Author: Coriton, B.R.L.
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THIXA04
Development of a Prototype Superconducting Radio-Frequency Cavity for Conduction-Cooled Accelerators  
 
  • G. Ciovati, S. Balachandran, G. Cheng, E.F. Daly, P. Dhakal, K.A. Harding, F. Marhauser, T. Powers, U. Pudasaini, R.A. Rimmer, H. Vennekate
    JLab, Newport News, VA, USA
  • J.P. Anderson, B.R.L. Coriton, L.D. Holland, K.R. McLaughlin, D.A. Packard, D.M. Vollmer
    GA, San Diego, California, USA
  • A.V. Gurevich
    ODU, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
  • J. Rathke
    TechSource, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
  • T. Schultheiss
    TJS Technologies, Commack, New York, USA
 
  Funding: Work supported by the U.S. DOE, ARDAP Office, under contract No. DE-AC05-06OR23177. SB¿s microscopy work at the NHMFL was partly supported by the U.S. DOE, HEP Office under Award No. DE-SC0009960.
Recent progress in the development of high-quality Nb₃Sn film coatings along with the availability of cryocoolers with high cooling capacity at 4 K makes it feasible to operate SRF cavities cooled by thermal conduction at relevant accelerating gradients for use in accelerators. We have developed a prototype single-cell cavity to prove the feasibility of operation up to the accelerating gradient required for 1 MeV energy gain, cooled by conduction with cryocoolers. The cavity has a ~3 ¿m thick Nb₃Sn film on the inner surface, deposited on a ~4 mm thick bulk Nb substrate and a bulk ~7 mm thick Cu outer shell with three Cu attachment tabs. The cavity was tested up to a peak surface magnetic field of 53 mT in liquid He at 4.3 K. A horizontal test cryostat was designed and built to test the cavity cooled with three cryocoolers. The rf tests of the conduction-cooled cavity achieved a peak surface magnetic field of 50 mT and stable operation was possible with up to 18.5 W of rf heat load. The peak frequency shift due to microphonics was 23 Hz. These results represent the highest peak surface magnetic field achieved in a conduction-cooled SRF cavity to date
 
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