17–22 May 2026
C.I.D
Europe/Zurich timezone

Investigation of RF Surface Resistance in Sub-GHz Superconducting Elliptical Cavities Processed with Various Nitrogen-Doping Surface Treatments

SUP7302
17 May 2026, 14:00
4h
C.I.D

C.I.D

Student Poster Presentation MC7.T07: Superconducting RF Student poster session

Speaker

Sean Moskaitis (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams)

Description

Superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavity surface treatment with nitrogen-doping (N-doping) was a breakthrough in cavity processing which was found capable of increasing the cavity quality factor (Q0) by more than a factor of 2 compared to standard electropolish (EP) surface treatments, as well as achieving a highly desirable anti-Q slope behavior, an increase of Q0 with increasing accelerating field, in 1.3 GHz superconducting niobium cavities. N-doping has been extensively studied in 1.3 GHz cavities; however, a similarly significant increase in performance had not yet been observed in sub-GHz cavities. In this study, field-dependent BCS and residual resistances were measured in 644 MHz cavities for the FRIB energy upgrade with various surface treatments. The frequency dependence of the Q-slope was investigated by measuring BCS and residual resistances in the fundamental mode (FM) and 1.45 GHz higher-order mode (HOM) in the same cavity. We will report effects of various N-doping surface treatments on the FM and HOM performance, including achievements of Q0 as high as 4.9x10^10 at 17.5 MV/m in this class of SRF cavities.

Funding Agency

This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics, under Award Number DE-SC0023633.

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Author

Sean Moskaitis (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams)

Co-authors

Andrei Ganshyn (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams) Brian Barker (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams) Ethan Metzgar (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams) Kyle Elliott (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams) Peter Ostroumov (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams) Sang-hoon Kim (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams) Ting Xu (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams) Walter Hartung (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams) Dr Yoo Lim Cheon (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams)

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