137446914
Hydrogen Absorption in Electropolishing of Niobium
Electropolishing process had been considered to cause hydrogen absorption that could result in hydrogen Q‐disease in niobium superconducting RF cavities. Recently, however, we found that hydrogen Q‐disease did not always occur in a L‐band niobium RF cavity treated by continuous electropolishing (EP) only. We consider mechanical grinding as a very powerful method to eliminate surface defects. Therefore, our surface treatment process is a combination of mechanical grinding and EP. We developed a simple and fast mechanical grinding method, centrifugal barrel polishing method (CBP), as the pre‐treatment for the EP. We applied a combination of CBP and EP to a L‐band niobium cavity and found the result showing a heavy hydrogen Q‐disease. We found out that hydrogen absorption occurred during the CBP, and the absorbed hydrogen came from the water used during the CBP. Hence, we replaced the water by a liquid without hydrogen as its component. As the result, we successfully prevented hydrogen absorption in the CBP....
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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.
125432193
State-of-the-art and future prospects in rf superconductivity
6846765
HIGHER HARMONICS BEAM LOADING COMPENSATION FOR A BROAD BAND MA-LOADED RF CAVITY
A broad band RF cavity loaded with magnetic alloy cores has been developed for the Japanese Hadron Facility synchrotrons. Its Q-value can be chosen at between 0.5 and 5. To reduce transient beam loading effects, a small Qvalue (< 3) is preferable to shorten the transient period. However, the circulating beam current of up to 7 A will induce a spurious voltage at the accelerating gap, which deforms the gap voltage due to higher harmonics components, if the Q-value is less than 3. The resulting RFbucket distortion may cause the beam loss. Therefore we have designed a beam loading compensation system to suppress the higher harmonics components.
137182571
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.
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.
119311709
A new molecular dynamics calculation and its application to the spectra of light and strange baryons
A new approach based on antisymmetrized molecular dynamics is proposed to correctly take account of the many-body correlations. We applied it to the spectra of low-lying, light and strange baryons. The inclusion of the quark–quark correlation is important to predict the precise spectra, and the semi- relativistic kinematics is also vital to correct the level ordering. The baryon spectra calculated by the present method is as precise as the Faddeev calculation.
14603783
A Measurement System Using Gp-Ib For A Magnetic Core Test Cavity
In the design of the RF system of the JHF (Japan Hadron Facilit y) proton synchrotrons, it is very important to find a magnetic core to which satisfies the required condition of the JHF accelerators[1]. Ferrite cores are usually used for the magnetic core of the proton synchrotron, however there are some problems. Generally, some ferrite cores have non-linear characteristics which depend on the RF magnetic field. And, there is a size-dependence of the characteristics. Thus, it is required to measure the characteristics of large size magnetic cores. To measure characteristics of the magnetic cores, we have developed a test cavity which is capable of measuring an actual size one, and measurement system using software ‘HP-VEE’[ 2,3] which is possible to control the measurement devices by using a GP-IB command directly. In this measuring system, the acquisition of data and calculation of the characteristics of the magnetic cores are automatically processed.
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.
119182192
Clustering structure of nuclei in deep inelastic processes
A clustering aspect is explained for the 9Be nucleus in charged-lepton deep inelastic scattering. Nuclear modifications of the structure function F2 are studied by the ratio REMC = FA2/FD2, where A and D are a nucleus and the deuteron, respectively. In a JLab experiment, an unexpectedly large nuclear modification slope |dREMC/dx| was found for 9 Be, which could be related to its clustering structure. We investigated a mean conventional part of a nuclear structure function FA2 by a convolution description with nucleon momentum distributions calculated by antisymmetrized (or fermionic) molecular dynamics (AMD) and also by a simple shell model. We found that clustering effects are small in the conventional part, so that the JLab result could be associated with an internal nucleon modification or a short-range nuclear correlation which is caused by high densities due to cluster formation.
17047743
Charge Symmetry Violation in Nuclear Physics
The study of charge symmetry violation in nuclear physics is a potentially enormous subject. Through a few topical examples we aim to show that it is not a subject of peripheral interest but rather goes to the heart of our understanding of hadronic systems.