W. Weingarten, A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION OF THE DEPENDENCE OF THE Q-VALUE ON THE ACCELERATING GRADIENT FOR THE LEP SUPERCONDUCTING CAVITIES, Particle accelerators, 57(2), 1997, pp. 97-112
A mechanism to explain the decrease of the e-value at high field in su
perconducting cavities for accelerator application is proposed and com
pared with experiment. It is based on hysteretical magnetic flux penet
ration into the uppermost surface layer during half an RF period.