Author: Tennant, C.
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FRXC01 Superconducting Radio-Frequency Cavity Fault Classification Using Machine Learning at Jefferson Laboratory 4535
 
  • C. Tennant, A. Carpenter, T. Powers, L.S. Vidyaratne
    JLab, Newport News, Virginia, USA
  • K.M. Iftekharuddin, M. Rahman
    ODU, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
  • A.D. Shabalina
    STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
 
  Funding: This work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics under Contract No. DE-AC05-06OR23177.
We report on the development of machine learning models for classifying C100 superconducting radiofrequency (SRF) cavity faults in the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at Jefferson Lab. Of the 418 SRF cavities in CEBAF, 96 are designed with a digital low-level RF system configured such that a cavity fault triggers recordings of RF signals for each of eight cavities in the cryomodule. Subject matter experts analyze the collected time-series data and identify which of the eight cavities faulted first and classify the type of fault. This information is used to find trends and strategically deploy mitigations to problematic cryomodules. However, manually labeling the data is laborious and time-consuming. By leveraging machine learning, near real-time - rather than postmortem - identification of the offending cavity and classification of the fault type has been implemented. We discuss the performance of the machine learning models during a recent physics run. We also discuss efforts for further insights into fault types through unsupervised learning techniques and present preliminary work on cavity and fault prediction using data collected prior to a failure event.
 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2021-FRXC01  
About • paper received ※ 16 May 2021       paper accepted ※ 01 July 2021       issue date ※ 13 August 2021  
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