SRF2021 - List of Authors (Sian, B.S.)

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SUPFDV016	A Low Power Test Facility for SRF Thin Film Testing with High Sample Throughput Rate	100
	D.J. Seal Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom G. Burt, P. Goudket, O.B. Malyshev, B.S. Sian, R. Valizadeh Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom G. Burt, B.S. Sian Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom J.A. Conlon, P. Goudket, O.B. Malyshev, R. Valizadeh STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
	A low-power SRF test facility is being upgraded at Daresbury Laboratory as part of the superconducting thin film testing programme. The facility consists of a bulk niobium test cavity operating at 7.8 GHz, surrounded by RF chokes, and can be run with input RF powers up to 1 W. It is housed within a liquid helium free cryostat and is able to test thin film planar samples up to 100 mm in diameter with a thickness between 1 and 20 mm. The RF chokes allow the cavity to be physically and thermally isolated from the sample, thus reducing the need for complicated sample mounting, whilst minimising field leakage out of the cavity. This allows for a fast turnaround time of two to three days per sample. Initial tests using a newly designed sample holder have shown that an RF-DC compensation method can be used successfully to calculate the surface resistance of samples down to 4 K. Potential upgrades include a pick-up antenna for direct measurements of stored energy and the addition of a self-excited loop to mitigate the effects of microphonics. Details of this facility and preliminary results are described in this paper.
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About •	Received ※ 21 June 2021 — Accepted ※ 12 August 2021 — Issue date ※ 18 December 2021
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WEPFDV007	Main Highlights of ARIES WP15 Collaboration	571
	O.B. Malyshev, P. Goudket, R. Valizadeh STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom C.Z. Antoine CEA-IRFU, Gif-sur-Yvette, France O. Azzolini, E. Chyhyrynets, G. Keppel, C. Pira, F. Stivanello INFN/LNL, Legnaro (PD), Italy G. Burt, D.J. Seal, D.A. Turner Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom G. Burt, B.S. Sian Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom O. Kugeler, D.B. Tikhonov HZB, Berlin, Germany S.B. Leith, A.Ö. Sezgin, M. Vogel University Siegen, Siegen, Germany A. Medvids, P. Onufrijevs Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia R. Ries, E. Seiler Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Electrical Engineering, Bratislava, Slovak Republic B.S. Sian Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom A. Sublet, G. Vandoni, L. Vega Cid, W. Venturini Delsolaro, P. Vidal García CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland D.A. Turner STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
	Funding: European Commission’s ARIES collaboration H2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement no. 730871 An international collaboration of research teams from CEA (France), CERN (Switzerland), INFN/LNL (Italy), HZB and USI (Germany), IEE (Slovakia), RTU (Latvia) and STFC/DL (UK), are working together on better understanding of how to improve the properties of superconducting thin films (ScTF) for RF cavities. The collaboration has been formed as WP15 in the H2020 ARIES project funded by EC. The systematic study of ScTF covers: Cu substrate polishing with different techniques (EP, SUBU, EP+SUBU, tumbling, laser), Nb, NbN, Nb₃Sn and SIS film deposition and characterisation, Laser post deposition treatments, DC magnetisation characterisation, application of all obtained knowledge on polishing, deposition and characterisation, Laser post deposition treatments, DC magnetisation characterisation, application to the QPR samples for testing the films at RF conditions. The preparation, deposition and characterisation of each sample involves 3-5 partners enhancing the capability of each other and resulting in a more complete analysis of each film. The talk will give an overview of the collaborative research and will be an introduction to the detailed talks given by the team members.
	Poster WEPFDV007 [2.013 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-SRF2021-WEPFDV007
About •	Received ※ 19 June 2021 — Accepted ※ 12 February 2022 — Issue date ※ 10 April 2022
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FROFDV06	Synthesis of Nb and Alternative Superconducting Film to Nb for SRF Cavity as Single Layer	893
	R. Valizadeh, P. Goudket, A.N. Hannah, O.B. Malyshev STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom C.Z. Antoine CEA-DRF-IRFU, France C.Z. Antoine CEA-IRFU, Gif-sur-Yvette, France E. Chyhyrynets, C. Pira INFN/LNL, Legnaro (PD), Italy P. Goudket, O.B. Malyshev, D.J. Seal, B.S. Sian, D.A. Turner Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom O. Kugeler, D.B. Tikhonov HZB, Berlin, Germany S.B. Leith, A.Ö. Sezgin, M. Vogel University Siegen, Siegen, Germany A. Medvids, P. Onufrijevs Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia D.J. Seal, B.S. Sian, D.A. Turner Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom G.B.G. Stenning STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom A. Sublet, G. Vandoni, L. Vega Cid, W. Venturini Delsolaro, P. Vidal García CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
	"Bulk niobium (Nb) has been the material of choice for superconducting RF (SRF) cavities but for further improvement in cavity RF performance, one may have to turn to films of Nb and to other superconducting materials deposited on copper as thermal and mechanical support. Other materials known as A15, such as Nb₃Sn or V₃Si and B1 such as NbTiN and NbN are much easier to synthesise in thin films rather than being made as bulk cavity. The potential benefits of using materials other than Nb would be a higher Tc, a potentially higher critical held Hc, leading to potentially significant cryogenics cost reduction if the cavity operation temperature is 4.2 K or higher. We report on optimising deposition parameters and effect of substrate treatment prior to deposition for successful synthesising of Nb and the alternative superconducting thin film with high superconducting properties (Tc and Hsh) on flat substrates and QPR samples in single layer. The DC and RF SC properties have been tested using PPMS and QPR measurements. This work is part of the H2020 ARIES collaboration. We further report on preparation of RF cavities employing these alternative material for future cavity production."
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About •	Received ※ 21 June 2021 — Accepted ※ 05 January 2022 — Issue date ※ 28 April 2022
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A Low Power Test Facility for SRF Thin Film Testing with High Sample Throughput Rate

