Author: Shimada, K.
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TUPTB052 A Novel Manufacture of Niobium SRF Cavities by Cold Spray 545
 
  • M. Yamanaka
    KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
  • K. Shimada
    Nihon University, College of Engineering, Koriyama, Japan
 
  Cold spray is a lower-temperature solid-state thermal spray process that deposits metal powder using a heated inert gas through a supersonic nozzle. When the material hits at supersonic speed and reaches the critical speed, the particles themselves are plastically deformed to form a film. The material of the superconducting cavity is niobium, a very expensive rare metal. To reduce the amount of niobium and the cost, we propose a novel manufacturing method of forming a thick niobium film on the surface of a mandrel by cold spray using niobium powder and removing the mandrel to finish a hollow shape. We confirmed the feasibility of the proposed method using a model similar to a 3.9 GHz one-cell cavity. Also, the RRR measurement of the niobium specimen made by cold spray was carried out and the measured value of 11 was obtained. We report on these results.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-SRF2023-TUPTB052  
About • Received ※ 17 June 2023 — Revised ※ 24 June 2023 — Accepted ※ 29 June 2023 — Issue date ※ 10 July 2023
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