SRF2013 - List of Authors (Efimenko, E.)

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TUP112	Time-Resolved Measurements of High-Field Quench in SRF Cavities	743
	S. Antipov University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA E. Efimenko MIPT, Dolgoprudniy, Moscow Region, Russia A. Romanenko, D.A. Sergatskov Fermilab, Batavia, USA
	Fermilab’s temperature mapping system for SRF cavities has been improved to observe quench dynamics with 1ms time resolution. The increase in sampling rate was achieved by localizing the quench and then performing the measurements using a limited subset of thermometers. Implemented experimental procedure allowed to measure temperature distribution within quench spot, as well as the amount of stored energy, at the moment quench starts, during its growth, and decay. For three tested SRF cavities, quenching at fields 21.7 – 33 MeV/m, maximal radius of the normal zone was 40 – 65 mm; time to return to superconducting state: 90 – 250 ms. In the beginning of the process temperature increase rate in the center of the normal zone is as high as 2.5 K/ms, radius increase rate – 20 mm/ms. The described experimental procedure can be useful for investigating how different surface treatments affect the breakdown, understanding of the nature of high-field quench, improvement of quench detection techniques, and material science research for future SRF cavities.

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Time-Resolved Measurements of High-Field Quench in SRF Cavities

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S. Antipov
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
E. Efimenko
MIPT, Dolgoprudniy, Moscow Region, Russia
A. Romanenko, D.A. Sergatskov
Fermilab, Batavia, USA

Fermilab’s temperature mapping system for SRF cavities has been improved to observe quench dynamics with 1ms time resolution. The increase in sampling rate was achieved by localizing the quench and then performing the measurements using a limited subset of thermometers. Implemented experimental procedure allowed to measure temperature distribution within quench spot, as well as the amount of stored energy, at the moment quench starts, during its growth, and decay. For three tested SRF cavities, quenching at fields 21.7 – 33 MeV/m, maximal radius of the normal zone was 40 – 65 mm; time to return to superconducting state: 90 – 250 ms. In the beginning of the process temperature increase rate in the center of the normal zone is as high as 2.5 K/ms, radius increase rate – 20 mm/ms. The described experimental procedure can be useful for investigating how different surface treatments affect the breakdown, understanding of the nature of high-field quench, improvement of quench detection techniques, and material science research for future SRF cavities.