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Breakthrough Technology for Very High Quality Factors in SRF Cavities Alexander Romanenko 27 th Linear Accelerator Conference (LINAC’2014) 2 Sep 2014

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Breakthrough Technology for Very

High Quality Factors in SRF Cavities

Alexander Romanenko

27th Linear Accelerator Conference (LINAC’2014)

2 Sep 2014

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Outline

• Two major discoveries at Fermilab

– Nitrogen doping to lower the BCS surface resistance

• Lower than the previously perceived “theoretical limit”

• Example at 16 MV/m: Q >3x1010 by doping vs. Q~1.5x1010 with the

standard ILC/XFEL cavity processing

• Also lowers residual

– Effective magnetic flux expulsion by fast/high thermal gradient

cooldown to achieve record low residual resistances

• Example: Q = 2.7x1011 in 27 mG ambient field

• Immediate implications

– LCLS-II

• Future perspectives

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• First breakthrough at Fermilab: Nitrogen doping can

drastically lower “fundamental” BCS losses in cavity walls

and increase Q several times

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A. Grassellino et al, 2013 Supercond. Sci. Technol. 26 102001 (Rapid Communication) – selected for highlights of 2013

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0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 4010

9

1010

1011

Q0

Eacc

(MV/m)

T= 2K

Nitrogen doping: a breakthrough in Q

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Standard state-of-the art preparation

This was the highest Q possible up to last year

Record after nitrogen doping – up to 4 times higher Q!

A. Grassellino et al, 2013 Supercond. Sci. Technol. 26 102001 (Rapid Communication)

1.3 GHz

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Breakthrough in quality factor: nitrogen doping

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• Injection of small nitrogen partial pressure at the end of 800C degassing followed by several ums of EP-> drastic increase in Q

• Reproduced on tens of 1- and 9-cell cavities at FNAL

T=2K

A. Grassellino et al, 2013 Supercond. Sci. Technol. 26 102001 (Rapid Communication)

Characteristic anti-Q-slope

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Doping is easily reproducible process

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2.00E+010 4.00E+010 6.00E+010 8.00E+0100

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Count

Q0 (Eacc=16 MV/m, T=2K)

LCLS-II spec

EP+120C

bake

Fermilab nitrogen/argon

doping technology

N total Mean Standard

Deviation

Minimum Median Maximum

Q0 20 4.3e10 1.2e10 3.2e10 4.0e10 7.4e10

Obtained Q several times above state-of-the-art

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Reproduced at other labs in 1- and 9-cells

Cornell

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JLab

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Cutouts from N doped cavities - SIMS

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Only about 40 ppm of N is enough

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What does N treatment do? N depth profiles by SIMS

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Nitrides Interstitial nitrogen in Nb

Non-doped

Doped

Depth (um)

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standard treatment

standard treatment

nitrogen treatment

nitrogen treatment

R2K

BC

S (

n

)

Eacc

(MV/m)

Physics – origin of the effect

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A. Grassellino et al, 2013 Supercond. Sci. Technol. 26 102001 (Rapid Communication) A. Romanenko and A. Grassellino, Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 252603 (2013)

Anti-Q-slope emerges from the BCS surface resistance decreasing with field

This is what Mattis-Bardeen theory predicted to be the lowest possible surface resistance for Nb -> we breached it!

Rs(T) = RBCS(T) + Rresidual

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Nanostructural studies provide first clues

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• Hydrides may be the cause of the medium and high field Q slopes [see A. Romanenko, F. Barkov, L. D. Cooley, A. Grassellino, 2013 Supercond. Sci. Technol. 26 035003]

• Nitrogen doping may fully trap hydrogen => only intrinsic Nb behavior is then manifested?

Y. Trenikhina (IIT/FNAL), A. Romanenko – to be published

Nb

Electron diffraction patterns from the penetration depth taken at 94K reveal the difference

Non-doped Nb

Doped Nb

TEM on FIB-prepared cutouts

Secondary diffraction peaks appear signalling the formation of lossy niobium hydrides

Nb lattice

Nb lattice

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Some possible mechanisms for intrinsic Nb behavior leading to

increasing Q with field

• Momentum of Cooper pairs changes the DoS

– B. P. Xiao et al, Physica C 490 (2013) 26-31

• Quasiparticle energy distribution deviates from thermal

equilibrium

– P. J. de Visser et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 047004 (2014)

• Time-dependent DoS

– A. Gurevich, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 087001 (2014)