100

D.J. Seal
Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
G. Burt, P. Goudket, O.B. Malyshev, B.S. Sian, R. Valizadeh
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
G. Burt, B.S. Sian
Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
J.A. Conlon, P. Goudket, O.B. Malyshev, R. Valizadeh
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom

A low-power SRF test facility is being upgraded at Daresbury Laboratory as part of the superconducting thin film testing programme. The facility consists of a bulk niobium test cavity operating at 7.8 GHz, surrounded by RF chokes, and can be run with input RF powers up to 1 W. It is housed within a liquid helium free cryostat and is able to test thin film planar samples up to 100 mm in diameter with a thickness between 1 and 20 mm. The RF chokes allow the cavity to be physically and thermally isolated from the sample, thus reducing the need for complicated sample mounting, whilst minimising field leakage out of the cavity. This allows for a fast turnaround time of two to three days per sample. Initial tests using a newly designed sample holder have shown that an RF-DC compensation method can be used successfully to calculate the surface resistance of samples down to 4 K. Potential upgrades include a pick-up antenna for direct measurements of stored energy and the addition of a self-excited loop to mitigate the effects of microphonics. Details of this facility and preliminary results are described in this paper.

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Received ※ 21 June 2021 — Accepted ※ 12 August 2021 — Issue date ※ 18 December 2021

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WEPFDV007

Main Highlights of ARIES WP15 Collaboration

571

O.B. Malyshev, P. Goudket, R. Valizadeh
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
C.Z. Antoine
CEA-IRFU, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
O. Azzolini, E. Chyhyrynets, G. Keppel, C. Pira, F. Stivanello
INFN/LNL, Legnaro (PD), Italy
G. Burt, D.J. Seal, D.A. Turner
Cockcroft Institute, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
G. Burt, B.S. Sian
Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
O. Kugeler, D.B. Tikhonov
HZB, Berlin, Germany
S.B. Leith, A.Ö. Sezgin, M. Vogel
University Siegen, Siegen, Germany
A. Medvids, P. Onufrijevs
Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia
R. Ries, E. Seiler
Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Electrical Engineering, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
B.S. Sian
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
A. Sublet, G. Vandoni, L. Vega Cid, W. Venturini Delsolaro, P. Vidal García
CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
D.A. Turner
STFC/DL, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom

