Experimental study of the AC magnetization loss in MgB 2 superconducting wires at different temperatures

Abstract

The temperature and external AC magnetic field dependence of AC magnetization losses of MgB 2 wires were studied. Temperature was varied from 18 K to 40 K and external magnetic field of frequencies 72 Hz and 144 Hz from 8 mT to 70 mT with orientation perpendicular to the wire axis. To clarify the influence of the wire construction on AC loss, single and six filament untwisted samples of length ∼50 mm were examined. For this purpose unique experimental apparatus created by the combination of original calibration-free measuring system designed for ac magnetization loss measurement and non-magnetic vacuum vessel with two-stage cryocooler for sample cooling was used. It was found, that for monofilament sample hysteretic AC losses was dominated in comparison to untwisted six-filaments sample, where coupling losses confirmed by frequency dependence were dominated. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.