SRF2013 - List of Authors (Dubois, F.)

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TUP103	Calibration and Characterization of Capacitive OST Quench Detectors in SRF Cavities at IPN Orsay	714
	M. Fouaidy, F. Dubois, J.-M. Dufour, D. Longuevergne, A. Maroni, G. Michel, J.-F. Yaniche IPN, Orsay, France
	Funding: IPNO/IPN2P3/CNRS The maximum RF surface magnetic field (Bs) achieved with SRF bulk Nb cavities is often limited by anomalous losses due to Joule heating of normal-resistive defects embedded onto the RF surface. At high BS (e.g Bs>50 mT), the defect temperature increases strongly with BS, leading to a thermal runaway of the cavity or quench. The unloaded quality factor Q0 of the cavity decreases suddenly and strongly due to superconducting to normal state phase transition of the hot spot area. Quench detectors, called Oscillating Superleak Transducer (OST) and sensing 2nd sound events in He II, have been recently used to study quench of SRF cavities. IPN developed his prototypes of OST quench detectors and a test stand for their calibration and characterization in the temperature range T0=1.6 K-2.2 K. This device allows precise and controlled experimental simulation of SRF cavity quench using pulsed heat sources. Experimental runs were performed to study the dynamic response of OST detectors when the heat source is subjected to a time varying heat flux q(t) as function of several parameters (T0, q(t) time structure and density, heat source size) and first experimental data are presented.

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Calibration and Characterization of Capacitive OST Quench Detectors in SRF Cavities at IPN Orsay

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M. Fouaidy, F. Dubois, J.-M. Dufour, D. Longuevergne, A. Maroni, G. Michel, J.-F. Yaniche
IPN, Orsay, France

Funding: IPNO/IPN2P3/CNRS
The maximum RF surface magnetic field (Bs) achieved with SRF bulk Nb cavities is often limited by anomalous losses due to Joule heating of normal-resistive defects embedded onto the RF surface. At high BS (e.g Bs>50 mT), the defect temperature increases strongly with BS, leading to a thermal runaway of the cavity or quench. The unloaded quality factor Q0 of the cavity decreases suddenly and strongly due to superconducting to normal state phase transition of the hot spot area. Quench detectors, called Oscillating Superleak Transducer (OST) and sensing 2nd sound events in He II, have been recently used to study quench of SRF cavities. IPN developed his prototypes of OST quench detectors and a test stand for their calibration and characterization in the temperature range T0=1.6 K-2.2 K. This device allows precise and controlled experimental simulation of SRF cavity quench using pulsed heat sources. Experimental runs were performed to study the dynamic response of OST detectors when the heat source is subjected to a time varying heat flux q(t) as function of several parameters (T0, q(t) time structure and density, heat source size) and first experimental data are presented.