Effects of Radiation on Surface Resistance of Superconducting Niobium Cavity

15 August 1971

journal article
research article
Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters

Vol. 19 (4) , 90-91
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1653847

Abstract

The author has made the first measurements of radiation damage in a superconducting niobium cavity operated at microwave frequencies. It is shown that even a rather low radiation level of 10¹⁵ protons/cm² with an energy of 175 MeV increases significantly the residual surface resistance at high power levels. These data are very pertinent to the construction of superconducting linear accelerators.

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