Higher-order mode analysis for SOLEIL-type superconducting cavity

A 499.8 MHz SOLEIL-type superconducting cavity was simulated and designed for the first time in this paper.The higher-order mode(HOM)properties of the cavity were investigated.Two kinds of coaxial HOM couplers were designed.Using 4 L-type and 4 T-type HOM couplers,the longitudinal impedance and the transverse impedances were suppressed to below 3 kΩand 30 kΩ/m,respectivly.The HOM damping requirements of Hefei Advanced Light Facility(HALF)were satisfied.This paper conducted an in-depth study on the radio frequency(RF)design,multipacting optimization,and thermal analysis of these coaxial couplers.Simulation results indicated that under operating acceleration voltage,the optimized couplers does not exhibit multiplicating or thermal breakdown phenomena.The cavity has the potential to reach a higher acceleration gradient.

Frequency sensitivity of the passive third harmonic superconducting cavity for SSRF

A 1.5 GHz passive third harmonic superconducting cavity was proposed to improve the beam quality and lifetime in the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility Phase-II beamline project.Lifetime improvement highly depends on the resonant frequency of the passive third harmonic superconducting cavity.It is important that the operating frequency of the cavity is within the design range and the cavity has reasonable mechanical stability.A simulation method for the multiphysics coupled analysis has been developed based on the ANSYS code.Multiphysics coupled simulations have been performed under different conditions,such as etching,evacuation,cooling,and preloading.Analyses of mechanical modes and structural stress have been executed.A possible stiffening ring method for the two-cell superconducting niobium cavity has been investigated.In this paper,we present a multiphysics coupled analysis of the third harmonic cavity using a finite element analysis code.The results of the analysis show that a reliable frequency for the cavity after electron beam welding is 1498.033 MHz,and the corresponding frequency of the pre-tuning goal is 1496.163 MHz.A naked cavity is a reasonable option based on structural stress and mechanical modal analyses.A frequency range of±500 kHz and limiting tolerable displacement of±0.35 mm are proposed for the design of the frequency tuner.

Application of superconducting cavity tuner in dark photon dark matter search

Purpose In order to precisely control the resonant frequency of RF superconducting cavity to detect dark photon dark matter,and to be able to tune within a certain frequency range,it is necessary to design a low-temperature tuner for frequency control on the bare cavity.Methods Two type mechanical tuners have been designed for the 1.3 GHz single-cell bare cavity and 650 MHz single cell bare cavity.The tuner device tunes the frequency of RF superconducting cavity for the detection of dark photons and dark matter and measures its tuning range and accuracy in both room-temperature and low-temperature environments.Results The tuner for the 1.3 GHz cavity has a tuning accuracy of 1 Hz per step and a tuning range of 1.37 MHz at low temperature.The tuner for the 650 MHz cavity has a tuning range of 467 kHz at low temperatures,with a tuning accuracy of 1.77 Hz per step.Conclusion The designed tuner can meet the requirements of RF superconducting cavity tuning for detecting dark photons and dark matter,and its adjustable range,precision and stability ensure that the detection experiment can be carried out smoothly.

The design of a five-cell high-current superconducting cavity

Energy recovery linacs are promising for achieving high average current with superior beam quality.The key component for accelerating such high-current beams is the superconducting radio-frequency cavity.The design of a 1.3 GHz five-cell high-current superconducting cavity has been carried out under cooperation between Peking University and the Argonne National Laboratory.The radio-frequency properties,damping of the higher order modes,multipacting and mechanical features of this cavity have been discussed and the final design is presented.

