Abstract
Two /spl beta/ = 0.175, 350 MHz, 2-gap superconducting (SC) spoke cavities were fabricated in industry under the Advanced Accelerator Applications (AAA) project for the transmutation of nuclear waste. These cavities are promising candidates for the accelerating structures between a RFQ and the elliptical SC cavities for proton and heavy ion linacs. Since their delivery in July 2002, they have been tested in terms of mechanical properties, low-temperature performance, i.e., Q/sub 0/-E/sub acc/ curves at 4 K and 2 K, surface resistance dependence on temperature and for multipacting (MP). The two cavities achieved accelerating fields of 13.5 MV/m and 13.0 MV/m as compared to the required field of 7.5 MV/m with enough margin for the quality factor. These cavities seem to need more time to condition away MP than elliptical cavities, but MP does not occur once the cavity is conditioned and kept at 4 K. The length of the 103 mm-diameter nominal coupler port was found to be too short for the penetrating field.
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