ANL, Argonne
Fermilab, Batavia
A system for electropolishing of 1.3 GHz elliptical single- and nine-cell cavities is in operation at the joint ANL/FNAL cavity processing facility located at Argonne. The system is one peice of a larger 200 m2 complete single cavity processing and assembly facility which also includes clean rooms and high-pressure rinsing. Recently, the electropolishing system has been used to process a series of single and nine-cell cavities. For single cell cavities a good set of EP parameters has been demonstrated based on more than a half dozen complete processing and cold test cycles at ANL/FNAL. The lastest six single cell cavities each exceed EACC=35 MV/m and, at this gradient, have Q in the range 6 109 - 1 1010. The first nine cell cavities electropolished at ANL have not yet reached similar fields (~23 MV/m-26 MV/m) and ongoing activities are focussed on demonstrating >30 MV/m in these cavities. Suitable nine cell EP parameters using the ANL/FNAL EP system including acid/water temperatures, flow rates, current, voltage, air flow etc. are all substantially different than for single-cell cavities and are discussed here.
KEK, Ibaraki
Fermilab, Batavia
JLAB, Newport News, Virginia
We have continued high gradient R&D of ICHIRO 9-cell cavities at KEK. ICHIRO 9-cell cavity #5 (I9#5) that has no end groups on beam tube to focus on high gradient sent to Jlab as S0 tight loop study. Surface treatments and vertical test were repeated 3 times at Jlab, and then I9#5 sent back to KEK. We also repeated surface treatments and test at KEK. Maximum gradients were 36.5MV/m at Jlab, and 33.7MV/m at KEK so far. Now we are struggling with the puzzle why the results of singles do not work well on 9-cell cavities.