Superconducting RF cavities: past, present and future

Chiaveri, E.

doi:10.1109/tasc.2003.812631

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“…T HE value of residual resistivity ratio indicates the purity and the low-temperature thermal conductivity of Nb and is often used as a material specification for superconducting radio-frequency cavities [1]- [3]. A typical specification is that the has to be larger than 260 with an accepted limit to random error of 5% [4].…”

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Unexpected effect of field angle in magnetoresistance measurements of high-purity Nb

Goodrich

Stauffer

Splett

et al. 2005

IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond.

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We report on unexpected field-angle dependence of magnetoresistance measurements of commercial, high-purity Nb discovered during our study of residual resistivity ratio ( ) measurements. The value indicates the purity and the lowtemperature thermal conductivity of the Nb and is used as a specification for superconducting radio-frequency cavities. The is typically defined as the ratio of the electrical resistivities measured at 273 K and 4.2 K. One way to obtain the normal-state resistivity at 4.2 K is to measure the resistivity versus magnetic field at 4.2 K and extrapolate to zero field. The field-angle dependence was measured when a specimen was rotated while the field was transverse to the specimen current. The resistance changed by about 10% as the angle varied at 8 T and the local maxima and minima of the resistance were separated by about 30 . This was observed on three polycrystalline Nb bar specimens with nominal dimensions of 64 mm 6 7 mm 3 3 mm and voltage taps separated by 30 mm. A similar field-angle dependence was obtained on a polycrystalline Cu wire specimen. This phenomenon has implications for Nb measurements and interlaboratory comparisons.

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