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DOE OSTI2024

Multiphysics modeling of accelerators through code integration

This work aims to improve the ability of particle accelerator researchers to develop high-performance accelerator cavity designs by creating an overall multiphysics framework that integrates and couples existing application codes. This framework will allow accelerator researchers to build multiphysics models that will optimize cavity design, improve understanding of whole-device performance, and reduce the development and fabrication costs of accelerator research. We utilize the open-source VizSchema data standard as an intermediate data structure interface layer to standardize interfaces between individual application codes. VizScema is extensively documented online, and plugins for VizSchema are available for popular visualization packages, including VisIt and ParaView. Currently, the work focuses on coupling the EM field solver COMSOL and the electron gun code MICHELLE to allow COMSOL field-solve results to be seamlessly used by MICHELLE for particle-solve. Later work will extend this integration to include other fields, particles, and thermodynamics simulation codes.

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗
DOE OSTI2013

Field Emission and Consequences as Observed and Simulated for CEBAF Upgrade Cryomodules

High gamma and neutron radiation levels were monitored at the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at Jefferson Laboratory (JLab) after installation of new cavity cryomodules and initial test runs in the frame of the ongoing 12 GeV upgrade program. The dose rates scaled exponentially with cavity accelerating fields, but were independent of the presence of an electron beam in the accelerator. Hence, field emission (FE) is the source of origin. This has led to concerns regarding the high field operation (100 MV per cryomodule) in the future 12 GeV era. Utilizing supercomputing, novel FE studies have been performed with electrons tracked through a complete cryomodule. It provides a principal understanding of experimental observations as well as ways to mitigate FE as best as practicable by identification of problematic cavities.

Marhauser, Frank↗
DOE OSTI2015

Surface studies of plasma processed Nb samples

Contaminants present at top surface of superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities can act as field emitters and restrict the cavity accelerating gradient. A room temperature in-situ plasma processing technology for SRF cavities aiming to clean hydrocarbons from inner surface of cavities has been recently developed at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS). Surface studies of the plasma-processed Nb samples by Secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) and Scanning Kelvin Probe (SKP) showed that the NeO 2 plasma processing is very effective to remove carbonaceous contaminants from top surface and improves the surface work function by 0.5 to 1.0 eV.

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE↗
DOE OSTI2018

802 MHz ERL Cavity Design and Development

In the framework of a collaboration between CERN and JLab, an SRF accelerating cavity for energy recovery linacs operating at 802 MHz was developed in the context of the CERN's Large Hadron electron Collider (LHeC) design study. A single-cell and a five-cell cavity from fine grain high RRR niobium were built at JLab to validate the basic RF design in vertical tests. Two copper single-cell cavities were produced in parallel for R&D purposes at CERN. The cavity design has since been adapted as baseline for the main linac cavities in the proposed Powerful Energy Recovery Linac Experiment facility (PERLE) at Orsay. Details concerning the cavity fabrication and test results for the Nb cavities are presented.

Marhauser, Frank↗
DOE OSTI2024

First Results from Two Nb3Sn Cavities Assembled in a CEBAF Quarter Cryomodule

Two 1.5 GHz CEBAF C75-shape 5-cell accelerator cavities were coated with Nb3Sn film using the vapor diffusion technique at Fermilab and Jefferson Lab coating facilities. Both cavities were measured at 4 K and 2 K in the vertical cavity test facility (VCTF) in each lab, then assembled into a CEBAF quarter cryomodule at Jefferson Lab. The cryomodule was tested at 4 K and 2 K in the CryoModule Test Facility (CMTF) at Jefferson Lab. RF test results for both cavities in the cryomodule are similar to those in the qualification test in VTS, with one cavity reaching Eacc = 7.9 MV/m and the other - 13.3 MV/m at 4 K.

Eremeev, G.↗
DOE OSTI2024

First Results from two Nb3Sn Cavities Assembled in a CEBAF Quarter Cryomodule

Two 1.5 GHz CEBAF C75-shape 5-cell accelerator cavities were coated with Nb3Sn film using the vapor diffusion technique at Fermilab and Jefferson Labcoating facilities. Both cavities were measured at 4 K and 2 K in the vertical cavity test facility (VCTF) in each lab, then assembled into a CEBAF quartercryomodule at Jefferson Lab. The cryomodule was tested at 4 K and 2 K in the CryoModule Test Facility (CMTF) at Jefferson Lab. RF test results for bothcavities in the cryomodule are similar to those in the qualification test in VTS, with one cavity reaching Eacc =7.9 MV/m and the other - 13.3 MV/m at 4 K

Eremeev, G.↗
DOE OSTI2018

Frequency Dependence of Trapped Flux Sensitivity in SRF Cavities

In this letter, we present the frequency dependence of the vortex surface resistance of bulk niobium accelerating cavities as a function of different state-of-the-art surface treatments. Higher flux surface resistance per amount of trapped magnetic field—sensitivity—is observed for higher frequencies, in agreement with our theoretical model. Higher sensitivity is observed for N-doped cavities, which possess an intermediate value of the electron mean-free-path, compared to 120 °C and EP/BCP cavities. Experimental results from our study showed that the sensitivity has a non-monotonic trend as a function of the mean-free-path, including frequencies other than 1.3 GHz, and that the vortex response to the rf field can be tuned from the pinning regime to flux-flow regime by manipulating the frequency and/or the mean-free-path of the resonator, as reported in our previous studies. The frequency dependence of the trapped flux sensitivity to the amplitude of the accelerating gradient is also highlighted.

