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MOPVA116	Quench Studies in Single-Cell Nb3Sn Cavities Coated Using Vapour Diffusion	1119
	D.L. Hall, M. Liepe, J.T. Maniscalco, R.D. Porter Cornell University (CLASSE), Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences and Education, Ithaca, New York, USA P. Cueva, D. Liarte, D.A. Muller, J.P. Sethna Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
	The superconductor Nb3Sn is known to have a superheating field, Hsh, of approximately 400 mT. This critical field represents the ultimate achievable gradient in a superconducting cavity, and is equivalent to an accelerating gradient of 90 MV/m in an ILC single-cell cavity for this value of Hsh. However, the currently best performing Nb3Sn single-cell cavities remain limited to accelerating gradients of 17-18 MV/m, translating to a peak surface magnetic field of approx. 70 mT. In this paper, we consider theoretical models of candidate quench mechanisms, and compare them to experimental data from surface analysis and cavity tests.
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MOPVA119	Surface Analysis of Features Seen on Nb3Sn Sample Coupons Grown by Vapour Diffusion	1130
	D.L. Hall, M. Liepe, J.T. Maniscalco, R.D. Porter Cornell University (CLASSE), Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences and Education, Ithaca, New York, USA T. Arias, P. Cueva, D.A. Muller, N. Sitaraman Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
	As a high-kappa superconductor with a coherence length of 7 nm, the superconductor Nb3Sn is highly susceptible to material features at the sub-micron scale. For niobium surfaces coated with a thin layer of Nb3Sn using the vapour diffusion method, the polycrystalline nature of the film grown lends to the possibility that performance-degrading non-uniformities may develop. In particular, regions of insufficiently thick coating and tin-depletion have been seen to occur in sample coupons. In the interests of understanding how to control the presence and nature of such features, it is necessary to know how they form. In this paper we stop the coating at defined instances to gain a stop-motion image of the growth of the layer, and use SEM and TEM techniques to image the development of the features seen in previously coated samples. We demonstrate that surface pre-anodisation can suppress the formation of thin film regions, and apply this technique to a single-cell cavity. Contemporarily, we use TEM with EDS mapping to monitor grain boundaries and tin-depleted regions within the layer.
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Quench Studies in Single-Cell Nb3Sn Cavities Coated Using Vapour Diffusion

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D.L. Hall, M. Liepe, J.T. Maniscalco, R.D. Porter
Cornell University (CLASSE), Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences and Education, Ithaca, New York, USA
P. Cueva, D. Liarte, D.A. Muller, J.P. Sethna
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

The superconductor Nb3Sn is known to have a superheating field, Hsh, of approximately 400 mT. This critical field represents the ultimate achievable gradient in a superconducting cavity, and is equivalent to an accelerating gradient of 90 MV/m in an ILC single-cell cavity for this value of Hsh. However, the currently best performing Nb3Sn single-cell cavities remain limited to accelerating gradients of 17-18 MV/m, translating to a peak surface magnetic field of approx. 70 mT. In this paper, we consider theoretical models of candidate quench mechanisms, and compare them to experimental data from surface analysis and cavity tests.

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MOPVA119

Surface Analysis of Features Seen on Nb3Sn Sample Coupons Grown by Vapour Diffusion

1130

D.L. Hall, M. Liepe, J.T. Maniscalco, R.D. Porter
Cornell University (CLASSE), Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences and Education, Ithaca, New York, USA
T. Arias, P. Cueva, D.A. Muller, N. Sitaraman
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

As a high-kappa superconductor with a coherence length of 7 nm, the superconductor Nb3Sn is highly susceptible to material features at the sub-micron scale. For niobium surfaces coated with a thin layer of Nb3Sn using the vapour diffusion method, the polycrystalline nature of the film grown lends to the possibility that performance-degrading non-uniformities may develop. In particular, regions of insufficiently thick coating and tin-depletion have been seen to occur in sample coupons. In the interests of understanding how to control the presence and nature of such features, it is necessary to know how they form. In this paper we stop the coating at defined instances to gain a stop-motion image of the growth of the layer, and use SEM and TEM techniques to image the development of the features seen in previously coated samples. We demonstrate that surface pre-anodisation can suppress the formation of thin film regions, and apply this technique to a single-cell cavity. Contemporarily, we use TEM with EDS mapping to monitor grain boundaries and tin-depleted regions within the layer.

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