Author: Shakespeare, N.
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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.