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗
DOE OSTI2015

Advanced low-beta cavity development for proton and ion accelerators

Recent developments in designing and processing low-beta superconducting cavities at Argonne National Laboratory are very encouraging for future applications requiring compact proton and ion accelerators. One of the major benefits of these accelerating structures is achieving real-estate accelerating gradients greater than 3 MV/m very efficiently either continuously or for long-duty cycle operation (>1%). The technology has been implemented in low-beta accelerator cryomodules for the Argonne ATLAS heavy-ion linac where the cryomodules are required to have real-estate gradients of more than 3 MV/m. In offline testing low-beta cavities with even higher gradients have already been achieved. This paper will review this work where we have achieved surface fields greater than 166 mT magnetic and 117 MV/m electric in a 72 MHz quarter-wave resonator optimized for beta = 0.077 ions.

Heavy Ion Accelerators↗
DOE OSTI2018

Recirculating Electron Accelerators with Noncircular Electron Orbits as Radiation Sources for Applications (a Review)

State-of-the-art compact recirculating electron accelerators operating at intermediate energies (tens of MeV) are reviewed. The acceleration schemes implemented in the rhodotron, ridgetron, fantron, and cylindertron machines are discussed. Major accelerator components such as the electron guns, accelerating cavities, and bending magnets are described. The parameters of currently operating recirculating accelerators are tabulated, and applications of these accelerators in different processes of irradiation are exemplified.

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗
DOE OSTI2011

Copper Prototype Measurements of the HOM, LOM And SOM Couplers for the ILC Crab Cavity

The ILC Crab Cavity is positioned close to the IP and delivered luminosity is very sensitive to the wakefields induced in it by the beam. A set of couplers were designed to couple to and damp the spurious modes of the crab cavity. As the crab cavity operates using a dipole mode, it has different damping requirements from an accelerating cavity. A separate coupler is required for the monopole modes below the operating frequency of 3.9 GHz (known as the LOMs), the opposite polarization of the operating mode (the SOM), and the modes above the operating frequency (the HOMs). Prototypes of each of these couplers have been manufactured out of copper and measured attached to an aluminum nine cell prototype of the cavity and their external Q factors were measured. The results were found to agree well with numerical simulations.

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗
DOE OSTI2022

Modeling a Nb3Sn Cryounit in GPT at UITF

Nb₃Sn is a prospective material for future superconducting RF (SRF) accelerator cavities. The material can achieve higher quality factors, higher temperature operation and potentially higher accelerating gradients (E_{acc} 96 MV/m) compared to conventional niobium. In this work, we performed modeling of the Upgraded Injector Test Facility (UITF) at Jefferson Lab utilizing newly constructed Nb₃Sn cavities. We studied the effects of the buncher cavity and varied the gun voltages from 200-500 keV. We have calibrated and optimized the SRF cavity gradients and phases for the Nb₃Sn five-cell cavities energy gains with the framework of General Particle Tracer (GPT). Our calculations show the beam goes cleanly through the unit. There is full energy gain out of the second SRF cavity but not from the first SRF cavity due to non-relativistic phase shifts.

Pokharel, S.↗
DOE OSTI2013

Multipass Beam Breakup Study at Jefferson Lab for the 12 Ge V CEBAF U pgrade

Recirculating linear accelerators (linacs) provide a compact and efficient way of accelerating particle beams to medium and high energies by reusing the same linac for multiple passes. In recirculating linacs, maximum current can be limited by multipass beam breakup (BBU), which occurs when an electron beam interacts with the higher order modes (HOMs) of accelerating cavities during multipass recirculations. The average current of the CEBAF 12 GeV Upgrade accelerator at Jefferson Lab, a 5-pass recirculating linac, may be limited by multipass BBU. This disserta- tion work was performed as part of the 12 GeV Upgrade project at Jefferson Lab to investigate limits on average beam currents from the BBU instability. Exper- imental and simulation studies were carried out, and revealed that the multipass BBU will not be a limiting factor to the average beam current in the 12 GeV Upgrade of the CEBAF accelerator. This dissertation includes the theoretical calculation for longitudinal BBU, which revealed that the maximum current limit from longitudinal BBU is much higher than the transverse one. Therefore, longitudinal BBU will not become a problem, as long as transverse BBU does not cause instability. A cumulative BBU simulation study for a new injector in the 12 GeV accelerator also was conducted. The results showed that the transient behavior of cumulative BBU in the injector is not problematic.

