Insight to the Duration of 120 °C Baking on the Performance of SRF Niobium Cavities
- Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA (United States)
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
Low-temperature baking at 100 °C - 140 °C in ultra-high vacuum for several hours is the final cavity processing technique to achieve the highest accelerating gradient cavity by eliminating the high field Q-slope, typically on cavities made of high purity fine grain niobium and subjected to electropolishing. The temperature and duration of baking control the onset of the high field Q-slope and overall quality factor over the baseline measurements. The increase in quality factor is generally related to the reduction in the temperature-dependent surface resistance, which refers to BCS surface resistance due to the reduction in the electronic mean free path and elimination of high field Q-slope is still being actively investigated. Here, we present the results of a series of measurements on 1.3 GHz TESLA shape single-cell cavities with successive low-temperature baking at 120 °C up to 96 hours. The rf loss related to the trapping of residual magnetic field refer to flux trapping sensitivity was measured with respect to the duration of 120 °C bake.
- Research Organization:
- Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-06OR23177; SC0009960
- OSTI ID:
- 1924790
- Report Number(s):
- JLAB-ACC-22-3721; DOE/OR/23177-5615; TRN: US2312535
- Journal Information:
- IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, Vol. 33, Issue 3; ISSN 1051-8223
- Publisher:
- IEEECopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
temperature measurement
radio frequency
sensitivity
magnetic field measurement
surface resistance
electrical resistance measurement
surface treatment
flux trapping sensitivity
low-temperature baking
superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavity