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Nb3Sn on Cu SRF cavities R&D at INFN LNL

MOP7030
18 May 2026, 16:00
2h
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Deauville, France
Poster Presentation MC7.T07: Superconducting RF Poster session

Speaker

Cristian Pira (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)

Description

The successful development of Nb3Sn/Cu coatings for the SRF cavities of next generation particle accelerators would allow for the operation of the SRF system at 4.5 K, resulting in a reduction of the needed cryogenic power by a factor 3 with respect to what normally needed for bulk Nb cavities, operated at 2 K. In the framework of I.FAST and ISAS collaborations, an optimized recipe for Nb3Sn films deposited via DCMS has been established on small samples at INFN-LNL and is discussed in this work. Films with a Tc ≥ 17 K at deposition temperatures ≤ 650 °C on Cu substrate pre-coated with a 30-micron thick buffer layer of Nb have been successfully produced. The same deposition recipe is RF validated on QPR samples, with the results being also discussed in this work. A surface resistance < 9 nΩ at 4.5 K (at 20 mT, 417 MHz) is measured, which is about a order of magnitude larger than the baseline specifications for the LHC Nb/Cu cavities and already fulfills the requirements for the FCC-ee. Finally, the design and development of a dedicated coating system for 1.3 GHz elliptical cavities is discussed.

Funding Agency

This project has received funding from the EU’s Horizon Programmes under GA 101131435 iSAS and under GA 101004730 I.FAST.
Supported by INFN experiments SuperMAD (CSN5), SRF and RD_FCC (CSN1).

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Author

Cristian Pira (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)

Co-authors

Davide Ford (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro) Dorothea Fonnesu (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro) Eduard Chyhyrynets (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Fabrizio Stivanello (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro) Dr Matteo Lazzari (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro) Oscar Azzolini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro) Tochukwu Emmanuel Ezeaba (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)

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