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Design, Commissioning And Preliminary Results Of A Magnetic Field Scanning System For Superconducting Radiofrequency Cavities, Ishwari Parajuli, Jeffrey Nice, Gianluigi Ciovati, William Clemens, Jean Delayen, Alex Gurevich
Design, Commissioning And Preliminary Results Of A Magnetic Field Scanning System For Superconducting Radiofrequency Cavities, Ishwari Parajuli, Jeffrey Nice, Gianluigi Ciovati, William Clemens, Jean Delayen, Alex Gurevich
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Superconducting radiofrequency (SRF) cavities are one of the building blocks of modern particle accelerators. Such cavities are typically made of bulk niobium, operate at liquid helium temperature (2 - 4 K) and have some of the highest quality factors found in Nature. One of the leading source of residual losses, which limits the quality factor in SRF cavities, is trapped magnetic flux from either residual ambient magnetic field or thermoelectric currents. The flux trapping mechanism depends on different niobium surface preparations and cool-down conditions. Suitable diagnostic tools are not yet available to study the effects of such conditions on magnetic …