Arya Ambadiyil Soman, S. Wimbush, Nick Long, Martin W. Rupich, J. Leveneur, John V. Kennedy, N. Strickland
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Abstract
Particle irradiation offers a route to incorporating additional flux pinning centres in high-temperature superconducting wires with minimal disruption to the pre-existing defect landscape, thereby further enhancing the critical current in a controllable fashion. This work is a comprehensive study of the fluence-dependence of proton irradiation using protons of two energies, 2.5 MeV and 1.2 MeV, in enhancing the critical current performance in commercially available (Y,Dy)Ba2Cu3O7-δ coated conductors. A sequence of fluences covering the range from 1×1015 to 5×1016 protons/cm2 was used in the irradiation process to study the flux pinning in this material. The resulting samples were characterized using field angle-dependent transport critical current measurements over a range of temperatures from 20 K to 77.5 K and magnetic fields up to 8 T, thus covering the wide range of operating conditions. Optimisation of fluence for highest performance at each energy resulted in a similar level of isotropic critical current enhancement, a factor 2.6 improvement at 20 K and 8 T, but with a significant difference in the optimised fluence in each case. The lower energy 1.2 MeV protons produce this enhancement at a three-fold lower fluence compared to 2.5 MeV protons, a result of their higher electronic energy loss. The different samples are analysed within the framework of the maximum entropy model, helping to understand the vortex dynamics before and after irradiation.