94312812
High Field Studies on L-band Superconducting Cavities at KEK
Several 1.3 GHz single-cell and nine-cell niobium cavities were fabricated to attain a higher maximum accelerating gradient and to understand the phenomena limiting it. Vertical cold tests at {approx}1.8 K for the 4 single-cell cavities prepared by various surface treatments have been conducted 15 times. In eight of the tests, maximum accelerating gradients (E{sub acc}, max) of more than 14 MV/m were obtained with no field emission. Furthermore, E{sub acc}, max values of higher than 20 MV/m with a high Q{sub 0} value of {approx}10{sup 10} were achieved repeatedly after heat treatment at 1400 degrees C. Once quenching was observed at E{sub acc}, max (14 {approx} 20 MV/m), however, a common phenomenon resulting in Q{sub 0}-deterioration occurred in every test. The cavity performances and the phenomenon at high fields are reported in this paper.
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Activities on Superconducting Cavities at TOSHIBA
Abstructs R&D activities on superconducting cavities at TOSHIBA are presented. Two L-band single-cell niobium cavities and an L-band three-cell structure were fabricated in our company and measured at KEK. The maximum field gradient of Eacc,max>30MV/m in both single-cell cavities and Eacc,max =18MV/m in the three-cell structure were attained respectively. An optimization study on the annealing temperature for the hydrogen Q-disease is reported. R&D of hydroforming to fabricate seamless cavities is also presented.
55112672
Improvement of cavity performance by electropolishing in the 1.3 GHz Nb superconducting cavities
A steep drop of the cavity quality factor (Q/sub 0/) at high electric field has been observed frequently in chemically-polished and high-pressure-rinsed Saclay cavities, even in the absence of field emission. Three single-cell cavities from Saclay were tested at KEK following electropolishing and high pressure rinsing. This treatment eliminated the steep Q/sub 0/ drop, the quench field increased to an accelerating gradient of more than 30 MV/m with a quality factor above 2/spl times/10/sup 10/. No dependence of the quench field on the niobium RRR was observed between RRR=200 and 320 in electropolished cavities.
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State-of-the-art and future prospects in rf superconductivity
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Characteristics of the results of measurement on 1.3 GHz high gradient superconducting cavities
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A New Material Evaluation Method on Niobium by Magnetization Measurement
As a new evaluation method for the material defects or surface contamination of niobium, we have tried magnetization measurement using very small niobium samples. We could see the hyst~resis curve varied depending on the sample's history. This method has a high sensitivity. Th~ m.f1uence ?y surface treatments was observed on the hysteresis curve; annealing, chemical p~hshmg, Q-dlsease due to hydrogen etc .. In this paper we will report several study results by this method.
119242705
Equation of State for Neutron Stars: Hyperon Mixing in SU(3) Flavor Symmetry
Using various kinds of relativistic mean-field models as well as the quark-meson coupling model, we study in detail the properties of neutron stars. We find that the equation of state in SU(3) flavor symmetry can support a neutron star with mass of $(1.8 \sim 2.1) M_{\odot}$ even if hyperons exist inside the core of a neutron star.
121387531
Binding Energies of Two-Delta Bound States
16595187
Luminosity Dependence of the Electron Temperature in the Bright Hard State of the Black Hole Candidate GX 339–4
We have analyzed 200 Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observations of the black hole candidate GX 339� 4, all from bright hard state periods between 1996 and 2005. The purpose of our study is to investigate the radiation mechanisms in the hard state of GX 339� 4. The broadband 3–200 keV spectra were successfully modeled by as imple analytic model, power-law with an exponential cut-off modified with a smeared edge. The obtained energy cut-off (Ecut )w as distributed over 50–200 keV, and the photon index over 1.4–1.7. We found a clear anti-correlation (Ecut / L � 0:70˙0:06 )b etween the X-ray luminosity (L )i n2–200 keV and Ecut ,w henL is larger than 7 � 10 37 erg s � 1 (assuming a distance of 8 kpc), while Ecut is roughly constant at around 200 keV when L is smaller than 7 � 10 37 erg s � 1 .T his anti-correlation remained unchanged by adopting a more physical thermal Comptonization model, which resulted in an anti-correlation that can be expressed as kTe / L � 0:24˙0:06 .T hese anti-correlations can be quantitatively explained by a picture in which the energy-flow rate from protons to electrons balances with inverse Compton cooling.
55610926
EVALUATION OF MAGNETIC ALLOYS FOR JHF RF CAVITY
A new type of rf accelerating cavity using a high permeability magnetic alloy (MA) has been developed for the high intensity JHF proton synchrotrons. Compared with ordinary ferrites, the MA cores are very stable at high rf magnetic field and thus very high accelerating gradient (=accelerating voltage per cavity length) is available. We have measured several magnetic alloys in order to find a proper material for the cavity. In this paper, the test results are summarized and the evaluation of these materials is presented.
135524505
A New type of RF cavity for high intensity proton synchrotron using high permeability magnetic alloy
A new type of rf accelerating cavity using a high-permeability magnetic alloy (MA) core is proposed for a highintensity hadron synchrotron. The prototype of a single-gap high gradient cavity whose total length is only 40cm is under development and a maximum rf voltage of 20kV has been obtained so far.