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FIG. 1.2: A CEBAF 5-cell cavity with a waveguide higher-order mode coupler (left) and<br />

fundamental power coupler (right).<br />

shaped resonators, or cells, which are coupled. The cavity is a standing wave struc-<br />

ture and operates in the π-mode with a fundamental frequency of 1497 MHz. The<br />

elliptical cell shape prevents multipactoring, which plagued early cavity designs, and<br />

also provides good mechanical rigidity to combat the effects of external mechanical<br />

vibrations, known as microphonics [2]. Each cavity is equipped with two couplers,<br />

a fundamental power coupler (FPC) on one end and an HOM coupler on the other.<br />

The cavities are constructed from niobium which becomes superconducting below<br />

9.2 K. Cavities are hermetically paired and installed in cryounits where they are<br />

immersed in a liquid helium bath at 2.1 K. A single cryomodule is comprised of four<br />

cryounits. Each of the two linacs in CEBAF contain 20 cryomodules, while the FEL<br />

Upgrade Driver’s linac consists of 3 cryomodules.<br />

A brief introduction to some of the most important figures of merit used to<br />

characterize an SRF cavity is given below.<br />

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