Nitrogen infusion R&D at DESY a case study on cavity cut-outs

M Wenskat, C Bate, AD Pandey… - Superconductor …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
A first series of nitrogen infusion runs of 1.3 GHz single-cell cavities at DESY resulted in an
unexpected and severe deterioration observed during the vertical cold test. To investigate …

Quench-spot detection for superconducting accelerator cavities via flow visualization in superfluid helium-4

S Bao, W Guo - Physical Review Applied, 2019 - APS
Superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities, cooled by superfluid helium-4 (He II), are
key components in modern particle accelerators. Quenches in SRF cavities caused by Joule …

Kinematic Model Pruning: A Design Optimization Technique for Simultaneous Optimization of Topology and Geometry

H Gamper, A Luthi, H Gattringer, A Mueller, M Di Castro - Robotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a method of optimizing the design of robotic manipulators using a novel
kinematic model pruning technique. The optimization departs from an predefined candidate …

Optical surface properties and their RF limitations of European XFEL cavities

M Wenskat - Superconductor Science and Technology, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The inner surface of superconducting cavities plays a crucial role to achieve highest
accelerating fields and low losses. The industrial fabrication of cavities for the European X …

JACOW: Camera Placement in a Short Working Distance Optical Inspection System for RF Cavities

A Macpherson, M Di Castro, A Luthi, LR Buonocore… - JACoW SRF, 2022 - cds.cern.ch
Inspection of the RF surface of cavities for the purpose of detecting surface anomalies has
been well established, and is typically based on long working distance optical systems using …

[PDF][PDF] Systematic studies of a cavity quench localization system

B Bein - 2019 - bib-pubdb1.desy.de
Several tools for quench localization at Superconducting Radio Frequency cavities exist.
One of these techniques uses the excitation of temperature waves in liquid Helium below the …

First attempts in automated defect recognition in superconducting radio-frequency cavities

M Wenskat - Journal of Instrumentation, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The inner surface of superconducting cavities plays a crucial role to achieve highest
accelerating fields. The industrial fabrication of cavities for the European X-Ray Free …