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             <author>Shakel, M.S.</author>
             <author>Elsayed-Ali, H.</author>
             <author>Eremeev, G.V.</author>
             <author>Pudasaini, U.</author>
             <author>Valente-Feliciano, A-M.</author>
          </authors>
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       <titles>
          <title>
             First Results from Nb₃Sn Coatings of 2.6 GHz Nb SRF Cavities Using DC Cylindrical Magnetron Sputtering System
          </title>
       </titles>
       <publisher>JACoW Publishing</publisher>
       <pub-location>Geneva, Switzerland</pub-location>
		 <isbn>2673-5504</isbn>
		 <isbn>978-3-95450-234-9</isbn>
		 <electronic-resource-num>10.18429/JACoW-SRF2023-TUPTB019</electronic-resource-num>
		 <language>English</language>
		 <pages>429-432</pages>
       <keywords>
          <keyword>cavity</keyword>
          <keyword>SRF</keyword>
          <keyword>site</keyword>
          <keyword>vacuum</keyword>
          <keyword>MMI</keyword>
       </keywords>
       <work-type>Contribution to a conference proceedings</work-type>
       <dates>
          <year>2023</year>
          <pub-dates>
             <date>2023-09</date>
          </pub-dates>
       </dates>
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              <url>https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-SRF2023-TUPTB019</url>
              <url>https://jacow.org/srf2023/papers/tuptb019.pdf</url>
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       <abstract>
          A DC cylindrical magnetron sputtering system has been commissioned and operated to deposit Nb₃Sn onto 2.6 GHz Nb SRF cavities. After optimizing the deposition conditions in a mock-up cavity, Nb-Sn films are deposited first on flat samples by multilayer sequential sputtering of Nb and Sn, and later annealed at 950 °C for 3 hours. X-ray diffraction of the films showed multiple peaks for the Nb₃Sn phase and Nb (substrate). No peaks from any Nb-Sn compound other than Nb₃Sn were detected. Later three 2.6 GHz Nb SRF cavities are coated with ~1 µm thick Nb₃Sn. The first Nb₃Sn coated cavity reached close to E_{acc} = 8 MV/m, demonstrating a quality factor Q₀ of 3.2 × 10⁸ at Tbath = 4.4 K and E_{acc} = 5 MV/m, about a factor of three higher than that of Nb at this temperature. Q₀ was close to 1.1 × 10⁹, dominated by the residual resistance, at 2 K and E_{acc} = 5 MV/m. The Nb₃Sn coated cavities demonstrated Tc in the range of 17.9 ¿ 18 K. Here we present the commissioning experience, system optimization, and the first results from the Nb₃Sn fabrication on flat samples and SRF cavities.
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