Neutron Irradiation of MgB2 Bulk Superconductors

Details Neutron Irradiation of MgB2 Bulk Superconductors Neutron Irradiation of MgB2 Bulk Superconductors

2001-12-07

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0112121v1

Supercond. Sci. Technol. 15 (2002) L9

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

to be published in Superconductos Science and Technology

Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-2048/15/2/101

Sintered samples of MgB2 were irradiated in a fission reactor. Defects in the bulk microstructure are produced during this process mainly by the 10B(n,a)7Li reaction while collisions of fast neutrons with the lattice atoms induce much less damage. Self-shielding effects turn out to be very important and lead to a highly inhomogeneous defect distribution in the irradiated samples. The resulting disorder enhances the normal state resistivity and the upper critical field. The irreversibility line shifts to higher fields at low temperatures and the measured critical current densities increase following irradiation.

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