LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
MgB2 has shown promising results on small samples and its coating development is entering into the stage to coat large samples and elliptical cavities. Several coating techniques that seem to be appropriate for cavity coating and their status will be shown together with some cavity measurement results with either 6 GHz or 1.3 GHz single-cell cavities. Other data such as RF surface resistance at low temperatures and vortex penetration fields with small samples will also be shown.
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
Niowave, Inc., Lansing, Michigan, USA
We present the results of recent design and testing of several 2.1 GHz superconducting rf (SRF) photonic band gap (PBG) resonators. PBG cells have great potential for outcoupling long-range wakefields in SRF accelerator structures without affecting the fundamental accelerating mode. Using PBG structures in superconducting particle accelerators will allow operation at higher frequencies and moving forward to significantly higher beam luminosities thus leading towards a completely new generation of colliders for high energy physics. Here we report the results of our efforts to fabricate 2.1 GHz PBG cells with round and elliptical rods and to test them with high power at liquid helium temperatures. Two PBG cells with round rods were tested in spring of 2012 and achieved accelerating gradients of 15 MV/m at 2 Kelvin. Two PBG cells with elliptical rods will be tested in summer of 2013.