Influence of tests results on serial production of EXFEL superconducting cavities

D V Kostin,A A Sulimov

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/941/1/012103

Abstract

The European XFEL (EXFEL) 1.3 GHz cavities were produced without any final cold RF performance guarantee for characteristics like accelerating gradient, quality factor or field emission. In the case of low-performance, DESY provided all re-treatment procedures in order to improve these characteristics getting closer to specification levels. But EXFEL cavities have very tight tolerances for the parameters like cavity length, cells eccentricity, fundamental mode frequency and field distribution on the operational mode. Usage of modern infrastructure, analytical methods and powerful tools of the database analysis allows us not only keeping these characteristics in specified ranges, but also investigate the cavity shape uncertainties and improve the damping of the higher order modes.

Highlights

European x-ray free electron laser [1] is an international project with 11 participating countries (Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland)
Quality assurance at room temperature Control of cavity parameters under the normal conditions [7] begins by the cavity manufacturers RI Research Instruments GmbH (RI) and Ettore Zanon S.p.A. (EZ) under the supervision of DESY (Hamburg) and INFN (Milano) [21]
Conclusion we can select the cavity characteristics which needed the most concentration during EXFEL serial cavity production

Summary

Introduction

European x-ray free electron laser [1] is an international project with 11 participating countries (Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland). The European XFEL (EXFEL) 1.3 GHz cavities were produced without any final cold RF performance guarantee for characteristics like accelerating gradient, quality factor or field emission. EXFEL cavities have very tight tolerances for the parameters like cavity length, cells eccentricity, fundamental mode frequency and field distribution on the operational mode.

Results

Conclusion