LINAC2014 - List of Keywords (accelerating-gradient)

Paper	Title	Other Keywords	Page
MOPP001	First Experimental Results for the Superconducting Half-Wave Resonators for PXIE	cavity, niobium, proton, cryomodule	46
	Z.A. Conway, A. Barcikowski, G.L. Cherry, R.L. Fischer, S.M. Gerbick, M. Kedzie, M.P. Kelly, S.H. Kim, S.W.T. MacDonald, R.C. Murphy, P.N. Ostroumov, T. Reid, K.W. Shepard ANL, Argonne, Illinois, USA
	Funding: This work was supported by the U.S. Department of energy, Offices of High-Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics, under Contract No. DE-AC02-76-CH03000 and DE-AC02-06CH11357. The first pair of superconducting niobium half-wave resonators operating at 162.5 MHz for the FNAL PIP-II project are complete and this poster reports the cold test results. These cavities are optimized to accelerate protons/H⁻ from 2 to 10 MeV and build upon optimized electromagnetic designs and processing techniques developed at Argonne for the Intensity Upgrade of the ATLAS superconducting heavy ion accelerator.

MOPP016	Extracting Superconducting Parameters from Surface Resistivity by Using Inside Temperature of SRF Cavities	cavity, SRF, electron, superconductivity	80
	G.M. Ge, G.H. Hoffstaetter, M. Liepe, H. Padamsee, V.D. Shemelin Cornell University (CLASSE), Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences and Education, Ithaca, New York, USA
	The surface resistance of an RF superconductor depends on the surface temperature, the residual resistance and various superconductor parameters. These parameters can be determined by measuring the quality factor of a SRF cavity in helium-baths of different temperatures. The surface resistance can be computed from Q0 for any cavity geometry, however it is less simple to determine the temperature of the surface when only the temperature of the helium bath is known. Traditionally, it was approximated that the surface temperature on the inner surface of the cavity is the same as the temperature of the bath. This is a good approximation at small RF-field losses on the surface, but to determine the field dependence of Rs, one cannot be restricted to small field losses. Here we show how computer simulations can be used to determine the inside temperature so that Rs(Tin) can then be used to extract superconductor parameters. The computer code combines the well-known programs HEAT and SRIMP. We find that the error of the incorrect fitting method is about 10% at high RF-fields.

MOPP052	Development of 5-Cell β=0.9 650 MHz Elliptical Cavities for Project X	cavity, linac, HOM, coupling	171
	I.V. Gonin, M.H. Awida, M.H. Foley, A. Grassellino, C.J. Grimm, T.N. Khabiboulline, A. Lunin, A.M. Rowe, V.P. Yakovlev Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
	Several 5-cell 650 MHz elliptical cavities have been fabricated for the PIP-II Project. Two versions of the cavities have been designed to accelerate protons of relative group velocity of β=0.9 and β=0.92 in the high energy region of the linac. In this paper, we report the development status of these cavities, summarize the results of the quality control measurements performed on five initial prototypes, and outline the VTS test results.

MOPP115	Plasma Processing of Nb Surfaces for SRF Cavities	plasma, SRF, cavity, vacuum	323
	P.V. Tyagi, M. Doleans, S.-H. Kim ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA R. Afanador, C.J. McMahan ORNL RAD, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
	Funding: This work is supported by SNS through UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 for the U.S. DOE. Field emission is one of the most critical issues to achieve high performances of niobium (Nb) superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities. Field emission is mainly related to contaminants present at top surface of SRF cavities that act as electron emitters at high gradient operation and limit the cavity accelerating gradient. An R&D program at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) is in place* aiming to develop an in-situ plasma processing technique to remove some of the residual contaminants from inner surfaces of Nb cavities and improve their performance. The plasma processing R&D has first concentrated on removing hydrocarbon contamination from top surface of SRF cavities. Results from the surface studies on plasma processed Nb samples will be presented in this article and showed the removal of hydrocarbons from Nb surfaces as well as improvement of the surface workfuntion (WF). *M. Doleans et al. “Plasma processing R&D for the SNS superconducting linac RF cavities” Proceedings of 2013 SRF workshop, Paris, France
	Slides MOPP115 [1.405 MB]

