SINAP surface preparation processing for superconducting cavities

Surface preparation is an important processing in the superconducting niobium cavities production procedures, deciding whether the performance of the niobium cavities could meet the specifications. A series of surface preparation methods and relevant apparatuses have been constructed at SINAP and successfully applied to different types of cavities. With proper surface preparation on the 500 MHz 5-cell niobium cavity, the cavity accelerating voltage at T =4.2 K reached as high as 7.5 MV while its quality factor was still higher than 1E+9. In the meantime, the accelerating gradient of the IMP-HWR010 cavity, which has completed the surface preparation at SINAP, reached 4.9 MV/m with the quality factor better than 3E+8 at 4.2 K.