12 April 2010
1st EUCARD Superconducting RF (SRF) Annual Review
The 1st EuCARD Superconducting RF (SRF) Annual Review was hosted at the Cockcroft Institute from 7th – 9th April 2010. During which, a total of 15 leading European institutes participated in reviewing progress in many different fields of SRF technology as part of a collaborative EUCARD work-package programme, areas of research which include;
- SRF gun and photo-cathode development,
- Innovative SRF structure design and optimisation,
- HOM diagnostics,
- Thin film technologies,
- Improved processing facilities,
- Precision RF control systems.
The participants also had the opportunity to see the ALICE and EMMA accelerator facilities, as well as the highlight SRF programmes the Cockcroft Institute have ongoing at present; such as the International Cryomodule Collaboration project, whereby CI is leading the design for a new highly optimised ERL cryomodule and the ILC crab cavity system project whereby two SRF dipole-mode cavities have been synchronised in a vertical cryostat to phase control tolerances which exceed the requirements for ILC.