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TUP67 | Niobium Quarter-Wave Resonator Development for a Heavy Ion Re-accelerator | 296 |
| - W. Hartung, J. Bierwagen, S. Bricker, C. Compton, T. Grimm, M. Johnson, F. Marti, J. Popielarski, L. Saxton, R. C. York
Michigan State University - A. Facco
INFN-LNL - E. Zaplatin
FZ Juelich
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| A superconducting linac is being designed for reacceleration
of exotic ions produced by the Coupled Cyclotron
Facility at Michigan State University (MSU). The
re-accelerator beam line will include a cyclotron gas stopper,
a charge breeder, a normal conducting radio-frequency
quadrupole, and two types of superconducting quarterwave
resonators (QWRs) for re-acceleration to energies of
up to 3 MeV per nucleon, with the option of additional
acceleration to 12 MeV per nucleon as a future upgrade.
Both QWR types are based on existing cavities that are
presently used at INFN-Legnaro. The second QWR (optimum
beta = 0.085, 80.5 MHz) was previously designed and
prototyped as a collaborative effort between Legnaro and
MSU. The first QWR (optimum beta = 0.041, 80.5 MHz)
is very similar to the corresponding QWR in use at Legnaro,
but with a larger beam aperture. Separation between
the cavity vacuum and the cryostat insulation vacuum is
also implemented to reduce the risk of particulate contamination.
Structural analysis of the QWRs is being done in
collaboration with FZ Juelich. The beta = 0.041 QWR design
and prototyping effort is discussed in this paper. | |
WE206 | First test results of half-reentrant single-cell superconducting cavities | 407 |
| - M. Meidlinger, J. Bierwagen, S. Bricker, C. Compton, T. Grimm, W. Hartung, M. Johnson, J. Popielarski, L. Saxton, R. York
National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory - P. Kneisel
TJNAF - E. Zaplatin
Forschungszentrum Julich
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| Particle physicists are on the verge of reaching a new
frontier of physics, the Terascale, named for the teravolts
of kinetic energy per particle required to explore this region.
To meet the demand for more beam energy, superconducting
cavities need to achieve higher accelerating gradients.
It is anticipated that niobium cavities will reach a
performance limit as the peak surface magnetic field approaches
the critical magnetic field. "Low-loss" [1] and
"reentrant" [2] cavity designs are being studied at CEBAF,
Cornell, DESY, and KEK, with the goal of reaching higher
gradients via lower surface magnetic field, at the expense
of higher surface electric field. At present, cavities must
undergo chemical etching and high-pressure water rinsing
to achieve good performance. While these surface treatment
methods have been effective for low-loss and reentrant
single-cell cavity designs, it is not clear whether the
same methods will be adequate for multi-cell versions.
A "half-reentrant" cavity shape has been designed with
RF parameters similar to the low-loss and reentrant cavities,
but with the advantage that the same surface preparation
should be reliable for multi-cell half-reentrant cavities.
Two 1.3 GHz prototype single-cell half-reentrant cavities
have been fabricated and tested at Michigan State University
(MSU). One of the cavities was post-purified, etched
via buffered chemical polishing, and tested at Thomas Jefferson
National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), reaching a
maximum accelerating gradient of 35 MV/m. The halfreentrant
cavity concept, design, fabrication, and first test
results are presented. | |
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