2 K superfluid helium cryogenic vertical test system for superconducting cavity of ADS Injector I

Purpose The accelerator-driven subcritical system(ADS)is the internationally recognized key technology of nuclear waste problem treatment,of which superconducting proton linac is an important part.With the support of the strategic science and technology pilot project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences took the lead in the research of 325 MHz superconducting proton linac,which is called ADS Injector I.The superconducting accelerator part of ADS Injector I mainly consists of 14 spoke-type superconducting cavities withβ0.12.At the same time,the research work of various cavities with differentβvalues and different frequencies is also carried out to lay the technical and technological foundation for ADS main accelerator.The only way to determine whether the superconducting cavity can reach the design target and whether it can be installed into the cryostat is the vertical test at cryogenic.As the only way to test the microwave performance of the superconducting cavity at low temperature,the vertical test can accurately test the acceleration gradient Eacc and the corresponding quality factor Q0 of the superconducting cavity.The design and construction of the superconducting cavity vertical test facility is based on the practical needs of the pilot project and the long-term development of the superconducting accelerator.Methods This paper mainly introduces the design and construction of the cryogenic vertical test system for the superconducting cavity of ADS Injector I,including the system scheme design,process design,heat load analysis,2 K superfluid helium obtaining method,system commissioning and operation,etc.Results and Conclusion The static heat leakage at 2 K of the 2 K superfluid helium vertical test system of ADS Injector I is 1.624W,which has reached the international advanced level.The 2 K superfluid helium vertical test system of ADS Injector I after constructed not only meets the test requirements of ADS pilot project,but also conducts 4 K and 2 K vertical tests for other different types of superconducting cavities and relevant cryogenic experiments.

Calculation of the external quality factor of the high power input coupler for the BEPCⅡ superconducting cavity

It is very important to predict the coupling between the cavity and the high power input source in the coupler design. In this paper, a time domain method is used to calculate the external quality factor Qext for the BEPC Ⅱ superconducting cavity. A comparison between simulation results and experimental results is presented. The results of simulation and measurement of Qext have a good agreement within an error of 10%. The geometry parameters related with Qext are also studied.

Measurement of the cavity-loaded quality factor in superconducting radio-frequency systems with mismatched source impedance

The accurate measurement of parameters such as the cavity-loaded quality factor(Q_(L))and half bandwidth(f_(0.5))is essential for monitoring the performance of superconducting radio-frequency cavities.However,the conventional"field decay method"employed to calibrate these values requires the cavity to satisfy a"zero-input"condition.This can be challenging when the source impedance is mismatched and produce nonzero forward signals(V_(f))that significantly affect the measurement accuracy.To address this limitation,we developed a modified version of the"field decay method"based on the cavity differential equation.The proposed approach enables the precise calibration of f_(0.5) even under mismatch conditions.We tested the proposed approach on the SRF cavities of the Chinese Accelerator-Driven System Front-End Demo Superconducting Linac and compared the results with those obtained from a network analyzer.The two sets of results were consistent,indicating the usefulness of the proposed approach.

Study of multipacting effect in superconducting cavity

A number of superconducting cavities of axis-symmetric geometry have been considered to study the effect in order to achieve the desired performance. It is shown that the multipacting effect is strongly dependent on the condition of the RF surface and can be suppressed with reconsideration of the geometry. The simulation result is compared with the result of the semi-analytical model in the end.

Study on the RF performance of 2-cell superconducting cavity

The physical design of the 2-cell superconducting cavity is presented. The RF parameters of the cavity and HOMs （high order modes） are reported. In this paper, we put the emphasis on the analysis of the HOMs and interaction between beam and cavity.

Analysis of superconducting cavity quench events at SSRF

Quench is important and dangerous to superconducting RF cavities. This paper illustrates the mechanism of quench and how a quench detector works, and analyzes the quench events happening during beam operations and cavity conditioning. We find that the quench protection is mostly triggered by some reasons such as fluctuation of cavity voltage, multipacting or arc, rather than a real cavity thermal breakdown. The results will be beneficial to optimize the operation real reasons for beam trip by quench interlock, and to systems. parameters of superconducting cavities, to discover the improve the operation stability of superconducting RF

Unsteady numerical simulation on helium cooldown process for the 650 MHz two-cell superconducting cavity