Shin, Ilkyoung↗
DOE OSTI2019

Automation of particulate characterization

Foreign particles residing on the field carrying surface of accelerator cavities are a known mechanism for field emission. Developing the methods and tools for collecting and characterizing particles found in an accelerator enables process development towards field emission free SRF cavities. Methods are presented for sampling assemblies, components, processes, and environmental conditions utilizing forensic techniques with specialized tooling. Sampling activities to date have produced an inventory of over 850 GSR spindles. Traditional SEM + EDS analysis of this volume of spindles is challenged by labor investment, spindle sampling methods, and the subsequent data pipeline which ultimately results in a statically inadequate dataset for any particulate distribution characterization. A complete systematic analysis of the spindles is enabled by third party software controlling SEM automation for EDS data acquisition. Details of spindle creation, collection equipment, component sampling, automating particle assessment, and data analysis used to characterize samples from beamline elements in CEBAF are presented.

Spradlin, Josh↗
DOE OSTI2021

Intrinsic quality factor extraction of multi-port cavity with arbitrary coupling

In this work, we derived S-parameter based expressions for the intrinsic quality factor of an arbitrary coupled multiport microwave cavity and a non-ideal test fixture. Practical accuracy limitations of the obtained expressions specifically for superconducting accelerator cavities were evaluated both analytically and with the simulation software. The resulting formulas can be used to extract the intrinsic quality factor of normal-conducting and superconducting cavities directly from the calibrated S-parameter measurements.

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗
DOE OSTI2018

TM 6: Fractional Arc Test - beam through MLC & girder

On April 18 2018, the CBETA project achieved technical milestone 6, “Fractional Arc Test: beam through the Main Linac Cryomodule and prototype girder ”, which is also a major funding milestone. For this test the electron beam was accelerated to a final energy of 42 MeV in the Main Linac Cryomodule (MLC), before being passed through the first splitter beam line S-1 and through the first permanent magnet arc girder (PMA). The MLC contains six superconducting accelerating cavities; for this test only five of the six were powered due to a temporary fault in cavity number 5.

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS↗
DOE OSTI2018

Nb3Sn multicell cavity coating at JLAB

Following encouraging results with Nb3Sn-coated R&D cavities, the existing coating system was upgraded to allow for Nb3Sn coating of CEBAF accelerator cavities. The upgrade was designed to allow Nb3Sn coating of original CEBAF 5-cell cavities with the vapor diffusion technique. Several CEBAF cavities were coated in the upgraded system to investigate vapor diffusion coatings on extended structures. Witness samples coated along with the cavities were characterized with material science techniques, while coated cavities were measured at 4 and 2 K. The progress, lessons learned, and the pathforward are discussed.

Pudasaini, Uttar↗
DOE OSTI2025

Booster Cavity Damper Redesign for PIP-II

A new Higher Order Mode (HOM) damper was designed and tested for the Booster accelerator cavity at Fermilab. In anticipation of the PIP-II upgrade, it was discovered that the higher beam intensity of PIP-II may cause beam instability due to an excited mode at 106 MHz. This unfortunately corresponds with the cavity s 2nd order harmonic mode, which will sweep from 86-105.7 MHz. The new damper is a modification of an existing damper that was designed to reduce an existing static HOM at 83 MHz, with the new design intending to cover the 2nd order HOM as well. The existing damper uses an inductive coupling loop to extract RF energy from the cavity which then goes through a filter in order to reflect the fundamental frequency back into the cavity while passing HOMs to a dump load. The new damper intends to replace the filter portion of the system with a wider band variant while also changing the topology from a coaxial cable loop filter to a componentized PCB-based design. Primary design challenges include bandwidth coverage, impedance matching of the various modes, long term thermal and mechanical stability, radiation hardness, and high voltage handling. Initial designs achieved the desired damping but were found to quickly succumb to destructive arcing due to the voltages present. More finalized designs intend to address this problem through circuit design modifications as well as the use of hardier components.

Pieper, Dustin [Fermilab]↗
DOE OSTI2026

Nb3Sn Superconducting Cavity Developments for Heavy-ion Beams

Nb3Sn has been identified as the most promising next-generation superconducting material for accelerator cavities. This is due to the higher critical temperature (Tc = 18 K) of Nb3Sn compared to niobium (Tc = 9.2 K), which leads to greatly reduced RF losses in the cavity during 4.5 K operation. This allows two important changes during cavity and cryomodule design. First, the higher Tc leads to negligible BCS losses when operated at 4.5 K, which allows for a higher frequency to be used, translating to significantly smaller cavities and cryomodules. Second, the reduced dissipated power lowers the required cryogenic cooling capacity, meaning that cavities can feasibly be operated on 5-10 W cryocoolers instead of a centralized helium refrigeration plant. These plants and distribution systems are costly and complex, requiring skilled technicians for operation and maintenance. These fundamental changes present an opportunity for a paradigm shift in how low-beta linacs are designed and operated. Fabrication and testing results of first prototypes are discussed.

Petersen, T. [Argonne]↗