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TY - CONF AU - Iversen, J.I. AU - Brinkmann, A. AU - Ermakov, A. AU - Muhs, A. AU - Ziegler, J. ED - Michel, Peter ED - Arnold, André ED - Schaa, Volker RW TI - Insight into DESY’s Test Laboratory for Niobium Raw Material and Semi-finished Products J2 - Proc. of SRF2019, Dresden, Germany, 30 June-05 July 2019 CY - Dresden, Germany T2 - International Conference on RF Superconductivity T3 - 19 LA - english AB - DESY has started setting up a test laboratory for niobium more than 20 years ago. The initial application was to assure required surface quality of niobium sheets before its forming to half cells for the 1.3 GHz SRF Tesla shape cavities. As a first test equipment DESY developed a basic eddy current test device which was refined continuously. Since that time the laboratory grew with the requirements on R&D activities for niobium raw material and its semi-finished products. To be able to assure the Quality of niobium products needed for the European XFEL series cavity production, the Lab¿s infrastructure was updated significantly. Now the capabilities of the test laboratory cover the investigation of the fundamental physical properties of various materials including for example mechanical properties, surface, microstructure and chemical composition analysis. The Quality Assurance for the European XFEL was performed successfully on an outstanding level and in the meantime the laboratory was used for several other projects like LCLS-II and ESS. We present DESY’s test infrastructure as well as applied methods for the Quality Assurance and R&D activities and we report about experiences. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 1157 EP - 1161 KW - cavity KW - niobium KW - FEL KW - SRF KW - controls DA - 2019/08 PY - 2019 SN - "" SN - 978-3-95450-211-0 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-SRF2019-THP100 UR - http://jacow.org/srf2019/papers/thp100.pdf ER -