TUPP060	Development of a 217 MHz Superconducting CH Structure	cavity, simulation, linac, operation	563
	M. Basten, M. Amberg, M. Busch, F.D. Dziuba, D. Mäder, H. Podlech IAP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany M. Amberg, K. Aulenbacher, W.A. Barth, S. Mickat HIM, Mainz, Germany W.A. Barth, S. Mickat GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
	Funding: Helmholtz-Institut Mainz, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung contract number 05P12RFRBL To compete in the production of Super Heavy Elements (SHE) in the future a 7.3 AMeV superconducting (sc) continuous wave (cw) LINAC is planned at GSI. The baseline design consists of 9 sc Crossbar-H-mode (CH) cavities operated at 217 MHz. Currently an advanced cw demonstrator is under design at the Institute for Applied Physics (IAP) at Frankfurt University. The purpose of the advanced demonstrator is to investigate a new concept for the superconducting CH structures. It is based on shorter CH-cavities with 8 equidistant gaps without girders and with stiffening brackets at the front and end cap to reduce the pressure sensitivity. One major goal of the advanced demonstrator is to show that the new design leads to higher acceleration gradients and smaller E_p/E_a values. In this contribution first simulation results and technical layouts will be presented.
	Poster TUPP060 [0.593 MB]

TUPP121	Limitations for Acceleration of Intermediate Mass Particles with Traveling Wave Structure	operation, acceleration, electron, linac	705
	V.V. Paramonov RAS/INR, Moscow, Russia
	The Disk Loaded Waveguide (DLW) is the mostly used high frequency structure for acceleration of lightweight particles – electrons in the high energy range. DLW parameters are considered for the lower frequency range and lower particle velocity. Physical and technical restrictions for DLW application for the low particles velocity are analyzed. Basing on particularities of acceleration with traveling wave, deep optimization of DLW cells dimensions, the choice of optimal operating phase advance for each DLW section and combination of forward and backward wave modes, it looks possible to create the simple, cost effective acceleration system for intermediate particles acceleration in the moderate velocity range, in some parameters overcoming accelerating system with RF cavities in the standing wave mode.

THPP012	A Prototype 1 Mev X-Band Linac for Aviation Cargo Inspection	cavity, linac, electron, simulation	853
	M. Jenkins, P.K. Ambattu, G. Burt Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom S. Andrews, T.A. Cross, C.R. Weatherup e2v, Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom P.A. Corlett, P. Goudket, A.R. Goulden, P.A. McIntosh, K.J. Middleman, Y.M. Saveliev, R.J. Smith, A.E. Wheelhouse STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom S.A. Griffiths, M.D. Hancock, T. Hartnett, C. Hill, J.P. Hindley, B.G. Martlew, N. Templeton STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
	Aviation cargo Unit Load Device (ULD) containers are typically much smaller than standard shipping containers, with a volume of around 1m3. Standard 3-6 MeV X-ray screening linacs have too much energy to obtain sufficient contrast when inspecting ULD’s, hence a lower 1 MeV linac is required. In order to obtain a small physical footprint, which can be adapted to mobile platform applications a compact design is required, hence X-band technology is the ideal solution. A prototype 1 MeV linac cavity has been designed by Lancaster University, manufactured by Comeb (Italy) and tested at STFC Daresbury Laboratory using an e2v magnetron, modulator and electron gun. The cavity is a bi-periodic π/2 structure, with beam-pipe aperture coupling to simplify the manufacture at the expense of shunt impedance. The design, manufacture and testing of this linac structure is presented.

THPP061	RF Design of a Novel S-Band Backward Traveling Wave Linac for Proton Therapy	coupling, linac, proton, impedance	992
	S. Benedetti, U. Amaldi TERA, Novara, Italy A. Degiovanni, A. Grudiev, W. Wuensch CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	Proton therapy is a rapidly developing technique for tumour treatment, thanks to the physical and dosimetric advantages of charged particles in the dose distribution. Here the RF design of a novel high gradient accelerating structure for proton Linacs is discussed. The choice of a linear accelerator lies mainly in its advantage over cyclotron and synchrotron in terms of fast energy modulation of the beam, which allows the implementation of active spot scanning technique without need of passive absorbers. The design discussed hereafter represents a unicum thanks to the accelerating mode chosen, a 2.9985 GHz backward traveling wave mode with 150° phase advance, and to the RF design approach. The prototype has been designed to reach an accelerating gradient of 50 MV/m, which is more than twice that obtained before. This would allow a shorter Linac potentially reducing cost. The complete 3D RF design of the full structure for beta equal to 0.38 is presented. A prototype will be soon produced and tested at high power. This structure is part of the TULIP project, a proton therapy single-room facility based on high gradient linear accelerators.
	Slides THPP061 [1.537 MB]