Background Superconducting cavity is usually needed to be gradually cooled from room temperature to the superconducting temperature zone(4.2 K and below)in the testing and sophisticated operation process of superconducting cavity.Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the cooling law on the helium cooldown process for the 650 MHz two-cell superconducting cavity with the unsteady numerical simulation.Method A three-dimensional coupled heat-flow model of 650 MHz two-cell superconducting cavity was established.The unsteady numerical simulation of different inlet temperatures,flow rates and pressure conditions was carried out.The equiva-lent convective heat transfer coefficient and temperature distribution of 650 MHz two-cell superconducting cavity during cooldown process were obtained.The effects of cooling time and entrance parameters on the cooldown process were analyzed.Results The temperature distribution of the lower intersection lines has a large drop in the initial stage of cooldown process(120 s),while the temperature near the flanges at the both ends is still higher(remaining at the initial temperature of 300 K).With the passage of time,the temperature of the upper and lower intersection lines decreases.The maximum temperature difference on the lower intersections is within 2 K in the final stage of cooldown process(3600 s).The maximum temperature difference increases by 180%,and the difference between the maximum temperature and the minimum temperature(dT)at the end of a cooldown stage increases by 130%after 1 h,respectively,when the inlet temperature drops from 290 to 270 K(under the condition of the initial temperature of 300 K).Conclusions The maximum temperature difference and the dT at the end of a cooldown stage increase with the decrease in the inlet temperature.The maximum temperature difference increases with the increase in the inlet flow rate,while the dT at the end of a cooldown stage decreases with the increase in the inlet flow rate.The effect of changing the inlet flow rate on the cooling rate is not as obvious as changing the inlet temperature.Once there is a certain flow rate,the advantage of further increasing the flow rate to reduce the temperature of the superconducting cavity is not so great.

High power conditioning of the input coupler for BEPCⅡ superconducting cavity

High power conditioning of the input coupler for BEPCII superconducting cavity has been performed. After room temperature conditioning, the RF power of 150 kW with continuous wave at standing wave mode passed through the coupler without any problem. Meanwhile, a series of methods have also been studied to improve the performance of the coupler during the beam operation. Up to now, the input coupler can feed a RF power up to 100 kW stably with high current of 250 mA at 2.5 GeV.

Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detector with Optical Cavity

Increasing the detection efficiency （DE） is a hot issue in the development of the superconducting nanowire single photon detector （SNSPD）. In this work, a cavity-integrated structure coupled to the SNSPD is used to enhance the light absorption of nanowire. Ultra-thin Nb films are successfully prepared by magnetron sputtering, which are used to fabricate Nb/Al SNSPD with the curve of lOOnm and the square area of 4 × 4μm2 by sputtering and the lift-off method. To characterize the optical and electrical performance of the cavity-integrated SNSPD, a reliable cryogenic research system is built up based on a He3 system. To satisfy the need of light coupling, a packaging structure with collimator is conducted. Both DE and the dark count rates increase with lb. It is also found that the DE of SNSPD with cavities can be up to 0.17% at the temperature of 0.7K under the infrared light of 1550nm, which is obviously higher than that of the SNSPD directly fabricated upon silicon without any cavity structure.

Studies of an LL-type 500 MHz 5-cell superconducting cavity at SINAP

A low loss- （LL） type 500 MHz 5-cell superconducting niobium prototype cavity with a large beam aperture has been developed successfully including the optimization, the deep drawing and electron beam welding, the surface treatment and the vertical testing. The performance of the fundamental mode was optimized and the higher order modes were damped by adopting an enlarged beam pipe for propagation. Surface preparation or treatment including mechanical polishing, buffered chemical polishing and high pressure rinsing with ultra-pure water and so on was carried out carefully to ensure a perfect inner surface condition. The vertical testing results show that the accelerating voltage higher than 7.5 MV was obtained while the quality factor was better than 1× 109 at 4.2 K. No obvious multipacting or field emission was found during the test. However, a quench happened while increasing the field a little higher than 7.5 MV that at present limited the cavity performance.

Development of a low-loss magnetic-coupling pickup for 166.6-MHz quarter-wave beta=1 superconducting cavities

166.6-MHz quarter-waveβ=1 superconducting cavities have been adopted for the High Energy Photon Source,a 6-GeV diffraction-limited synchrotron light source currently under construction.A large helium jacket was required to accommodate the enlarged cavity beam pipe for the heavy damping of higher-order modes;the original electric-probe pickup thus becomes inevitably long with unfavorable mechanical properties.Relocated to an existing high-pressure-rinsing port,a magnetic-loop pickup was designed,characterized by low radio-frequency and cryogenic losses and being multipacting-free and insensitive to manufacturing and assembly tolerances.The consequent removal of the original pickup port from the cavity largely simplified the helium jacket fabrication and may also reduce cavity contamination.This paper presents a comprehensive design of a low-loss magnetic-coupling pickup for quarter-waveβ=1 superconducting cavities.The design can also be applied to other non-elliptical structures.

