High-Frequency Nonlinear Response of Superconducting Cavity-Grade Nb  Surfaces

Oripov, Bakhrom; Bieler, Thomas; Ciovati, Gianluigi; Calatroni, Sergio; Dhakal, Pashupati; Junginger, Tobias; Malyshev, Oleg B.; Terenziani, Giovanni; Valente-Feliciano, Anne -Marie; Valizadeh, Reza; Wilde, Stuart; Anlage, Steven M.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.11.064030

Title: High-Frequency Nonlinear Response of Superconducting Cavity-Grade $Nb$ Surfaces

Journal Article · 13 June 2019 · Physical Review Applied

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.11.064030 · OSTI ID:1526098

Oripov, Bakhrom ^[1]; Bieler, Thomas ^[2]; Ciovati, Gianluigi ^[3]; Calatroni, Sergio ^[4]; Dhakal, Pashupati ^[3]; Junginger, Tobias ^[5]; Malyshev, Oleg B. ^[6]; Terenziani, Giovanni ^[4]; Valente-Feliciano, Anne -Marie ^[3]; Valizadeh, Reza ^[6]; Wilde, Stuart ^[6]; Anlage, Steven M. ^[1]

Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland)
Lancaster Univ., Lancaster (United Kingdom)
STFC Daresbury Lab, Warrington (United Kingdom)

Nb Superconducting Radio-Frequency (SRF) cavities are observed to break down and lose their high-$$Q$$ superconducting properties at accelerating gradients below the limits imposed by theory. The microscopic origins of SRF cavity breakdown are still a matter of some debate. To investigate these microscopic issues temperature and power dependent local third harmonic response was measured on bulk Nb and Nb thin film samples using a novel near-field magnetic microwave microscope between 2.9K-10K and 2GHz-6GHz. Both periodic and non-periodic response as a function of applied RF field amplitude are observed. We attribute these features to extrinsic and intrinsic nonlinear responses of the sample. The RF-current-biased Resistively Shunted Junction (RSJ) model can account for the periodic response and fits very well to the data using reasonable parameters. The non-periodic response is consistent with vortex semi-loops penetrating into the bulk of the sample once sufficiently high RF magnetic field is applied, and the data can be fit to a Time-Dependent Ginzburg-Landau (TDGL) model of this process. The fact that these responses are measured on a wide variety of Nb samples suggests that we have captured the generic nonlinear response of air-exposed Nb surfaces.

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Research Organization:: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0017931; SC0009962; AC05-06OR23177

OSTI ID:: 1526098

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1526478

Report Number(s):: JLAB-ACC-19-2917; DOE/OR/23177-4709; PRAHB2

Journal Information:: Physical Review Applied, Vol. 11, Issue 6; ISSN 2331-7019

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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