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TY - CONF AU - McMullin, M.W. AU - Junginger, T. AU - Kolb, P. AU - Laxdal, R.E. AU - Yao, Z.Y. ED - Saito, Kenji ED - Xu, Ting ED - Sakamoto, Naruhiko ED - Schaa, Volker R.W. ED - Thomas, Paul W. TI - Thermal Feedback in Coaxial SRF Cavities J2 - Proc. of SRF2023, Grand Rapids, MI, USA, 25-30 June 2023 CY - Grand Rapids, MI, USA T2 - International Conference on RF Superconductivity T3 - 21 LA - english AB - The phenomenon of Q-slope in SRF cavities is caused by a combination of thermal feedback and field-dependent surface resistance. There is currently no commonly accepted model of field-dependent surface resistance, and studies of Q-slope generally treat thermal feedback as a correction to whichever surface resistance model is being used. In the present study, we treat thermal feedback as a distinct physical effect whose effect on Q-slope is calculated using a novel finite-element code. We performed direct measurements of liquid helium pool boiling from niobium surfaces to obtain input parameters for the finite-element code. This code was used to analyze data from TRIUMF’s coaxial test cavity program, which has provided a rich dataset of Q-curves at temperatures between 1.7 K and 4.4 K at five different frequencies. Preliminary results show that thermal feedback makes only a small contribution to Q-slope at temperatures near 4.2 K, but has stronger effects as the bath temperature is lowered. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 224 EP - 229 DA - 2023/09 PY - 2023 SN - 2673-5504 SN - 978-3-95450-234-9 DO - doi:10.18429/JACoW-SRF2023-MOPMB050 UR - https://jacow.org/srf2023/papers/mopmb050.pdf ER -