Funding: European Commission’s ARIES collaboration H2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement no. 730871
An international collaboration of research teams from CEA (France), CERN (Switzerland), INFN/LNL (Italy), HZB and USI (Germany), IEE (Slovakia), RTU (Latvia) and STFC/DL (UK), are working together on better understanding of how to improve the properties of superconducting thin films (ScTF) for RF cavities. The collaboration has been formed as WP15 in the H2020 ARIES project funded by EC. The systematic study of ScTF covers: Cu substrate polishing with different techniques (EP, SUBU, EP+SUBU, tumbling, laser), Nb, NbN, Nb₃Sn and SIS film deposition and characterisation, Laser post deposition treatments, DC magnetisation characterisation, application of all obtained knowledge on polishing, deposition and characterisation, Laser post deposition treatments, DC magnetisation characterisation, application to the QPR samples for testing the films at RF conditions. The preparation, deposition and characterisation of each sample involves 3-5 partners enhancing the capability of each other and resulting in a more complete analysis of each film. The talk will give an overview of the collaborative research and will be an introduction to the detailed talks given by the team members.

Poster WEPFDV007 [2.013 MB]

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Received ※ 19 June 2021 — Accepted ※ 12 February 2022 — Issue date ※ 10 April 2022

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FROFDV06

Synthesis of Nb and Alternative Superconducting Film to Nb for SRF Cavity as Single Layer

893

R. Valizadeh, P. Goudket, A.N. Hannah, O.B. Malyshev
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
C.Z. Antoine
CEA-DRF-IRFU, France
C.Z. Antoine
CEA-IRFU, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
E. Chyhyrynets, C. Pira
INFN/LNL, Legnaro (PD), Italy
P. Goudket, O.B. Malyshev, D.J. Seal, B.S. Sian, D.A. Turner
Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
O. Kugeler, D.B. Tikhonov
HZB, Berlin, Germany
S.B. Leith, A.Ö. Sezgin, M. Vogel
University Siegen, Siegen, Germany
A. Medvids, P. Onufrijevs
Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia
D.J. Seal, B.S. Sian, D.A. Turner
Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
G.B.G. Stenning
STFC/RAL/ISIS, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, United Kingdom
A. Sublet, G. Vandoni, L. Vega Cid, W. Venturini Delsolaro, P. Vidal García
CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland

"Bulk niobium (Nb) has been the material of choice for superconducting RF (SRF) cavities but for further improvement in cavity RF performance, one may have to turn to films of Nb and to other superconducting materials deposited on copper as thermal and mechanical support. Other materials known as A15, such as Nb₃Sn or V₃Si and B1 such as NbTiN and NbN are much easier to synthesise in thin films rather than being made as bulk cavity. The potential benefits of using materials other than Nb would be a higher Tc, a potentially higher critical held Hc, leading to potentially significant cryogenics cost reduction if the cavity operation temperature is 4.2 K or higher. We report on optimising deposition parameters and effect of substrate treatment prior to deposition for successful synthesising of Nb and the alternative superconducting thin film with high superconducting properties (Tc and Hsh) on flat substrates and QPR samples in single layer. The DC and RF SC properties have been tested using PPMS and QPR measurements. This work is part of the H2020 ARIES collaboration. We further report on preparation of RF cavities employing these alternative material for future cavity production."

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Received ※ 21 June 2021 — Accepted ※ 05 January 2022 — Issue date ※ 28 April 2022

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