Author: Hartill, D.L.
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TUP097 Study of the Temperature Interface Between Niobium and Superfluid Helium. Temperature Waves Measurements from Heat Sources 700
 
  • A. Ganshin, F. Furuta, D.L. Hartill, G.H. Hoffstaetter, K.M. Price, E.N. Smith
    Cornell University (CLASSE), Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences and Education, Ithaca, New York, USA
 
  Funding: This work has been supported by NSF award PHY-0969959 and DOE award DOE/SC00008431.
One of the most important properties of Superconducting Radio Frequency (SRF) cavities is their ability to disperse generated heat from the internal cavity wall to the external super fluid helium bath. When the generated heat is not removed fast enough, an effect known as thermal feedback dominates, resulting in medium field Q-slope. This medium field Q-slope has the ability to reduce the Q factor should it become strong enough. To determine what physical factors affect the creation of the medium field Q-slope we will be computationally modeling the medium field Q-slope with varying parameters, such as Kapitza conductivity, wall thickness, RF frequency, bath temperature, residual resistivity ratio, residual resistance, and phonon mean path. Our results show that the medium-field Q slope is highly dependent on the Kapitza conductivity and that by doubling the Kapitza conductivity the medium field Q-slope reduces significantly. Understanding and controlling the medium field Q-slope will benefit future continuous wave (CW) applications such as the Energy Recovery Linacs (ERL) where cryogenics costs dominate due to CW operation at medium fields (< 20 MV/m).
 
 
TUP104 Temperature Waves in SRF Research 719
 
  • A. Ganshin, R.G. Eichhorn, D.L. Hartill, G.H. Hoffstaetter, E.N. Smith, N.R.A. Valles
    Cornell University (CLASSE), Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences and Education, Ithaca, New York, USA
  • X. Mi
    Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
 
  Funding: This work has been supported by NSF award PHY-0969959 and DOE award DOE/SC00008431
Previously Cornell University developed Oscillating Superleak Transducers (OST) to locate quench spots on superconducting cavities in superfluid helium. This work builds upon this research and presents a technique to automatically visualize quench locations from OST data (1). This system is now fully automated. The current system consists of between 8 and 16 OSTs, a high gain low noise preamplifier, and a data acquisition card that can log up to 16 simultaneously recorded inputs. The developed software allows computing quench locations on various cavity geometries, adjustment of the location of each OST and a choice between several quench finding algorithms. Observed results are in excellent agreement with optical inspection and temperature map data.
1. http://newsline.linearcollider.org/2011/04/21/the-sound-of-accelerator-cavitie