Field-dependent surface resistance for superconducting niobium accelerating cavities

Superconducting cavities made from niobium allow accelerating gradients of about 50  MV/m close to the theoretical limit. Quite often, however, the rf losses increase with the gradient faster than quadratic. This observation is equivalent with a decrease of the quality factor Q with the gradient, ca...

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Main Author: Wolfgang Weingarten
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2011-10-01
Series:Physical Review Special Topics. Accelerators and Beams
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.14.101002