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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 104, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4866013
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- Fermi Research Alliance, LLC [De-AC02-07CH11359]
- United States Department of Energy
- U.S. DOE Office of Nuclear Physics
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We investigate hot regions with anomalous high field dissipation in bulk niobium superconducting radio frequency cavities for particle accelerators by using low energy muon spin rotation (LE-mu SR) on corresponding cavity cutouts. We demonstrate that superconducting properties at the hot region are well described by the non-local Pippard/BCS model for niobium in the clean limit with a London penetration depth lambda(L) = 23 +/- 62 nm. In contrast, a cutout sample from the 120 degrees C baked cavity shows a much larger lambda > 100 nm and a depth dependent mean free path, likely due to gradient in vacancy concentration. We suggest that these vacancies can efficiently trap hydrogen and hence prevent the formation of hydrides responsible for rf losses in hot regions. (C) 2014 Author(s). All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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