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T Baumgartner1, M Eisterer1, H W Weber1
1Atominstitut, Vienna University of Technology, Stadionallee 2, 1020 Vienna, Austria.
Abstract:
We report non-Cu critical current densities of 4. 09 ⋅ 10(9) A/m(2) at 12 T and 2.27 ⋅ 10(9) A/m(2) at 15 T obtained from transport measurements on a Ti-alloyed RRP Nb3Sn wire after irradiation to a fast neutron fluence of 8.9 ⋅ 10(21) m(-2). These values are to our knowledge unprecedented in multifilamentary Nb3Sn, and they correspond to a Jc enhancement of approximately 60% relative to the unirradiated state. Our magnetometry data obtained on short wire samples irradiated to fast neutron fluences of up to 2.5 ⋅ 10(22) m(-2) indicate the possibility of an even better performance, whereas earlier irradiation studies on bronze-processed Nb3Sn wires with a Sn content further from stoichiometry attested a decline of the critical current density at such high fluences. We show that radiation induced point-pinning centers rather than an increase of the upper critical field are responsible for this Jc enhancement, and argue that these results call for further research on pinning landscape engineering.
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