Author: Posen, S.
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MOPLR026 Material Qualification of LCLS-II Production Niobium Material Including RF and Flux Expulsion Measurements on Single Cell Cavities 199
 
  • A.D. Palczewski, F. Marhauser
    JLab, Newport News, Virginia, USA
  • A. Grassellino, S. Posen
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
 
  Funding: Work at JLab is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-06OR23177 and Fermilab is operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. De-AC02-07CH11359.
It has been shown that cooldown details through transition temperature can significantly affect the amount of trapped magnetic flux in SRF cavities, which can lead to performance degradation proportional to the magnitude of the ambient magnetic field.[*] It has also more recently been shown that depending on the exact material properties - even when the material used originated from the same batch from the same vendor - and subsequent heat treatment, the percent of flux trapped during a cool-down could vary widely for identical cool-down parameters.[**] For LCLS-II, two material vendors have produced half of the niobium used for the cavity cells (Tokyo Denkai Co., Ltd. (TD) and Ningxia Orient Tantalum Industry Co., Ltd. (NX)). Both vendors delivered material well within specifications set out by the project (according to ASTM B 393-05), which allows yet some variation of material characteristics such as grain size and defect density. In this contribution, we present RF and magnetic flux expulsion measurements of four single cell cavities made out of two different niobium batches from each of the two LCLS-II material suppliers and draw conclusions on potential correlations of flux expulsion capability with material parameters. We present observations of limited flux expulsion in cavities made from the production material and treated with the baseline LCLS-II recipe.
[*] A. Romanenko et al J. Appl. Phys. 115, 184903 (2014)
[**] S. Posenet et al., Journal of Applied Physics 119, 213903 (2016).
 
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TUPLR023 Impurity Content Optimization to Maximize Q-Factors of Superconducting Resonators 515
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  • M. Martinello, M. Checchin, A. Grassellino, O.S. Melnychuk, S. Posen, A. Romanenko, D.A. Sergatskov
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
  • M. Checchin
    Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illlinois, USA
  • J. Zasadzinski
    IIT, Chicago, Illinois, USA
 
  Quality factor of superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities is degraded whenever magnetic flux is trapped in the cavity walls during the cooldown. In this contribution we study how the trapped flux sensitivity, defined as the trapped flux surface resistance normalized for the amount of trapped flux, depends on the mean free path. A systematic study of a variety of 1.3 GHz cavities with different surface treatments (EP, 120 C bake and different N-doping) is carried out. A bell shaped trend appears for the range of mean free path studied. Over-doped cavities fall at the maximum of this curve defining the largest values of sensitivity. In addition, we have studied the trend of the BCS surface resistance contribution as a function of mean free path, showing that N-doped cavities follow close to the theoretical minimum. Adding these results together we show that the 2/6 N-doping treatment gives the highest Q-factor values at 2 K and 16 MV/m, as long as the magnetic field fully trapped during the cavity cooldown is lower than 10 mG.  
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TUPLR024 Enhancement of the Accelerating Gradient in Superconducting Microwave Resonators 519
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  • M. Checchin, A. Grassellino, M. Martinello, S. Posen, A. Romanenko
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
  • M. Martinello
    Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illlinois, USA
  • J. Zasadzinski
    IIT, Chicago, Illinois, USA
 
  Funding: Fermilab is operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DEAC02-07CH11359 with the United States Department of Energy.
The accelerating gradient of superconducting resonators can be enhanced by engineering the thickness of a dirty layer grown at the cavity's rf surface. In this paper the description of the physics behind the accelerating gradient enhancement by meaning of the dirty layer is carried out by solving numerically the the Ginzburg-Landau (GL) equations for the layered system. The calculation shows that the presence of the dirty layer stabilizes the Meissner state up to the lower critical field of the bulk, increasing the maximum accelerating gradient.
 
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