A phenomenological model of the fundamental power coupler for a superconducting resonator

In this study,a phenomenological model of the radio frequency(RF)behavior of a superconducting cavity fundamental power coupler is proposed by analyzing the simulation results of a transient beam-loading process in an extremely overcoupled superconducting cavity.Using this phenomenological model,the calculation of the transient reflected power from a superconducting cavity under beam loading can be mathematically simplified to algebraic operations without solving the differential equation governing the transient beam-loading process,while maintaining the calculation accuracy.Moreover,this phenomenological model can facilitate an intuitive understanding of the significant surge in the time evolution of reflected power from a superconducting cavity in certain beam-loading processes.The validity of this phenomenological model was carefully examined in various beam-loading processes and cavity conditions,and the method based on this phenomenological model was utilized in the transient RF analysis of the superconducting cavity system of the CAFe Linac,achieving satisfactory results.

Successful Nitrogen Doping of 1.3 GHz Single Cell Superconducting Radio-Frequency Cavities

A high intrinsic quality factor （Q0） of a superconducting radio-frequency cavity is beneficial to reducing the oper- ation costs of superconducting accelerators. Nitrogen doping （N-doping） has been demonstrated as a aseful way to improve Q0 of the superconducting cavity in recent years. N-doping researches with 1.3 GHz single cell cavities are carried out at Peking University and the preliminary results are promising. Our recipe is slightly different from other laboratories. After 250μm polishing, high pressure rinsing and 3 h high temperature annealing, the cavities are nitrogen doped at 2.7-4.0Pa for 20rain and then followed by 15μm electropolishing. Vertical test results show that Q0 of a 1.3 GHz single cell cavity made of large grain niobium has increased to 4 ×10 10 at 2.0K and medium gradient.

Design and simulation of a new type of 500 MHz single-cell superconducting RF cavity

This paper illustrates the design and simulation of a unique 500 MHz single-cell superconducting radio frequency cavity with a fluted beam pipe and a coaxial-type fundamental power coupler. The simulation results show that the cavity has a high r/Q value, a low peak surface field and a large beam aperture, so it can be a candidate cavity for high current accelerators. With the help of a fluted beam tube, almost all the higher order modes can propagate out of the cavity, especially the first two dipole modes, TE 111 and TM 110 , and the first higher monopole mode, TM 011 . The external quality factor of the coaxial fundamental power coupler is optimized to 1.2 × 10 5 , which will be useful when it is applied in the light source storage ring.

Adjusting the accelerating field distribution of a superconducting CH cavity

In a superconducting CH （cross bar H mode） cavity, the method of regulating the length of a drift tube is employed to adjust the distribution of the accelerating field. In this article, we simulate the electromagnetic field of a CH structure to illustrate the reason for adjusting the field distribution by varying drift tube length. Meanwhile, that the presence of the drift tube will cause a sharp rise in the maximum electric field is also shown. This phenomenon is contrary to superconducting cavity design principles in which the cavity geometry needs to be optimized to reduce the maximum electric field to avoid field emission. We propose a variable diameter superconducting CH cavity design to solve this conflict. The simulation of the variable diameter superconducting CH cavity shows that this method is feasible.

Design and study of a high-current 5-cell superconducting rf cavity

The Advanced Photon Source （APS） at Argonne National Laboratory is considering the development of a superconducting linac-based fourth-generation hard X-ray source to meet future scientific needs of the hard X-ray user community. This work specifically focuses on the design of an optimized 5-cell superconducting radio-frequency structure well suited for a high-energy, high-beam-current energy recovery linac. The cavity design parameters are based on the APS storage ring nominal 7 GeV and 100 mA beam operation. A high-current 5-cell cw superconducting cavity operating at 1.4 GHz has been designed. In order to achieve a high current, the accelerating cavity shape has been optimized and large end-cell beam pipes have been adopted. The beam break-up threshold of the cavity has been estimated using the code TDBBU, which predicts a high threshold beam current for a 7 GeV energy recovery linac model. A copper prototype cavity has been fabricated that uses half-cell modules, initially assembled by clamping the cells together.