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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 116, Issue 17, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4900994
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- JSA/DOE [DE-AC05-060R23177]
- Accelerator Division, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility under JSA/DOE
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We are reporting experimental results on a microwave discharge operating at resonant frequency in a multi-cell radio frequency (RF) accelerator cavity. Although the discharge operated at room temperature, the setup was constructed so that it could be used for plasma generation and processing in fully assembled active superconducting radio-frequency cryo-module. This discharge offers a mechanism for removal of a variety of contaminants, organic or oxide layers, and residual particulates from the interior surface of RF cavities through the interaction of plasma-generated radicals with the cavity walls. We describe resonant RF breakdown conditions and address the issues related to resonant detuning due to sustained multi-cell cavity plasma. We have determined breakdown conditions in the cavity, which was acting as a plasma vessel with distorted cylindrical geometry. We discuss the spectroscopic data taken during plasma removal of contaminants and use them to evaluate plasma parameters, characterize the process, and estimate the volatile contaminant product removal. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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