A coaxial HOM coupler for a superconducting RF cavity and its low-power measurement results

A resonant buildup of beam-induced fields in a superconducting radio frequency （RF） cavity may make a beam unstable or a superconducting RF cavity quench. Higher-order mode （HOM） couplers are used for damping higher-order modes to avoid such a resonant buildup. A coaxial HOM coupler based on the TTF （TESLA Test Facility） HOM coupler has been designed for the superconducting RF cavities at the Proton Engineering Frontier Project （PEFP） in order to overcome notch frequency shift and feed-through tip melting issues. In order to confirm the HOM coupler design and finalize its structural dimensions, two prototype HOM couplers have been fabricated and tested. Low-power testing and measurement of the HOM couplers has shown that the HOM coupler has good filter properties and can fully meet the damping requirements of the PEFP low-beta superconducting RF linac.

A New Type of Waveguide Distribution for the Accelerator Module Test Facility of the European XFEL

The European XFEL, which has been constructed at DESY in Hamburg, Germany, is an X-ray-Free Electron Laser, which provides X-ray light of unprecedented properties for different experiments in physics, chemistry, biology and technology [1]. The XFEL is based on superconducting cavity technology, which is required to accelerate an electron beam up to 17.5 GeV. The facility is installed about 20 m underground in a 3.4 km long tunnel of 5.2 m diameter. High power RF systems are required to accelerate the beam to the required energy. Each RF station provides RF power to 4 accelerator modules with 8 superconducting cavities by a waveguide RF distribution system [2, 3]. Besides electrical and RF properties, mechanical properties are of high importance, since the waveguide distribution system and its components have to be manufactured, assembled and aligned with high precision. In order to test 100 superconducting accelerator modules within two years three test benches have been created in the AMTF （accelerator module test facility） to achieve the rate of one superconducting module per week. Each RF station of the test facility consists ofa 5 MW RF station at 1.3 GHz, 1.37 ms pulse width and 10 Hz repetition rate, with a waveguide distribution system. Each waveguide distribution supplies RF power to eight cavities, four times a pair of cavities. The distribution allows for a maximum power of 1 MW per cavity when the distribution is switched to a mode supplying power to only four cavities. A new type of 1 MW isolator and a new compact 5 MW power divider have been developed to achieve that goal. We present the waveguide distribution for this test stand and describe the performance of the different elements.

Recent Progress on RF Superconductivity and ERL

RF superconducting cavities can work in CW mode or long pulse mode.RF superconducting technology is widely used in particle accelerators.The development of RF superconductivity is limited by the material,surface treatment and installation.SRF technology is improved greatly after dozens of years'researches.Lots of techniques and experiences have been accumulated by running superconducting accelerators.In recent years,researches and developments have been carried out for future large scientific project.New cavity shape and superconducting cavities made of large grain niobium are the hot frontiers in SRF field.Energy Recovery Linacs have been developed in recent years.ERLs has many advantages such as high efficiency,energy saving,good stability,low radiation level,etc.ERLs are more and more used in advanced light sources and free electron laser facilities.

Design of a higher harmonic cavity for the SSRF storage ring

Higher harmonic cavity used in the third generation synchrotron light source increases the Touschek lifetime. The higher harmonic cavity of Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility （SSRF） is a 1.5 GHz passive superconducting cavity. Its higher order modes （HOM） are extracted by a ferrite HOM damper out of the cryostat. Multi-cell cavity is chosen concerning the voltage. The harmonic cavity dynamics, beam dynamics with passive harmonic cavity and the design of single cell cavity are included in this paper.

Experimental study on SC RF cavities by using China large grain niobium for ILC

Large grain niobium has the potential of simplifying the production sequence and consequently reducing the cost of the superconducting RF cavities for ILC. To investigate the feasibility of fabrication and the possibility to achieve high gradient by large grain cavities, two 1.3 GHz cavities were made of China large grain niobium and a series of vertical tests were carried out following several different surfaces treatment procedures. Two cavities have both reached the high gradient of more than 43 MV/m repeatedly and the maximum accelerating field of 47.9 MV/m has been achieved by China large grain niobium. This paper introduces the features of the fabrication and surface treatments on the large grain cavities and presents the preliminary results of the research.

Researches on Large Grain SC Cavities at Peking University

Researches on large grain superconducting cavities are carried out at SRF laboratory of Peking University. A 1.3GHz TESLA type single cell cavity and a 1.3GHz 2-cell cavity made of large grain niobium were fabricated by Peking University.With the collaboration of Jlab,the measured Eacc of the single-cell cavity reached 43.5MV/m after BCP,baking and high temperature heat treatment.

Recent Activities of Cryogenic System in Overseas and Domestic Accelerators

The superconducting RF cavity and superconducting magnet are the key devices in modern accelerators. With the development of accelerator technology and requirement of higher beam energy and luminosity,the cryogenic and superconducting technologies are applied widely in the accelerator construction.Based on the study of several typical accelerators which adopted cryogenic and superconducting technology,this paper introduces the recent activities of cryogenic system in overseas and domestic accelerators.

Recent progress in techniques utilized for particle accelerator

Particle accelerators are widely used in scientific research and industry.Recently,techniques utilized for accelerator are developed rapidly in China.We briefly review the recent progress in this field and primarily focus on superconducting RF,innovative structures for particle production and acceleration and beam diagnosis.Several advanced compact user facilities are also introduced.

Studies on high order mode of bell-shaped prototype cavities

Aluminium and copper prototype cavities were designed to study higher order modes （HOM）. An automatic field mapping system was developed with LabVIEW to measure the radiofrequency （RF） characteristics, such as resonant frequency, Q-value, shunt impedance and electromagnetic field distribution of the higher-order modes in a model RF cavity. Two kinds of the bell-shaped cavities were measured using the field mapping system, their frequencies are 1.5 GHz and 800 MHz respectively. The fields＇ distributions of the monopole modes and dipole modes, as well the R/Q values, were measured.