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Advanced surface treatments for medium-velocity superconducting RF cavities for high accelerating gradient continuous-wave operation
K. McGee, S. Kim, K. Elliott +13
Nitrogen-doping and furnace-baking are advanced high-Q0 recipes developed for 1.3 GHz TESLA-type cavities. These treatments will significantly benefit the high-Q0 linear accelerato…
Flux Expulsion and Material Properties of Niobium Explored in 644-650 MHz Cavities
K. McGee, S-H. Kim, P. Ostroumov +5
Upcoming projects requiring high-Q ~650 MHz medium-to-high- elliptical cavities drive a need to understand magnetic RF loss mechanisms and mitigations in greater detail. High-te…
First Direct Observation of Nanometer size Hydride Precipitations on Superconducting Niobium
Zu Hawn Sung, Arely Cano, Akshay Murthy +5
Superconducting niobium serves as a key enabling material for superconducting radio frequency (SRF) technology as well as quantum computing devices. At room temperature, hydrogen c…
Selective thermal evolution of native oxide layer in Nb and Nb3Sn-coated SRF grade Nb: An in-situ angular XPS study
Arely Cano, Grigory V. Eremeev, Juan R. Zuazo +5
This contribution discusses the results of an in-situ angular XPS study on the thermal evolution of the native oxide layer on Nb3Sn and pure Nb. XPS data were recorded with convent…
Evaluation of predictive correlation between flux expulsion and grain growth for superconducting radio frequency cavities
Zu Hawn Sung, Paulina Kulyavtsev, Martina Martinello +3
A series of experiments were carried out in an effort to develop a simple method for predicting magnetic flux expulsion behavior of high purity niobium used to fabricate supercondu…
HELEN: A Linear Collider Based On Advanced SRF Technology
S. Belomestnykh, P. C. Bhat, M. Checchin +9
This paper discusses recently proposed Higgs Energy LEptoN (HELEN) linear collider based on advances in superconducting radio frequency technology. The collider offers cost…
200 MV Record Voltage Of vCM And LCLS-II-HE Cryomodules Production Start At Fermilab
T. Arkan, J. Kaluzny, D. Bafia +11
The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) is an X-ray science facility at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The LCLS-II project (an upgrade to LCLS) is in the commissioning phase;…
Study on Electropolishing Conditions for 650 MHz Niobium SRF Cavity
V. Chouhan, D. Bice, F. Furuta +8
The PIP II linear accelerator includes different types of niobium SRF cavities including 650 MHz elliptical low (0.61) and high (0.92) beta cavities. The elliptical cavity surface…
Effect of Electropolishing on Nitrogen Doped and Undoped Niobium Surfaces
V. Chouhan, F. Furuta, M. Martinello +2
Cold electropolishing (EP) of a nitrogen-doped (N-doped) niobium (Nb) superconducting RF (SRF) cavity was found to improve its quality factor. In order to understand the effect of…
Key directions for research and development of superconducting radio frequency cavities
S. Belomestnykh, S. Posen, D. Bafia +53
Radio frequency superconductivity is a cornerstone technology for many future HEP particle accelerators and experiments from colliders to proton drivers for neutrino facilities to…
Plasma Processing for In-Situ Field Emission Mitigation of Superconducting Radiofrequency (SRF) Cryomodules
M. Martinello, P. Berrutti, B. Giaccone +14
Field emission (FE) is one of the main limiting factors of superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities operating in accelerators and it occurs whenever contaminants, like dust,…
Higgs-Energy LEptoN (HELEN) Collider based on advanced superconducting radio frequency technology
S. Belomestnykh, P. C. Bhat, A. Grassellino +15
This Snowmass 2021 contributed paper discusses a Higgs-Energy LEptoN (HELEN) linear collider based on advances superconducting radio frequency technology. The proposed col…
The International Linear Collider: Report to Snowmass 2021
Alexander Aryshev, Ties Behnke, Mikael Berggren +508
The International Linear Collider (ILC) is on the table now as a new global energy-frontier accelerator laboratory taking data in the 2030s. The ILC addresses key questions for our…
Plasma Cleaning of LCLS-II-HE verification cryomodule cavities
Bianca Giaccone, Paolo Berrutti, Martina Martinello +14
Plasma cleaning is a technique that can be applied in superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities in situ in cryomodules in order to decrease their level of field emission. We d…
Q-factor optimization for high-beta 650 MHz cavities for PIP-II
M. Martinello, D. J. Bice, C. Boffo +8
High Q-factors are of utmost importance to minimize losses of superconducting radio-frequency cavities deployed in continuous wave particle accelerators. This study elucidates the…
LCLS-II-HE verification cryomodule high gradient performance and quench behavior
S. Posen, A. Cravatta, M. Checchin +43
An 8-cavity, 1.3 GHz, LCLS-II-HE cryomodule was assembled and tested at Fermilab to verify performance before the start of production. Its cavities were processed with a novel nitr…
Field emission mitigation studies in LCLS-II cavities via in situ plasma processing
Bianca Giaccone, Martina Martinello, Paolo Berrutti +7
Field emission is one of the factors that can limit the performance of superconducting radio frequency cavities. In order to reduce possible field emission in LCLS-II (Linac Cohere…
Low RF power plasma ignition and detection for in-situ cleaning of 1.3 GHz 9-cell cavities
P. Berrutti, B. Giaccone, M. Martinello +7
Superconducting Radio Frequency (SRF) cavities performance preservation is crucial, from vertical test to accelerator operation. Field Emission (FE) is still one of the performance…
Accelerating fields up to 49 MV/m in TESLA-shape superconducting RF niobium cavities via 75C vacuum bake
A. Grassellino, A. Romanenko, D. Bice +9
In this paper we present the discovery of a new surface treatment applied to superconducting radio frequency (SRF) niobium cavities, leading to unprecedented accelerating fields of…
Frequency dependence of trapped flux sensitivity in SRF cavities
Mattia Checchin, Martina Martinello, Anna Grassellino +6
In this letter, we present the frequency dependence of the vortex surface resistance of bulk niobium accelerating cavities as a function of different state-of-the-art surface treat…
Advancement in the understanding of the field and frequency dependent microwave surface resistance of niobium
M. Martinello, S. Aderhold, S. K. Chandrasekaran +6
The radio-frequency surface resistance of niobium resonators is incredibly reduced when nitrogen impurities are dissolved as interstitial in the material, conferring ultra-high Q-f…
Unprecedented Quality Factors at Accelerating Gradients up to 45 MV/m in Niobium Superconducting Resonators via Low Temperature Nitrogen Infusion
A. Grassellino, A. Romanenko, Y. Trenikhina +9
We report the finding of new surface treatments that permit to manipulate the niobium resonator nitrogen content in the first few nanometers in a controlled way, and the resonator…
Analytic Solution of the Electromagnetic Eigenvalues Problem in a Cylindrical Resonator
Mattia Checchin, Martina Martinello
Resonant accelerating cavities are key components in modern particles accelerating facilities. These take advantage of electromagnetic fields resonating at microwave frequencies to…
Effect of interstitial impurities on the field dependent microwave surface resistance of niobium
M. Martinello, A. Grassellino, M. Checchin +5
Previous work has demonstrated that the radio frequency surface resistance of niobium resonators is dramatically reduced when nitrogen impurities are dissolved as interstitial in t…