SRF2013 - List of Authors (Melnychuk, O.S.)

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Cold Tests of SSR1 Resonators for PXIE

112

A.I. Sukhanov, M.H. Awida, P. Berrutti, C.M. Ginsburg, T.N. Khabiboulline, O.S. Melnychuk, R.V. Pilipenko, Y.M. Pischalnikov, L. Ristori, A.M. Rowe, D.A. Sergatskov, V.P. Yakovlev
Fermilab, Batavia, USA

Fermilab is currently building the Project X Injector experiment (PXIE). PXIE linac will accelerate 1 mA H⁻ beam up to 30 MeV and serve as a testbed for validation of Project X concepts and mitigation of technical risks. A cryomodule of eight superconducting RF Single Spoke Resonators of type 1 (SSR1) cavities operating at 325 MHz is an integral part of PXIE. Ten SSR1 cavities were manufactured in industry and delivered to Fermilab. In this paper we discuss surface processing and tests of bare SSR1 cavities at the Fermilab Vertical Test Stand (VTS). We report on the measured performance parameters of nine cavities achieved during tests.

TUP030

Elimination of post annealing chemistry: a route to high Q cavities and processing simplification

A. Grassellino, A.C. Crawford, R.D. Kephart, O.S. Melnychuk, A. Romanenko, A.M. Rowe, D.A. Sergatskov, M. Wong
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
M. Checchin
INFN/LNL, Legnaro (PD), Italy
Y. Trenikhina
IIT, Chicago, USA

Funding: Fermilab is operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the United States Department of Energy.
We investigate the effect of high temperature treatments followed by only high-pressure water rinse (HPR) of superconducting radio frequency (SRF) niobium cavities. The objective is to provide a cost effective alternative to the typical cavity processing sequence, by eliminating the material removal step post furnace treatment while preserving or improving the RF performance. The studies have been conducted in the temperature range 800-1000C for different conditions of the starting substrate: large grain and fine grain, electro-polished (EP) and centrifugal barrel polished (CBP) to mirror finish. An interesting effect of the grain size on the performances is found. Cavity results and samples characterization show that furnace contaminants cause poor cavity performance, and a practical solution is found to prevent surface contamination. Extraordinary values of residual resistances ~ 1 nOhm and below are then consistently achieved for the contamination-free cavities. We explore the addition of a small partial pressure of gas during the anneal to further increase the cavity quality factor by reducing the BCS resistance.

TUP038

Field Dependence of Residual and BCS Surface Resistances Measured by Explicit Deconvolution Up to High Fields

A. Romanenko, A. Grassellino, O.S. Melnychuk, D.A. Sergatskov
Fermilab, Batavia, USA

Funding: Fermilab is operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. De-AC02-07CH11359 with the United States Department of Energy.
For both fundamental understanding of performance limiting processes and practical design of future accelerators a crucial information is the temperature and field dependence of the components in surface resistance. We report an explicit deconvolution of temperature-independent residual (Rres) and temperature-dependent BCS (Rbcs) components in multiple cavities treated by standard processing techniques (EP, BCP, 120C bake, 800C degassing) at all fields up to Brf > 100 mT. Such deconvolution allows to address the nature of the low, medium, and high field Q slopes, and provides input for accelerator parametric design optimization.

TUP050

R&D Program for 650 MHz Niobium Cavities for Project X

A. Grassellino, A.C. Crawford, C.M. Ginsburg, R.D. Kephart, T.N. Khabiboulline, O.S. Melnychuk, A. Romanenko, A.M. Rowe, D.A. Sergatskov, A.I. Sukhanov, M. Wong, V.P. Yakovlev
Fermilab, Batavia, USA

Funding: Fermilab is operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the United States Department of Energy.
We report the first test results of several 650 MHz single cell niobium cavities processed at Fermilab. The target for the 5-cell 650 MHz cavities for Project X is CW operation at magnetic peak field ~ 60-70 mT, making high quality factors at medium accelerating fields the main goal of the surface processing R&D. We will discuss how the performance vary with the different surface processing and parameters/criteria of choice for the final surface preparation sequence.

TUP060

Acid Free Extended Mechanical Polishing R&D

564

C.A. Cooper, A.C. Crawford, C.M. Ginsburg, A. Grassellino, R.D. Kephart, O.S. Melnychuk, A. Romanenko, A.M. Rowe, D.A. Sergatskov
Fermilab, Batavia, USA

We report the progress in the development of a centrifugal barrel polishing recipe which can lead to standard cavity performance without the need of any chemical treatments. Q ~ 10¹⁰ at 20 MV/m and gradients above 35 MV/m have already been demonstrated for cavities whose preparation sequence was CBP, degassing and no subsequent chemical treatments. Results of studies on the effect of different CBP media on RF performance will be reported, including full body T-map showing the distribution of RF losses.

