasing of the second pass beam through the linac is chosen to de-chirp the electron bunch prior to acceleration to the final energy in an SRF linac ("afterburner"). The final bunch compression is then done at maximum energy. This scheme has the potential to circumvent some of the most technically challenging aspects of current longitudinal matches; namely transporting a fully compressed, high peak current electron bunch through an extended SRF environment, the need for a RF harmonic linearizer and the need for a laser heater. Additional benefits include a substantial savings in capital and operational costs by efficiently using the available SRF gradient.
 
 
THPC109 First Demonstration of Electron Beam Generation and Characterization with an All Superconducting Radio-frequency (SRF) Photoinjector* cavity, laser, cathode, solenoid 3143
 
  • T. Kamps, W. Anders, R. Barday, A. Jankowiak, J. Knobloch, O. Kugeler, A.N. Matveenko, A. Neumann, T. Quast, J. Rudolph, S.G. Schubert, J. Völker
    HZB, Berlin, Germany
  • P. Kneisel
    JLAB, Newport News, Virginia, USA
  • R. Nietubyc
    The Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Centre Swierk, Swierk/Otwock, Poland
  • J.K. Sekutowicz
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  • J. Smedley
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
  • V. Volkov
    BINP SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
  • G. Weinberg
    FHI, Berlin, Germany
  • I. Will
    MBI, Berlin, Germany
 
  Funding: Work supported by Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung und Land Berlin. The work on the Pb cathode film is supported by EuCARD Grant Agreement No. 227579
In preparation for a high brightness, high average current electron source for the energy-recovery linac BERLinPro an all superconducting radio-frequency photoinjector is now in operation at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin. The aim of this experiment is beam demonstration with a high brightness electron source able to generate sub-ps pulse length electron bunches from a superconducting (SC) cathode film made of Pb coated on the backwall of a Nb SRF cavity. This paper describes the setup of the experiment and first results from beam measurements.