CLASSE NEWS | 7 Jun 2005
Experiments at Cornell are breaking records for accelerating gradients and Q values in superconducting radio-frequency cavities, reports Hasan Padamsee.
Improvements in our understanding of the mechanisms that limit accelerating gradients or electric fields, together with technological advances from worldwide R&D, have steadily increased the performance of superconducting cavities over the past decade. Full article
Records fall at Cornell (CERN Courier article)
Comparison of the TESLA cavity shape (left) and the new cavity shape.
Improvements in our understanding of the mechanisms that limit accelerating gradients or electric fields, together with technological advances from worldwide R&D, have steadily increased the performance of superconducting cavities over the past decade. Full article