Nitrogen doping and infusion in SRF cavities: A review

P Dhakal - Physics Open, 2020 - Elsevier
Advances in SRF technology over the last 40 years allowed achieving accelerating
gradients~ 50​ MV/m corresponding to peak surface magnetic fields close to the theoretical …

Tuning microwave losses in superconducting resonators

A Gurevich - Superconductor Science and Technology, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The performance of superconducting resonators, particularly cavities for particle
accelerators and micro cavities and thin film resonators for quantum computations and …

Searching for dark matter with plasma haloscopes

AJ Millar, SM Anlage, R Balafendiev, P Belov… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We summarize the recent progress of the Axion Longitudinal Plasma Haloscope (ALPHA)
Consortium, a new experimental collaboration to build a plasma haloscope to search for …

[HTML][HTML] RF surface resistance tuning of superconducting niobium via thermal diffusion of native oxide

EM Lechner, JW Angle, FA Stevie, MJ Kelley… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Recently, Nb superconducting radio frequency cavities vacuum heat treated between 300
and 400 C for a few hours have exhibited very high quality factors (∼ 5× 10 10 at 2.0 K) …

Influence of furnace baking on Q–E behavior of superconducting accelerating cavities

H Ito, H Araki, K Takahashi… - Progress of Theoretical …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The performance of superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities depends on the
condition of the niobium surface. Recently, various heat treatment methods have been …

Field-dependent nonlinear surface resistance and its optimization by surface nanostructuring in superconductors

T Kubo, A Gurevich - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We propose a theory of nonlinear surface resistance of a dirty superconductor in a strong
radio-frequency (rf) field, taking into account magnetic and nonmagnetic impurities, finite …

Surface oxides, carbides, and impurities on RF superconducting Nb and Nb3Sn: A comprehensive analysis

Z Sun, Z Baraissov, CA Dukes, DK Dare… - Superconductor …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Surface structures on radio-frequency (RF) superconductors are crucially important in
determining their interaction with the RF field. Here we investigate the surface compositions …

Niobium in the clean limit: An intrinsic type-I superconductor

R Prozorov, M Zarea, JA Sauls - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Niobium is one of the most researched superconductors, both theoretically and
experimentally. It is enormously significant in all branches of superconducting applications …

Flux expulsion in niobium superconducting radio-frequency cavities of different purity and essential contributions to the flux sensitivity

P Dhakal, G Ciovati, A Gurevich - Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, 2020 - APS
Magnetic flux trapped during the cooldown of superconducting radio-frequency cavities
through the transition temperature due to incomplete Meissner state is known to be a …

Large enhancement of spin pumping due to the surface bound states in normal metal–superconductor structures

MA Silaev - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We show that the spin pumping from ferromagnetic insulator into the adjacent metallic spin
sink can be strongly stimulated by the superconducting correlations. The key physical …