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Title: Effect of interstitial impurities on the field dependent microwave surface resistance of niobium

Abstract

Previous work has demonstrated that the radio frequency surface resistance of niobium resonators is dramatically reduced when nitrogen impurities are dissolved as interstitial in the material. The origin of this effect is attributed to the lowering of the Mattis and Bardeen surface resistance contribution with increasing accelerating field. Meanwhile, an enhancement of the sensitivity to trapped magnetic field is typically observed for such cavities. In this paper we conduct the first systematic study on these different components contributing to the total surface resistance as a function of different levels of dissolved nitrogen, in comparison with standard surface treatments for niobium resonators. Adding these results together we are able to show for the first time which is the optimum surface treatment that maximizes the Q-factor of superconducting niobium resonators as a function of expected trapped magnetic field in the cavity walls. Lastly, these results also provide new insights on the physics behind the change in the field dependence of the Mattis and Bardeen surface resistance, and of the trapped magnetic vortex induced losses in superconducting niobium resonators.

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Research Org.:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1287756
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1325211; OSTI ID: 1420656
Report Number(s):
arXiv:1606.04174; FERMILAB-PUB-16-362-TD
Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11359
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Applied Physics Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Applied Physics Letters Journal Volume: 109 Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; BCS theory; surface finishing; cavitation; niobium; magnetic fields

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Martinello, M., Grassellino, A., Checchin, M., Romanenko, A., Melnychuk, O., Sergatskov, D. A., Posen, S., and Zasadzinski, J. F. Effect of interstitial impurities on the field dependent microwave surface resistance of niobium. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4960801.
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Martinello, M., Grassellino, A., Checchin, M., Romanenko, A., Melnychuk, O., Sergatskov, D. A., Posen, S., & Zasadzinski, J. F. Effect of interstitial impurities on the field dependent microwave surface resistance of niobium. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4960801
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Martinello, M., Grassellino, A., Checchin, M., Romanenko, A., Melnychuk, O., Sergatskov, D. A., Posen, S., and Zasadzinski, J. F. Mon . "Effect of interstitial impurities on the field dependent microwave surface resistance of niobium". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4960801.
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@article{osti_1287756,
title = {Effect of interstitial impurities on the field dependent microwave surface resistance of niobium},
author = {Martinello, M. and Grassellino, A. and Checchin, M. and Romanenko, A. and Melnychuk, O. and Sergatskov, D. A. and Posen, S. and Zasadzinski, J. F.},
abstractNote = {Previous work has demonstrated that the radio frequency surface resistance of niobium resonators is dramatically reduced when nitrogen impurities are dissolved as interstitial in the material. The origin of this effect is attributed to the lowering of the Mattis and Bardeen surface resistance contribution with increasing accelerating field. Meanwhile, an enhancement of the sensitivity to trapped magnetic field is typically observed for such cavities. In this paper we conduct the first systematic study on these different components contributing to the total surface resistance as a function of different levels of dissolved nitrogen, in comparison with standard surface treatments for niobium resonators. Adding these results together we are able to show for the first time which is the optimum surface treatment that maximizes the Q-factor of superconducting niobium resonators as a function of expected trapped magnetic field in the cavity walls. Lastly, these results also provide new insights on the physics behind the change in the field dependence of the Mattis and Bardeen surface resistance, and of the trapped magnetic vortex induced losses in superconducting niobium resonators.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4960801},
journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
number = 6,
volume = 109,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Aug 08 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Mon Aug 08 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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