FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
JLab, Newport News, Virginia, USA
After project completion on scope, on cost, and ahead of schedule, the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams began operations for scientific users in May of 2022. During the first 12 months of user operations, the FRIB accelerator complex delivered 5250 beam hours, including 1528 hours to nine science experiments conducted with primary beams of 36Ar, 48Ca, 70Zn, 82Se, 124Xe, and 198Pt at beam energies >200 MeV/u; 2724 hours for beam developments, studies, and tuning; and 998 hours to industrial users and non-scientific programs using the FRIB Single Event Effect (FSEE) beam line. The ramp-up to a beam power of 400 kW is planned over a six-year period; 1 kW was delivered for initial user runs from in 2022, and 5 kW was delivered as of February 2023. Upgrade plans include doubling the primary-beam energy to 400 MeV/nucleon for enhanced discovery potential (¿FRIB 400¿). This talk reports on FRIB status and progress since SRF2021, emphasizing lessons learned during the transition from beam commissioning to machine operations, challenges and resolutions for the power ramp-up, progress with accelerator improvements, and R&D for the energy upgrade.
FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
A DOE grant R&D titled ¿Development of Transformative Preparation Technology to Push up High Q/G Performance of FRIB Spare HWR Cryomodule Cavities¿ is ongoing at FRIB. This R&D is for 2 years since September 2022. This project proposes four objectives: 1) Superiority on high gradient performance of electropolishing (EP) over buffered chemical polishing at low frequency (322 MHz), 2) High Qo performance by the local magnetic shield, 3) Development of HFQS-free BCP and, 4) Wet N-doping method. This paper will report the result of first object, and a local magnetic shield design and simulation to reduce the residual magnetic field < 0.1 mG in the vertical test Dewar, for the object 2.
FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Recently, a new Electropolishing (EP) facility was con-structed and commissioned at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beam (FRIB) with the purpose of supporting advanced surface processing techniques for SRF R&D activities. The FRIB production cavities opted for a Buffered Chemical Polish (BCP) method due to its cost effectiveness and was supported by successful outcomes in other facilities with low beta cavities in a similar frequency range. All 324 cavities used in FRIB Linac were processed in-house at MSU using BCP and exhibited satisfactory performance during testing. As part of the FRIB energy upgrade R&D, 5-cell 644 MHz elliptical resonators will be employed, desiring the use of EP and advanced techniques such as nitrogen doping and medium-T baking. The EP facility is designed to accommodate all types of cavities used in FRIB and possesses the capability for performing EP at low temperatures. Here we report the details of design and commissioning of the EP facility, highlights of encountered issues and subsequent improvements, and preliminary results from vertical tests conducted on the cavities.
FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
The finish of radio frequency (RF) surfaces inside superconducting RF (SRF) cavities is of utmost importance as it dictates ultimate cavity performance. After the cavity surfaces have undergone chemical etching, polishing, and hydrogen degassing, the final step in surface preparation involves cleaning using a high pressure rinse (HPR) with ultra-high purity water (UPW) to remove any residue from the previous chemical processes. The complex surface geometry of cavities poses difficulties in achieving effective and thorough HPR cleaning. This study introduces a versatile simulation tool created in MATLAB, which has the potential to be applied to various SRF cavities. The detail of the algorithm used and nozzle and motion setup will be described using an FRIB 0.53 half wave resonator (HWR) cavity as an example.
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FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
ANL, Lemont, Illinois, USA
Michigan State University is pursuing SRF R&D for FRIB400 upgrade, doubling the FRIB linac beam energy (400 MeV/u for the heaviest uranium beam) using ßopt=0.65 644 MHz 5-cell elliptical cavities. We have achieved unprecedented Q₀ in this cavity class, Q₀ = 3.5·1010 at Eacc of 17.5 MV/m in a nitrogen-doped bare niobium cavity in collaboration with FNAL and ANL. The next missions are achieving such high Q₀ in jacketed cavities and in cryomodules, achieving field-emission free performance at Epeak of 40 MV/m with reproducibility, developing a compact two-window high-power fundamental power coupler (15 kW CW), and achieving stable resonance control of cavities integrated with tuners in cryomodules. In this talk, we will present progress of the SRF R&D and discuss future plan.