Reply to "Comment on the 'Decrease of the surface resistance in superconducting niobium resonator cavities by the microwave field'"

TL;DR

This paper refutes claims made in a recent comment by Romanenko and Grassellino, clarifying misinterpretations and defending the original findings on superconducting niobium resonator cavities.

Contribution

It provides a rebuttal to previous criticisms, clarifying the original data analysis and correcting misinterpretations in the debate over surface resistance behavior.

Findings

The authors demonstrate that the claims by Romanenko and Grassellino are based on misinterpretation.

They clarify the correct data analysis methods for superconducting niobium cavities.

The paper defends the validity of the original results against recent criticisms.

Abstract

In a recent comment [arXiv:1405.2978v1 (2014)] Romanenko and Grassellino made unsubstantiated statements about our work [Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 092601 (2014)] and ascribed to us wrong points which we had not made. Here we show that the claims of Romanenko and Grassellino are based on misinterpretation of our Letter and inadequate data analysis in their earlier work [*]. [*] A. Romanenko and A. Grassellino, Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 252603 (2013)