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MOPP001

First Experimental Results for the Superconducting Half-Wave Resonators for PXIE

cavity, niobium, proton, cryomodule

46

Z.A. Conway, A. Barcikowski, G.L. Cherry, R.L. Fischer, S.M. Gerbick, M. Kedzie, M.P. Kelly, S.H. Kim, S.W.T. MacDonald, R.C. Murphy, P.N. Ostroumov, T. Reid, K.W. Shepard
ANL, Argonne, Illinois, USA

Funding: This work was supported by the U.S. Department of energy, Offices of High-Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics, under Contract No. DE-AC02-76-CH03000 and DE-AC02-06CH11357.
The first pair of superconducting niobium half-wave resonators operating at 162.5 MHz for the FNAL PIP-II project are complete and this poster reports the cold test results. These cavities are optimized to accelerate protons/H⁻ from 2 to 10 MeV and build upon optimized electromagnetic designs and processing techniques developed at Argonne for the Intensity Upgrade of the ATLAS superconducting heavy ion accelerator.

MOPP016

Extracting Superconducting Parameters from Surface Resistivity by Using Inside Temperature of SRF Cavities

cavity, SRF, electron, superconductivity

80

G.M. Ge, G.H. Hoffstaetter, M. Liepe, H. Padamsee, V.D. Shemelin
Cornell University (CLASSE), Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences and Education, Ithaca, New York, USA

The surface resistance of an RF superconductor depends on the surface temperature, the residual resistance and various superconductor parameters. These parameters can be determined by measuring the quality factor of a SRF cavity in helium-baths of different temperatures. The surface resistance can be computed from Q0 for any cavity geometry, however it is less simple to determine the temperature of the surface when only the temperature of the helium bath is known. Traditionally, it was approximated that the surface temperature on the inner surface of the cavity is the same as the temperature of the bath. This is a good approximation at small RF-field losses on the surface, but to determine the field dependence of Rs, one cannot be restricted to small field losses. Here we show how computer simulations can be used to determine the inside temperature so that Rs(Tin) can then be used to extract superconductor parameters. The computer code combines the well-known programs HEAT and SRIMP. We find that the error of the incorrect fitting method is about 10% at high RF-fields.

MOPP052

Development of 5-Cell β=0.9 650 MHz Elliptical Cavities for Project X

cavity, linac, HOM, coupling

171

I.V. Gonin, M.H. Awida, M.H. Foley, A. Grassellino, C.J. Grimm, T.N. Khabiboulline, A. Lunin, A.M. Rowe, V.P. Yakovlev
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA

Several 5-cell 650 MHz elliptical cavities have been fabricated for the PIP-II Project. Two versions of the cavities have been designed to accelerate protons of relative group velocity of β=0.9 and β=0.92 in the high energy region of the linac. In this paper, we report the development status of these cavities, summarize the results of the quality control measurements performed on five initial prototypes, and outline the VTS test results.

MOPP115

Plasma Processing of Nb Surfaces for SRF Cavities

plasma, SRF, cavity, vacuum

323

P.V. Tyagi, M. Doleans, S.-H. Kim
ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
R. Afanador, C.J. McMahan
ORNL RAD, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

Funding: This work is supported by SNS through UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 for the U.S. DOE.
Field emission is one of the most critical issues to achieve high performances of niobium (Nb) superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities. Field emission is mainly related to contaminants present at top surface of SRF cavities that act as electron emitters at high gradient operation and limit the cavity accelerating gradient. An R&D program at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) is in place* aiming to develop an in-situ plasma processing technique to remove some of the residual contaminants from inner surfaces of Nb cavities and improve their performance. The plasma processing R&D has first concentrated on removing hydrocarbon contamination from top surface of SRF cavities. Results from the surface studies on plasma processed Nb samples will be presented in this article and showed the removal of hydrocarbons from Nb surfaces as well as improvement of the surface workfuntion (WF).
*M. Doleans et al. “Plasma processing R&D for the SNS superconducting linac RF cavities” Proceedings of 2013 SRF workshop, Paris, France

Slides MOPP115 [1.405 MB]

TUPP060

Development of a 217 MHz Superconducting CH Structure

cavity, simulation, linac, operation

563

M. Basten, M. Amberg, M. Busch, F.D. Dziuba, D. Mäder, H. Podlech
IAP, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
M. Amberg, K. Aulenbacher, W.A. Barth, S. Mickat
HIM, Mainz, Germany
W.A. Barth, S. Mickat
GSI, Darmstadt, Germany

