Impact of forming, welding, and electropolishing on pitting and the surface finish of SRF cavity niobium

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 21, Issue 3 PART 3, 2011, Pages 2609-2614

  Cooley, L D ^a   Burk, D ^a   Cooper, C ^a   Dhanaraj, N ^a   Foley, M ^a   Ford, D ^a   Gould, K ^a   Hicks, D ^a   Novitski, R ^a   Romanenko, A ^a   Schuessler, R ^a   Thompson, C ^a   Wu, G ^a  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electropolishing; Linear accelerator; Linear collider; Niobium; Superconducting radio frequency cavities

Indexed keywords

CAVITY FORMING; COLD WORKS; ELECTROPOLISHING; LARGE DEFECTS; LINEAR COLLIDERS; PROCESS CHANGE; RADIO FREQUENCIES; REDUCED VISCOSITY; SUPERCONDUCTING RADIO-FREQUENCY CAVITIES; SURFACE FINISHES; TEMPERATURE INCREASE;

DEFECTS; ELECTROLYTIC POLISHING; EXPERIMENTS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; NIOBIUM; PITTING; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; SURFACE DEFECTS; WELDS;

WELDING;

EID: 79957946517     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2010.2083629     Document Type: Article

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