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Radiofrequency (RF) systems play a critical role in particle accelerators by enabling the acceleration, manipulation, and diagnosis of charged particle beams. At the heart of many of these systems lies the RF cavity, whose effective design…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Thomas Geoffrey Lucas

This paper introduces a novel bead-falling measurement method for the precise and efficient mapping of electromagnetic fields within radio-frequency (RF) cavities, which are crucial components in the design of accelerators. The traditional…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-07-03 Xiaonan Du , Lars Groening

The recent achievements in the performance of superconducting RF (SRF) photoinjectors have opened a new era in the development of the reliable high-brightness CW electron sources. While the SRF guns become one of the most promising…

In this paper we present the discovery of a new surface treatment applied to superconducting radio frequency (SRF) niobium cavities, leading to unprecedented accelerating fields of 49 MV/m in TESLA-shaped cavities, in continuous wave (CW);…

We propose an efficient and robust protocol for the generation of entanglement between a superconducting qubit and a squeezed cavity. By applying a parametric drive to the cavity coupled to the qubit, the dynamical evolution of the system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Qin-Ru Cheng , Ke-Xiong Yan , Yuan Qiu , Yi-Tong Shi , Yan Xia , Ye-Hong Chen

Intrinsic to the process of high-order harmonic generation is the creation of plasma and the resulting spatiotemporal distortions of the driving laser pulse. Inside a high finesse cavity where the driver pulse and gas medium are reused,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 T. K. Allison , A. Cingöz , D. C. Yost , J. Ye

This paper provides a unique and to the best of our knowledge first-of-a-kind attempt to develop chemical processes that may contribute to the volume reduction of SMR TRISO-based fuels and aims at the eventual ability to reprocess the spent…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Tobias Chemnitz , Christian Reiter , Florian Kraus , David Novog

Superconducting Radio-Frequency (SRF) cavities operating in continuous wave (CW) mode and with low beam loading are devices characterized by a high loaded quality factor, in the order of 10^7, and narrow bandwidth, in the order of 10 Hz.…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 Jorge Alberto Diaz Cruz , Sandra Biedron , Manel Martinez-Ramon , Salvador Sosa , Reza Pirayesh

Superconducting radio-frequency cavities are commonly used in modern particle accelerators for applied and fundamental research. Such cavities are typically made of high-purity, bulk Nb and are cooled by a liquid helium bath at a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-24 G. Ciovati , G. Cheng , U. Pudasaini , R. Rimmer

An rf coaxial capacitively coupled Ar/Cl2 plasma is applied to processing the inner wall of superconducting radio frequency cavities. A dc self-bias potential is established across the inner electrode sheath due to the surface area…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 J. Upadhyay , Do Im , S. Popović , A. -M. Valente-Feliciano , L. Phillips , L. Vušković

High-gain resonant nonlinear Raman scattering on trapped cold atoms within a high-fineness ring optical cavity is simply explained under a nonlinear opto-mechanical mechanism, and a proposal using it to detect frequency of micro-trap on…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-03-24 Lin Zhang

A novel efficient scheme of acceleration and collimation of dense plasma is proposed and examined. In the proposed scheme, a target placed in a cavity at the entrance of a guiding channel is irradiated by a laser beam introduced into the…

Ion nitriding and ion carburising by plasma discharges are promising techniques in order to modify the surface of austenitic steels. Plasma treatments improve mechanical properties, e.g., hardness and wear resistance. Indeed, these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-07-16 Javier García Molleja , Pablo Romero-Gómez , Jorge Feugeas

The trapped residual magnetic flux during the cool-down due to the incomplete Meissner state is a significant source of radio frequency losses in superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities. Here, we show a clear correlation between the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-10-04 B. D. Khanal , S. Balachandran , S. Chetri , M. Barron , R. Mullinix , A. Williams , P. Xu , A. Ingrole , P. J. Lee , G. Ciovati , P. Dhakal

Recently, we presented a new approach for a compact radio-frequency (RF) accelerator structure and demonstrated the functionality of the individual components: acceleration units and focusing elements. In this paper, we combine these units…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-02-02 P. A. Seidl , A. Persaud , W. Ghiorso , Q. Ji , W. L. Waldron , A. Lal , K. B. Vinayakumar , T. Schenkel

Plasma sheath is the non-neutral space charge region that isolates bulk plasma from boundary. Radio-frequency (RF) sheathes are formed when applying RF voltage to electrodes. Generally, applied bias is mainly consumed by RF sheath which…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Guang-Yu Sun , An-Bang Sun , Guan-Jun Zhang

Superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities offer a promising platform for quantum computing due to their long coherence times, yet integrating nonlinear elements like transmons for control often introduces additional loss. We report a…

A superconducting RF accelerator test facility is currently under construction at Fermilab. The accelerator will consist of an electron gun, 40 MeV injector, beam acceleration section consisting of 3 TTF-type or ILC-type cryomodules, and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-09-19 M. Church , J. Leibfritz , S. Nagaitsev

Sapphire is an attractive material in photonic, optoelectronic, and transparent ceramic applications that stand to benefit from surface functionalization effects stemming from micro/nanostructures. Here we investigate the use of ultrafast…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-19 Joshua Cheung , Kun-Chieh Chien , Peter Sokalski , Li Shi , Chih-Hao Chang

Extra Ordinary (X) mode conversion to Bernstein wave near Upper Hybrid Resonance (UHR) layer plays an important role in plasma heating through cyclotron resonance. Wave generation at UHR and parametric decay at high power has been observed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vipin K. Yadav , D. Bora