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arXiv, 2023

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2305.02129

American Institute of Physics, Applied Physics Letters, 8(124), 2024

DOI: 10.1063/5.0157000

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Comment on “Strong Meissner screening change in superconducting radio frequency cavities due to mild baking” [Appl. Phys. Lett. <b>104</b>, 072601 (2014)]

Journal article published in 2024 by Ryan M. L. McFadden ORCID, Md-D. Asaduzzaman ORCID, Tobias Junginger ORCID
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Abstract

In a recent Letter by Romanenko et al., the authors used low-energy muon spin rotation (LE-$μ$SR) to measure the Meissner screening profile in cutouts from Nb superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities, systematically comparing how different surface treatments affect the screening properties of the elemental type-II superconductor. They reported a "strong" modification to the character of the screening profile upon mild baking at 120 $^{∘}$C for 48 h, which was interpreted as a depth-dependent carrier mean-free-path resulting from a "gradient in vacancy concentration" near the surface. While this observation led to speculation that this surface treatment yields an "effective" superconducting bilayer, we suggest that its likeness to such is accidental and that the behavior is an artifact from the analysis.