Undergraduate Research at Jefferson Lab

Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavity Data Extraction and Analysis

Student: Julia Musson

School: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Mentored By: Rama Bachimanchi

Superconducting Radio Frequency (SRF) cavities play an integral part in the use of electron acceleration at Jefferson Lab. Means of efficient live cavity data extraction analysis via LabView, while still extremely useful, prove to be quite challenging and time consuming, taking up to hours to obtain reliable results. Using MATLAB as an Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) interface for cavity data analysis is very user friendly for both real-time and pre-acquired data, providing an environment that allows for timely data processing. Using MATLAB provides a supplementary tool to LabView for data processing for those who may be more familiar with a MATLAB environment. With the ease and many capabilities provided by MATLAB and LabCA (from Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) website), the possibilities of efficiently measuring cavity performance can be extended to many areas of Jefferson Lab.