Funding: Helmholtz-Institut Mainz, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung contract number 05P12RFRBL
To compete in the production of Super Heavy Elements (SHE) in the future a 7.3 AMeV superconducting (sc) continuous wave (cw) LINAC is planned at GSI. The baseline design consists of 9 sc Crossbar-H-mode (CH) cavities operated at 217 MHz. Currently an advanced cw demonstrator is under design at the Institute for Applied Physics (IAP) at Frankfurt University. The purpose of the advanced demonstrator is to investigate a new concept for the superconducting CH structures. It is based on shorter CH-cavities with 8 equidistant gaps without girders and with stiffening brackets at the front and end cap to reduce the pressure sensitivity. One major goal of the advanced demonstrator is to show that the new design leads to higher acceleration gradients and smaller E_p/E_a values. In this contribution first simulation results and technical layouts will be presented.

Poster TUPP060 [0.593 MB]

TUPP121

Limitations for Acceleration of Intermediate Mass Particles with Traveling Wave Structure

operation, acceleration, electron, linac

705

V.V. Paramonov
RAS/INR, Moscow, Russia

The Disk Loaded Waveguide (DLW) is the mostly used high frequency structure for acceleration of lightweight particles – electrons in the high energy range. DLW parameters are considered for the lower frequency range and lower particle velocity. Physical and technical restrictions for DLW application for the low particles velocity are analyzed. Basing on particularities of acceleration with traveling wave, deep optimization of DLW cells dimensions, the choice of optimal operating phase advance for each DLW section and combination of forward and backward wave modes, it looks possible to create the simple, cost effective acceleration system for intermediate particles acceleration in the moderate velocity range, in some parameters overcoming accelerating system with RF cavities in the standing wave mode.

THPP012

A Prototype 1 Mev X-Band Linac for Aviation Cargo Inspection

cavity, linac, electron, simulation

853

M. Jenkins, P.K. Ambattu, G. Burt
Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
S. Andrews, T.A. Cross, C.R. Weatherup
e2v, Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom
P.A. Corlett, P. Goudket, A.R. Goulden, P.A. McIntosh, K.J. Middleman, Y.M. Saveliev, R.J. Smith, A.E. Wheelhouse
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
S.A. Griffiths, M.D. Hancock, T. Hartnett, C. Hill, J.P. Hindley, B.G. Martlew, N. Templeton
STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom

Aviation cargo Unit Load Device (ULD) containers are typically much smaller than standard shipping containers, with a volume of around 1m3. Standard 3-6 MeV X-ray screening linacs have too much energy to obtain sufficient contrast when inspecting ULD’s, hence a lower 1 MeV linac is required. In order to obtain a small physical footprint, which can be adapted to mobile platform applications a compact design is required, hence X-band technology is the ideal solution. A prototype 1 MeV linac cavity has been designed by Lancaster University, manufactured by Comeb (Italy) and tested at STFC Daresbury Laboratory using an e2v magnetron, modulator and electron gun. The cavity is a bi-periodic π/2 structure, with beam-pipe aperture coupling to simplify the manufacture at the expense of shunt impedance. The design, manufacture and testing of this linac structure is presented.

THPP061

RF Design of a Novel S-Band Backward Traveling Wave Linac for Proton Therapy

coupling, linac, proton, impedance

992

S. Benedetti, U. Amaldi
TERA, Novara, Italy
A. Degiovanni, A. Grudiev, W. Wuensch
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Proton therapy is a rapidly developing technique for tumour treatment, thanks to the physical and dosimetric advantages of charged particles in the dose distribution. Here the RF design of a novel high gradient accelerating structure for proton Linacs is discussed. The choice of a linear accelerator lies mainly in its advantage over cyclotron and synchrotron in terms of fast energy modulation of the beam, which allows the implementation of active spot scanning technique without need of passive absorbers. The design discussed hereafter represents a unicum thanks to the accelerating mode chosen, a 2.9985 GHz backward traveling wave mode with 150° phase advance, and to the RF design approach. The prototype has been designed to reach an accelerating gradient of 50 MV/m, which is more than twice that obtained before. This would allow a shorter Linac potentially reducing cost. The complete 3D RF design of the full structure for beta equal to 0.38 is presented. A prototype will be soon produced and tested at high power. This structure is part of the TULIP project, a proton therapy single-room facility based on high gradient linear accelerators.

Slides THPP061 [1.537 MB]