TUP100

Medium Field Q-Slope Studies in High Frequency Cavities

705

O.S. Melnychuk, A. Grassellino, A.I. Sukhanov
Fermilab, Batavia, USA

A phenomenon of Medium Field Q-Slope (MFQS) in superconducting RF cavities is of high importance because it occurs in the field range (5-20MV/m) that includes designed operation fields of future CW accelerators. MFQS impacts resistive losses in the cavity and, consequently, directly affects accelerator operation costs. We present studies of MFQS based on vertical test data for 1.3GHz nine-cell cavities and make comparisons of vertical test data from different laboratories.

THP030

Superconducting RF Cavity Development With UK Industry

966

A.E. Wheelhouse, R.K. Buckley, L.S. Cowie, P. Goudket, A.R. Goulden, P.A. McIntosh
STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom
C.A. Cooper, C.M. Ginsburg, A. Grassellino, O.S. Melnychuk, A.M. Rowe, D.A. Sergatskov
Fermilab, Batavia, USA
J.R. Everard, N. Shakespeare
Shakespeare Engineering, South Woodham Ferrers, Essex, United Kingdom

As part of a continuing STFC Innovations Partnership Scheme (IPS) grant, in support of enabling UK industry to address the large potential market for superconducting RF structures Daresbury Laboratory and Shakespeare Engineering Ltd are developing the capability to fabricate, process and test a niobium 9-cell 1.3 GHz superconducting RF cavity. A single-cell cavity fabricated under this grant was surface processed and tested at Fermilab, and achieved an accelerating gradient in excess of 40 MV/m at an unloaded quality factor in excess of 1.0 x 10¹⁰. This paper presents the results of the single-cell cavity testing and discusses the progress made to date in the development of the design and manufacture of a 9-cell niobium cavity, which Shakespeare Engineering Ltd will fabricate and which is anticipated to be qualified in 2014.

THP095

Error Analysis for Vertical Test Stand Cavity Measurements at Fermilab

1148

O.S. Melnychuk
Fermilab, Batavia, USA

Overview of Vertical Test Stand (VTS) facility at Fermilab is presented. Uncertainty calculations for the measurements of quality factor and accelerating field are described Sources of uncertainties and assumptions on their correlations are reviewed. VTS hardware components with non-negligible instrumental errors are discussed. Relative contributions of individual sources to the total uncertainties are assessed. Stability of VTS test results with respect to potential mismeasurements of calibration coefficients and decay constant are studied.

Paper	Title	Page
MOP014	Cold Tests of SSR1 Resonators for PXIE	112
	A.I. Sukhanov, M.H. Awida, P. Berrutti, C.M. Ginsburg, T.N. Khabiboulline, O.S. Melnychuk, R.V. Pilipenko, Y.M. Pischalnikov, L. Ristori, A.M. Rowe, D.A. Sergatskov, V.P. Yakovlev Fermilab, Batavia, USA
	Fermilab is currently building the Project X Injector experiment (PXIE). PXIE linac will accelerate 1 mA H⁻ beam up to 30 MeV and serve as a testbed for validation of Project X concepts and mitigation of technical risks. A cryomodule of eight superconducting RF Single Spoke Resonators of type 1 (SSR1) cavities operating at 325 MHz is an integral part of PXIE. Ten SSR1 cavities were manufactured in industry and delivered to Fermilab. In this paper we discuss surface processing and tests of bare SSR1 cavities at the Fermilab Vertical Test Stand (VTS). We report on the measured performance parameters of nine cavities achieved during tests.

TUP030	Elimination of post annealing chemistry: a route to high Q cavities and processing simplification
	A. Grassellino, A.C. Crawford, R.D. Kephart, O.S. Melnychuk, A. Romanenko, A.M. Rowe, D.A. Sergatskov, M. Wong Fermilab, Batavia, USA M. Checchin INFN/LNL, Legnaro (PD), Italy Y. Trenikhina IIT, Chicago, USA
	Funding: Fermilab is operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the United States Department of Energy. We investigate the effect of high temperature treatments followed by only high-pressure water rinse (HPR) of superconducting radio frequency (SRF) niobium cavities. The objective is to provide a cost effective alternative to the typical cavity processing sequence, by eliminating the material removal step post furnace treatment while preserving or improving the RF performance. The studies have been conducted in the temperature range 800-1000C for different conditions of the starting substrate: large grain and fine grain, electro-polished (EP) and centrifugal barrel polished (CBP) to mirror finish. An interesting effect of the grain size on the performances is found. Cavity results and samples characterization show that furnace contaminants cause poor cavity performance, and a practical solution is found to prevent surface contamination. Extraordinary values of residual resistances ~ 1 nOhm and below are then consistently achieved for the contamination-free cavities. We explore the addition of a small partial pressure of gas during the anneal to further increase the cavity quality factor by reducing the BCS resistance.

