Pub Date : 2024-11-12DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2024.3491418
Brian J. Vaughn
Radio Frequency superconductivity has been a mainstay of accelerator science for decades. However, its benefits have yet to be applied to proton synchrotrons with demanding tuning requirements. For example, the Main Injector (MI), Fermilab's high-energy proton synchrotron, currently utilizes 20+ ferrite-loaded cavities for a targeted 1.2 s acceleration cycle. Harnessing the extremely high gradients associated with superconductivity, the required number of cavities could be reduced by an order of magnitude, dramatically lowering operational power requirements even with cryogenic considerations. Additionally, the current plans for the Fermilab accelerator complex evolution initiative involve almost doubling the number of cavities in MI if the same designs are to be used, further highlighting the potential benefits of superconductivity. These advantages are attractive, but to date, no tunable superconducting cavity suitable for MI has been proposed due to the incompatibility of conventional broadband tuning methods with superconductivity. Here, we present a tunable superconducting cavity concept capable of record-breaking performance. Tuning will be accomplished by using high-speed linear actuators to vary the insertion depth of metallic plungers into the cavity volume. This tuning concept is theoretically viable with currently available technology and will be fully compatible with a superconducting cavity.
几十年来,射频超导一直是加速器科学的支柱。然而,它的优势尚未应用于对调谐要求苛刻的质子同步加速器。例如,费米实验室的高能质子同步加速器 "主注入器"(MI)目前使用 20 多个铁氧体空腔来实现 1.2 秒的目标加速周期。利用与超导相关的极高梯度,所需的空腔数量可以减少一个数量级,即使考虑到低温因素,也能显著降低运行功率要求。此外,费米实验室加速器综合体进化计划的当前计划涉及,如果使用相同的设计,MI 中的空腔数量将增加几乎一倍,这进一步凸显了超导的潜在优势。这些优势非常吸引人,但由于传统的宽带调谐方法与超导不兼容,迄今为止还没有提出适合 MI 的可调谐超导腔。在这里,我们提出了一种可调谐超导腔概念,它能够实现破纪录的性能。调谐将通过使用高速线性致动器来改变金属柱塞插入腔体的深度来实现。这种调谐概念在理论上是可行的,目前已有的技术也可以实现,而且与超导腔完全兼容。
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Pub Date : 2024-11-06DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2024.3492545
Yan Shaoqi;Wei Xie;Li Jinding;Long Teng;Xiaoling Zhang;Qingduan Meng;Chi Zhang;Jia Wang;Chunguang Li;Yun Wu;Xu Wang;Liang Sun
This article presents a miniaturized C-band high-temperature superconducting triplexer. The triplexer is composed of multimode resonators and adopts the co-coupling structure to reduce its size. Furthermore, the co-coupling structure voids designing the impedance matching structure of triplexers adopting branch line structures and improves the design efficiency of triplexers. Besides, the isolation of the triplexer has been effectively improved by adjusting the coupling between resonators without increasing its size. The measured results show that the center frequencies of the triplexer are 5.503, 6.002, and 6.500 GHz, with relative bandwidths of 1.113%, 1.155%, and 1.115%, respectively. The insertion losses are 0.53, 0.28, and 0.37 dB, respectively. The isolations between channels are larger than 33.9 dB. The adopted approaches benefit to design miniaturized triplexers with high performance.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-29DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2024.3487978
Ning Zhang;John R. Hull
AC losses in high-temperature superconductors are considered a major obstacle in the development of fully superconducting machines. Current methods for measuring ac losses can be difficult to implement for superconducting samples that are large or have complex geometries. This article presents a new method, known as the drag-torque method, for measuring ac losses. The present measurement system involves suspending the superconducting sample holder, which is cooled by liquid nitrogen, in the air using a pair of air-bearing journals. When the sample is placed in a rotating magnetic field generated by a permanent magnet rotor, ac losses are induced in the superconducting material. As a result, the sample holder tends to rotate with the permanent magnet rotor and is stopped by a load cell. By measuring the torque exerted on the load cell, the ac losses can be calculated. This method can be applied to complex superconducting samples, such as coils and stacks of superconducting tapes.
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