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SRF Overview

What is SRF?
What is SRF technology used for?
How did SRF technology develop at JLab?
What are Jlab's existing SRF capabilities?

• Collaborations

Activities

What are the accelerator community's SRF development needs?
How is Jlab working to meet these needs?

• SNS Construction
• Preparing for the CEBAF 12 GeV upgrade
• CEBAF maintenance
  • Reliability experience
  • Warm rf window replacement
  • Cryomodule refurbishment
• Collaborative developments
• Education
  • Undergraduate
  • Graduate
  • Post-doctoral
• Pansophy—process and data management

Resources

Facility Descriptions and Photos

• Nb cavity fabrication
  • Electron Beam Welding
  • Presses for deep drawing Nb components
  • CNC mill for precision machining of prototype component
• Cavity processing facilities
  • Closed chemistry cabinet
  • High pressure UPW
  • Electropolishing facility
• Furnaces
• Vertical Cryogenic Test Area (VTA)
• Cryomodule assembly facilities
• Cryomodule Test Facility (CMTF)
• Surface Science Lab
• Pansophy—process and data management

Staffing

• SRF Institute Groups
  • Infrastructure
  • Cavity Production
  • Cryomodule Production
  • QA/QC and Data Management
  • Science and Technology
• Engineering Department Groups
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Cryogenic

History

What has JLab done with SRF?

• CEBAF design, construction, operation
• R&D highlights 1990-2004
  • High pressure ultrapure water rinsing
  • Post-purification of niobium in the presence of titanium as a solid state getter material
  • Q-disease Investigations
  • In-situ baking procedures
  • Single crystal niobium technology
  • Nb material characterization
  • Development of Buffered Electropolishing on Niobium
  • Understanding RF losses in NB Cavities
  • Deposition of alternative SRF materials to Nb and multilayer structures
  • Plasma etching of bulk Nb, as an alternative to wet chemistry
  • Characterization of field emission sources
  • Energetic deposition of Nb films
  • Cavity structure development
  • Cryomodule subsystem development
  • Nb surface characterization
• SNS construction
• JLab FEL

SRF Worldwide

• What other labs are working in this field?
  • Links to web sites of other labs
• Information pool
  • Pointers to commonly relevant web sites
  • Filtered Google front end to automatically search SRF-relevant sites
  • Maintained current ‘one-stop” links to web-accessible SRF papers, proceedings, and presentation materials world wide.
  • DocuShare and Pansophy semi-public access