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The application of heat treatments on 1.3 GHz TESLA type cavities in ultra-high vacuum at 250{\deg}C to 350{\deg}C is called medium temperature or mid-T heat treatment. In various laboratories such treatments on superconducting radio…
Mid-T heat treatments in the range from 250 to 400 C on superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities have been shown to provide high quality factors that rise with applied rf field strength in high frequency, electro-polished (EP),…
The effect of mid-T heat treatment on flux trapping sensitivity was measured on several 1.3 GHz single cell cavities subjected to vacuum annealing at temperature of 150 - 400 $^\circ$C for a duration of 3 hours. The cavity was cooldown with…
The improvement of the quality factor Q0 of superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities at medium accelerating gradients (20-25 MV/m) is important in order to reduce the cryogenic losses in continuous wave (CW) accelerators used for a…
Medium temperature (mid-T) baking, typically conducted at 300 350 C, enhances the quality factor of niobium (Nb) superconducting radio frequency cavities. High vacuum furnace baking is commonly preferred for its practicality in large-scale…
Most of the current research in superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities is focused on ways to reduce the construction and operating cost of SRF based accelerators as well as on the development of new or improved cavity processing…
Large-grain Nb has become a viable alternative to fine-grain Nb for the fabrication of superconducting radio-frequency cavities. In this contribution we report the results from a heat treatment study of a large-grain 1.5 GHz single-cell…
The Medium temperature (mid-T) baking of niobium superconducting radio-frequency cavities at 300 350  C in a vacuum furnace is known to enhance the quality factor (Q₀). However, despite this improvement, cavities treated with…
We report the RF performance of several single-cell superconducting radio-frequency cavities subjected to low temperature heat treatment in nitrogen environment. The cavities were treated at temperature 120 - 165 $^{\circ}$C for an extended…
Vacuum thermal treatments (baking) are known to improve the superconducting properties of the RF surface layer of niobium cavities, and are employed as a last processing step to increase their efficiency determined by intrinsic quality…
We investigate the effect of high temperature treatments followed by only high-pressure water rinse (HPR) of superconducting radio frequency (SRF) niobium cavities. The objective is to provide a cost effective alternative to the typical…
We report the rf performance of a single-cell superconducting radiofrequency cavity after low temperature baking in a nitrogen environment. A significant increase in quality factor has been observed when the cavity was heat treated in the…
A screening of oxygen profiles in mid-T treated SRF cavities is crucial, in order to infer physical correlations between the microscopic cavity lattice and cavity performance - a problem concerning acceleration physicists for years. This…
We report the finding of new surface treatments that permit to manipulate the niobium resonator nitrogen content in the first few nanometers in a controlled way, and the resonator fundamental Mattis-Bardeen surface resistance and residual…
A detailed study of the near-surface structure and composition of Nb, the material of choice for Superconducting Radio Frequency accelerator (SRF) cavities, is of great importance in order to understand the effects of different treatments…
Recently, Nb superconducting radio frequency cavities vacuum heat treated between 300-400 C for a few hours have exhibited very high quality factors (~5x10^10 at 2.0 K). New secondary ion mass spectrometry measurements of O, N and C show…
A series of experiments were carried out in an effort to develop a simple method for predicting magnetic flux expulsion behavior of high purity niobium used to fabricate superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities. Using conventional…
Recent advancement in superconducting radio frequency cavity processing techniques, with diffusion of impurities within the RF penetration depth, resulted in high quality factor with increase in quality factor with increasing accelerating…
In the present work the chemical composition of niobium surface upon 200-400 {\deg}C baking similar to "medium-temperature baking" and "furnace baking" of cavities is explored in-situ by synchrotron X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS).…
Superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) niobium cavities are critical for modern particle accelerators, as well as for advancing superconducting quantum systems and enabling ultra-sensitive searches for new physics. In this work, we report a…