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• Second breakthrough at Fermilab: cooldown rate and thermal

gradients around Tc drastically affect the Meissner effect and

can be used to achieve ultra-low residual resistances even in

high ambient fields

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A. Romanenko, A. Grassellino, O. Melnychuk, D. A. Sergatskov, J. Appl. Phys. 115, 184903 (2014)

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Magnetic probes reveal the new physics

Full expulsion of the magnetic field should increase the field at equator ~2 times when going superconducting

Fluxgate magnetometers

H

A. Romanenko, A. Grassellino, O. Melnychuk, D. A. Sergatskov, J. Appl. Phys. 115, 184903 (2014)

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Efficient flux expulsion

Poor flux expulsion

It turns out the expulsion efficiency can be controlled by the cooldown procedure through Tc=9.2K (fast/slow, uniform or not)

Same Meissner behavior for EP, EP+120C, N doping, fine/single grain, cooling is what matters

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Bare N doped 9-cell in vertical test

Oct, 2013

Efficient flux expulsion

Poor flux expulsion

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1.2x1010

1.4x1010

1.6x1010

1.8x1010

2.0x1010

2.2x1010

2.4x1010

2.6x1010

2.8x1010

3.0x1010

3.2x1010

3.4x1010

3.6x1010

3.8x1010

4.0x1010

#1: First fast from 300K

#2: Slow from 15K

#3: Fast from 15K

Q0

Eacc

(MV/m)

Bare/dressed cavities behave identical

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Flux expelled efficiently

Flux mostly trapped

Thermal currents are present but have no effect

Dressed 9-cell – VTS measurements

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No effect of thermal currents in VTS of dressed cavities

Large (125 mG) magnetic fields generated by thermal currents, no effect on Q

Cooldown from 300K

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Dressed cavities behave exactly the same as bare

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ld (

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Cell 1 axial

Cell 1 tangential

Cell 9 axial

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Time (sec)

Cell 1

Cell 1

Cell 9

Cell 9 - Cell 1

Warmup after slow

Fast from 15K

Everything the same as in our J. Appl. Phys. 115, 184903 (2014)

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Confirmed at Cornell and Jlab – VTS and HTS

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Cornell HTS measurements of the Fermilab N-doped 9-cell [See MOPP018 ]

JLab VTS data on a 9-cell [See TUPP138 ]

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Possible mechanism #1

• Thermal gradient at the superconducting/normal conducting

boundary is aiding the flux expulsion => the higher dT/dx the

better (fast and from higher temperature preferred)

• See [J. Appl. Phys. 115, 184903 (2014)] for details

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Example of thermal difference across the 1-cell cavity

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Possible mechanism #2

• See [J. Appl. Phys. 115, 184903 (2014)] for details

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Fast Slow

For this mechanism uniformity is “bad” -> leads to islands

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Optimal cooling conditions produce record high Qs even when

ambient fields are large

Q=2.7e11 in 23mG!

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Also means that magnetic shielding requirements may be relaxed

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Implications

• CW operation becomes possible for short-pulse machines

• LCLS-II at SLAC

– Adopted N doping as a baseline

• 2x higher Q leads to a factor of 2 decrease in required refrigeration => 1

cryoplant less = savings of ~50-100M$ in capital costs + 10s of M$ in

operational costs

• PIP-II at FNAL

– Increase of duty factor from 5% to 30% desired by Mu2e becomes

possible with doubling the Q

• Q can be preserved/improved and the magnetic shielding requirements

relaxed if the optimal cooling is mastered in the cryomodule

– Looks straightforward, no show stoppers here

• High gradient/high Q becomes possible => future e+e- machines at

drastically reduced costs

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Impact of Increasing Q on optimal Gradient

• ILC requirements: Eacc > 35 MV/m/ Q0 > 8x109

• Improving Q0 from 8x109 to 3x1010 has a big impact on machine

cost

• Optimal gradient moves to ~ (70 - 80) MV/m

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Conclusions

• We have two new breakthroughs increasing the Q

– Nitrogen doping

• Doped cavities become even more efficient at higher fields

– Efficient flux expulsion

• Opens up the route to minimize the residual resistance even in

poorly shielded realistic environment

– May allow to relax the specs on magnetic shielding

• Exciting time in SRF

– We will follow the science of these discoveries further and see

where it leads us

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THANK YOU

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BACKUP: Thermal currents easily minimized/removed by

cooling fast from lower T – for example ~20K

Thermal gradient

No thermal currents

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