TUP038	Field Dependence of Residual and BCS Surface Resistances Measured by Explicit Deconvolution Up to High Fields
	A. Romanenko, A. Grassellino, O.S. Melnychuk, D.A. Sergatskov Fermilab, Batavia, USA
	Funding: Fermilab is operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. De-AC02-07CH11359 with the United States Department of Energy. For both fundamental understanding of performance limiting processes and practical design of future accelerators a crucial information is the temperature and field dependence of the components in surface resistance. We report an explicit deconvolution of temperature-independent residual (Rres) and temperature-dependent BCS (Rbcs) components in multiple cavities treated by standard processing techniques (EP, BCP, 120C bake, 800C degassing) at all fields up to Brf > 100 mT. Such deconvolution allows to address the nature of the low, medium, and high field Q slopes, and provides input for accelerator parametric design optimization.

TUP050	R&D Program for 650 MHz Niobium Cavities for Project X
	A. Grassellino, A.C. Crawford, C.M. Ginsburg, R.D. Kephart, T.N. Khabiboulline, O.S. Melnychuk, A. Romanenko, A.M. Rowe, D.A. Sergatskov, A.I. Sukhanov, M. Wong, V.P. Yakovlev Fermilab, Batavia, USA
	Funding: Fermilab is operated by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the United States Department of Energy. We report the first test results of several 650 MHz single cell niobium cavities processed at Fermilab. The target for the 5-cell 650 MHz cavities for Project X is CW operation at magnetic peak field ~ 60-70 mT, making high quality factors at medium accelerating fields the main goal of the surface processing R&D. We will discuss how the performance vary with the different surface processing and parameters/criteria of choice for the final surface preparation sequence.

TUP060	Acid Free Extended Mechanical Polishing R&D	564
	C.A. Cooper, A.C. Crawford, C.M. Ginsburg, A. Grassellino, R.D. Kephart, O.S. Melnychuk, A. Romanenko, A.M. Rowe, D.A. Sergatskov Fermilab, Batavia, USA
	We report the progress in the development of a centrifugal barrel polishing recipe which can lead to standard cavity performance without the need of any chemical treatments. Q ~ 10¹⁰ at 20 MV/m and gradients above 35 MV/m have already been demonstrated for cavities whose preparation sequence was CBP, degassing and no subsequent chemical treatments. Results of studies on the effect of different CBP media on RF performance will be reported, including full body T-map showing the distribution of RF losses.

TUP100	Medium Field Q-Slope Studies in High Frequency Cavities	705
	O.S. Melnychuk, A. Grassellino, A.I. Sukhanov Fermilab, Batavia, USA
	A phenomenon of Medium Field Q-Slope (MFQS) in superconducting RF cavities is of high importance because it occurs in the field range (5-20MV/m) that includes designed operation fields of future CW accelerators. MFQS impacts resistive losses in the cavity and, consequently, directly affects accelerator operation costs. We present studies of MFQS based on vertical test data for 1.3GHz nine-cell cavities and make comparisons of vertical test data from different laboratories.

THP030	Superconducting RF Cavity Development With UK Industry	966
	A.E. Wheelhouse, R.K. Buckley, L.S. Cowie, P. Goudket, A.R. Goulden, P.A. McIntosh STFC/DL/ASTeC, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom C.A. Cooper, C.M. Ginsburg, A. Grassellino, O.S. Melnychuk, A.M. Rowe, D.A. Sergatskov Fermilab, Batavia, USA J.R. Everard, N. Shakespeare Shakespeare Engineering, South Woodham Ferrers, Essex, United Kingdom
	As part of a continuing STFC Innovations Partnership Scheme (IPS) grant, in support of enabling UK industry to address the large potential market for superconducting RF structures Daresbury Laboratory and Shakespeare Engineering Ltd are developing the capability to fabricate, process and test a niobium 9-cell 1.3 GHz superconducting RF cavity. A single-cell cavity fabricated under this grant was surface processed and tested at Fermilab, and achieved an accelerating gradient in excess of 40 MV/m at an unloaded quality factor in excess of 1.0 x 10¹⁰. This paper presents the results of the single-cell cavity testing and discusses the progress made to date in the development of the design and manufacture of a 9-cell niobium cavity, which Shakespeare Engineering Ltd will fabricate and which is anticipated to be qualified in 2014.

THP095	Error Analysis for Vertical Test Stand Cavity Measurements at Fermilab	1148
	O.S. Melnychuk Fermilab, Batavia, USA
	Overview of Vertical Test Stand (VTS) facility at Fermilab is presented. Uncertainty calculations for the measurements of quality factor and accelerating field are described Sources of uncertainties and assumptions on their correlations are reviewed. VTS hardware components with non-negligible instrumental errors are discussed. Relative contributions of individual sources to the total uncertainties are assessed. Stability of VTS test results with respect to potential mismeasurements of calibration coefficients and decay constant are studied.