SRF2019 - List of Authors (Garg, P.)

Paper	Title	Page
TUP056	A First-Principles Study on Magnetic Flux Trapping at Niobium Grain Boundaries	565
	P. Garg, K.N. Solanki Arizona State University, Tempe, USA T.R. Bieler Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA L.D. Cooley NHMFL, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
	Niobium is basis for all superconducting radio frequency cavities, a technology that accelerates charged particle beams to energy levels not possible by other means. When cavities are pushed to limits, significant heating appears at extended material defects, like grain boundaries. Therefore, it is crucial to understand how grain boundary (GB) structure and associated properties lead to trapping of magnetic field, and whether GB itself has any unusual magnetic behavior. Using first-principles calculations, external magnetic field along the GB plane was simulated within an all-electron full-potential linearized augmented plane-wave framework. A ground state with non-zero flux, indicative of flux trapping, was obtained at some grain boundaries, this outcome being influenced strongly by GB local structure. Furthermore, electronic density of states and charge-transfer calculations suggested non-zero spin polarization at grain boundaries, which may be consistent with recent observations of unusual paramagnetic magnetization as a function of specimen surface area for cavity-grade niobium.
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A First-Principles Study on Magnetic Flux Trapping at Niobium Grain Boundaries

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P. Garg, K.N. Solanki
Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
T.R. Bieler
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
L.D. Cooley
NHMFL, Tallahassee, Florida, USA

Niobium is basis for all superconducting radio frequency cavities, a technology that accelerates charged particle beams to energy levels not possible by other means. When cavities are pushed to limits, significant heating appears at extended material defects, like grain boundaries. Therefore, it is crucial to understand how grain boundary (GB) structure and associated properties lead to trapping of magnetic field, and whether GB itself has any unusual magnetic behavior. Using first-principles calculations, external magnetic field along the GB plane was simulated within an all-electron full-potential linearized augmented plane-wave framework. A ground state with non-zero flux, indicative of flux trapping, was obtained at some grain boundaries, this outcome being influenced strongly by GB local structure. Furthermore, electronic density of states and charge-transfer calculations suggested non-zero spin polarization at grain boundaries, which may be consistent with recent observations of unusual paramagnetic magnetization as a function of specimen surface area for cavity-grade niobium.

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-SRF2019-TUP056

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paper received ※ 23 June 2019 paper accepted ※ 04 July 2019 issue date ※ 14 August 2019

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