A selection of high gradient cavity experiments
In the two years since the 7th SRF workshop, a variety of cavity tests have been carried out with the objective to reproducibly achieve surface electric rf fields above 40 MV/m with no or only very little electron loading. This paper reports about a collection of tests on single cell and multi-cell cavities, which received standard surface treatments such as buffered chemical polishing and high pressure ultrapure water rinsing, but no heat treatments. Often the cavities were limited by quenches, posting a limit of 700 to 1,000 Oersted on achievable peak magnetic fields of high purity niobium RRR values between 200 and 250. In a seamless single cell cavity fabricated by V. Palmieri of INFN Legnaro by spinning, a very promising gradient of E{sub acc}=25 MV/m was measured. In collaboration with CERN, several tests on sputtering niobium prepared at CERN were also carried out, and accelerating gradients up to 25 MV/m were achieved. A single cell cavity, electron beam welded after electrochemical buffing, showed only good performance--E{sub p} > 50 MV/m--after the removal of more than 100 {micro}m of material. However, this cavity showed rather heavy Q disease even when cooled down rapidly; the Q degradation could be partially reversed by diffusing the oxygen from an anodized Nb{sub 2}O{sub 5} layer into the niobium by heating the cavity in-situ at T=250 C.
- Research Organization:
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-84ER40150
- OSTI ID:
- 755332
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ER/40150-1440; JLAB-ACT-98-001; TRN: US0002424
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 8th SRF workshop, Abano-Terme (IT), 10/1997; Other Information: PBD: 1 Jan 1998
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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