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Title: Electro-Mechanical Properties of Spoke-Loaded Superconducting Cavities

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OSTI ID:955806

This paper presents experimental data characterizing the electro-mechanical properties of superconducting spoke-loaded cavities developed for high-intensity ion-linac applications, such as the cw ANL Advanced Exotic Beams Laboratory (AEBL) driver linac and the pulsed FNAL High Intensity Neutrino Source (HINS, now project X) proton driver linac. High-gradient cw operation at 4.2 K can produce violent boiling in the liquid helium coolant causing microphonic frequency noise. A spoke cavity designed to minimize the effects of helium pressure on RF eigenfrequency, the total microphonic induced RF frequency variations, were found to be on the level of the phase noise in the reference oscillator. To determine the pulsed cavity RF performance, the Lorentz transfer function was measured and used to predict the dynamic detuning in pulsed operation. There is good agreement between the predicted fit and the measured data, demonstrating the utility of the Lorentz transfer function, which can compl

Research Organization:
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-060R23177
OSTI ID:
955806
Report Number(s):
JLAB-ACC-07-772; DOE/OR/23177-0553; TRN: US1004750
Resource Relation:
Conference: Paper compiled for SRF 2007
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English