| Paper | Title | Page |
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| TUP036 | Large Grain Superconducting RF Cavities at DESY | 327 |
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| The DESY R&D program on cavities fabricated from large grain niobium explores the potential of this material for the production of approx. 1000 nine-cell cavities for the European XFEL. The program investigates both, the basic material properties comparing large grain material to standard sheet niobium and the material availability, fabrication and preparation aspects. Several single-cell cavities of TESLA shape have been fabricated from large grain niobium. A gradient up to 41 MV/m at Q0 = 1.4·1010 (TB = 2K) was measured after electropolishing. Recently the first large grain nine-cell cavities worldwide have been produced under contract of DESY with ACCEL Instruments Co. The first cavity is already tested with an accelerating gradient of 29 MV/m after BCP (Buffered Chemical Polishing) treatment. |