RF Superconductivity

Tutorial, based on the RF Superconductivity course taught by J. Delayen at the US PAS

Applications of Spoke Cavities

The superconducting spoke cavity was introduced in the late 1980s in response to the need for superconducting structures in the mid-velocity range. Since then it has found application in many projects. Prototypes have been developed for a wide range of beam velocities. The characteristics and features of the spoke cavity are reviewed and some of their applications are presented

A General Model of Resistive Wall Instability in Linear Accelerators

A general model for wakefield-generated instabilities in linear accelerators, originally developed for cumulative beam breakup [1], is applied to the resistive wall instability. The general solution for various bunch charge distributions and application to various accelerator configurations are presented

Wakefield Analysis of Superconducting RF-Dipole Cavities

RF-dipole crabbing cavities are being considered for a variety of crabbing applications. Some of the applications are the crabbing cavity systems for LHC High Luminosity Upgrade and the proposed Electron-Ion Collider for Jefferson Lab. The design requirements in the current applications require the cavities to incorporate complex damping schemes to suppress the higher order modes that may be excited by the high intensity proton or electron beams traversing through the cavities. The number of cavities required to achieve the desired high transverse voltage, and the complexity in the cavity geometries also contributes to the wakefields generated by beams. This paper characterizes the wakefield analysis for single cell and multi-cell rf-dipole cavities

Design of Superconducting Parallel Bar Cavities for Deflecting/Crabbing Applications

The superconducting parallel-bar cavity is a deflecting/ crabbing cavity with attractive properties, compared to other conventional designs, that is currently being considered for a number of applications. The new parallel-bar design with curved loading elements and circular or elliptical outer conductors have improved properties compared to the designs with rectangular outer conductors. We present the designs proposed as the deflecting cavities for the Jefferson Lab 12 GeV upgrade and for Project-X and crabbing cavities for the proposed LHC luminosity upgrade and electron-ion collider at Jefferson Lab

A New TEM-Type Deflecting And Crabbing RF Structure

A new type of rf structure for the deflection and crabbing of particle bunches is introduced. It is comprised of a number of parallel TEM-resonant lines operating in opposite phase from each other. One of its main advantages is its compactness compared to conventional crabbing cavities operating in the TM110 mode, thus allowing low frequency designs. The properties and characteristics of this type of structure are presented

The Magnetic Field Penetration Measurement of Thin Film and Multilayered Superconductors for SRF Cavities

Radio Frequency (RF) Cavities are used in particle accelerators and they are typically formed from or coated with superconducting materials. High purity niobium is the material of choice for SRF cavities and niobium cavities operate at their theoretical field limits. SRF researchers have begun a significant R&D effort to develop alternative materials to continue to keep up with the demands of new accelerator facilities. To achieve high performance with high accelerating gradient, cavity material should have an ability to persist in superconducting state under high magnetic field without magnetic flux penetration through the cavity wall. Therefore, the magnetic field at which first flux penetrates is a fundamental parameter to characterize superconducting materials for SRF cavities. This leads to investigate a simple, efficient, and accurate technique to measure the penetration of the magnetic field directly. The conventional magnetometers are inconvenient for thin superconducting film measurements because these measurements are strongly influenced by orientation, edge, and shape effects. In order to measure the onset of field penetration in bulk, thin films and multi-layered superconductors, we have designed, built and calibrated a system combining a small superconducting solenoid capable of generating surface magnetic field higher than 500 mT and Hall probe to detect the first flux penetration through the superconducting sample. This setup can be used to study various promising alternative materials to niobium, especially SIS multilayer coatings on niobium that have been recently proposed to enhance the accelerating gradient by delaying the flux penetration into niobium surface.https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/gradposters2021_sciences/1016/thumbnail.jp

Fundamental and HOM Coupler Design of the Superconducting Parallel-Bar Cavities

The superconducting parallel-bar cavity [1] is currently being considered as a deflecting system for the Jefferson Lab 12 GeV upgrade and as a crabbing cavity for a possible LHC luminosity upgrade. Currently the designs are optimized to achieve lower surface fields within the dimensional constraints for the above applications. A detailed analysis of the fundamental input power coupler design for the parallel-bar cavity is performed considering beam loading and the effects of microphonics. For higher beam loading the damping of the HOMs is vital to reduce beam instabilities generated due to the wake fields. An analysis of threshold impedances for each application and impedances of the modes that requires damping are presented in this paper with the design of HOM couplers