ANL, Argonne
TechSource, Santa Fe
CLASSE, Ithaca
Funding: This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Physics, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.
A new cryomodule with seven low-beta superconducting radio frequency (SRF) quarter wave niobium cavities has been designed and constructed as an energy upgrade project for the ATLAS accelerator at Argonne National Laboratory. The technology developed for this project is the basis for the next generation superconducting heavy ion accelerators. This paper will discuss the methods employed to tune the cavities eigenfrequency to match the accelerator master oscillator frequency and the development of the RF systems used to both drive the cavity and keep the cavity phase locked during operation.
